The Wise Bird has been moving from office to office to see how certain institutions are operating, especially those institutions being created by an Act of Parliament, the highest law-making body of the land.
The attention of the brave bird was drawn to the Standards Bureau in respect of its functions, responsibilities and its method of operations.
Upon investigation, the Wise Bird has noticed a lot of negative things, behaviours and nonchalant attitudes in some senior members of staff.
After proper investigations by the Wise Bird, it is clear that Standards Bureau was established primarily to inspect, monitor, supervise and/ or recommend as to whether certain commodities or foodstuffs are good for human consumption.
The Wise Bird has noticed that, the Bureau is far from doing what it was created for; instead it is doing the alternative.
In order not to mislead the people the bird represents, the patriotic, fearless and uncompromising animal moved out to get the facts. He noticed a lot of things, and one among them is the number of expired goods that has flooded the market.
Allegations are that some of the staff, many a time, would collect bribes whenever they notice or see expired goods in certain shops or stores.
Take the case of ‘COCO-SAMBA’ that came into the country without the knowledge of the Bureau and a lot of other goods that have entered the country without the knowledge of Standards Bureau.
From all indications it is clear that, the Bureau was just created for fun or it just carries a name as Bureau, but the purpose for which it was created has no meaning in the lives of people, to say the least.
As usual, the Wise Bird has no monopoly over ideas, so the bird always goes out to sound the views of the people on issues of national interests.
All those the bird has contacted said they did not even know whether Standards Bureau does exist or not. Because of all the amount of expired items that have taken over the market these days, the Bureau has not been making any action.
The question is what is the Bureau doing?