SOEs turned into feeding trough

The editorial, "People's lives on the line as SOE is milked", refers: There is nothing one could disagree with, but the article concludes that one of the consequences of the incompetence at SOEs is that lives are on the line.

- Rob

Actually that's nothing new. Another department of transport SOE, the Road Traffic Management Corporation, was formed by renaming the department of traffic safety as a consequence of the RTMC Act.

Like many SOEs, it took what was previously a highly effective government function, run by technocrat civil servants to a parsimonious budget, and turned it into a feeding trough for the cadres.