By Nikollaq Neranxi
A few days ago, I was watching Premier Rama on a TV broadcast and I really felt very disappointed and disgusted by the fact that how he tries to protect Tahiri as often as he is provided with the possibility to do so.
“The Prosecution of Severe Crimes of Albania does not have any single evidence to prove the implication of Saimir Tahiri in the cannabis trafficking,” Rama said adding: “Tahiri has done good deeds during his 4-year work as Interior Minister.” The great attempt of the Premier to convince the public opinion that Tahiri is clean adds more to the suspicions that Saimir’s sins are not only of his.
When I listened to Rama as he labored hard to convince us, I recalled a survey made some years ago in Germany where there were still people thinking that Hitler had been a criminal with regard to the Jews but sometimes good for the Germans! So, he had also done some good jobs!!!
As a matter of fact, which is the measuring meter of the work of a minister according to Rama’s confirmation? How come that a Prime Minister can use the logic of the ‘half empty or half full glass’ according to which someone sees the empty half and another one sees the full half? How can subjective assessments be interpreted on the work of a person having such very high responsibilities in a country’s governance? For how many wrong home works can one be punished?
If it is required today the thought and the perception of many citizens, mainly of those who are intellectuals, who follow the course of the events and make analysis, the majority think that Tahiri will not be sentenced.
Today there is only an ongoing process against the former interior minister. His name is mentioned in the eavesdroppings of the Catania Prosecution which were carried out for the Habilaj groups (Tahiri’s cousins), who moved by his car. Albanian justice expects from the Italian one if it has testimonies that Tahiri was implicated in this traffic or not. And if Italy does not bring any testimony Tahiri will come out clean and will be the person being blamed in vain without having any fault in the eyes of the public opinion!
As a matter of fact, does the former interior minister have any guilt because the entire Albania was planted with cannabis? Does the former interior minister have any responsibility for the chiefs of the commissariats involved in the traffic, who left the country a few hours after arrest warrants against them were issued? So, when an institution degrades to such a level the question rises if the head does not have any mistake? But the friend of Tahiri, Rama says that the minister has done a good job and as a matter of fact we all understand that how much is being invested so that both of them support each other.
Personally, I have been faced some times with Tahiri’s police during the time that he felt himself strong and unconquered as minister. The chief of the Kucova Commissariat, Vojo Peci, along with some other people, offended and threatened me close to my house in Porto Palermo about four years ago, and I will take the opportunity to reveal more details at another time. They fought hard to make me leave that place. Later, as all know, it was learned that Porto Palermo was one of the places where drug substances were transported and as evidence has shown even police were used to transport the stuff. And moreover it was the place where the radars were put off.
Later I was attacked and looted by masked people at the Company and the police, who were informed, came 35 minutes later. The car by which the looting of my company was made was seen before the Police Department a few minutes later. When I denounced publicly this event I was arrested amidst an event in the company because, according to them, some clients had wrongly parked their vehicles!!! All of these were pressures of an incriminated police that was stimulated by its leaders.
Then why should I expect that any evidence can come from Catania on Saimir when I have experienced myself how he incriminated the institution he led? Which is the need to expect evidence from Catania when we have most stubborn testimony of the cultivation of the entire Albania with cannabis? Is there any stronger evidence how the money profited from this traffic was put in the Albanian economy harming our businesses and spoiling the rules of competition?
So, under these circumstances, when we see many attempts to close this story, the Association for the Protection of Traders and Market of Albania headed by Nikollaq Neranxin has decided to sue the former minister Tahiri as the guilty person for this great economic, social and psychological damage because of the great economic harm caused on the business due to the drugs cultivation, the trafficking and injecting of the dirty money as well as the creation of an insecure climate because of the growth of the criminality. Only in this way the expectations can be brought back to us that this country can be ‘done’ and who wrongs should be faced with the responsibilities.
