A low tech solution to a real problem

Ozgood · Jul 9, 2009

Concerned with officials taking bribes?

Remove their pockets!

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gmKIu2qKjavgL6B0s7161VCyMSAQ

Nepal forces pocket-lining airport workers to change

Jun 29, 2009

KATHMANDU (AFP) — Nepal's anti-corruption authority has come up with a novel solution to rampant bribe-taking at the country's only international airport -- the pocketless trouser.

The authority said it was issuing the new, bribe-proof garment to all airport officials after uncovering widespread corruption at Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport.

"We sent a team to observe the growing complaints about the behaviour of airport authorities and workers towards travellers and we discovered that the reports were true," said Ishwori Prasad Paudyal, spokesman for the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA).
"So we decided that airport officials should be given trousers with no pockets. We have directed the ministry of civil aviation to implement our order as soon as possible," he told AFP.

"We believe this will help curb the irregularities."

Paudyal said CIAA investigators had observed theft as well as bribe-taking by airport officials, who would lose their jobs if the situation did not improve.

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