Permit me the latitude to jump the niceties of sharing new year greetings. For moments such as these must fill us all with alarm and concern. Buddha once remarked that there are three things you can't hide for long; the sun, the moon and the truth. The words "irretrievably arrogant, distasteful and unacceptable" as articulately deployed by National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang'ula may apply mutatis mutandis to how our friends in government are conducting the affairs of the State.