TS Presents Satirical Manual for Wasting Public Resources

Novi Sad (BETAPHOTO/Dragan Gojic)

The Transparency Serbia (TS) organization presented a publication titled “Manual for Wasting Public Resources” in Novi Sad on May 23, and organized an exhibition of caricatures by Marko Somborac, with the aim of pointing to the numerous examples of corruption in the Serbian society in a satirical manner.

“For more than 20 years now, we have been offering proposals about how to prevent corruption and how to make it easier to discover. We persistently tried to prevent wastefulness and looting, but the relevant organs did not always want to hear us. We are now offering something completely different – a publication that will certainly raise their interest: a manual for wasting public resources – an opportunity for everyone ‘so disposed’ to learn, in six easy lectures, how to pillage public resources,” stated the program director of TS, Nemanja Nenadic.

Speaking at the promotion at the Independent Journalists’ Association of Vojvodina, he said that, with the project, they wished to ironically show “compassion to those who must contemplate daily how to pillage the public resources on their disposal.” “This is a manual for all those who intend to acquire a position where they can waste public resources. Or those who wish to observe all the ways in which public resources are wasted,” Nenadic explained.

Zlatko Minic of Transparency Serbia stated that the main problem lied in the impunity for wasting public resources and in the fact that they are used as “assets by the oligarchy, the party, their friends and relatives.”