Zammit Lewis doesn’t want to tell us what he’s playing at with Air Malta

The people have no right to know. It was bound to happen: Labour get into government and the Bank of Valletta immediately becomes its piggy-bank. What a relief it no longer has Mid-Med Bank to play with too.

The Bank of Valletta is a public company, traded on the Malta Stock Exchange. And Air Malta is not Air Bagollu, the Minister’s privately-owned airline.

If the Tourism Minister will not answer questions in parliament, his government’s stooge chairman at the bank, John Cassar White, will have to answer them at the next shareholders’ meeting.

How could anybody ever have voted to put Edward Zammit Lewis, a lawyer from the boondocks with a permanent blank stare an air of total disengagement (he always looks like he’s mentally elsewhere and wishes he was physically, too) in charge of Air Malta?

Would you walk into the Courts of Justice on a Monday morning, tap the first drab-minded lawyer on the shoulder and say, “Here, take Air Malta and be the boss of that?” No, you wouldn’t.

Democracy is a wonderful thing. But not when there are so many stupid people around.