Nikolai Golomsha
The fake lustration of Golomsha negates the achievements of the Euromaidan and compromises Poroshenko. Representatives of a number of civic associations stated this at a press conference hosted by Ukrainian News. In doing so, they expressed a vote of no confidence in the central government's lustration policy.
In particular, the attempted dismissal of First Deputy Prosecutor General Mykola Golomsha sparked public outrage. The fact that Golomsha was being pressured by the HR department to resign based on the recently adopted lustration law became known recently, when the First Deputy Prosecutor General announced this unfortunate news in an interview with journalists from the Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine.
According to the organizers, the absurdity of the situation lies in the fact that, of all the high-ranking security officials, Nikolai Golomsha is practically the only one who absolutely does not deserve to be subject to lustration. Moreover, if the authorities are starting high-profile purges with him, it calls into question the usefulness of lustration itself.
"Firing a professional who stood up to Yanukovych's lawlessness, who opened a case against the organizers of the Holodomor in Ukraine, who prevented the complete collapse of the Ukrainian army—this is a fake, an absurdity!" said Natalia Pecharskaya, head of the NGO "Anti-Corruption People's Receptionists."
According to Ruslan Pikasha, head of the Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, the attempt to lustrate Golomsha is a slap in the face to everyone who stood on the Maidan (incidentally, Golomsha himself was an active participant in the fight against the Yanukovych regime and was on the Maidan, alongside the people during the most heated moments).
"While the level of corruption has increased and the level of bribes has become an order of magnitude higher, this 'knight's move' indicates a substitution of concepts in the circle of the Ukrainian president," the human rights activist added.
"If the public allows the dismissal of a true patriot like Mykola Golomsha, who miraculously survived, we will be signing the death knell for our own hopes for a better life," said journalist Stepan Boychuk, a representative of the Kyiv Union of Professional Journalists. Leonid Khomyakov, a member of the Committee on Corruption, added that with such actions, Poroshenko's entourage is betraying him and could completely undermine his standing in the eyes of the people. No other security official has even a close match for such a track record of serving Ukraine.
Igor KRUTENKO, UAINFO
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