Public resources can best be protected not by nitpicking over myriad cases, but by concentrating "on areas where the risk of misgovernment is the greatest".
In a country recovering from terrorism and misgovernment, cooking has become a source of national pride.
The Catholic bishops do have a point, that corruption and misgovernment are in fact mostly to blame.
Until that changes, many cities may be destined to fester in corruption and misgovernment.
He blames many of the country's economic woes on the mistrust created by past misgovernment.
The sight of opposition politicians on television, even for just 20 minutes, denouncing Mr Bashir for corruption and misgovernment has been a revelation.
So I was expecting the accumulated evidence of 40 years of needless poverty, misgovernment and dashed hopes.
Crossness about misgovernment, economic hardship, corruption and poor public services is palpable.
But these advantages are offset by misgovernment, rampant corruption and dismal infrastructure.
President Abdala Bucaram, elected in 1996, was ousted in February 1997, after mass protests against his corrupt misgovernment.
That may be happening in Indonesia, where discontent with misgovernment risks being Islamised, overwhelming the traditional good temper of the country's 167m Muslims.Fortunately, Indonesia's Islamic leaders show no sign of intolerance, and did nothing to exploit it during the election campaign that ended this week.
