Friday, May 7, 2010
The fish rots from the head
The power of the people is a very strong idea when it comes to battling and resolving issues in any community. The corrupt are usually at the top of the system and in power; this power is given to them by the people through elections. One of the contributors to this Blog Mr Twinomujuni rightly pointed out that the people need to realise that they have the power to ensure that the people they elect have integrity, and if they elect those who do not have the required integrity they still have the power to recall those political leaders and remove them from the healm. It requires an uprising of the people in acknowledgement of their responsibility to ensure that we remove the rotten head of the fish so as to save the whole fish from dying and replace those at the healm with people who value integrity.
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Hi Sylvia,
Whilst this can be very true. As an optimist I hold on to the belief that people are redeemable. Sometimes the change of public opinion can sway people from the destructive path that they have been on to rejoin the good fight.
Not that you would completely trust to begin with, but I think many people enter into political life with ideals - and along the way they get stipped away gradually. Until one day many of them wake up and don't recgonise themselves anymore.
Now not that it is exactly the same and I don't know the full details of the Qld MP's who left their party (Liberals) as they felt that they could no longer represent their consituents as members of the party.
For me I believe that they would have made choices and did things that they were against in the past.
And their future - by their choice may have opened them up to doing things differently and within their values and for their peoples.
Karen
I agree with both of you, the people have the power to vote in and vote out members of their electorate when they no longer deliver development. They at the same time have high expectations from these leaders in fair representation and devolved resources to the grassroots.
Looking at it critically, this has never happened, especially in developing countries and those entrusted to provide an enabling environment to steer development have ended up stealing from the public. A positive change will only be realised when there will be reforms in the oppressive constitutions which have sustained corruptions in many developing countries.
The judicial institutions are also in need of a total overhaul, these institutions have failed to bring to book the many rampant corruptions witnessed in many countries. Until this is done, masses will remain toothless even if they elect credible and people thought to have integrity.
Dorcas
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