I want to be a "Government"

EVERY DAY IS A STORY

“I want to be a GOVERNMENT”

During a feasibility tour to a community Uncle H has identified for an evangelistic outreach, Uncle H got to this very remote Village in the South side of the Plateau hoping to get a better “feel” of the community so as to prepare adequately for it. His first port of call, after “courtesy-ing” the “Mai-angwa”, is the Primary school. He engaged the primary school Pupils in some few songs and decided to ask them what they aspire to become in the future.

“What do you want to be?” asked Uncle H.

“A teacher”, answers the first Pupil.

“A Nurse”, answers a second Pupil.

“A Government” answers the third.

“What?” asked a –little- taken-aback Uncle H.

“I want to be a Government” asserted the innocent- looking Pupil.

Fast forward to this program at one of the higher institutions on the Plateau where the students are broken to small groups to discuss the issues bedeviling there campus and proffer solutions to them.

At the end of the chit-chat, each group sends a representative to share the topic of discourse in their various groups. This beautiful lady shared her group’s discourse topic which is drug abuse. She spoke eloquently on how the use of such illicit drug is badly influencing the youths around the community who actually look up to these students as role models.

As a solution, she says, “I think the GOVERNMENT needs to step in and do something about it”. What??? Right???

So now the Government needs to come as superman with super-super powers to stop these students from abusing drugs?

Do you now see why this innocent Pupil wants, and should as a matter of fact, aspire to become a GOVERNMENT? Why shouldn’t he? When people look up to government to fix their broken tap; fix the bad road leading to the market where they sell; fix the leaking roof of their government quarters; give the teeming youths a job; ensure the security of all; provide all essential commodities for a good livelihood; and even fix a person’s life by stopping him/her from abusing drugs.

Granted, the GOVERNMENT has the responsibility of doing some of the things stated above but then, therein lies also the responsibility of the citizens. Now, why won’t this pupil wish to be the “all-powerful” and “all-providing” government?

We all have a responsibility towards restoring sanity in our society and achieving equilibrium as far as common sharing of resource, is also concerned. For now, all I can say is, you can either write or advocate bringing to light, an alternative to the social vices you see around you. There is so much you can do to make right that ill which gives you sleepless nights and make your tummy turn. For me, I aspire to be a social reformer and this dream is basically inspired from my reading about William Wilberforce in Metaxas’ 7 Men (check it out and read please).