There is a very thin line between criticism and envy in the course of seeking the truth needed to move a Third World country as ours forward. There lies the challenge of striving to make this country a better place for ALL. Speak for sustainability and probity and those who are opposed to it will quickly brand you ‘enemy of progress who sees nothing good in anything and anybody”. For instance, if I say that the latest visit of our parliamentarians to the Czech Republic was a sheer waste of public fund, considering even the needlessness and downgrading effect of the visit, I may be roundly condemned as “envious” and even “frustrated” because I was not on the trip to enjoy some largesse. But where is the place of Czech Republic in the democratic world, such that our parliamentarians would elect to go and “learn some lessons” in the backwater European nation? Besides, have the parliamentarians not travelled to USA, Australia, Switzerland and Canada before, ostensibly to also “learn some lessons”? So, how have the travellers applied the “lessons” in giving us good governance or, for that matter, in moving motions that impact POSITIVELY on the generality of our people? Yet, our parliamentarians are very far from done with the tax payer-funded trips abroad to “learn some lessons”. God save our treasury.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 11:23:44 +0000