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Stop blaming your leaders! Train your children
Turn your heads away from the sight of distractions and close your eyes for just a minute. Let us think about where we are today as a nation. Undoubtedly, we are blessed with natural resources. we have the best of climate condition all year round. And hardly do we have natural disasters. But it seems our blessing is a curse to the nation. There is so much wealth in the land, yet many people are starving. If we did say there is a stunted development in the land, that would be an understatement.


It has become customary in many places of the world especially in Africa, to always put blames on their leaders while the people do nothing. Many people believe that the state of underdevelopment is mainly due to lack of vision on the path of their leaders. Every time I watch or read about show of shame displayed by our so called distinguished leaders, there is a silent cry from my within. I also do ask myself, what did we do wrong to be cursed with these sets of leaders.

But of the truth is; our leaders reflect our true identities. The problem is actually not with the leaders but the masses. Leaders come from the masses and are even elected by the masses. Deformed characters exhibited by our leaders are evident in almost every homes across the nation. We have a lot of people with integrity issues molded by the environment and their upbringing.

Most issues which have crippled our institutions and thus impacting our growth and development such as corruption, greediness, stealing, dishonesty, hatred, sheer wickedness and others can be attributed to lack of integrity defined as the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. Virtually all institutions have collapsed including our major educational, judiciary and electioneering systems. The systems have been bastardized, what can we expect of their outputs? Unfits at the helms of affairs!

We need to address the issue together as a way of perfecting our institution. Even though, it might be a little late for past generations and the present generation, we need to help build a better institution for the coming generations by instilling integrity in our children.

How do we instill integrity in our children? By leading by example. Every one of us can decide to be of strong principles. It is high time we stopped dancing to the tune of environment and create for our-self our desired atmosphere. Our children must learn from the mistakes made by fore generations and avoid it. When we are able to work on our integrity issues, every other thing including development will fall into place. And our children can stop seeking for Visas to travel out of the country in search for a greener pasture. It is within our duty to lay a strong foundation for our children and this should be done collectively as a way of building a strong institution for the nation.

Great inspiring article. This is the type of write ups that should be on the front page and not all these snakes and dogs stories with no added value.
@ Freiburger and r231, we need you here.