Christ the son of our living God knew that Judas one of his
disciples was to betray him. He would have dropped him radically from being a
disciple, but that he did not do. Christ equally knew that peter the rock on
which he was going to build his church was going to publicly declare that he
was not his master, but did nothing. He maintained them as his disciples for
the scriptures to be fulfilled. They were members of his cabinet and he could
have as well radically flushed them out, but that he did not do. If Christ and
the Father in heaven at a moment of doubts in his cabinet, did not reshuffle
the cabinet, how much less earthly leaders changing their cabinet at will,
single handedly with the unawareness of God the provider and protector.
What is it all when earthly leaders reshuffle cabinet just to
send out a few persons for reasons that are only in their armpits. In Democracy
should cabinet members be at the mercy of leaders who appointed them,
answerable to them and to be flushed out at the wish of the leaders? It is
surprising that the masses that the cabinet members serve have no voice in
their appointments and in their being flushed out. When the law stipulates that
it’s the leader’s right to appoint and dismiss, I do not hold it that this
should be done radically at will, even when some cabinet members are having a
ball rolling into the net in the interest of his services to his people. In the
interest of democracy for good governance, it is unacceptable that cabinet
members should be flushed out of office with their tails in between their legs
like a dog that has picked a piece of meat from the mater’s dinning table.
As they sorrowfully move out of their offices, some are
joyfully stepping in, knowing fully well that tomorrow it will be their own
turn to be flushed out. So the field remains a place to go and harvest only and
not to plant. That is why leaders receive a lot of praises after appointments.
Those appointed cry on the top of their voice “it is our turn to enjoy the
country”.
Some serious questions come up my mind as an analyst; what
did the leaders admire of those they brought into the cabinet and what do they
no longer admire of the very persons at the time of flushing them out of
cabinet? As the flushing is usually too harsh, reasons known only by the
leaders, is room ever given for handing-over? How are those flushed out and the
incomers controlled? With these unanswered questions in my mind, I find leaders
having powers to put democracy and good governance on their seats and sit on it
making the common citizen powerless and to remain silent even when wrongs are
perpetrated. What I am saying here may look fact resistant and impervious in
the ears of newly appointed Ministers, but radical flushing out and bringing in
new and delicate hands, will bring breath of hatred, suspicion and
powerlessness in the people. That is why there is some times disagreement
between persons who claim that they were appointed by the same leaders. When
citizens take part in bringing in and flushing out, there is confidence in
leadership as nobody is seen to have been more favored. But when leaders have all the powers to
appoint and flush out at will, the people are always left to doubt the struggle
of moving out from dictatorship to democracy.
What is all that matters in the change of cabinets, when room
is not given to people to bring in individual visions of development as they
are inspired. The point is clear that when in Rome, you just have to dance as
the Romans do. Should flushing out and bringing in new members be a matter of
politicking only without explanations to the citizens by leaders? Although it
is politically fashionable for leaders to at will, put up and bring down some
members of cabinet, we would agree that when it comes to explaining what makes
the in-comers different from those being flushed out, citizens will radically
disagree at various angels because they all blindly face different directions
and are therefore bound to think differently of the abilities of their leaders
as they intricately manipulate on the boards of their ignorance.
The truth as I know is that flushing some out and bringing in
others does not capture a political uniqueness for good governance in the
interest of our cherished love for democracy.
At this point my suggestion is that which explains how
cabinet shake-up should be done by our leaders so that developments can lie at
the hearts of manipulators of political boards, that is what matters when
reshuffling cabinets. Shake-ups poorly done can find people going out and some
coming in, but the machinery will remain constantly rusted and crooked for any
sound change for socio-economic and political growth of the people. The
question for GOOD Shake-up is, who is to do what, where, when and how? Is there
room for him to be answerable to the people and not only to the leaders? is he
completely left surrendering to the wimps and caprices of the occult powers of
leaders that makes them stand against honest nature bound citizens forcing them
to remain powerless even at points of taking them to the stream and making them
to drink forcefully.
Some
of these government Shake-Ups are just to jingle the political bell for the
people of the nation to listen attentively, with a lot of concern for what
stands their way next? As manipulations go ahead very undisturbed on the
political boards. At such a moment, some citizens will be angry, some happy,
some confounded, but the wheel of the board of manipulation keeps turning. The truth is
that a bird flies high and comes down low, or a lion runs behind its prey, they
do so not for any particular reason of interest, but because by nature that is
what they aught to do, so too are leaders. Some are better at thinking of means
that can be used to achieve ends, while some keep turning on one spot as the
adage goes, “an Indian who knew no change”
Having gone this far it should not escape our minds that
shake ups should extend beyond selections. The citizens should be allowed to
make valued judgments of the out-going and in-coming cabinet members. The
cabinet should not be left at the wimps and caprices of leaders who with the
occult powers manipulate the nation to their favor. With this point clear
enough, I think we will be stumbling across another level of politics for our
socio-economic and political growth. Once the people can ask why the cabinet
shake up, why John and not Peter is appointed, they will be able to dig deeper
and address other matters that lie beneath the political gimmicks of their
leaders. At the point, the process will continue for the citizens to continue
deciding on the kind of people rushing into their cabinets. It should be a
question of ability to serve and not occult powers that render our citizens
powerless and blind to political manipulation s at their detriments. To end up,
permit me remind you of what my old father kept telling me, he said “Son than
for you to take a limping dog to the bush for hunting, you better stay off the
hunting exercise for that period”.
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