Well, it sounds like things are really falling apart.
It is a hard lesson on the fact that it takes a whole lot more than just
assembling "our Gang" to pillage and plunder and abuse power in order to run a
government.
Running a government is a job that requires competence and possesing the
intelligence to have the willingness to assemble a team of capable people who not
only have some knowledge and expertise in their field, but who are also
endowed with a sense of decency and committment to doing their jobs well. It is a
job that the people have placed in one's hands, to run the affairs of their
country for them,  and one has to be both humbled as well as have the desire to
show that you really are competent enough to deserve the job. In other words,
one has to recognize that it is a job like any other in which you have to
perform or be fired.
However, many an African politician fails to recognize this simple fact.
Instead, they see themselves as some sort of deity to be obeyed by all and
definitely above criticism.One wonders how supposedly intelligent people can arrive
at such a conclusion.

Unfortunately, in our country as in much of Africa,  we fail to see running a
government as a job where one has to show competence and have your
performance on the job evaluated by the citizens who you are really a servant to.
Instead , our leaders tend to see their positions as a right they are entitled to, a
position they have to preserve for themselves forever if possible, thus,
instead of assembling a team based on their competence and ability to help do the
job and do it well, they proceed  to assemble a gang whose selection is based
on their ability to help them stay in power.
Therefore, instead of competence becoming the deciding factor  and ultimate
goal in an administration's staff selection process, maintaining a regime
becomes the ultimate goal, and anyone who does or says anything that threatens this
aim is replaced with a "yes" person from the pool of many that are available.
In the end, what was obvious all along manifests itself. You cannot run a
country with a team of incompetent yes men and women whose only criterion for
their selection was that they would be loyal to a regime regardless of the fact
that they themselves know the truth. One does have to know what you are doing
or the chips will fall where they may sooner or later,  and only fools fail to
recognize that.

Jabou Joh

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