SELFLESS LEADERSHIP
Michael Femi Ewetuga
The founders of modern day state knew the kind of anarchy that would result from a
society that is not organized so they tried to put on the ground a society that would allow
the weak to survive without harassment and oppression from the strong. They believed
the minority should have a voice even where the majority would have their way. Perhaps
by having their say the majority would see that it is only fair to allow the minority some
comfort.
In their search for a just society, they came to the conclusion that some things are basic to
life: food, clothes and shelter. The world has since advanced and necessities with it.
In order that people should not live in a state of anarchy, they felt there should be laws
guiding the society and that there must be some people to regulate the conduct of the
people so that these laws would not be broken with impunity. They also discovered that
all the powers should not reside in an individual so they split the power between the three
organs of government as we have it today.
The society is therefore like various structures, one dependent on the other. In order for
the state to function properly taxes were collected and states get to manage the wealth of
the society; where it doesn’t manage it, it regulates it. The fact that one is the president or
legislature or sits in judgment over his fellow man does not make him better than them;
all men are created equal. To be a member of that elite group that regulates the society is
an honor, it is a duty to serve.
In order to achieve the basic necessities however, members of the society are expected to
work. In order to get to a particular level in the society you are expected to be educated.
Education is supposed to prepare those, who can undergo it, to make some sort of
contribution to the society. There are different branches but the aim of all is to make the
society a better place. Education is not supposed to make you swollen headed so that
you believe you are better than the next person nor are political positions. These are
opportunities to make positive contribution to your society and make life a little less
stressful for your fellow human being.
This is my view on why society is the way it is. When you pay taxes it is supposed to work
for you and you are supposed to see the effect and when people are placed in a position
of trust they must be trust worthy and must be accountable to the public because after all
the money that they are managing is being held in trust for the public or so it is supposed
to be. I hate to hear people say Nigerians don’t pay taxes because it is not for them to go
looking for whom to pay taxes to. It is for those who are saddled with the responsibility of
collecting taxes to devise means of collecting same.
Seeking material things is vanity. I wonder what people thought they could do with 80
billion dollars and more such that they have to steal people blind just to be stupendously
rich. I think the stupendous should mean foolish in relation to being stupendously rich.
You would not need to amass so much wealth so that your children can live a good life if
the money meant for the society goes into it, this is what the so called leaders should do,
making the society a comfortable place for all to live, they ought to have the urge to make
the society a better place.
If you want to put on designers’ stuff make sure that your people can afford at least decent
clothing with their wages. But then decent clothes must be out of their reach so that you
can oppress them. If you want to live in a mansion that is your headache but then you
must make sure that your people have decent houses to live in, but then nobody would
come and beg to live with you.
If you want to fly in a jet, make sure that your people can at least fly in commercial
airplanes. If you want to drive expensive cars make sure that your people have good
transportation from one destination to the other.
African leaders are beasts and the people must be poor so that they can look at them with
awe like some mini gods that ought to be worshipped.
Who cares about what you are wearing, what car you are driving or the stupid gold on your
neck if people could just live a decent life.
Those who steal money instead of building their societies are indeed shortsighted and
are fools because they are also victims of the society that they are building. That is why
they die in plane crash too just like the rest of us, they get robbed too just like the rest of
us and lately they go to prisons too just like the rest of us and they must take the prison as
they find it because it is the handiwork, they are the architect of the grave yard called
prison, I hope more and more of them are hauled there.
This world is not all about material things; it is about the kind of person that you are how
many lives you are able to touch positively and your deeds in making the world a better
place.
The day of reckoning is coming and it would be soon when you will taste the bitter pill you
are forcing down the throat of the people.
Michael Femi Ewetuga
The founders of modern day state knew the kind of anarchy that would result from a
society that is not organized so they tried to put on the ground a society that would allow
the weak to survive without harassment and oppression from the strong. They believed
the minority should have a voice even where the majority would have their way. Perhaps
by having their say the majority would see that it is only fair to allow the minority some
comfort.
In their search for a just society, they came to the conclusion that some things are basic to
life: food, clothes and shelter. The world has since advanced and necessities with it.
In order that people should not live in a state of anarchy, they felt there should be laws
guiding the society and that there must be some people to regulate the conduct of the
people so that these laws would not be broken with impunity. They also discovered that
all the powers should not reside in an individual so they split the power between the three
organs of government as we have it today.
The society is therefore like various structures, one dependent on the other. In order for
the state to function properly taxes were collected and states get to manage the wealth of
the society; where it doesn’t manage it, it regulates it. The fact that one is the president or
legislature or sits in judgment over his fellow man does not make him better than them;
all men are created equal. To be a member of that elite group that regulates the society is
an honor, it is a duty to serve.
In order to achieve the basic necessities however, members of the society are expected to
work. In order to get to a particular level in the society you are expected to be educated.
Education is supposed to prepare those, who can undergo it, to make some sort of
contribution to the society. There are different branches but the aim of all is to make the
society a better place. Education is not supposed to make you swollen headed so that
you believe you are better than the next person nor are political positions. These are
opportunities to make positive contribution to your society and make life a little less
stressful for your fellow human being.
This is my view on why society is the way it is. When you pay taxes it is supposed to work
for you and you are supposed to see the effect and when people are placed in a position
of trust they must be trust worthy and must be accountable to the public because after all
the money that they are managing is being held in trust for the public or so it is supposed
to be. I hate to hear people say Nigerians don’t pay taxes because it is not for them to go
looking for whom to pay taxes to. It is for those who are saddled with the responsibility of
collecting taxes to devise means of collecting same.
Seeking material things is vanity. I wonder what people thought they could do with 80
billion dollars and more such that they have to steal people blind just to be stupendously
rich. I think the stupendous should mean foolish in relation to being stupendously rich.
You would not need to amass so much wealth so that your children can live a good life if
the money meant for the society goes into it, this is what the so called leaders should do,
making the society a comfortable place for all to live, they ought to have the urge to make
the society a better place.
If you want to put on designers’ stuff make sure that your people can afford at least decent
clothing with their wages. But then decent clothes must be out of their reach so that you
can oppress them. If you want to live in a mansion that is your headache but then you
must make sure that your people have decent houses to live in, but then nobody would
come and beg to live with you.
If you want to fly in a jet, make sure that your people can at least fly in commercial
airplanes. If you want to drive expensive cars make sure that your people have good
transportation from one destination to the other.
African leaders are beasts and the people must be poor so that they can look at them with
awe like some mini gods that ought to be worshipped.
Who cares about what you are wearing, what car you are driving or the stupid gold on your
neck if people could just live a decent life.
Those who steal money instead of building their societies are indeed shortsighted and
are fools because they are also victims of the society that they are building. That is why
they die in plane crash too just like the rest of us, they get robbed too just like the rest of
us and lately they go to prisons too just like the rest of us and they must take the prison as
they find it because it is the handiwork, they are the architect of the grave yard called
prison, I hope more and more of them are hauled there.
This world is not all about material things; it is about the kind of person that you are how
many lives you are able to touch positively and your deeds in making the world a better
place.
The day of reckoning is coming and it would be soon when you will taste the bitter pill you
are forcing down the throat of the people.
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