JUSTICE, FAIRNESS WILLY-NILLY DENIED

As I have always said that government is a social contract between the governed and the governing, it is through this contract that makes it clear that the governed - the people, citizens or electorate are the employers of government and other organs.

Understanding this should be very simple because people can change government and government cannot change people. The people can pass a vote of no confidence on a government but government cannot pass a vote of no confidence on the people. Again, no government can fire its people, not even dictators can dismiss the people because all systems of governments need the people and there cannot be a government when there are no people involved.

role of the citizens

In this relationship, the role of the citizens among others is to pay tax for government so that the latter can have resources to run the country on their behalf. Yet on the other hand, government has a duty to broaden the tax base and ensure equitable provision of service delivery to the people across all social and economic sectors.

Furthermore, government has a duty to create an environment that attracts foreign direct investments to create jobs, build up the country’s reserves, retain a good balance of payment, ensure that there is economic growth, ensure that there is poverty reduction, ensure that people’s lives are improving and the middle class is on the increase with a view of narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor, ensure a tax regime that is fair to all, ensure that education, health, agriculture are affordable and accessible to all and at the same time ensure  that basic fundamental goods and commodities such as water, electricity, communications which includes phones, public transport and road infrastructure is accessible, available and affordable to all.

The relation of the governed and government, a government system that is premised on the principles of democracy which are: Free economic activity, respect for human rights, separation of powers, respect for the rule of law, pluralism, press freedom, tolerance to dissenting views, fight against corruption, regular free and fair elections, independent Judiciary, equality before the law, provision of service of service delivery and fair distribution of wealth to mention a few, answer why the most preferred system of governance globally is one that is underpinned by democracy.

Globally, dictatorship is bad and not acceptable as this kind of governance system allows for greed, corruption, abuse of power and has a tendency of reducing the nation ruled to systematic bonded slaves with no rights. It removes tolerance to dissenting views and usually causes a skewed budget where more prisons are built instead of schools and clinics. It is divisive in that only the supporters of that regime are the only beneficiaries and it opens up discrimination and nepotism. It sometimes and largely undermines or ignores merit in preference of loyalty and degree of subservience and blind submission of unjust decisions sometimes to the detriment of the country.

There have been few brilliant benevolent dictators and one of them is Muamah Gaddafi. His benevolence was that he successfully provided for all basics such as free education from zero to the limit, affordable and well equipped public health centres, recognition of merit, provision of shelter and provided shares in major natural resource to his people. Despite this, he failed on the test of advocating for human rights and freedom.
Such is not sustainable and benevolence does not make dictatorship an option and more so fundamental human rights are God given across the board, therefore not even a single person should position himself into doing ungodliness to God’s people.

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