HAS GOVT ABANDONED VISION 2022?

Sir,

The year 2022 is a mere three years away; this is the year in which we were promised that we would be a First World country. Many experts and ordinary people were amazed by this proclamation and most were skeptical that we would be anywhere near a First World country, with some even joking that unless the definition of a First World country changes, we were decades away from such a status.

But nevertheless, our leaders kept on harping about this vision albeit with no tangible goals/milestone put in place. I liked this vision because at least it gave us direction and a sense of purpose as a country.

The newly-elected government has quietly avoided mentioning Vision 2022; has government realised that this vision is a pie in the sky? The silence in respect of Vision 2022 from the current government is deafening.

I’m not sure what the reason/s for this government going mute in respect of vision 2022 could be, whatever the reason/s, people need to be informed about the position of our new government regarding this vision. Has government realised that it is a nightmare and not a vision? There is a fine line between a vision and a nightmare; or has government realised that the vision is not achievable?

Abandoned

Or has it totally abandoned this vision and resigned itself to having our country languishing in the doldrums of Third World misery?
Visions are by their nature essential for the survival of any institution: as the Holy Book says; “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”

It was indeed encouraging that the head of State came up with Vision 2022 and to some degree it was inspiring that as a country, we were willing to imagine and plan for our future. From the outset, our politicians were rhetorically referring to Vision 2022 at every given opportunity without any tangible plan of how we will get the desired status. They seemed to think that skyscrapers and other vanity projects would make us achieve First World status.

Government should not be dejected by the fact that their predecessors dismally failed in doing anything in respect of moving the nation towards 2022.
They only paid lip service to the vision and I’m tempted to think that beyond mentioning the rhetoric, they either had no clue what they were talking about or they never believed in this imagined journey towards 2022. Leaders who don’t share in the vision cannot be expected to effectively execute tasks and activities that they don’t have faith in.

Create

Government should come up with a plan and create an enabling environment in terms of policy that will inter alia: attract Foreign Direct Investment; drive massive investment in infrastructure, drive massive investment in quality education and drive massive investment in quality health services. Government cannot be expected to carry out such monumental tasks on its own; it needs the private sector and the nation behind it.

If we give up on this vision, we will essentially be failing to imagine and plan for our future, history tells us that nearly everything starts with an imagined future and you put up a concrete plan to achieve that imagined future.
If we fail to have a vision, future generations will decry that they had us as their forefathers as we would have failed them.

Hanger
Mhlume

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