PLACE CALLED PLANET DEMOCRACY

 My father once told me a story about a place called planet democracy. He said planet democracy was a wonderful place ruled by a persistent man called freedom.

This was a man who always listened to the people; he would grant ordinary citizens room to express their ideas on how things were to be done. People were not deprived of their rights and all the citizens of this planet had equal rights and opportunities, no one was perceived to be superior to the other.

Democracy

In planet democracy there was no poverty because the government would provide for the people’s basic subsistence; the needs of the elderly were catered for. All the government ministries were working to their outmost best to harness and eradicate social stratification. The Ministry of Agriculture would provide farming inputs to people who were into agricultural production and also provided some crush workshops to equip farmers on how to improve their yield. This played a fundamental role because there was no land that was lying idle in planet democracy at that time. The availability of essential medicines to patients was not a challenge in planet democracy. All healthcare facilities could provide quality healthcare services, indeed there was a strong health sector. Patient affordability was also put into consideration thereby providing patients with cost effective and affordable health services.

Good

In the education sector a lot of good was happening: the government provided free primary and secondary education, 90 per cent of students were awarded scholarship to pursue their tertiary education, just to name a few. However, an alien called greediness came into planet democracy. This alien was a powerful creature and a smooth killer; it would collude with the people during the day and send them six feet under during the night. People abandoned Mr Freedom and followed Mr Greediness. Everything changed as all the good in planet democracy disappeared into thin air. A nightmare occurred where corruption became a norm within the political arena.

Stomach

Politicians began to be self-centered, engaging themselves in politics-of-the-stomach. Within a short period of time half of the planet citizens were living under absolute poverty, unemployment issues climaxed, taxes increased and people were deprived of their rights. The politicians would come to the people and tell them that the government was broke while on the other side unnecessary budgetary allocations were made for some individuals’ personal aggrandisement. No one would treat this disease, the citizens ran back to Mr Freedom but unfortunately Mr Freedom was nowhere to be found.

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