SERVICE DELIVERY NOW FOR THE PRIVILEGED

Members of Parliament have once again been called to intervene to ensure some of the elderly who turned 60 this year are included in the register of grant beneficiaries.

It was Parliament not long ago that forced government to provide food in schools when it became pretty obvious that somebody hired to do the job didn’t care.
This turn of events presents a serious lack of moral obligation to the vulnerable sectors of our society, by a government that continues to deliberately flounder on its role as an agent for socio-economic transformation of this country.
It is this lack of service delivery that has ignited a debate about having a Prime Minister elected. It is the arrest of sex workers and not the hardcore criminals known to the police that is raising the ire of the public over what constitutes priority and urgency.

It is the unnecessary hiring of security personnel in a peaceful country while over 200 vacancies go vacant in the health sector that could provide efficient distribution of essential medical services countrywide, that is killing the sick.
It is the failure to provide an adequate budget for the Agricultural sector that is causing our people to go hungry. The absence of foreign investment suggests we are not any closer to bringing the retrenchments and unemployment figures to an end. Failure by government to keep existing businesses alive by honouring payment for services rendered compounds the misery.

We may declare war on the sex workers, shoot the drink-drivers and label all those who question the distribution of the taxes we pay as divisive elements who have no love for this country, but nothing will change until we deal with the elephant in the Cabinet room; and that is the serious lack of service delivery. Given the prevailing circumstance, it can be said that service delivery is now a privilege for the select few.  How we long for the day when action is taken against those who fail to do the jobs they are paid for; the day when public office holders put the lives of the people above self!   

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