POLITICS IS EVERYONE'S BUSINESS

*POLITICS-EVERYONE'S BUSINESS *

*By: Sulayman Lecturer Darboe*

Have you ever taken your valuable time to think of: how decisions are made on your behalf without your physical presence, how your tax is utilized, how laws are made and enforced, and most importantly, how the president takes certain decision on your behalf? Well, all this have a link to an 'institution' called Politics which most of you hate to be associated with. From decisions made on your behalf through policies, the utilization of your taxes, the making of laws and its enforcements, and  the roles of the president representation-wise, all have direct relationship with the political leadership of a country with which many  citizens have influence on especially through elections. This makes politics everyone's business. Whether one takes part directly or not, the confirmed fact remains that everyone is an indirect political stakeholder.

The image of politics in our contemporary societies globally worth defining analyzing.

One must learn to desist from political childishness. The politics we have today is in two folds; developmental and non-developmental. The developmental politics form is that which is majorly encircled on the principle of truth, transparency and accountability. It scales on to include the respect for human beings as creatures endowed with rights simply because they are human beings. The advocacy for the advancement of  human rights  is challenging as globally, certain section of people violate people's rights grossly and  end-up manipulating with the law. Such people include(Political leaders, rich people and the list goes on).

The non-developmental politics is that which is fundamentally based on lies, deceiving through unfulfilled promises which pose the political bond that the Electorates and the Elect has, into threat. Furthermore, this is equally characterized by lack of foresight from  the leader due to the fact that, he/ she have not presented his or her real image to the audience but instead, choose  lies and deceives as his basis of wining people's hearts.

Moreover, an environment where non-developmental politics highly have impact on is; where the masses or populists fail to majorly agree on the political malapropisms and lapses that governments/political parties are identified with, and additionally the reluctancy to put hands on desk to help develop each other.

At this juncture, carefully link this little information to your environment of dwelling and be your own individual analysts of the political nature you have.

Politics must not be seen as an avenue for lies and deceiving. Instead, it must be base on th principle of truth. This cannot be when without transparency and accountability.

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