Unpatriotic Leaders Create Failed States By: Laku Modi Tombe,CANADA
JUNE 21/2011, SSN; Most unpatriotic leaders who come to power cannot build a successful state because they love power, riches, fame and prestige more than their people and their countries. Once these leaders are in power, they use all means to stick in power in order to promote their personal interests at all costs. For example, unpatriotic leaders do change or use unpopular constitution to prolong their terms in office. With an unpopular constitution, democracy becomes the bad leader’s personal property. In that regard or democratic society, when these leaders appoint their loyalists and yes-men and women, they call this a democracy, when they remove democratically elected individuals elected by the masses, they perceived this action as a democracy. In short, unpatriotic leaders don’t believe in democracy which is popularly known worldwide. The other methods which support unpatriotic or dictatorial leaders to remain in power is excessive application of suppression of the masses by their personal loyal soldiers and security personnel. The job of these private armed officers are to torture, killed, detain, arrest or exile opposition groups that are against the unpatriotic and unpopular autocratic regime. The unpatriotic leaders always do assassinate opposition leaders who refuse to succumb to the pressure and intimidation of brutal leaders; this is because for them they thought elimination of their opponents will guarantee their duration in office for life. The unpatriotic leaders can bribe their majority poor citizens by buying their way to power. Because the totalitarian leaders are crooks and criminals, they reduce the future of their majority illiterate poor and the national interest into a one-day event of a bottle of beer drink and a plate of food until the next day when the people will realize that they have been played with to bring back the monster. Another reason that make unpatriotic leaders love power than their masses is because power promotes their personal enrichment than national interest of the people and the state. With power, unpatriotic leaders can be in-charge of national minerals and other resources such as oil, diamond, gold, timber, and some agricultural produces revenues which he controls with the help of their relatives, tribesmen, and personal friends who support the immoral actions of the dictatorial regime. Unpatriotic leaders are interested in power because with power they can have access to foreign investors who always award contracts according to their terms. Since such incompetent leaders are too selfish, they often sign things that favor foreign investors interest than the national interest of the populace so long as the investors can promote their personal enrichment. The only thing that the unpatriotic leaders can’t get is fame. Although they would have loved to be famous, their actions and other weakness cannot make them win the hearts and minds of their citizens which in most cases unpatriotic leaders don’t care to have as long as they have fulfilled the other three goals. With all such unpatriotic, selfish, and brutal behaviors of incompetent leaders, how then can they build a successful state? It is impossible unless they become patriotic when they must acquire good leaders qualities necessary for a successful nations building. This because patriotic leaders love their countrymen and countrywomen more than anything in life. Patriotic leaders put national interest first than their own personal interest. Patriotic leaders are disciplined and have ability to make people to willingly do tasks delegated to them. According to Barbara White of Greenstein, Roof Olsen and Company; LLP accounting firm at San Francisco, good leaders are exemplary in character and trustworthy. Leaders need to be trusted and be known to live their life with honesty and integrity. Leaders must “walk the talk” and in doing so earn the right to have responsibility for others. True authority is born from respect for the good character and trustworthiness of a leader who leads. Patriotic leaders are committed to excellence. Second best does not lead to success. Competent leaders not only maintains high standards, but are always proactive in raising bar in order to achieve excellence in all areas. Patriotic leaders who met these above mentioned qualities are Gandhi of India, Nelson Mandela of South Africa, Julius Nyerere o f Tanzania, Patrick Lumumba of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Fidel Castro of Cuba, and Dr. Martine Luther King Jr. of United States of America to mention few who put the interest of their people before everything in the world. However, what is happening these days in African countries like Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, DRC, Libya, North Sudan and South Sudan, etc and most other Arab countries are the result of incompetent unpatriotic leaders who don’t view a world beyond their noses. These unpatriotic leaders are disgrace to African continent as a whole. They have proven colonial thesis which was used to colonize Africa that African leaders are bloody thirsty and despotic and the coming of Europeans to Africa was to liberate Africans from these tyrannies. Most African countries in post colonial era are failed states because their unpatriotic leaders are agents of the West who don’t want see Africa get out of poverty, illiteracy, diseases, under-development that’s why with vast resources in Africa, only the Western agents and their masters are the ones enjoying our wealth while the rightful owners are distracted by wars, genocide, rapes and expulsion from their homeland. We to appeal to all our unpatriotic African leaders and those who’re planning to become one to change their hearts and see the world beyond their interest before their nations perish. We the African children victims also want to extend our message to the most world’s powerful leaders in developed nations that human beings in developing world need peace and stability. We may not look the same, share same history, same status, but we share one spirit, one soul, one conscience, and a project for better future and better world for all of us. In this regards, we appeal to world leaders to implement the Geneva convention, United Nation Universal Human Rights Declarations principles and abide by the treaties banning arms sales, disarmament and refrain from exploiting the resources of the world's poor. It’s time the world leaders to shape their ethical position and re-write a new world history. A history of love, peace, unity, solidarity, compassion, patriotism, and a sense of global belonging. For Africans in Africa and across the globe, please be reminded that we're dealing with a matter of life or death. African must unite, develop patriotism, solidarity, and adopt a good system of governance like federalism. African needs patriotic leaders who can build Africa a better place in the world as opposed to a ghost region on the planet. In conclusion, because unpatriotic leaders love power, riches, fame, and prestige, their actions create millions of problems to African some which are poverty, insecurity, death, illiteracy, refuges, and immigration. The absence of good leadership leaders couple with selfishness cause chaos and disorder in most African countries. For this reason, unpatriotic leaders always creates failed states in Africa. COMMENTS, PLEASE CLICK HERE Disclaimer: The views expressed above are solely those of the author(s) and do not represent those of the website. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JFD info" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jfdinfo?hl=en.
