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 Posted - 18 May 2006 : 02:05:23
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People must Change
(Part 1)
By Lamin Sanyang, Brikama Nyambai
The fact of the matter is people must change for the better. After all, it is the people who select the leadership that should be responsible for their affairs. If they should change for the better that will be good for the country's development process
The lack of good governance, the bad leadership, the skyrocketing of prices in the market, the deplorable condition of living and all other vices that we are suffering from everyday could never change by themselves. We should change them for the common god. Things will never change unless we change our attitudes.
We are all living witnesses to the nature of things that are happening in the country. It is not the same Gambia that we used to know. Things are not the way they used to be. The moral fibre of society is at stake. There is no control in the society; people are behaving like animals or less than animals in the Amazon jungle. The nature of some of the things happening is so shameful that it cannot be even mentioned. What am I talking about?
Most of us have rejected our sense of values and tied to imitate the way of life of other people. We reject our intelligence. We reject our faith. We reject our culture. We reject ourselves.
We are very good at imitating. We can watch something and start to imitate at the same time. We are good at that. Whether it is good or bad is not given a thought. Can you imagine the behaviour of our young boys in the streets? It shows you clearly that something is wrong. Take a move to the streets and you would realize how people are trying to reject themselves.
The watching of certain movies in our homes had done harm to our innocent children. Unfortunately for us, we will bring up our little innocent children in very negative environments that destroy their sense of shame. We would not teach them good virtues. The only thing that we are concerned with is their feeding, clothing and so on, but we pay no attention teaching them moral values.
These movies are brainwashing our innocent children especially the young girls. Too many of them are talking about love in the streets even before they reach maturity. They think that those movies have something special to offer. You find most of them are messed up in that collaboration.
Imagine how many of them have lost their innocence through those movies? How many marriages have been broken? How many wives are cheating on their husbands? How many husbands are cheating on their wives? All because of these movies.
Nowadays, many parents feel either unable or unwilling to control their children. Some of them fear that when they open their mouths to advise their children they will cut off the little allowances that they use to give them. For instance, suppose your son drinks alcohol but because he buys a bag of rice for you, you are afraid to advise him, fearing he might stop buying the bag of rice for you. Or your daughter may bring all kinds of men at home but because she gives you some money, you are afraid to tell her the truth, fearing that she might stop giving you the small amount.
On the other hand, some parents are living in disguise thinking their children shouldn't be punished for their wrong doings. In this way, they pretend to be more civilized or westernized by leaving their children to do anything that comes to their minds. They call all that child rights. They claim to be 'loving' and 'caring' for the children. They are the ones that would sit with their kids in the big parlour watching romantic movies. They would tell you, they are small kids; they would change when they grow older. How can a bad seed grow to be a good plant? This is insanity. They are blindly and proudly following the west.
Those who think that if they change the leadership that will solve the problem are mistaken. Let them change the leadership and see what will happen. It is the overall attitude of society that determines or produces the type of leadership that deserves to take the affairs of those people based on their own attitudes. As human beings, we don't need to pretend.
The leaders must change their attitudes. The politicians must change. The people holding key positions in the government must change. The authorities must change. They must provide sound leadership and not tail behind the people.
The people who are trying to take short cuts to get rich through unlawful ways must change. It is everybody's responsibility to take the right steps that are necessary to bring any meaningful change in this country. We must enjoin the right and forbid the wrong. A society that does not enjoin the right and forbid the wrong, which they commit, will degenerate.
We must change our attitude in the way we treat each other. May the Lord guide and save our souls. With enlightenment and proper guidance people will change.
Source:Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No. 37/2006, 15-17 May, 2006
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