[UAH] African leaders, time to end blame game
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Most African countries attained independence at least 50 years ago, but it is humiliating to always hear their leaders lamenting at international fora, why the continent is not progressing.
Yet in many cases, the African leaders are the problem. According to the Sunday Monitor of June 2, while in Japan, President Museveni was quoted to having lamented to participants at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), that African countries were not developing because of (the same old song); inadequate infrastructure development, underdeveloped human resources, small internal markets, underdeveloped agriculture, lack of democracy, corruption, etc.
The biggest problem in Africa is the dishonesty of the political leaders. In other words, our president is being intellectually dishonest. Who has been stopping African countries from developing?
Who stopped African governments from developing their infrastructures? Who stopped African governments from developing their human resources? Who is responsible for small internal markets in Africa? Who is preventing African countries from commercialising farming? Who should stop corruption in African countries? And who is preventing Africans from democratising?
These are the questions thatAfrican leaders don't want to answer, but they would rather blame somebody else, especially colonialism, for these woes. African leaders have failed to deliver on social services. They, instead, buy armoured vehicles and tear gas to intimidate and suppress internal discontent.
Yet such resources would have been translated into more tractors/farm equipment and fertilisers, in order to modernise agriculture that would spur economic development. Instead of punishing known corrupt government officials, the African big men promote or functionally shuffle around professional crooks.
Instead of employing qualified professionals, the African big men employ wives, sons and daughters, brothers, other relatives and kinsmen in strategic positions in government departments. Instead of having limited term of office, the African leaders want to be monarchs. The list is long and annoying.
Raymond Otika
rokiaso@yahoo.com
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