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 Posted - 18 Jan 2010 : 20:07:47
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Editorial : The Power of Wealth and Position in Governance
By Sam Sarr
History has not made the wrong verdict when it says power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. History has also given the right prescription when it says that the authority to lead a Republic must be derived from the consent of the people and should be exercised for no other purpose but to promote the general welfare of the people.
In his address during the state dinner organised for President Wade, President Jammeh stated that some leaders keep their people ignorant so as to perpetuate themselves in office. These were the undiluted words of the President.
This is a challenge to all Gambians. It is telling each Gambian that one should be fully aware of one’s sovereign rights to put in and remove leaders from office as and when the people dim it fit to do so at genuine elections.
The fact of the matter is that leaders who perpetuate themselves in office basically rely on patronage and intimidation to do so. In order to exercise patronage they must amass wealth and dish it out to the poor. They must also control the power to appoint and remove people from important offices without giving any explanation.
Hence people who are hungry for money or position must cringe, crouch and crawl before them and sing their praise to them to succeed or because of fear of losing their privileges.
Foroyaa wishes to put up a challenge to all medical practitioners to focus on the treatment programme of the President and tell the Nation their honest opinion, whether the President has cured HIV/AIDS patients and any other disease which is said to currently lacking cure. Foroyaa will contact the medical and Dental Association, WHO, the associations established by people living with HIV/AIDS and all other specialists to promote a national debate on the subject.
As the commemoration starts in Kanilai regarding the presidential Treatment programme we would like to call on the executive to bear in mind that the thinking of a whole generation is being shaped by what is said and done on this day. Has sufficient effort been done to do clinical study of patients sufficiently enough in adequate numbers to conclude that cures have been found to certain illnesses.?
History is keeping records. It will give its verdict when none of us who witness this day may be alive. What will it write? That should be considered with sincerity by all.
Source: Foroyaa Online
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