MORALITY, WHERE DID IT GO? By Mohammed Duba In today’s world, the digital world with its plethora of gizmos enhancing everyday living and making it comfortable and reducing it to a global village, one thing is evident that morality is gone. It is a thing of the past. From schools to the marketplaces; from parliament to the local county assembly halls, from the state department to the corridors of justice, honestly and truth has been swept under the carpet. All are riding on the wheels of falsehood, deceit, prejudice, corruption and nepotism. A quick look at the governance of our country is a clear testimony of the aforementioned statements. The politicians on their seats in parliament are all spreading lies, hate speech, cheap talk and making flimsy excuses in the name of making legislation, and act as the voice of the voiceless in the society. They make dramas in the noble August House by making condescending statements as they loot public kitty. In our normal lives, hypocrisy has become the order of the day. A shopkeeper will lie to the customers to sell his fake or rather poor quality products and brand it as of high standard. A teacher whom the parents have entrusted him with the responsibility of taking care of a student does the unbelievable heinous acts. A leader whom the common Mwananchi has given a chance to step in the high office to serve them betrays them, pillages the public coffers, siphons them dry and dines and wines with the crème de la crème of the society as his people die in the shackles of poverty. All these rots in our society beg the question, where did morality go? Has it gone to the dogs? I leave that to you to answer, but then all is not lost. We need to do soul-searching and work hard to solve the mess that we have created ourselves. Kenyans, be it the leader or the led, the affluent or the poor, the larcenous elites or the holy priests, need to do self-analysis and come up with a way of becoming a change they want to see. The days of hurling insults and trading blame games are gone. We need to realize that with this rot in our systems, the executive, judiciary, legislature and the society in general are headed to the bins. Be watchful and let’s change ourselves and be the change that we need to see. The writer is a second year student of journalism.
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 08:47:48 +0000
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