Dear Editor,
Has anyone really considered that there are pockets in this society that do not mind the present state of criminality and wish it continues?
Crime/criminality is not a stand-alone entity. It is so established and lucrative that no one hero or ‘shero’ can conquer it. It will take the fortitude of all stakeholders to say “enough is enough” and tackle and dismember this dragon.
While I do not intend to cast aspersions on anyone, it is reasonable to wonder and argue why no political, religious, social and business plan has been forged to suppress this happening. Seriously, no Ministry of National Security, no minister under whichever of the ‘P’s’ has been able to tame this. Divine intervention has not been enough; it will take that, plus the serious work of all.
Nothing is simply face value. The drugs-for-guns trade is more than guns and drugs. The youth who continually ‘nyam anada man food’ are more than just eating food; the owners of these ‘hurry cum up’ funeral parlours are more than just sympathising with families and paying respects to the dead; the youths involved in scamming are not just pawns. Someone, somewhere is making money, and the coffers are getting fat.
I guess until the philosophies of discipline, hard work, fairness and pure ambition are ingrained into the minds of this generation, then the business of treating our brothers and sisters with indignity will never cease.
Crime will never become a lucrative business in a society when a country budgets suitably for education, when sustainable jobs are provided for its youths, when our people are not cheated by our leaders, and when the system is designed that hard work and only hard work pays off. In such a society crime will never be lucrative.
Everton Tyndale, JP
evat_78@hotmail.com
Has anyone really considered that there are pockets in this society that do not mind the present state of criminality and wish it continues?
Crime/criminality is not a stand-alone entity. It is so established and lucrative that no one hero or ‘shero’ can conquer it. It will take the fortitude of all stakeholders to say “enough is enough” and tackle and dismember this dragon.
While I do not intend to cast aspersions on anyone, it is reasonable to wonder and argue why no political, religious, social and business plan has been forged to suppress this happening. Seriously, no Ministry of National Security, no minister under whichever of the ‘P’s’ has been able to tame this. Divine intervention has not been enough; it will take that, plus the serious work of all.
Nothing is simply face value. The drugs-for-guns trade is more than guns and drugs. The youth who continually ‘nyam anada man food’ are more than just eating food; the owners of these ‘hurry cum up’ funeral parlours are more than just sympathising with families and paying respects to the dead; the youths involved in scamming are not just pawns. Someone, somewhere is making money, and the coffers are getting fat.
I guess until the philosophies of discipline, hard work, fairness and pure ambition are ingrained into the minds of this generation, then the business of treating our brothers and sisters with indignity will never cease.
Crime will never become a lucrative business in a society when a country budgets suitably for education, when sustainable jobs are provided for its youths, when our people are not cheated by our leaders, and when the system is designed that hard work and only hard work pays off. In such a society crime will never be lucrative.
Everton Tyndale, JP
evat_78@hotmail.com