The Danger of Negligence...
Like the lonely
voice in the wilderness, I will keep crying until something is done about the
waste of innocent souls with impunity, all in the name of politics and power
tussle. In fact, what has been going on around the globe has challenged me into
doing three things expeditiously. First, I have to start reading my Bible like
never before for an in-depth knowledge of God's plans for me; second, study
international relations and finally international law. Perhaps, the three may
help me to understand better the challenges of our international leaders and
organizations, which ordinarily, should arrest the mendacious political
machination across the globe, as well as the maddening quest to spilt innocent
blood by some ruthless rulers.
If you ask me, I
will suggest that all international laws and policies should tilt towards
strict disciplinary measures for all manner of impunity regardless of status,
sovereignty, religious or continental inclination. In fact, it baffles me that
even renown scholars dodge the answers often time they are asked questions
bordering on global challenges. Perhaps it is for fear of the unknown or for
dearth of ideas. It is pretty unfortunately, that even the ominous signs of our
negligence are not noticed either. But I know that God is unhappy over man's
inhumanity to man. He is angry over our pretence and gross neglect, often the
case is that of: it's their business or how does that concern me?
Across the global
we are witnessing dramatic and unprecedented changes, coming from our actions and
inactions. Yet it never seems to matter to our policy formulators and law
makers that, that thing call injustice is bad. To worsen matters, moral values
are eluding different cultures with reckless abandon, and instead it should
matter to anyone, the world is engrossed in the celebration of fame, the
famous; wealth, the wealthy; royalty and the royal; power and the powerful;
politics and the political juggernauts and those who will offer the juiciest
opportunity in international relations or even foreign policies that offers the
most expedient carrots.
Unfortunately,
nobody seems to be looking at the downtrodden in the unfair and unequal sharing
of the peoples' commonwealth. Yet, you hear people ask questions like: how can
we arrest youth restiveness, violent crime and other vices?
Sometimes I wonder
how naive our fore-fathers were, to have allowed hegemony to thrive to a point
where descendants of the beneficiaries of the bizarre old order still see things
in the same light in our contemporary world of great changes and wonders.
Little wonder the likes of Bashar al-Assad, would
want to hold on to Syria until all Syrians drop death, Fidel Castrol would want
to die with Cuba and even imprison self-actualization of Cubans for such a long
time.
Here in Africa,
the likes of Robert Mugabe, Paul Biya, Mubarak and others who have now
transited to the great beyond could think that they are or were born leaders
and the best thing to have happened to their various countries. Here again, the
likes of Salva Kiir Mayardit and his former deputy, Riek
Machar in a toddler nation like South Sudan, turning South Sudanese into the
proverbial grass that suffers when to Elephants fight, all in their despotic
and maximum ruler mentors’ fashion.
Again, I ask
myself, what is permissible under international law in handling high-handedness
either in South Sudan, Russia, North Korea or anywhere in the world? What do we
tell God in the face of genocide, when the beneficiary and their wards are well
protected? What on earth makes one man’s life better and important over
millions of innocent global citizens? Is it education or inheritance or special
rights, when indeed the UN Charter has spelt it all out? Is it not better for
the UN Security Council to be represented by all countries, and representation
based on a universally agreed procedure, such that where crisis loom, even the
directly affected representative can initiate a step-in order without having to
consider any master’s interest back home?
Indeed we must all
rise to condemn whatever is bad, be injustice, inequality, greed, corruption,
discrimination, violence, unfairness, dishonesty, cheating and all the things
nature abhors, to enthrone peace in our world. Otherwise, the calamity that
waits our collective negligence will be more than anyone can escape.
