BEST SAMPLE ESSAY FORM 'FATHER OF NATIONS' SUFFERING OF CITIZENS.

Fathers of Nations

THE CITIZENS OF MOST AFRICAN COUNTRIES ENCOUNTER MANY CHALLENGES AND SUFFERINGS WHICH EMANATE FROM THEIR LEADERS' SHORT COMINGS. Write an essay to prove this claim, with textual evidence from B. V. Paul's 'Father of Nations' (20 Marks).

Citizens normally entrust their leaders with the responsibility of safeguarding their interests and well-being. Sadly, a number of egocentric people take this responsibility for granted as they use this chance to enrich themselves at the expense of the helpless civilians. 

A number of leaders are very hypocritical to keep their narratives politically right while doing the unthinkable away from public glare and cameras. Such leaders deem their own people as trouble-makers what need to be avoided at all costs, yet these are they who elected them. With the pretext that they are discussing sensitive matters of state, such leaders only have their interests at heart. Paul reveals that the all the forty-nine foreign heads of state who had gone for the summit looked happy because they had escaped the trouble-makers in their countries. They hoped to rest as much as possible while pretending to be debating important issues that would develop their countries. Mr. Longway reveals to professor Kim an I that at independence the leaders have said that their problems were ignorance, disease and poverty. They had promised to eradicate all the three. However, the leaders had added another problem - corruption, and they never talked about eradicating it because they were the beneficiaries. Sadly, everyone had followed their example. The people therefore suffer as the police also take bribes and this interferes with justice, law and order in the African countries.

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The leaders who are inefficient in carrying out their responsibilities end up mounting pain, discomfiture and suffering upon innocent civilians. This is evident when Kimani's daughter faces an untimely death because of lack of excellent manpower and machinery to use in accident scenes. An unfortunate incident happens when a trailer hooked to a truck breaks free and lands on a mini bus in the adjacent lane. Some passengers manage to scramble out but a woman is trapped in her seat. They try to free her to no avail as the chain keeps breaking. In the long run, an ill-fated man tries using an axe to salvage the situation. Sadly, the metal yields and is compressed to the ground with Tuni in it. She therefore dies sadly because the leader has failed to provide emergency response machinery on time.

When leaders become oppressors, citizens encounter untold pain. Ms. McKenzie is ordered out of a taxi when she is heading to her office and her taxi driver meets a horrible encounter. The guards took all his money before letting him go. Pastor Chiamaka also faces brutality when he gives a sermon in church criticizing the president. The police pick him up and for two weeks, he is put in a rat-infested cell with smelly inmate. He is also banned from preaching again. Melusi's business fails terribly because of inflation. He I forced to relocate to the albums and taking up the work of a 'bulldozer'. He tears down the homes of people and no one even cares to give the eviction notices. This is because no one cared whether they lived or died. They therefore suffer a lot of unmerited eventualities.

Greedy leaders put those I their care in horrible states because there is sufficient providence for man's need but not man's greed. Professor Kimani revealed that people like Walomu had lots of money but before going to parliament he had nothing. In those days professors earned more than members of parliament. Even the leaders in the opposition displayed a high level of greed when the attempted to topple the president. Each wanted to rule and ended up fighting each other instead of uniting to fight him from a common front and they eventually fail.

In summary, the sorry state of most African is because of the kind of leaders they elect to represent them. The leaders fail them massive.