I have one, You have one and They DON’T!!

I occasionally emerge from the rolling, shaking mass of hysterical laughter that I dissolved into to try and look at the newspaper now so crumpled and torn up somewhere under me.

I mean I always knew that I was intellectually, humanly, emotionally, even physically so much better off than the majority of the gainsayers of our political system but I was totally tickled when I was informed that I’m materially better off than them too!!

And why? Because I have a car and a totally huge number of members of the National Assembly, Federal and State Ministers DO NOT!

Whenever the Election Commission or any other Accountability Bureau comes up with these brilliant ideas of the people in the echelons of power to declare their assets, we all take them with a measure of salt but it never fails to amaze me when these statements are actually published.

Just how stupid is the populous supposed to be? Or maybe how brilliant does the populous have to be to understand that all these declarations are going to be a whole load of … phooey!! Reminding myself of those salient issues of trust and what trust is and what contemporary issues in leadership are which I was trying to get through to my students a couple of weeks back, I recall these 5 points that are important for trust to develop and they covered something like integrity, openness, loyalty, reliability etc and every time these reports and declarations come out, I slam into the reality that these characteristics have been chewed and spat out quite literally in our faces.

You know, I realize the tragedy of it but I know just for a day, it felt good to smile whenever I thought that I have a car and they don’t!

Wonder what they’ll do to top this…