Some Contempt For The Leaders 1

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Good evening my read.cash family. How are you guys doing? Had a good day, I suppose?, I certainly hope so. My day was pretty routine; wake up, get ready for school, supposed to receive a class that never held, work the farm and headed home at about noon time. I have been on battery saver mode since, both my phone and I; my phone as a result of @Mhizutty taking my charger home and myself as a result of lack of resources to cook😂😂.

Well, she has generously brought my charger and someone is generously cooking something that I can eat from, God be praised😂

Blind man nor dey lead blind man - Unknown

Ever so often we see people in leadership position crucified by those they lead for their style of leadership, "lack of achievement" etc. This is something that we see in all form of leadership setting, be it a democracy, autocracy, monarchy or what have you.

Those in power have to face these kind of criticism on a daily basis everywhere they go, in their presence and absence, despite how they might feel about it and most at times, they learn to live with it ( learning to live with it is quite different for different leaders. A democratically elected official will either try to see the problem or ignore it, a monarch will ignore it or have the person from whom the criticism is coming punished, while an autocrat will most likely have the person executed by firing squad or have them whooped in public😂).

Most at times, especially in the developing and underdeveloped world, these criticism comes in the form of unintelligently harsh words that causes one to wonder if the intent is to educate the person it is direct at to do better, or to insult and humiliate the person.

Howbeit, most times these people are not really deserving of those harsh words, as the thing(s) in question might be beyond them or the resource available, and sometimes could be the fault of those whom they have delegated duties to, but I guess at the end of the day, the buck falls on their table.

For example, Nigeria as a country is technically at war with bandits and terrorists, and today people blame the inadequacy of the federal government to deal with it. But some will argue that the President has made available to the military and their Chiefs all the necessary war platforms, equipment, and weapons; nonetheless the terrorists and bandits continue to have a field day every single day.

These people will argue that it is the military Chiefs who are at fault, and not the President, an argument that their opponents will quickly counter by saying it's his responsibility to appoint and remove them when the need arises as is the case right now.

This attitude of wanting to criticise leaders whether necessary or not, is quite partly responsible for the recurrent incident of electing defective leaders into offices just because they just want the current one gone. It's a stupid case of "the angel you don't know is better than the devil you do know" and quite sadly a flawed mentality. This has constantly being the bane of development in a lot of organisations and nations as people who know what to do are removed because of the price at which the needed improvement are going to be attained, and replaced by those who know nothing about what they are going to be handling.

The result of such an arrangement is that of a clueless person leading the bunch to failure and makimg an already bad situation far worse. The reason I started thinking about this whole thing is because I see it happen everyday at my school's experimental farm and it was 100% responsible for the colossal failure of my group's fisheries project yesterday. Now we are going to have to spend money ( that I don't have ) to do it all over again and it hurts to know this could easily have been avoided if the right people were allowed to handle the whole thing.

Closing Thoughts

This is also applicable to a lot of leadership position, where the appointment of clueless people cause things to get worse and at the end of the day, everybody suffers!! It is a sad reality of our time.

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At some point, we also have mistake, as we mistakenly voted a wrong leader. It is also our responsibility to choose a right leader, so now the election is upcoming be wise in voting.

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2 years ago

Elections in my country are barely left to the masses as electoral malpractice are the order of the day. If their tactics to sway the gullible electorate fail, they resort to electoral malpractice

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2 years ago

Being a leader comes with a lot of responsibility, because the person that is a leader needs to know that, he or she is the icon of the project or place and ones it fails, everything will be blamed on him/her.

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2 years ago

As much as i don't like it, it is very true

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2 years ago

People will always talk no matter what the leaders do. It's the easiest excuse they can do, the blame game. I'm sorry about what happened to your group experiment. I'm sure you will all do better

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2 years ago

Thank you so much. Although I don't see us doing better unless the people who know the stuff are allowed to lead it

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2 years ago

One of the major problems of the country is the back talk and blame shifting. Everyone thinks they are right and blame the leaders in question but if same opportunity is given to them, they would do same thing again or this time maybe worse.

I was simply keeping your charger safe😁

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2 years ago

You dey ment😂. Like you said, it's very true that most of these people who criticise others ever so often will perform worse under the same conditions

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2 years ago

This is the reason why I run away from leadership positions because no matter what you do, you will never be able to please everyone

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2 years ago

You have got that right bro. You will always have those who would go to any length to see you fail

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2 years ago

Unfortunately, choosing an inappropriate and incompetent leader can destroy an entire organization, and it is really painful, that subordinates have to look only at the incompetence of that leader and do not dare to speak, and know what their end is...

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3 years ago

An attempt to speak in such situations will only result in the marginalisation and persecution of the person who dared to speak up. The worst is there will be no one to back, support or protect such a person

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2 years ago

An attempt to speak in such situations will only result in the marginalisation and persecution of the person who dared to speak up. The worst is there will be no one to back, support or protect such a person

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2 years ago

are we not at times to be blamed? recycling the same corrupt people every election

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3 years ago

We definitely are. We don't want to trust the process and elect an officer who would fix this country over time. We are looking for quick fixes and they prey on this fact

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3 years ago

A very sad reality indeed. Stop voting for people who are not worthy of the position. They just make the nation's situation worst.

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3 years ago

Truly sad and still people never learn. Why would I put my future in the hands of someone who doesn't know what he/she is doing

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3 years ago