Is there too much freedom for criminals in Africa?! This is the question I asked myself this morning as i was reading a headline story on the BBC News website labeled 'Gunmen seize Nigerian MP's mother. ' The headline caught me by surprise and made me raise an eye brow, i would have raised both eyebrows if i had the ability to. I shook my head, had a little giggle and said to myself: "only in Africa!!"
Imagine seeing such a headline in a Canadian or American newspaper for example, the next line after that would either be: Gunmen shot dead after police encounter or Gunmen, believed to possibly be terror suspects, found and arrested. The second option is what you would probably see in the Canadian paper. American's don't tolerate garbage like this at all. I would never ever imagine hearing on CNN that Barack Obama's mother has been taken by gunmen who are against his believes to not legalize same sex marriages; it would be a national emergency. We hear about kidnapings and abductions in North America and these cases are dealt with very seriously, sometimes holding the top spots in our daily 6 O'Clock news broadcasts but i guess there are more important things to worry about in Africa. We have to worry about our cabinet ministers who are stealing government money and sending their children to rich private schools abroad, so when there are 'important' issues like that, what time will we have for gunmen and gangsters who are ruining the mother land?
It starts off as 3 gunmen involved in an armed robbery or kidnappings but this leads to militia and eventually civil warfare. Criminals have too much freedom in Africa (yes this is a generalization but a lot of criminals aren't dealt with), even though the ones who are caught are punished like savage animals.
What ever happened to strikes and protests, the peaceful ways of getting an important message across to those who hold power? This cannot continue.
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
The MP's Mother
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Edwin Mensah: Africa is a place of many unanswered questions. Am issue that really strikes me the most is that there is still a lack of structure in all areas, whether being government, class, police, and its economics. Economically, Africa is in a very rough shape, due to colonialism and the west, and westerns exploiting and not trading fairly with Africans, therefore it has left Africa in poverty. Without money, there can be no structure or balance, and where there is poverty there is crime and government corruption. I am not surprised African's today are fighting amongst themselves, and pulling out guns on each other. If they had structure there won't be frequent kidnappings.
Edwin you've made some very interesting points here. Indeed, without money people are forced to do things they normally wouldn't do and not having a secure structured nation doesn't help the cause either. Africa, i must say, has come a long way and we can all testify to this and so when we here tragedies like the case of "The MP's Mother" it not only worries us but it hurts us deeply. We must understand also that all these things occur in the western world as well but they are constantly covered up. I always say to myself: If America can cover up and trick half the world to support them into a meaningless war then we can never underestimate their tactics. Most of the African countries are well structured, after all, even some parts of Canada and the United States are considered "third world".
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