Tche Irene Morikang
3 March 2008
In the next couple of days, the media will be flooded with a special kind of information, call them motions of support. The concern, this time, is the unabated violence and social disorder that took place last week nation-wide.
As expected, the signatories of the declarations will castigate the incident and pledge their unflinching support to the Head of State. Normal. It is always comforting to know that one is not alone in a venture; that there are shoulders on which one can lean on, especially in times of trouble.
As one looks back in anger, one can only but regret the fact that such motions of support did not come earlier; when things were going bananas? For example, if all the elite in the country mobilised their people to come out like one man and bar the way from the vandals who caused havoc in their localities, things would have been different.
Anyway, most people believe that besides the motions of support, what is expected from the elite today are concrete actions; actions that can help to pre-empt situations which can degenerate into the type of social unrest we have suffered of recent.
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