Even a cock protests when it is about to be slaughtered. The bird submits to the poultry keeper's knife only when it is overpowered by the mighty appetite of the butcher.
This cannot be said of disenchanted farmers in the sugar belt, whose cry for leadership has not attracted national attention. The growing disquiet among sugarcane farmers is yet to find airtime in Parliament and the Senate. This matter of national interest is overshadowed by the panic among partisan politicians to rescue International Criminal Court suspects from the jaws of justice.
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