But when they don't fulfill their promises to build roads, schools, hospitals, dams and the like
When they skip parliamentary sessions, sleep during the annual budget speeches, and continuously defect from one political party to the next
We claim the government is to blame
We buy goods and services depending on the price, not quality
Yet when these goods and services turn out to be inferior
We claim the government is to blame
If we like a book we don't buy it, we borrow or steal it
If we like an artiste's music we don't buy the CD, we 'burn' it instead
Yet when our authors and musicians die poor we 'mourn' their deaths and claim the government is to blame
We lack the patience to invest for the long term
So we fall for tricksters who promise to double, triple or quadruple our money in weeks
By the time we realize we have been conned it's too late
And claim the government is to blame
We buy TVs for our children but we don't monitor what they watch
We backbite and insult other people in their presence
We drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes in their presence
Yet when they become social misfits, alcoholics and irredeemable smokers
We claim the government is to blame
When we are advised to use condoms to avoid unplanned pregnancies we say we can't eat sweets with wrappers on
When we are advised to stop discriminating against women to reduce poverty we say traditions are supreme
Yet when aborted fetuses are found in dustbins and poverty levels rise we claim the government is to blame
We know the criminals terrorizing our neighbourhoods but we don't inform the police
We know the peddlers supplying narcotics to our teenage children but we don't inform the police
We know the brewers whose illegal brews render our men conjugal non-starters and economically unproductive but we don't inform the police
Yet we claim the government is to blame for runaway crime, drug addicts and sexually deprived relationships
copyright 2007: festus mbuimwe aka wamoronjia
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