Covid-19 exposes decades of cracks in our institutions

[superadmin]

It is often said that the worst times bring out the best in people. This may be true in many cases but unfortunately we are not seeing that now.

I am talking about the political and government leaders entrusted with running our lives during the pandemic. It is generally felt that there has been much bungling, which is making the citizens angry and upset.

I mean if two ministers coming out of the same meeting, make contradictory statements on the same matter, something is terribly wrong. To be honest, we are seeing more of this lately. There are so many decisions, explanations and implementations of policies that make people wonder what is going on in the corridors of power.

Covid-19 and the unseating of an elected government in February last year have left an impact on us and in the incompetence seen today. But the pandemic has shown us much more. It has exposed the depth of degradation in the competence of key institutions over the decades.


It may have been nature’s way of showing us how so many of our solid institutions built during the first two decades after independence have been systematically destroyed by incompetence, corruption and flawed social engineering policies.

Some may not agree but there is one school of thought that says decades of total disregard for quality and merit in most aspects of our lives has made us weak in our administration today.


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