Mr. Roger Galee Anzagra was arrested on June 30th 2008, together with four others, pleaded guilty of the offence in the case “The Republic versus Roger Galee Anzagra and four others” and sentenced to a fine of fifty penalty units on August 13th 2008 by Damongo Circuit Court.
In 2012, the youth of the then Nadowli Constituency filed a petition against the above named candidate saying, they cannot work with a candidate with pejorative reputation capable of soiling the image of the entire constituency, which led to his disqualification. Today, the same party pretended not to have known anything about the matter and had gone ahead to declare him legible for the contest.
This writer is aware that the political game we play in this country is full of drama but we must be careful not to take our dramatic gymnastic to the law.
Those of us who have chosen to play the watchdog role of raising pertinent issues to correct the wrong are clearly aware of the implications and won’t lose any sleep regarding actions taken by those who see us as threats to their political desires.
I have been particularly unbendable and barefacedly resilient in my stance and will continue to be so, regardless of who rebounds to attempt intimidating me covertly and overtly.
Our Country is still deep in the woods as its citizens continue to live in narrow circumstances just because their leaders cannot manage simple things well.
There is so much happening on our political scene as to warrant a little probe into the mindlessness with which our politicians do things.
Far too many people in this country today are prearranged to think that the best and the only way to serve one’s country is through the political supremacy.
The rush for seats to the parliament is a testimony to this declaration. People who have never before shown any real interest in politics beyond mere discussion of parties became politicians over night, offering their names for nomination to serve in government.
It is true that a few of these people might have had a real yearning to serve their country; but it is plain that a vast majority of the people who were clamouring for parliamentary seats were actuated by different desires, far from serving one’s nation. Among the people who hodgepodge for seats, many of them are beginning to take a “do and die position”, thus making our politics seem as dirty as thumb sucking toddlers playing in the mud.
What was wrong yesterday is equally wrong today, unless of course the laws of the land see it differently and have proffer different, and a comprehensive interpretation that may be seen to have corrected the earlier wrong. I rest my case.
Source: Newman Dotse
