When the Fish Head is Rotten

Again and again, the question returns, each time garbed differently as tho' to camouflage it's semblance to those previously asked. In broad strokes, it can be put thus: why blame Jonathan for everything, even stuff that goes wrong in your backyard? Well, he asked for it when he took upon himself the mantle of leadership (or had it thrust upon him, whatever the case may be). How about that?

It's so simple to understand, it's almost embarrassing to have to explain. There's a pyramid of responsibility that traverses all levels all the way to the top. There's something not being done at the top that allows for certain things to happen at the bottom.

Take this instance: The blame for the injury a baby, left in the care of a careless nanny, suffers can be directly placed on the nanny but if you analyse further, you'd see that the blame goes all the way to mother and her indifference to noticeable nonchalance in the housekeeper and to the father for being persistently unavailable, both of whom should be primary caregivers of a family.

So, if it's rotten at the top, don't expect to be salivating at the aroma that permeates from below. That's why Jonathan gets stick for even the abduction of 200 girls to a forest he had never even heard of before and for the black marketing of fuel not too far from his Alma Mater in Rivers State.

Part of the caning should fall on you and I who confront ourselves on petty issues like this, thereby dividing what should have been a united front that demands good governance at all levels and at any cost rather than this existing status quo where for the price of chewing gum, we sell our generation and the next. It's a pyramidal structure with faults that render it unstable and that can be traced to the rotten apex.