The nation, with the 2027 polls only 13 months away, is under the stranglehold of politics.
The swing, always instigated by the activities of politicians, has come to portend serious national security threats.
Politicians, aspirants and incumbents, based on the influence they imagine they wield, start the ominous job of recruiting criminal gangs with which to intimidate real or perceived rivals.
The culture of mindless violence crept into our politics during the 1992 multi-party polls and has become the norm because we have made politics such a financially rewarding undertaking that losing is not an option.
As we approach 2027, a number of watchdogs have warned that trouble is brewing and lives and property might not be guaranteed.
The Independent Policing Oversight Authority has announced that the police must lead the way by arresting and prosecuting bull-headed politicians unleashing criminals to attack their rivals and also tame incendiary speeches meant to poison minds and trigger chaos.
For politicians, every mobilisation rally becomes a platform to plant hatred, fuel division and create enmity, all in the name of securing their wins.
The police must take control before politicians and their acolytes turn the country into a smouldering ruin.
Quote of the Day: “It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.” —Russian-American anarchist revolutionary, political activist and writer Emma Goldman died on May 14, 1940
