Most of those in power seem to be least concerned about the plight of the common man. The daily trials and tribulation faced by them. The multitude of failures and shortcomings from poor health and social care to soaring crime, dreadful public services and transport to unacceptable and crumbling infrastructure and economic stagnation. Garbage and the stench of the filth all around continues to be a permanent eyesore and an environmental nightmare. Those in power must line up incognito at government offices to see the sad state of governance. And if they care to visit the markets, they would get a gruelling experience of the filth all over. And by going out shopping they will see for themselves the exorbitant prices of everything and must care to imagine what the common man is going through and how difficult they are finding to make ends meet. These politicians should question their own conscience if they have one, with this soul-searching thought from the late Martin Luther King Jnr ’Life’s most persistent and urgent question is ‘What are you doing for others?’
