Countrymen and women, bootlickers and backstabbers,
The United Nations has almost succeeded in setting aside each of the 365 days of the year to draw attention to different causes. Thanks to the UN, everyday of the year is a ?World Day? for one issue or another. Thus we have ?World AIDS Day?, ?World Women?s Day?, ?World Tuberculosis Day?, ?World Health Day?, and ?World Breastfeeding Day?, among so many others. I don?t like to comment on these days and the causes they seek to draw attention to. The fact that my countryman is the proud Secretary General of the UN does not mean that I should go about ?adding my voice? to every cause he decides to fight for. Today, however, I have decided to make an exception.
World Health Day was celebrated last week with special emphasis on road accidents. The day should have passed by without any comment from me if there hadn?t been so much madness on our roads and if the National Road Safety Commission had done a little bit better than merely ?expressing concern? about the fact that our roads have been turned into killing fields. The madness on our roads is getting out of hand and if agencies like the Road Safety Commission do a little more than merely ?expressing concern? a lot of precious lives would be saved.