In a period when we as a nation depend largely on deficit financing and foreign loans to pay for our imports, not to mention the burden that this creates for the nation, we are told that MPs’ car loan repayment have been suspended.

Is there no other alternative more favourable to our already stressed and overheated economy?

Is it fair to conclude that the provision of the car loan has so far resulted in economic mismanagement? What happened to prudence and cost-cutting?

There may be an argument in favour of suspending the car loan deductions but the fact is, it has created an economic burden.

It is incredible that we as a developing(?) nation, one that is highly indebted and poor, can still afford to pay for the profligacy of those we elect to help in our nation building.

What makes a nation’s strength is not the grand setting of its leadership; it’s neither the fear that its leadership instils in the people nor the personal wealth of individuals (in our case a very few) but leaders who lead for the benefit of those they lead, people who do not expect personal benefits from the nation, people who give their best for the benefit of the nation, people who make personal sacrifices, people who for the sake of truth and honour stand firm and suffer for the nation.

Can we find such people among our leadership? Our MPs? I believe they are only a willpower away from standing up and being counted as such, or perhaps the desire to create hardship for the nation more attractive?

Is it too much to ask the MPs who can’t afford to repay the car loan to sale the car bought with the loan to pay back the loan?

Are we building a nation or wrecking a nation?

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