The world is descending into chaos and anarchy

War crimes, genocide, terrorism, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, Boko Haram, election disputes, interminable toy-toying, suicide bombs; are these the signs the world is globalising its discontent ?

Are we at that ‘turning and turning in the widening gyre’ stage where the ‘falcon cannot hear the falconer,’ where ‘things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold? Is the world becoming un-governable?   Normally our gatekeepers, Domkrag sentinels: His Excellency the President of the Republic, Ian Khama or his best man Honourable Phandu Skelemani, make a racket when they spot war criminals, genocide-inclined rulers loitering near the world’s bolted gate, nor does the duo hesitate to dispatch foreign envoys unceremoniously, if they believe the countries they represent are trampling on human rights in their part of the world. We remember how HE lambasted brother Muammar Gaddafi of Libya, sent the ambassador sprinting across the borders;  Assad of Syria wasn’t spared the tongue-lashing, while the Sudanese president, a fugitive from International Criminal Court justice,  was threatened with a night or more in the Gaborone lock-up, if he ever stepped on the sands of Botswana. 

I have no record of the president of our Republic raising Cain, when Israel rains collective punitive missiles on the people of Gaza  strip, which some perceptive writer aptly called ‘Bantustan Gaza!’ It isn’t the first time Israel bludgeons the pint-size Gaza. Our president is compassionate as you know. He opened the Gaborone 2 Youth Games with the solidarity call, ‘Bring back our girls ’ in memory of the abducted schoolgirls in Nigeria. His Excellency did not name and shame the abductors, Boko Haram. I think he should have called out, loud and clear for the world to hear, that Boko Haram was the villain of the piece to be denounced as outcasts in our world of peace and tranquility. Boko Haram is the people’s enemy to be routed in the world of a united human race. Abductions and bombings, the trademark of Boko Haram should have no place in our world.

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