Tragedies: We are all responsible
Last weekend’s boat accident on Lake Victoria has had many tongues wagging with different theories on the causes of the disaster.
What you need to know:
- We have heard that during the scuffle to save life after the accident, some people without lifejackets held on the ones with life jackets, making the latter to drown too due to the immense weight. Isn’t this lesson enough that everyone’s safety matters!
- Some of us can attest to the fact that most taxis on our road are in a sorry mechanical condition but well, as usual, by God’s grace, people always reach their destiny. However, must we hide in the comfort of the grace of the Lord and not take precaution?
Last weekend’s boat accident on Lake Victoria has had many tongues wagging with different theories on the causes of the disaster. Blame have been traded here and there, with some people blaming the boat owners and the victims of the ill-fated vessel.
However, if only we could reduce the negative talk and talk more on precautions in regard to issues that threaten our irreplaceable lives!
We should not dwell on the boat accident alone and forget or ignore daily threats to our lives because of negligence tendencies. How many of us board taxis and motorcycles which practically look like scrap but insist on taking on the journey on them? How many times do we see death traps in form of big pot holes and open manholes but always ignore and leave it ‘to whom it may concern’? Haven’t some of us travelled in cars without seat belts? Haven’t we played blind as people indiscriminately cut down our trees, throw garbage in trenches, throw plastics everywhere? How many people have risen up to such issues as gender-based violence and child abuse?
It is time we realised that every life matters irrespective of one’s status and role in society. You should not feel 100 per cent safe when your neighbours don’t because the unsafe ones might in the end affect ‘the safe’ negatively hence they are our responsibility too.
We have heard that during the scuffle to save life after the accident, some people without lifejackets held on the ones with life jackets, making the latter to drown too due to the immense weight. Isn’t this lesson enough that everyone’s safety matters!
Some of us can attest to the fact that most taxis on our road are in a sorry mechanical condition but well, as usual, by God’s grace, people always reach their destiny. However, must we hide in the comfort of the grace of the Lord and not take precaution?
It is high time we all speak out when it feels or looks suspicious and unsafe, take heed when warned, play our roles and have a kind heart for others even when the business deal looks juicy.
For God and my country.
