Who make the government?

[Supreme Donvic]

Most African countries the government controls everything and the common citizens has no right to question them because when you question them they are going to use the military on you.
There was a protest that happened in Nigeria a long time ago, the end sars protest, the military attacked those that were protesting and killed some of the protesters, after that incident people started avoiding protest because they don't want to die. Citizens in Africa has no right and there is no democracy in Africa.


~Supreme

[laspol65]

Nobody will go against what we have said or we don't care about their rascality that's the statement of most Africans leaders. They can only protest and it doesn't move our decision, our purpose is to grow the falling economy. Leaders with such mindset has nothing to offer citizens than authoritative ruling or autocrat.. if we are under such nations as citizens what do we do to be heard?

If we elect and put people who are corrupt in power, then the rights of the people will be taken away. Therefore, the people should put a competent and honest person in power, because the people have this power. If they vote, then it is definitely possible to put a competent person in power. But there are some people among the people who put a corrupt person in power for money, due to which that person plays with the rights of the people.
Who forgets the rights of the people to fulfill their own interests, so only a competent and honest person should be voted in to power. The people can do this.

[AgriTrack]

Most challenging countries hardly identify their rights because of misplacement of priorities between the leaders and the people. Most African nations feels the leaders control their rights of the citizens and privacy that's why the citizens actions and protest are not highly recognized on the events of urgency. Do you think the leaders has right over the lives of the common citizens or the citizens determined the controls checks and balance of the leaders?

Nobody will go against what we have said or we don't care about their rascality that's the statement of most Africans leaders. They can only protest and it doesn't move our decision, our purpose is to grow the falling economy. Leaders with such mindset has nothing to offer citizens than authoritative ruling or autocrat.. if we are under such nations as citizens what do we do to be heard?

I think there is a difference between the lives of leaders and those of citizens. Leaders never adopt the lives of citizens because leadership is a duty. In democratic terms, every citizen has the right to express their opinions, the right to privacy, and the right to peaceful protest against any decision that affects normal citizens' lives. No doubt economic growth is important for a country, but it is not fair for a government to stop protests against it based on economic growth.

What are your thoughts on countries where leaders don't give their public the right to express opinions? In my view, such countries never succeed in any field, and the only reason behind it is corrupt leadership. When I study the Chinese system and other successful countries, the only thing I notice is their rules and laws, and above all their implementation. When the law applies to all citizens, including leaders, how can the government take wrong steps?

[Tungbulu]

If we elect and put people who are corrupt in power, then the rights of the people will be taken away. Therefore, the people should put a competent and honest person in power, because the people have this power. If they vote, then it is definitely possible to put a competent person in power. But there are some people among the people who put a corrupt person in power for money, due to which that person plays with the rights of the people.
Who forgets the rights of the people to fulfill their own interests, so only a competent and honest person should be voted in to power. The people can do this.

The thing there is that, voting is merely just the first step, it’s crucial to citizens to also hold the leaders they elected accountable after they’ve assumed power. Even those who appeared to be honest during their campaign should also be held accountable and judged by their actions, their respect for the citizen’s rights and their policies. Otherwise, those who voted them into power would still be the same people that would suffer at the end of the day, and this is just the reality of several countries in the world today.

[HyperCodexV]

Most challenging countries hardly identify their rights because of misplacement of priorities between the leaders and the people. Most African nations feels the leaders control their rights of the citizens and privacy that's why the citizens actions and protest are not highly recognized on the events of urgency. Do you think the leaders has right over the lives of the common citizens or the citizens determined the controls checks and balance of the leaders?

Nobody will go against what we have said or we don't care about their rascality that's the statement of most Africans leaders. They can only protest and it doesn't move our decision, our purpose is to grow the falling economy. Leaders with such mindset has nothing to offer citizens than authoritative ruling or autocrat.. if we are under such nations as citizens what do we do to be heard?

The type of deaf and dumb people we elect as leaders just can't be fought with noise alone, protesting just don't work on them because they clearly don't listen to the masses. And if a leader clearly states that protest will not motivate him to change his stance or decisions, then the protest is dead on arrival. One thing that was very well and give all these stubborn and aimless leaders sleepless nights is a massive strike by workers or people coming together to support themselves without needing their help.

[Mr_Brilliant$]

The answer it's citizens, but we know it's not always the case. There is some certain degree that the government should ignore the citizens for their own benefits. After all, you were placed there to lead. And you can't lead if you are a people's pleaser.

For a leader, he must carry the burden of the entire nation and feel their pain too. And address the once that needs urgent addressing as the chief in command can't do all at the same time.

But some certain leaders have seen this as if they are doing the people a favour for actually governing them. It's not something we should be proud of.

[Unknown Op]

The fact is that in most African countries, citizens don't even know that they have the right to certain things. They let fear shut down what they are supposed to do when the government doesn't seem to be functioning. In Nigeria to be precise, we have the right to question the government on why our economy is failing and what he plans on doing to fix it. But how many are even willing to exercise that right. We know that when the crowd is silent, majority would do same and that's a problem in Africa, no body is speaking. There are some important aspects in our economy that strikes a need for questioning and since our government knows that we usually don't exercise our rights, they use it as an advantage for their ill responsibility..

I agree that it is the right of citizen to question their leader and also to demand accountability from them because it is responsibility of government to explain why they have taken certain decisions that have affected the people as they are not free to make decisions without explaining the consequences. I do not think that problem that African have is that they are not able to speak or they are afraid to speak. So many countries in which the citizens are speaking against government but there is very little change from their Leaders because they are ignoring their complaints and they are also sometimes using their power against people to silence them.

Similarly, there are also people who are struggling to survive on daily basis because of everything that is going on around them they do not have time, resources or security to participate in any type of protest. Meanwhile, it is responsibility of citizen to speak against any sort of problem. Democracy is not about getting votes during election but it also involves monitoring the activities of the government and in return, demanding better results from them. Citizen should also come forward to stop supporting the leaders just because they are from their similar tribe or religion or because of their political loyalty