Bad Leadership - Inheritance

Write an essay to show how citizens suffer due to bad leadership. Base your arguments on David Mulwa’s Inheritance.

Introduction

The citizens bear the brunt of bad leadership. In David Mulwa’s ‘Inheritance, ‘Lacuna Kasoo is a dictator who demands to be obeyed. Those who refuse to obey him face consequences such as incarceration, imprisonment among others.  

Illustrations

Lacuna asks Judah Zen Melo to kill his brother Bengo because Bengo is opposing him. When Judah refuses, he is put out by Lacuna and he cannot get employment. His family suffers in his absence as Tamina his wife cannot make ends meet. 

Bad leadership causes suffering because Lacuna refuses to give licenses to farmers and they cannot grow or sell their products. He then buys the land cheaply and other people work on their farms as slaves.

Lacuna employs people from his clan even when they are uneducated because he wants loyalty even if it is at the expense of efficiency. 

Lulu and 300 other children are sent home for school fees as the school wants a perimeter wall and a computer laboratory, and money for examinations.

 As a leader, Lacuna stashes away money in foreign accounts and the people are charged high taxes in order to repay the loans that he enjoys with his ministers and councilors. 

Lacuna gives the imperialists a dam and the people spend a whole day getting a little amount of the precious commodity from the dam. Lacuna wants to marry Lulu forcefully because, as a leader, he assumes that he can do whatever he wants. He even has Lulu's father murdered and this causes Tamina and Lulu untold suffering. 

Conclusion

Citizens are always victims of bad leadership. This vice should be eradicated for the sake of a stable and healthy nation for all.