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

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

​The citizens suffer because of bad leadership. Lacuna Kasoo is a dictator who demands to be obeyed. Those who refuse to obey him are incarcerated or killed. Those who oppose him, like Bengo, are imprisoned.

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

Bad leadership brings a lot of suffering to the citizens. They lack food and basic necessities like water, they lose their loved ones like Tamina and Lulu, ‘they also lose their property. This causes disillusionment among the people.

MISUSE OF POWER IS A COMMON PHENOMENON IN MOST AFRICAN COUNTRIES. BASING YOUR ARGUMENTS ON INHERITANCE BY DAVID MULWA WRITE AN ESSAY TO SUPPORT THIS STATEMENT.