LLG elections

Letters

IT is 2019 and another LLG election done and dusted.
The never ending and repellent scenarios of election rigging and fights seem to pop up its ugly head time and time again.
For some of us, and I believe there are some decent people out there.
We long for the bygone days when elections were just an ordinary chore that comes in a five year period without the hassles and long list of anarchy that comes with it.
Candidates made their intentions to represent either through posters, radio broadcasts or one or two rallies and that was it.
Not the stereo whopping, cash riddled scenarios these days. Convoys of vehicles carrying lunatics and madmen not knowing the ultimate reason of why their candidates should be elected but that he should be elected at any cost.
It is very hard and painstaking to put a community back together after every election.
Rivalries are made, some forgotten, some keeping it to their deathbeds, some hidden deep down but rearing its ugly head every election.
This leading to personal properties and public infrastructure being destroyed at a huge and unprecedented scale.
Through all these, we never realise that in the end, it is us the people who will suffer. We have become greedy and selfish when it comes to who should ultimately win the hot seat. This blinding out every logic and sanity.
And yet we complain of the lack of basic services and infrastructure.

ESS KAY
POM