Leaders of the 21st Century

Visiting Hon. Miles Sampa's facebook page, one is encouraged to think that perhaps it is time young and energetic people take over the affairs of our nation. The other day he updated his people that he was away from the country.

Now Hon. Sampa has just updated his facebook with various projects being implemented in his constituency using the Constituency Development Fund (CDF). This is the way to go for all our leaders. This idea of requesting for hard copies of letters is not doing us any good. It is just contributing to deforestation and is a way of running away from your duty of explaining your actions to the public.

We are living in an era when  our leaders cannot afford to live in fenced offices. They have to explain what they are doing to the general public. One way they can explain their intentions to the public is to use any of the social platforms available.

I have just finished reading a blog by His excellency Kenny Hacket, the US Ambassador to the Holy See after presenting his credentials to the Holy Father, Pope Francis at the Vatican. He has blogged about his initial days as an ambassador and explain what his embassy does in its engagement with the Holy See.

The good thing about these new approaches to life and duty is that you don't hold people to ransom for them to know what you are up to. If it was your private company, now one would bother to ask you or force you to explain certain things. As a representative of the people and someone who draws his salary from tax payers money, it is only right that you make yourself available through some form of social interaction.

What Hon. Sampa and other MPs who are on facebook, twitter or linked In are doing is something that should be emulated by leaders of the 21st century. If even churches are now finding simpler and quicker ways of getting the gospel to their people who are you to continue living in stone age era?

If you can't do it please work with some technologically savvy youths to help you navigate through the internet. By so doing you will creating employment for some of these young men who have nothing to do in society.