JUSTICE HAS NO BOUNDARIES, POVERTY IS A SECURITY AGENDA

JUSTICE HAS NO BOUNDARIES, POVERTY IS A SECURITY AGENDA

The task of every citizen is to foster good atmosphere for the mission of the people of God to explore the meaning of justice. Justice is not something vague only to be talked about in times of crises, but an inbuilt defence system against evil forces that runs over man like a tsunami or tornado storm.

We have to be fully and actively scrutinizing the signs of the times, the way things happen here and now, hence need for sound interpretation of the  wise citizens not war mongers or greedy people yearning everything to be done as quickly as possible so as to eat, as if they don’t eat in their homes or houses. By the way there is a difference between a home and a house. Where do you live of the two?

Serious injustices are building up in our communities, oppression and abuses are stifling freedom that the phrase ‘’if you are not for us you are against us”. That any change of thought and to think differently from a group is considered unorthodox. The group, the tribe, the community members are stereotyped to think the same. Just think about it, communities who do that have very poor economic, health and security risks throughout the year. These are communities where young and restless youth are hired for killing, joining criminal gangs, involving in high scale thuggery and turning up to be a nightmare to the community, nation and society.

There should be fatalistic transformation to spur them on to liberate themselves and to be responsible for their own destiny. These youngsters need not only hope but support to change whatever that has become intolerable to a clear vision of life. Jesus had a great three-year short term strategic programme which was: Proclaim Good News to the poor, freedom to the oppressed and jo to the afflicted. This is a call to transformation of a given specific community, as a true constitutive dimension of the preaching of the Gospel. The work of the Church is this and should be clearly drilled well in her evangelization, to the redemption of mankind and liberation from every oppressive situation and sin.

Today, as I write these reflective thoughts, we have a church that is held captive by tremendous paradox of scandals, betrayal, corruption, and duty shoddy businesses in the name Christ. This has to be condemned in strongest terms possible. Men have started to begin to grasp a new and more radical dimension of unity because they don’t belong to the church neither does the Church belong to them. There is completely a dichotomy of angle component in prospective and approach. The Church has got entangled into economic, political fix of things that has dented her image to the world.

The church should be an active participant in keeping man from attaining his basic human and civil rights. Being an active advocate on issues of unemployment of the young people who are exposed to all risks of terrorism recruitment and human trafficking and the temptation to escape from poverty and political turmoil that rages in most of their poorly managed democratic systems, marginalized, inhumanly housed, illiterate and deprived of political power as well as of the suitable means of acquiring responsibility and moral dignity, to enhance personal worth.

The young men are taking the future into their hands through a determined will to progress or destruction and this can be seen in the number of deaths in our communities and country either by police brutality or crime related. The government promises the young people heaven on earth which has not yet arrived and it seems it will never arrive yet. 

The young men have to be helped to keep their youthful identity safe and appreciated not to lose it like dogs on the street by the brutality of uncouth and barbaric policemen.Injustice today, constitutes a great percentage of challenges that face men people and citizenry. Justice has to be put into practice. There are many various forms of injustice, oppression because there is a loud conspiracy of silence by many upright people and more so the Church. The church as a voice of conscience has been drowned in the noisy quarters of government premises

 It’s impossible to conceive true progress without recognizing the necessity within political system chosen and sometimes the Church finds itself covered with warm blankets that she keeps sleeping and dreaming at the expense of the Gospel. Church leaders who sometimes are bought to keep quiet to injustice and oppression. The Church has to refresh her memory to re-evaluate and re-brand her evangelization skills and strategies in this current mess of political interference and meddling into her mission.

The injustices in most of our communities is that of tribal discrimination and cleansing, closer to genocide. One tribe thinking that its greater than the other, claiming the bigger cake of everything and coming up with phrases ‘’they eat meat while others meanwhile salivate’’ forms of repression by political power and violence on the part of private reaction hence reaching extreme of affecting the basic conditions of personal integrity. There are well known cases of torture, subjected to arbitrary procedures in trials.

Contemporary consciousness demands truth in the communications systems, including the right to the image offered by the media and the opportunity to correct its manipulation. The communications media is daily threatened with consequences of the aftermath that there are no serious journalists but government mouth pieces who show independence but no freedom of express or thinking out of the box. Sometimes most of the challenges of injustice in most communities is fueled by the Media houses, social network and fake news.

The effective mediation involves the creation of lasting atmosphere of dialogue. A contribution to the progressive realization of this can be made by men unhampered by geo-political ideological or socioeconomic conditions or by the generation gap. To restore the meaning of life by adherence to authentic values, the participation and witness of the rising generation of youth is as necessary as communication among people.