Dear Editor,
Serpents’ eggs must be killed in the shell, said Shakespeare in Julius Caesar, and if dictatorship in the form of the executive presidency had been stopped when it was in embryo in 1980, the masses would not be feeling its ripple effects today.
Dictatorship has been increasing over the years, until it has attained a level where local government elections have not been held since 1994 and Parliament has been prorogued recently.
Dictatorship is buoyed by the human ego together with the legacy of the lofty office of the executive presidency.
In the words of William Shakespeare again, “He doth bestride the narrow world like a colossus and we petty men walk under his huge legs and peep about.”
Yours faithfully,
George Carrington