This is the season when the challenged, in various manners, are remembered. The old, the invalid, the motherless which includes the fatherless, could be lucky to be remembered.
However, I’m looking at it from another angle. Let’s assume that each of them gets a ram, a bag of rice and four litres of cooking oil.
How long will that take them?
What I think is that we should have a better way of treating the have nots in our midst. I still think a social security system should be in place.
If we have a meaningful social security system, we would be saving ourselves a lot of stress. This is because a lot of petty crimes might not occur again. I’m positive that they will reduce.
This will save the society the cost of administering justice. Our prisons too will certainly be decongested. I learn that most of our prisons are congested because they harbour petty crime suspects. In most cases, they are admitted to bail. But they are not able to fulfil bail conditions because they just don’t have the means.
In some cases, some petty crime offenders have been tried and they are fined. They are made to stay in prison because they don’t have the money.
Above all, I very much believe that if we have a social security system, we’ll be killing two birds with one stone.
We will be protecting our society from petty crimes and we will be putting bread on the tables of the poor!
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