By Theophilus Gant
There is an old saying in Eyehasseen: “If a cart has seven drivers, the ox starves.” And yet I look at our current structure of governance and count not seven, but seventy — each holding a whip, a scroll, or a wildly inaccurate map.
When was the last time a Royal Edict was brief? When did a town petition pass through fewer than three review committees? And why, in the name of all that is parchment, do we require two countersignatures and a wax seal to fix a crooked signpost?
The citizen is not here to serve the system. The system is here to serve the citizen. And if that system becomes a wall instead of a gate, it must be rebuilt — or at least shouted at until it answers.
Good governance is simple. Transparent. Swift. And above all, useful. Let us remember that before we lose sight of what we were meant to rule: not paper, but people.