"Which of you, if your children ask for a loaf of bread, will give them a stone? In the case of countries, the state automatically assumes the role of parents in this analogy, with the citizenry translating to its children. Therefore, when a starving-to-death citizen asks the state for bread, would the state offer a stone, or if they asked for fish, would the state offer a snake? The life of individual citizens has been relegated and reduced to mean nothing, thanks to the unprecedented plunder of public resources which has reached monumental levels. One is prompted to ask, when parents turn into beasts, what fate befalls the children?

Source: Daily Nation March 23, 2019 18:56 UTC