Morality of Leadership. Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI

KEMKA S. IBEJI at Orphanage Home 
Men and brethren, if we as leaders look at what our people are and what they do, we will all become devils. Sometimes it pains to say that our people don't seem to deserve anything good by their actions.

However, as leaders our morality should be hinged on courage and strong will. This will only stand out when faced with challenges. Just like Socrates on Philosophy of Education, extricating the people from ignorance doesn't go without the violence of the beneficiaries. The people you fight to save from destruction will be fighting to destroy you at the same time. Ignorance is a big fat disease.

Be that as it may, we who have passed through the crucibles of leadership have come to wear a different but far strengthened morality. This has a lot to do with knowledge to laugh at your intended killer who does not know your impregnable immunity against his finite imagination.

In the main, we should be able to defend the common will no matter how we got to power. Power belongs to the people, whether given or taken. So when we rise, we should turn and face to duty of our mantle. Growing towards the self in the abandonment of the crux of government and stool of governance is an aberration of the good.

When you aspire to lead, you should quickly understand the goal and character of leadership. It is the management of the common will of the people. Even if you took the power without the endorsement of the people, as cultural in our Nigerian purview today, you owe them the duty to serve them. I feel scorn when leaders say, "after all, I walked myself in. Nobody voted for me". You know what, the frailty and faulty nature of our system may have helped you climb up there but you cannot be stronger than the people. If they rise any day against you, you will understand how weak and powerless you indeed are.

I see weak men and women pride themselves for their ability and craft to get into offices without the nod of the people they lead. Let me assure you that the strength of the leader rests exceedingly on the legitimacy of his staff. Without legitimacy, every leader is mostly weak and lives on borrowed time. To be a leader is to have willing and followers who are not following by coercion. This is because coercion is limited by time and space but the will follows to the grave.

Are you a leader?
Let your actions answer for you...


I am,
KEMKA S. IBEJI 

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