It is both foolish and informative to read this article.
Foolish because human stupidity is again given airtime. Informative because you
need to know how stupid humans remain being.
So one community member decides to tap water to his home.
But living deep in the village, he consults and is told the best way is to tap
with a larger volume pipe – from which the rest of the village will tap from.
He agrees: bingo!
I assure him that the community will ensure the trench is
dug. He is interested in getting the digging images. He gets angry that I only
sent 3. One because there was no need for many pictures. I struggle to get more
because no one is digging now.
Those who kicked off digging have already cleared their
portions. And they are not going to touch others’ portions, even if they do not
come to dig!
And I take it up to remind those whose portions remain. Some
appear. But they do too little of it that you have to go to remind them that
they should make time to redo soonest – in a nice voice. The same nice voice is
maintained when you remind them the tenth time.
At the umpteenth reminder, they, feeling guilty, take to
self-defense. Their portion was bigger, harder, full of roots, others have not
finished theirs why just be on they, others did not make theirs well even – why
can’t I ensure completion of that before I come to them?
I told another woman to try making a trench as her
contribution and she said nope, she is a girl. In the sense that she is not
married in the family. To mean women married in the family should. She, she
might get married and won’t be a beneficiary in other words. Yet she is the caregiver
to her old mother, she and her children living here, every evening when it does
not rain they struggle going to the spring. She is half mad or she sometimes
pretend to be.
Without forgetting the man who told me that two jericans are
enough for him – why bother including him in the arrangements? If anything he
has never participated in the foolishness of spring maintenance. He will fetch
at night if they refuse him in the day, he continues with his stupidity.
And they can really incite the rest. The whole water project
is funded by world bank, they will say. Let no one ask you to do anything for
free! There is money! They will eat it alone! And in such ways they are
believed by fellow fools and young observant netizens – who will grow to be
worse than them when it comes to cooperation.
It did not end there. At the end point we were to put a tap to serve the community down. In between, the beneficiaries could pull together and create a momentary fetch point. Where! No, you cannot take the tap down - put it up here! Nooooooo.....
So I handed them the tap and the rod. For the end point I organized for a tap and a rod the second day. Three weeks now the folks up have not yet installed their fetch point. Some come down here to fill their jericans.
When men laugh to themselves they hide pain, don't they?
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