Can Leaders Build a Future Their Own Children Will Not Share?

I have been thinking about leaders whose families live abroad while they return home to seek office and promise a better future. When public hospitals lack drugs, schools fail and insecurity rises, their children may be safe in countries with working systems. That distance raises a difficult question: how personally invested can such leaders be in fixing the institutions ordinary people depend on? The same concern applies to traditional rulers and titled men who live far from the communities they are meant to serve. Decisions about families, land and disputes can become detached from daily realities when they are made through calls, reports and second-hand accounts. A community cannot be properly understood only through visits for ceremonies, meetings, funerals and Christmas. If a governor's children may only return to bury their parents or collect an inheritance, what will compel that governor to face the consequences of poor governance? Across the five South-East states, this is a question worth asking: who will remain to share the future being created for our children?

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