As more and more construction projects involving iron, cement, contractors and kickbacks are planned and inaugurated, and as more and more advertisements to celebrate progress under our businessman-prime minister are published or aired, my mind keeps going to the famous words of Egypt’s Gamal Abdul Nasser, spoken in a public meeting around 1960: “It is not the Will of God that poverty be hereditary and riches be hereditary, that health be hereditary and disease be hereditary, that education be hereditary and lack of it be hereditary, and that the right to rule be hereditary, and the fate to be subjects be hereditary.”
It was this speech of the great Egyptian leader which created sharp inroads into my mind and I made him my hero.
When I view the condition of our schools in the small towns and under government control, and when I happen to read about the services rendered in our public hospitals— and about deaths that occur for lack of proper attention and adequate Medicare, I feel like telling our rulers and their cronies that when the Will of Allah will prevail, your palaces will be converted into your graves.
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