I've (We) seen many events across the world that sometimes makes you to wonder if some people on top of order in certain organizations or even country hierarchy for that matter actually, do use brains and are qualified enough to be who they proclaim to be- leaders. And this is much more prominent in the alleged 'Third World' countries, a term that simply doesn't please me to any kind of extent.
Well, I shall drop my political views of global economical stability and balance here- this is not the place to make those arguments. But, just to think, that there are really incompetent leaders in some underdeveloped countries holding important positions is scary. I'm not talking about dictatorship or mass murders- those are acts of those in power greed, but instead the acts of some law executives that borders of plain stupidity at times.
A couple of days ago, at Abidijan, Cote d'Iviore (known popularly as Ivory Coast), a panicked crowd in a packed 50,000-strong capacity stadium caused the stadium wall in one side to collapse, resulting in the tragic death of 22 people (numbers still counting, official counts are not yet revealed). And I would also have to mention here all the big newscasting channels certainly did not carry this news with any primary importance because its just another event of despair in a region which is, by large, perceived with great disregard or lack of respect in a global scale. And luckily, those who died are people who came to watch a football game- and that is exactly the reason why I've managed to get hold of the news with a big headline in soccer websites.
First of all, could you imagine the blatant lack of organization that the country leaders have placed in a country which is the home for six Barclays Premier League footballers and is highly regarded as the rising football power of Africa? Not even having a proper ticketing system installed so that the fans could get into the stadium and take proper seats inside the very same stadium which the government had just recently built and upgraded to its current size is an insult to the way in which the hierarchy works, or even for that matter, thinks.
Fine, I shall excuse them for such shallow thinking. But the police? Imagine a situation when such a strong crowd begin panicking in a stadium that doesn't have a proper ticketing system and people have to literally qeue long hours to attain their seats from outside the stadium; what should the well-placed police force (just as they are placed as security measurements in all the stadiums across the world) do? It doesn't ever enter a little drip of my logic or even a hypothethical beyond-logic thinking that how, in such a situation, the police deemed it fit to fire TEAR GAS into a panicking crowd? Just how did they come up with such a brilliant idea?
1. Do they know what a tear gas is?
2. Do they know what it does to people?
3. Tear gas is used to clear a crowd, then how will you clear a crowd if you stand at the very exit of the stadium and fire tear gas on the crowd?
4. Where are the fans supposed to run? On the pitch?
5. Are they even trained policemen?
6. Did somebody tell them they can use tear gas at anytime they feel fit?
7. Ultimate question- do they have brains?
I have no clue how the policemen of this state even became one if they think they can take such a drastic, inexcusable action. Blame has to squarely land on their feet, of course, because it is their tear gas that caused an already panicking crowd to go hysterical with people literally stamping each other, and if a stampede causes some casualties already- it was exarcebated as the fans, desperately trying to escape their gas, ran to the wall of the stadium, causing it to ingraciously collapse and kill 22 on the spot and severely injure many more others.
Where are the brains, any enlightening?
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