Wedding as a form of escapism

It will be interesting to get the latest

inflation figures from the National Bureau of Statistics. Not that they really matter.

Supermarkets now find it difficult to attach prices to their goods and you wonder why? One of the advantages of buying things from supermarkets is that you are sure of the prices of their goods.

You do not waste valuable time haggling. It is either affordable or not. These days for fear of inflation, supermarkets choose to wait instead of attaching prices to their goods. The price today may differ from tomorrow's.

Sadly, there is no one to complain to. As if this is not bad enough bandits are kidnapping, collecting ransom and charging interest for delays.

In response, PMB is having a lavish wedding. Perhaps that should inspire hope. The wedding could be a precursor to an end to inflation, banditry and insecurity.

Some may argue that every society has its challenges and life must go on. Indeed life has to go on for the ruler and the ruled.

However, public office comes at a price: Sensitivity to the feelings of the ruled. How would it sound that the only response to the pains of the ruled is a lavish party by the leader?

A low key event would have elicited widespread felicitations instead of Lamentations by the deprived of the society.

In the midst of mounting debts and dwindling foreign Direct Investment, a lavish wedding should be the least of the shows to come from the powers that be.

As if they care. Do they ?