Five hours In Office
The president of a country happened to be the type who people do not like and everyone has tried their best to see him off from the office and all their efforts proved abortive. The whole government workers tend to have the same voice and have the technique of looting the nation's funds. This has been giving people concern on how to go about it since they have noeans of changing things.
Chiwawa is a country which has a president called Brown and has some subordinates who in turn work hand in hand. The country iss just filled with corrupt minded people and politicians. The government on the other hand are not helping issues but tend to take the national cakes all by themselves.
Every citizen in the country was waiting patiently for a saviour to be installed as the president and also many other saints to replace the government. How will this vision of theirs manifest? This is the question they all tried hard to ask but no one has ever come up with a solution. How would a country live with the government extorting the citizens? This is what they should all have to find solutions to.
The amenities that were supposed to be provided to every Community in the country was one way or the other cut short from above. Those who were supposed to put these amenities I'm place were bribed and indeed the funds which the government released were shared among those in higher positions. They never cared for the poor and for the remaining citizens of the country. They have turned the country into a source of making their money which indeed they are making hell of money from. Governments are supposed to build roads and other social amenities, but these ones are quite different. They deviated from what they were supposed to do for their country, and instead made all the citizens suffer hell.
Mark is a young and talented boy whose aim in life is to become the president and turn things around for good. He is still in the age of 15 and full of talents. His parents love being truthful and being plain to people. They have trained their son as well as their other children to trend in the part of truth. Mark is still in the secondary school but in the final year class.
His town lacked social and other amenities which everyone knew about. The only one who they placed as senator from his district happened to take their entitlement as his. He never cared for the welfare of his people but just cared for himself and his family. The contract of a road and renovations of schools were awarded to him some months back which everyone knew about. The Community was so happy after hearing this in the news, but to their surprise the senator came with trucks filled with bitumen to patch the roads and also just did a little renovations in the schools in the area. The leftovers were shared among the politicians in the area.
Mark has been seeing all these and tends to get angrier. The government organised a competition which entails lotsa of prizes and a chance to assume the president's seat for 5 hours. This got him to put up extra effort to read harder to conquer the exams and have the opportunity to rule the country for 5 hours. Mark was not after the money involved but was targeting the president's seat. What he has in mind is a great plan to change the country for the better within the stipulated time.
Mark enrolled for the competition and indeed he was reading so hard as they were all given a clue on the subjects to read for the exams. It was a great time spent by Mark and indeed when the first exams came up, he cleared it and he was the only one who was selected in his school and two other students from other schools in the same local government. The three including the three from each local government making a total of 15 students were qualified for the state level. At the state level, only six students were needed to qualify for the national level. They began the race and things were going on tougher. The questions were not like the ones they were expecting, but he never gave up because he has a dream and an aim.
At the national level, he again qualified but that time he took third position which got him to the federal level. They again began the race and indeed after the exams for the Federal level, the unexpected happened where he emerged as the best student of the country, Chiwawa. He was given lots of money as prizes and was taken to the president's billa where he was given a chance to rule the country for just five hours. What can he do for five hours? This was the question people kept on asking. The fact remains that he has plans to change his country and the lives of people.
Immediately he assumed office, he awarded contracts to construction companies to build schools and roads in different states. He signed a document to remove the bad eggs from the government position. He also made sure to reduce the price of fuel which has been giving the citizens problems. After signing that bill, he also made sure to reduce the prices of many of the items which have been inflated to their minimum levels.
He exposed those who have been siphoning the government's funds for their gain. He never left any stone unturned, but was very careful as what he had done would implicate him. Those he has exposed may come after him and, he decided to hide himself after the five hours.
He managed the five hours to his satisfaction and indeed the roads and schools he awarded were constructed and built with the stated time given to the contractors. He never waited, but decided to hide his head just because of those he has exposed. He knew that his family was not safe and so went on hiding until the president made an announcement that the little boy has tried to make the country proud and now he is taking the glory. He rewarded the boy and his family greatly. He promised to protect the boy to his last breath.
Chiwawa became the best of its kind after five hours.
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Thank you for posting this politically tinged story on @theinkwell, @cool08
It's also nice to see your interactions, with meaningful comments, with fellow writers. It keeps our community strong.
The story's a little too unrealistic especially the part where succeeded in changing his country in just five hours after he was given the chance to rule for five hours. But then again, this was fiction and anything is possible in fiction. Still a great story though.
Anything can happen in a story and so, could also happen in real life.
Wouldn’t it be great if this was nit a story but could be true somewhere in the world
I found my way here via #dreemport
You are right. It might have happened somewhere in the world, but I just thought of it.
Yes indeed i know you did :)
A fictional story with elements resembling some realities, @cool08
The utopian elements allow us to engage with fiction with interest and empathy.
Wouldn't we all love the chance to rule a country for 5 hours and fix everything we see that is wrong? I know I would!
Your story is interesting, @cool08, especially in light of world politics today.
As you are still developing the craft of fiction writing, I have some tips for you. Some things you can do to make your stories more engaging for the reader include more character development and more dialog.
Character development would help us care more about Mark and what he is trying to solve. Maybe he has seen children starving in the streets because of government corruption, and this motivates him to make changes in his five hours.
Dialog let's us "hear" what a character has to say. All good stories have dialog and interaction between characters. A story that is told like this one is essentially summarizing the events instead of letting the reader experience them.
Imagine, for example, if you wrote something like this:
Do you see how this brings a story to life and helps the reader to experience it?
Here's an article you can learn from: Action, Dialog and Narrative: The Dynamic Trio. Good luck and keep writing!
Heheheh....you are always giving me tips that can help me a lot. Wow... You are a good writer. I wish you are the one who wrote this story, it would have been so much interesting.
I will see to your advise comes my next post.
Thank you for your kind advice...
I love to see writers develop their skills!
This is the kind of people we truly need to change the world into a better place.