Free Within the Walls of Hell by Taniform Martin Wanki

relatives and party members made them unqualified? It was because while in the medical professional school, their parents prescribed the marks they wanted to see on the score sheets of their children. So the children knew that whether they worked or not, studied or not, their futures were guaranteed. You were aware of it. If you want to contest what I’ve just said, tell me how many times you went to any of those hospitals only for consultation when you were sick.
    Carlos: Well, I admit that I had never gone to any of them for treatment or consultation. But I did not open them for myself.
    Messenger : You really sound like a politician. You went to hospitals abroad which were well equipped and those who treated there you were very welcoming and very dedicated. You liked the way you were treated out in another country. Yet, you denied that same opportunity to your people. You did not want to offend your relatives, friends and party members by being hard on their children who worked in the hospitals. So, you let them to do what they liked. Consequently, the hospitals were turned into money-making institutions and poor patients who could not afford the high consultation fees were assisted to their graves. That is what happens when people find themselves in places or posts they are not supposed to be in… they do the wrong things.
    Carlos : But I opened one in the capital of my country where I built my magnificent palace and equipped it with the type of instruments I saw abroad. I got well trained workers and staffed the hospital with. It served my people.
    Messenger : You have left out so many things. You’ve forgotten to say that the hospital you are referring to was your private hospital which you didn’t even go there for consultation. It served mostly your ministers and their families, friends, relatives, party members and big business men. The poor could not come close to it. In addition, you have forgotten to say that those well trained staff you talked about were not paid by the huge amounts the hospital generated but by the poor tax payer’s money. Have I said anything which is out of place?
    Carlos : ( Does not say anything )
    Messenger : The next thing you will say is that you opened professional schools to train youths who were to serve in different sectors of the economy. Well yes, you did open the schools but they were filled only by the children of those in high places.
    Carlos: What was wrong with the schools I opened? Was it that I opened them or that they were occupied by the children of those I loved?
    Messenger : There was no reason why competitive entrance exams into the professional schools you opened were organized and only the children of those in high places always made it. Those who scored very high marks had to be sidelined because they were children of poor parents or their parents belonged to the opposition or they did not belong to this or that social class. You knew there were irregularities through the protests and demonstrations that went on. You did something about it and it was to unleash the army on the protesters. That was not the right thing to do. You have to create a level-plain field for everybody. That was what you were supposed to do.
    Carlos : ( Mockingly ) And if I did that, it would have cleared All the problems you have just enumerated, I suppose?
    Messenger : I did not say that all problems would have been solved. But they would have been greatly reduced.
    Carlos: You are not different from that fool who called himself an opposition leader. He never saw anything good in what I did or in my government. He criticized everything and turned a good number of the people against me. Most of them started following him and did only what he said. I felt I was loosing control and had to take drastic measures. You are doing exactly the same thing. You disobeyed me and they ( pointing to Sandi, William and stone ) have followed your example. I have no authority here. If my