Where is the Honor in Governance?

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Getting elected in government service bestows honor. It signifies trust, confidence and belief by the majority of the voting populace on the elect. It is an assumed commission from the people whose hope is for a better change and the furtherance of their way of life under a free and just society.


Ideally, these are the same motivations of an elect to pledge himself in the service of his countryman. To serve with integrity and honesty and to care for with diligence the precepts of his commission while in the performance of his sworn duties. In return, he will honor those who exalted him and consequently would bring about sanctity to the institution which he serves. In the end, it is the character of the elect that is the substance that would fill and sustain the glitter of honor in the vessel that is the institution.


Honor in governance cannot be in the title conferred upon the elect, and not even in the name of the institution in which he serves. It is the elect himself and his character that will perpetuate honor in his office and governance as a whole.


However, if the elect’s intention manifests incongruence with that of the electorates that ascended him; when he spoils himself to disgrace and becomes rotten; when he betrays the hope of his constituents; when he taints the vessel that is the institution with malice and treachery, the vessel must be emptied before tomorrow without waiting for the moon to get full. If there is still a vestige of honor in the elect, he will leave and he will present himself for scrutiny. Otherwise, if he stays on, he would just reveal himself to be a man of deceit. A man unworthy even of a glance. Deprived of decency and perceived as a patron of decadence. The lowest form of mammal that even the most treacherous of animals would abhor. If he stays on, confidence will erode from the institution; it will implode and crush unto itself. It will be seen as a dark cave filled with blood-sucking bats. It will die before he does…. and all will be lost.

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