“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” This quote is from John Quincy Adams and it speaks well of what leaders are to his people. The unspoken side of this quote is the responsibility of the leader to tell his people to stop when it is no longer doing them any good, especially when he knows it.
Amidst the stern, clear and unambiguous statement of President Rodrigo Duterte to shut down all so-called investment scheme operators and organizations–whether religious or business–there is the incumbent responsibility upon leaders of organizations involve din this fraudulent scheme to have the temerity to accept its frailties and fallacies for the good of its members.
Organizations offering investment schemes with astronomic returns like Kapa and Rigen should accept the fact that the end of the line has come for them and caught up with them. It’s the natural course of what is advertised clearly, and accepted willingly by the risk-taking ‘investors’ from the very beginning. They took the risk, they must learn to accept when the perceived risk has come.
It is best for leaders of these organizations and establishments, instead of giving false hopes to people, to take the hard reality that the craze is over.
There are laws that have been violated by its continued operations and we cannot encourage people to believe that laws can be circumvented all because it has worked profitably for some. People’s impoverished state should not be made as a rallying point to make illegal as legal because this scheme is not even about stealing from the rich to give to the poor. In the bigger scope of things, it is actually stealing from the poor to enrich the schemers.
This is not about one religious congregation against another as being amplified by Kapa against the congregation of Pastor Apollo Quiboloy who interviewed the President where he made the statement on Saturday. This is about violations of the law and exploitation of poverty and ignorance. There is a time to profit, but there is also a time to lose and let go.
