Identify five reasons for which citizens lose trust in government.
Explanation
- Widespread corruption in government
- High level of unemployment
- High cost of living/high rate of inflation
- State of insecurity e.g armed robberies, kidnappings, terrorist attacks, banditry
- Widespread poverty
- Inability to provide social services/social amenities e.g education, roads, health
- Extravagance/opulence on the part of government officials
- Disregard for constitutionalism /Rule of Law
- Undue interference in the -work of the judiciary/judicial system
- Arbitrary use of power by government officials
- Human rights abuses
- Poor service delivery by state institutions
- Electoral manipulation/rigging of elections/interference in the electoral process
- Tribalism, nepotism and favoritism in the public service
- Poor remuneration of workers: which leads to strikes
- Disregard for ethics and governance
- Failure to protect state resources
- Poor accountability and transparency in public service
- Low productivity/poor performance of the economy
- Lack of checks and balances by the various organs