Why does it take a world summit to wake up civil and public servants ? Like an apparition, I saw a policeman on point duty last week. It's the first sighting in a decade and caused much excitement amongst pedestrians and drivers alike. It gets better, for the robot that he was replacing was repaired within the same day. Typically, what happens is that the offending robot is repaired only after a week or seven serious accidents, which ever comes first.

The world summit has also miraculously produced hundreds of police vehicles, as could be witnessed during last week, when a convoy of some twenty vehicles, sirens blaring, drove at great speed, past the showroom, with scant disregard for the speed limit or the other traffic on the road. Talking of which, have you ever seen a policeman wearing a seatbelt, or even stop at a red robot ?. often, I have followed a police vehicle or ambulance, after seeing them turn their siren on just to get through a red robot, then immediately turn it off again, until the next robot appears..

Sadly, the only people to benefit from the summit may well be the hotel industry, car rental industry, and certainly any business that retails Gucci, Hugo Boss, Givenchy and the like. A better dressed group of individuals I have yet to see. So that's what we pay our taxes for, not to protect us against murder and robbery, not to make sure our robots work, not to finance a better public service, not to provide basic needs like housing and free medical assistance, not to provide the drugs necessary in combating the greatest killer Africa has ever seen, but to wine and dine, accommodate , and create false impressions to the rest of the world………..