Lack of Order, Purpose and Direction in Social Spheres: Lessons from the C2C Network Legal Literacy WhatsApp Group

Personally, I love to participate on platforms that helps me to know more and have a better understanding of the world around me.

And so, as a journalist and an author, I was invited to join the C2C Network Legal Literacy WhatsApp group where people are meant to discuss and develop their literacy skills on legal matters especially from a corporate, civic and governance perspective.

I know that legal matters are quite complex and difficult to understand for many people and so, I was determined to gain a better understanding of the same in order for me to write clear articles that our readers can easily understand in order for them to make informed decisions in their lives.

The C2C Network Legal Literacy WhatsApp group that I joined is an initiative by the Connections2Communities (C2C) community which seeks to build community power around effective problem solving on matters of interest including civic, corporate and governance issues.

Since this was a new group, people who joined were supposed to introduce themselves and adopt a number (code) in an incremental sequence for identification.

For example, I was the 22^nd person to join, so my number was C2CNLL00022 and the person who joined after me would thus be C2CNLL00023.

The issues to be discussed were to be centred on legal matters be it corporate contractual obligations, parliamentary oversight and accountability on governance where legal knowledge must be made simple for all to understand.

However, in this group, just like in many others, I have observed a disturbing pattern that even though it is a small community of less than a thousand people, there is a general lack of order, purpose and direction among people in a given setting.

Some people could just join, then fail to abide the group instructions and start to engage in conversations and activities that are not related to the objectives of the group even in way that can render the whole initiative ineffective and not worth pursuing.

Now, imagine if people in this group could be well organised, exchange knowledge on legal matters and then share such insights in their respective communities!

This would quickly translate into a very informed society that is very conscious of duties and responsibilities of both human and legal persons in a way that would help to avoid and solve much of the problems faced in the execution of business and social contracts.

I wondered that if people in a small setting like a WhatsApp group can have a serious challenge when it comes to being orderly and focussed on a common cause, how much more difficult can it be to manage a corporation or even a country where the number of people involved is greatly multiplied.

Because of that, I started asking myself, how many other initiatives or projects in our communities do fail to succeed because of lack of order, purpose and direction among members and participants who do not value the essence of cooperation when it comes to a group cause.

More-so, I have also observed that communities fail to develop because people tend to choose to trample on the ideals of discipline because of lack of consideration for the common good whenever the situation and circumstances demands order towards collective achievement.

I have severally seen that people tend to selfishly do things that are of immediate personal advantage at the expense of other members in a group setting in a way that destroys platforms and programs that are meant to help them on a certain matter.

Unfortunately, because of this lack of order, purpose and direction, the same people will continue to be serious victims of circumstances that result from the ignorance which reigns supreme when literacy on important issues is not taken seriously.

In a number of articles that we have written in our publications, there are cases of contracts that have been cancelled and companies that have been closed as well as  people who have been arrested and projects that have been abandoned because the law was misused abused .

As such, through this C2C Network Legal Literacy WhatsApp group, many lessons can be shared in a way that ensures people won’t continue to succumb to the same problems since old wisdom tells us that a problem shared is a problem solved.

However, the above can only be achieved when order, purpose and direction is of importance to those who are involved.

Brian Kazungu is a Media Practitioner and an Author. He has written and published several books covering various aspects of human life including leadership, entrepreneurship, politics and personal development.

Some of the business texts that he has written include Fresh Thinking, The Practical Executive and Primitive Politics and The Poverty Machinery.

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