Aristotle
once said that all human actions that are aimed at gladness and cheerfulness should
be geared towards a life of virtue. If we accept this starting point of
Aristotelian ethics, the next question that should automatically be asked is: how
do we learn to become virtuous men and women? In answering this question we
should be able to make out the distinction between intellectual virtues, such
as practical wisdom, and moral virtues, such as courage, generosity, and the
like. Intellectual virtues is acquired by education; moral virtues by habit.
This is so because people with conscience and character are affinity for
excellence or virtue and they that love what is noble and feels disgust at what
is base. They are commonly the locomotives of society.
Since
Life as widely acclaimed is a combination
of ups and downs, trials and tribulations, great men and women always look
beyond these obstacles to emerge. Doumana Louis Roger is the Regional Delegate
of Transport for the North West Region. The most interesting thing about this lively
young man is that he looks beyond the orb that appears to be the end of the
world to see other opportunities that nobody imagines can exist.
Last month Doumana Louis Roger
received two distinctive from two different structures for his trappings at the
helm of North West Regional Delegation of Transport. Having proven
his worth in developing expansionism trenches within the transport sector,
everything seems to come naturally. On August 31, 2015, The Eye Newspaper
honoured Doumana Louis Roger as Best Regional Delegate.
Aristotle in the idea of virtue ethics also
states that society relies substantially on the effects role models. Aristotle
believes that we learn to be moral (virtuous) by modeling the behavior of moral
people. Through continual modeling we become virtuous out of habit. Of course,
people can learn both good and bad habits depending on the role models they
have. Aristotle believed that it was the moral duty of every citizen to act as
a good role model. This is especially true for people who are most likely to
be in the public eye, since these people had so many eyes on them. Who are the
role models in contemporary society? When asked, many youths state that they want
to be like their role models. Aristotle would argue that this is not a choice a
person can make. Since these people are so prominent in our society they are
role models and should take this responsibility seriously.
Doumana Louis Roger is a role model
and he worked hard in the year 2014/2015 to the point that his exemplary
successes also caught the admiration of a USA based organization to the point
that he was honoured with another award. This is so because Doumana just
decided to mark out transparent management as precedence of priority. He has
transformed the once dormant and corrupt sector to a beehive of activities.
Transparency is the key in the issuance of driving licenses in the North West
Region. Meet him in the field carrying the routine checks and you would agree
with this reporter that the man doesn’t only sit and dish out instructions but
follows up in the field to demonstrate. Since he became Regional Delegate, the numbers
of accidents in the region have reduced considerable. Doumana’s success story
is similar to that of William
Still who as a young boy helped a slave to escape. And over his lifetime, he
went on to help as many as 800 more slaves escape to their freedom. To
say that Doumana has rescued the population from the pangs of useless drivers
is to use one of the weakest diction ever to describe the work of a workaholic.
But to say he has rescued the population from the pangs of useless driver and
holders of fake drivers’ licenses makes his actions to similar to those of
William Still.
Seemingly, these fascinating acts of
transforming, acting and realizing positive multiplier upshot are gifted.
This is because with talent one can make
things happen to the very essence of the general good. Nevertheless, innovation
distinguishes between a great administrator and a charlatan. But unlike
ordinary visionaries who see far and remain on the spot, Doumana does not wait
on the spot to be told, he goes for everything that can make the transport
sector look better. He has eradicated corruption in the transport sector. That
is why as a youth he is succeeding where others have fumbled, stumbled and
tumbled over.
Rudyard Kipling, one of the finest
English writers once said that “if you can keep your head when all around you
are losing theirs and if you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat the
two the same, yours is earth and everything that is in it”. This is a
straightforward reality and in fact there is no doubt that Rudyard Kipling had
this inspiration from the obstacles and barriers we often crush to get to
prominence. In our contemporary society this statement could only be referred to
one person, Doumana Louis Roger.
What is important about this award
winning dynamic young man is that he is inventive, down to earth and fertile in
expedients. When you meet him for the first time, you are attracted by his
elegance and simplicity.
John Quincy Adams confirms it that if your
actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you
are a leader. Doumana is not just a self-motivated person in charge but an
administrator with incomparable management qualities (leader). In getting to where he is
today and especially being voted as Best
Regional Delegate of The Year at his age, he toiled laboriously to transform
lives. That is why today he is building common frontiers for all segments of
society. In doing this, he followed the principle outlined by Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow that ‘heights by great “men” reached and kept were not obtained by
sudden flight but, while their companies slept, they were toiling upward in the
night’ burning the midnight candle to change lives around.
When News Breaks Out, We Break In. (The 2014 Bloggies Finalist)
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