What does a young Ugandan need?
Development, as an advance in terms of the quality of human life, is an automatic wish for everyone. Even animals have a natural development sequence that is only threatened by environmentally aggressive and greedy man. He might have a long history of wealthy stature or aspire to a high social class.
While patriotism, character or national identity and citizenship are required for a nation, individuals need work values, essential skills to execute and manage projects and venture into them.
The development-oriented work culture has always had a background of support for development. Within it, people are not only for their own satisfaction – without deceiving anyone, but also for the good of the community in which they live.
Countries like China have displayed such qualities on their way to becoming a world economic powerhouse. They have their country in their hearts and are proud to be Chinese. For a typical African living in Uganda, showing greed is the rule as soon as they assume positions of authority or office.
With globalization competing with everyone, greed and preparation, stiff competition for personal and business goals has become a bold move, with nothing to be ashamed of in order to fit into the global village. People find themselves doing whatever it takes to achieve their many goals, regardless.
It is a system, where in addition to providing an economic environment for global trends; The government may not have an active hand in the welfare of its people, but for them, just acting in faith to overcome the dangerous effects of the world village.
However, the kind of pressure has forced many into undignified acts of scavenging and engaging in dubious working class businesses, and prostitution, theft, spoofing and reckless behavior by the unemployed.
And for the newly employed, life is centered on celebrating the pleasure of money through unplanned spending, lavish living, and compensating for time-lost glory and sex festivals, now that he or she earns some money for himself or herself. meet everyone. Some of the behaviors here could be reckless, especially if they are motivated by the desire to fulfill long-awaited dreams.
As Professor Ali Muzrui put it, in one of his recent writings on Makerere University, globalization has overtaken institutions like this historic institution of higher learning (Makerere University in Kampala). In addition, bureaucracy and the fear of even positive change continue to be the stumbling block.
While most of the reforms could be for the good of the nation, leaders and managers are quite insensitive when it comes to carrying them out. Instead, they fearlessly act against their own country or its people, displaying a lack of social responsibility and being unproductive to those they serve.
As if planning is not part of work and development, such things (planning) are to be done formally, but never followed. People, rather, like to follow their anti-popular attitude, their insensitivities and their selfish interests.
And as would be expected in such a situation, the type of culture developed never allows the government to prioritize key areas that need renovation such as; health, research and education – as a whole. However, any development could be based on them.
Instead, the emphasis is on how best to sustain greed and divert public funds. And because of their protected positions no one says a word. If so, with reservations that prove indispensability and only treat them carefully and with their hands in gloves. Furthermore, ruthlessly dispel any attempt to threaten the status quo.
Future leadership and management skills will revolve around sequestering the private achievements of community members and owning them as their own. Thereafter, claims arise during general elections that consider private developments as part of successful government programs. There are places that can be visited, but with totally private developments.
In the same general elections, citizens are deceived into thinking that power belongs to them, and they can be seriously enslaved by thought. Slavery continues to favor leaders, while victimizing the electorate.
This really shows a lot of dishonesty and disrespect from politicians. It could partly explain why the number of voters going to the polling stations has decreased significantly. In the future, as it has been so far, more people might choose to stay with their families, eat and sleep rather than waste time with opportunists.
During the budget readings, everything becomes so political that Ugandans are not recognized for being hard-working and for being part of the featured figures. It may not just be the government, but Uganda, which could be praised for the celebrated growth figures.
In what could be a partnership, we see the government trying to stabilize the country in terms of peace, while the citizens work for development success. It would be better to call it a collaboration or social contract between the government and its people to make ends meet. That way, it would make sense.
However, there have been no-development talks for constituencies that send members of opposition political parties to parliament. For some time it has been used as; both the campaign threat and the slogan during the general election. However, political inclination would certainly not have been an indicator of development, since it is an all-encompassing path in everyone’s life.
For Busoga, it has been different. Despite giving the ruling regime almost 100% in every presidential election, he has barely benefited from the annual growth figures. It should be noted that much of Busoga is remote and impassable.
If one was traveling by private means, the vehicle could end up in a garage anyway when returning to Kampala. Only Mayuge, as a district, does not have paved roads! Unfortunately or fortunately, people there (in Busoga) never want to present their problems while they talk all day, sleep and drink.
Therefore, it is not surprising that Late Kayabazinga was part of the passive leaders in Busoga, in terms of solving Busoga’s economic problem. Actually, the president was right to call him some kind of Jesus, unlike his (Kyabazinga’s) counterpart in Mengo. And he was in the category of leaders that President Museveni wanted. The government is likely to loathe politicians who tell the truth about their constituency and speak the same way on their behalf while in parliament.
The reason was simple. The Kyabazinga were, well, selfless during his reign, able to fulfill the ceremonial stature of culture kings as agreed with the government, and less concerned with defending Busoga’s development views.
He apparently never wanted to bother the government with Busoga’s concerns, much as the region had numerous problems and, above all, the failure to unite Basoga. In doing so, the region suffered like an orphan. Indeed, soon the “children”-prominent politicians began to quarrel with each other. This, in turn, halted the development prospects of the areas in general.
Being ceremonial, it meant that traditional rulers had to sit idle in the same way as opposition political parties. Government acted as; a person who receives a visitor, serves him food, and shortly after orders the guest not to eat. Isn’t that as good as never hosting the visitor?
Not surprisingly, many say that he (Kyabazinga) sold out Busoga to the NRM politically, while sacrificing it financially. And as anyone might notice, he had no impact on the Basoga compared to Kabakka Mutebi’s reign in Buganda. Thus, with or without royalty in Busoga, day-to-day business would have been normal.
As if to reinforce the previous point, the royal business in Busoga is something that was copied from the surrounding kingdoms in Uganda, especially Buganda, which was then a local imperialist. So, as the saying goes, Busoga could not fit into the shoes of kingdoms like Buganda.
In other parts of Uganda, different areas have shown potential to develop with or without government support. This is evidenced in places in places like Kabalagala, Munyonyo, Ntinda and Nalya. Any claim that it was the responsibility of the government, as the song says, could perhaps mean ownership of such developments by it or its officials, and that all Ugandan engagements, whether day or night, are planned and government supervised.
Also, there might be some truth to it, having noted that while in China the government instituted a one-child policy, in Uganda some policies are imaginary liberal. Could this be the kind of consolidation of achievements that is so famously talked about?
Could it be the lack of morality as children growing up or the overwhelming desires for power or status that is responsible for political and economic fraud? The latter might make a lot of sense because one can find people dying in retirement or due to the pressure to perform well in office.
And it could be common knowledge that people are willing to do anything to maintain their comfort zone. Do you always need to ask someone whether or not they are interested in holding a respectable and higher position on earth?
The other question might be: where are young people in development? Having representatives of special interest groups in parliament is not enough, as their role fully benefits themselves (the representatives).
Under current structures, young people are understandably not accommodated and matter less, if so, it is only at election time. But, being the strongest force in a community, they need utilization. Whereas if they are not taken care of, they would fade into acts of substance abuse and delinquency.
As the situation implies, the youth would only have to help themselves rather than wait for the intervention of the Christly government. He would call for action planning and participation in all channels for self-emancipation.
Now that 2011 is glowing, young people must take the risk of running against anyone for political office. It is a time for action to join the elderly in consulting the voters. In Kenya, there is already an ongoing youth movement to care for the values of the youth. The young people there believe that they have not benefited from the older class of politicians.
Are the youth of Uganda anywhere on the development front?
The problem of financing solidarity associations and political parties could easily be addressed. Meanwhile, talents and hobbies would be transformed into economically lucrative activities for current survival. Working on small projects with patience and commitment to one’s goals, and skillfully managing health challenges, could bring developmental surprises in the long run.
On the other hand, we would have to spend time serving the society we wish to lead. A potential leader must, himself, be a servant. This would mean having to focus a bit more on long-term plans that have links to ancillary business ventures.
If based on agriculture, for example, there must be a store, restaurant, transport business, milling, processing or semi-processing and export, as in the process one plans a shift to simpler means of earning money. The rule here could be: save or invest, either one at a time or both at the same time.