Please Retweet until Kevin Kasumba gets out of danger.
He needs at the moment 70 million shillings to replace a valve in his heart in India before the End of next month. His Josephine Nakiberu his mother is not connected and she doesn’t have a steady job. She needs our hand to save her only son
So as you buy your lunch today spare a coin for Kevin who needs 70 million shillings to undergo a final heart procedure so that he can have life.
Please drop any amount on his mother’s contacts 0773 620 727 and 0752 403 266 all in the names Josephine Nakiberu.
Uganda is at that dangerous point where nothing shocks the population anymore. We are like an abused married woman who has seen it all but with nowhere to run to. Even when her husband returns late in the night very drunk and vomits in the fridge, she just looks on now.
Things that would normally have angered us now pass one after the other as we simply shake our heads and move on. The abusers interpret this to mean licence to them to even do worse. Every abuse we take in simply emboldens them to abuse us some more - like that old school teacher that would cane you and again cane you for not crying. They steal, we look on. They steal even more. They let hospitals rot, we watch on. They let more to rot.
They directly threaten to kill (behead, hang) leaders, and it only attracts coiling and hashed whispers. They kidnap our people, we look on, or even blame each other for it. They kidnap and randomly incarcerate more through military courts, we shake our heads and move on. To them, we are subdued and incapable of any resistance. We are like cows in a kraal. Take one and slaughter it, the others simply go on eating - hoping that they would survive by minding their eating business.
It is a dangerous stage in the growth of desperation, because at this level anything goes. But also, with all civil outlets closed, an explosion is always immanent in an angry population that goes silent. You can never tell what they’re thinking or planning. It is a sort of bang that no institution can ever be ready for. Undesirable, but rendered inevitable everyday. Impunity and disregard are its parents. Arrogance is its midwife. Violence is its grandfather.