kennedyjavuru

A Ugandan born, UK based Communications Specialist and Media Scholar.

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Whenever I am thinking deeply about something, I turn to poetry.

THE PEOPLE GOD FORGOT TO TAKE

I once had an uncle
whose contribution to village development was largely theoretical.

He drank. And he was famous for it.

Not socially.
Not occasionally.
He drank with commitment.

Whenever an important man died, the village women would arrive at the funeral and begin negotiations with God.

‘Why, God? Why take such a useful man and leave people like…?’

They rarely completed the sentence.

They did not need to.

My uncle was usually somewhere nearby.

And this annoyed him immensely.

‘Am I not also a child of God?’

He would protest, with the wounded dignity of a taxpayer that he wasn’t .

Later, after sufficient consultation with the bottle, he developed a theological explanation.

‘Maybe God takes important people because you people disturb them too much’

School fees.
Hospital bills.
Funeral contributions.
Jobs.
Loans.
Transport.

Every day: Help me, help me, help me.

Me, nobody begs from me.

I have nothing. If you started begging from me, i too would have to start begging God.

So perhaps God keeps me alive
because I am less administrative work.’

It was difficult to argue with him.

I remembered my uncle
while listening to Ugandans mourn King Oyo.

Again the old question:

Why take someone so young
when there are people in their 80s and 90s still here?

I sometimes wonder about the octogenarians.

Imagine surviving malaria, wars, coups, bad roads, bad politics, cholesterol and several ‘poisoning attempts even from your village people,

only to discover that whenever
a 34-year-old dies, the nation collectively turns towards you
and asks God:

‘Surely, this one was available?’

What exactly are old people supposed to do?

Apologise for surviving?

Perhaps death does not consult
our national usefulness register.

Perhaps Heaven has no retirement age.

And perhaps the question is not
why someone died at 34
while another lives to 94.

Perhaps the question is:

What did each do with the years ‘allocated’ to them?

Because there may be people
who live for 34 years and leave footprints for a century,

and others who live for a century and spend their final decades slowly erasing the footprints they once made.

Longevity is an achievement of biology.

Legacy is an achievement of life.

My uncle, the village drunk,
may have understood this better than all of us.

He eventually died too.

God had apparently finished with the important people.

May King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukiidi IV rest in peace.

©️Dr. Kennedy Javuru

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@ydk_master @IanSZNian No it’s Ozil in an Arsenal Champions league game against Ludogoret in 2021

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@IanSZNian Ozil

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@AdenikeOmolar11 Fake. AI

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@FredShaka @HonByamukama @BalaamBarugahar @mkainerugaba @SSssebunya @Wassajja_Aiden These are the people who are admired to be very ‘successful’ by their friends and relatives.

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@long_daze @Mythicalblue_ Not with the mother running her mouth instead of being remorseful. I don’t think I would stand her sight.

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@__DeeeCR7 Boys need men to mentor and discipline them.

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It is astonishing that a PhD holder like Lawrence Muganga would choose to frame a constitutional issue as an ethnic one.

The question before Ugandans is not whether Muganga is a Munyarwanda.

It is whether a person holding dual citizenship can legally be appointed Minister of State for Internal Affairs.

The Constitution of Uganda is clear on restrictions relating to holders of dual citizenship occupying certain sensitive state positions.

Instead of engaging with the law, Muganga has chosen the easier route of claiming discrimination based on ethnicity. That is intellectually dishonest.

A scholar, especially one with a PhD, should be the first to encourage citizens to read the Constitution, understand the law, and debate facts rather than emotions.

When legal restrictions are presented as ethnic persecution, it not only misleads the public but also trivialises genuine cases of discrimination. Uganda is governed by laws, not by tribal sentiments.

A PhD should teach one to confront evidence, not to run away from it.

The Constitution does not ask whether one is a Munyarwanda, Muganda, Munyankole or Acholi. It asks whether one meets the legal requirements for the office.

The debate should remain where it belongs: in the Constitution, not in ethnic victimhood.

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@magicmike340 And what did we win with that? Zilch! Nothing! Nada!

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@AlexaBanx @andrewbagala @FERDINANDIUS Here; and it’s a diplomatic passport.

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@DennisMujambere @Kabogo_Henry Thank you. I said the same in my comment

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@Kabogo_Henry You are damn bloody liar @Kabogo_Henry. This is a traditional marriage ceremony among the Acholi people of Northern Uganda when the groom to be visits the bride to be’s home. They should enter the main house crawling to show the weight of the responsibility he is about to take.

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For many younger Arsenal fans, the glory is Arteta’s.But the foundation was laid by Arsène Wenger.

Between 2007 and 2017, Arsenal were fighting a battle many conveniently forget.

The club had moved into the Emirates Stadium and the financial burden was enormous.

While rivals spent freely, Arsenal had to survive. Wenger sold stars, balanced books, kept the club in the Champions League and protected Arsenal’s identity while others mocked us for “only” finishing top four.

But those top four finishes were not small achievements. They were lifelines. Champions League money helped pay back the stadium loan. Wenger himself admitted how important that was.

At the same time, we watched some of our best players leave; many to Manchester City who were like a new bride having landed on oil money.

Chelsea too had a Russian billionaire whom Wenger jokingly said had a canon facing Arsenal firing £50 notes!

In many ways, City accelerated their rise with players developed under Wenger’s Arsenal. Yet despite that drain, Wenger kept Arsenal competitive through intelligence, coaching and belief.

What makes his sacrifice even deeper is knowing he could have walked away. Real Madrid wanted him. Any manager would have been tempted. But Wenger stayed because the banks financing the Emirates reportedly demanded stability and wanted him to sign a long-term extension as reassurance. He chose Arsenal over personal glory.

Today, when Arsenal challenge for titles again, we are watching the delayed reward of Wenger’s sacrifice.

The Emirates stadium, the global stature of the club, the modern infrastructure, the culture; all of it rests on foundations he protected during the hardest years.

Some people build teams for the present.Arsène Wenger built Arsenal for the future. ❤️
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Destiny beckons for Arsenal according to Mourinho. https://t.co/JnXx8PD6Xm

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The Goat!😆

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Chicken is coming home to roost