This is exactly what I have been trying to tell you people. You have to live in this country knowing what it actually is. A dysfunctional country where almost everything is broken. Stop watching shows set in functional countries and deciding to take up the lifestyle of someone in Stockholm.
Please, do not start jogging on the Northern Bypass at 5AM because the woman in the Netflix series jogs at 5AM. Her country has lights, working police response, ambulances that arrive, and sections designed for human beings. Yours has potholes, darkness, and a government that will not miss you when you die.
In a dysfunctional country, security is not guaranteed and nobody will be held responsible for your death, even when keeping you alive was technically their job. So you have to build your own systems. You have to become your own safety plan. Move through life like the country is quietly working against you, because in many practical ways, it is.
Do not drive at 180 km/h, please. Not on the rotten roads, for obvious reasons, and not on the few decent ones either, because the moment something goes wrong, your odds of surviving are slim. The hospital without drugs is far, the ambulance does not have fuel and wait, even the doctors are on strike! Drive like the next vehicle on the road is a mad man under the influence, because honestly, more often than you think, it actually is.
Avoid getting sick. Sleep under a mosquito net. Take only boiled water. Wash your hands often. Take vitamins if you can afford them. You want to ask me why? Well, in this country, even a small illness can take you out because the health system is held together by prayers and a few overworked intern doctors and nurses. Please, do not gamble with your body.
When you go to party at night, leave with enough money for an Uber back home. Or just do not stay out too late too often. The streets after midnight in this city are not the streets you knew at noon. They belong to other people now and they are not too friendly.
When you have children, have a number you can realistically protect and provide for, even on your worst day. The argument of “I can afford” works perfectly in a country with safety nets. In ours, your ability to afford can vanish in a single week, with a single illness, a single political shift, a single bad season. It is not up to you but we seem to forget that many times.
Cheat the curse of this country. Do not give it easy openings. Live like you know exactly where you live. Live like the country has issued no promises and is keeping none. This is the wisdom you will need to survive an extra day.
It is genuinely sad that we keep losing young people like this. So much potential, so much warmth, gone because the basic conditions of a normal life are not available here. My condolences to you and to your friend’s family.
May the rest of us learn from this, painful as it is to admit that learning from death is now part of how we survive.
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@PatriqKanyomozi This is just how the Government wants the election to be make it very free legit and safe ie no teargas no drama the on the D day massive ballot stuffing happens just watch out
One of Museveni’s key political strengths is his ability to carefully study the characters of those who oppose him and those who ally with him. He quickly learns who to take seriously, who to ignore, who to buy, who to appease with what, and who to paralyse. A careful study of how he has cunningly managed some otherwise intelligent people shows how keenly he studied them while they naively judged him by his word or innocently looked at the small picture of his game.
Second, for the Machiavellian he is, tends to focus on outcomes and avoids being distracted by inconsequential things in-between that have no significant effect on his goals. He hardly gets excited to act impulsively or out of fits of anger. Even when he is panicking, he will cleverly conceal it from the public and to put up an invincible appearance of being in control. He knows that any appearance of panic empowers the opponent to push harder with the method causing the panic. He calculates like a hunting predator, when to strike, when to stay in the grass, when to wait for another day.
The ongoing paranoid kidnaps are are not really Museveni’s style. Even if he would desire the same outcomes as the kidnappers, he would feign and put up a facade of good intentions and democratic garments in his execution. The current actor is obviously unsophisticated. It is either an old Museveni with less energy to execute disguised autocracy or a crude new comer that only has force in his toolbox. Obviously the method of the current actor is politically unsustainable, it often precedes a bad fall. Just a matter of time. Museveni often had a clever way of embedding his autocracy into a performance of democracy - only opting to arbitrary violence as the last card, not as the default strategy or to satisfy his military ego.
As one who focuses on ends, he makes neither permanent friends nor enemies. People are seen as buttons on the board. The goodness or badness of a button is seen in terms of its location on the board and the moves the player can make with it to achieve his ends. Whether the button is black or white does really matter, for as long as it fits into big plan of the game.
My brother, I hear the conflict in your words, and I say this without ambiguity,even silence must have a conscience. While there is wisdom in restraint, we must be careful not to confuse tactical silence with moral paralysis. History is clear: evil thrives not only when good men speak falsely, but also when they fall into the comfort of silence.
As Africans, we know too well the dance of tyrants,the choreography of distraction, the performance of pain, and the applause of indifference. Eddie Mutwe’s ordeal is not merely a personal tragedy,it is a reflection of a systemic rot that festers when citizens are reduced to pawns in power games.
So let us not whisper when we should roar. Let us not dim the light when darkness gathers. And if we must be silent, let that silence shake the corridors of injustice.
For in the end, posterity will not judge us by how loud we were, but by what our silence allowed.
@TonyNatif As a man who loves his young family just felt tears rolling down on my cheek thought about my 2 year old daughter's future and what I can do to make this space better for her and all I could see were dark days head. I DONT KNOW MAN