People still have no shoes after 20 years!
Jul 10, 2005
SIR — When president Yoweri Museveni came to power in 1986 he said that he was ashamed to see Ugandans walking barefoot.
SIR — When president Yoweri Museveni came to power in 1986 he said that he was ashamed to see Ugandans walking barefoot.
He said he would not want to be called ‘His excellency’ like presidents in rich countries when his people were so poor! Twenty years on, most Ugandans still don’t wear shoes and even worse, they do not have full stomachs.
When I was growing up in Ankole, most people in the villages had no money but at least they had two full meals a day. The situation in most villages is pathetic today.
people no longer have enough to eat and children suffer from malnutrition and are stunted. A friend from my home area (Ntungamo) but who works in malawi recently came to my office almost in tears.
He had just been home and the sight of children there and their parents had shocked him. He asked me what we could do for our village and I told him that the situation was the same in most of Uganda. The only worse places were camps for the internally displaced people in northern and northeastern Uganda! In turn, he told me that in Malawi, children were a foot shorter since independence in the the sixties!
He was worried that our children might suffer the same fate. I appeal to the president who has promised “wealth for all†(bbona bagagwale) to first take care of the people’s stomachs.
The problem is scarcity of land or land fragmentation and over-use as well as absence of government guidance.
F. Mungereza
Kampala
He said he would not want to be called ‘His excellency’ like presidents in rich countries when his people were so poor! Twenty years on, most Ugandans still don’t wear shoes and even worse, they do not have full stomachs.
When I was growing up in Ankole, most people in the villages had no money but at least they had two full meals a day. The situation in most villages is pathetic today.
people no longer have enough to eat and children suffer from malnutrition and are stunted. A friend from my home area (Ntungamo) but who works in malawi recently came to my office almost in tears.
He had just been home and the sight of children there and their parents had shocked him. He asked me what we could do for our village and I told him that the situation was the same in most of Uganda. The only worse places were camps for the internally displaced people in northern and northeastern Uganda! In turn, he told me that in Malawi, children were a foot shorter since independence in the the sixties!
He was worried that our children might suffer the same fate. I appeal to the president who has promised “wealth for all†(bbona bagagwale) to first take care of the people’s stomachs.
The problem is scarcity of land or land fragmentation and over-use as well as absence of government guidance.
F. Mungereza
Kampala