Is uganda ready for new generation leadership?

By Johnson Akampa Tanbull

From one of the great writers Amartya Sen’s Development as a Freedom – he states that what people can positively achieve is influenced by economic opportunities, political liberties, social powers and the enabling conditions of good health, basic education and the encouragement and cultivation of initiatives…and in line with the presence of massive unemployment entails the deprivations that are not well reflected in income distribution statistics.

Unemployment contributes to the social exclusion of some groups and it leads to losses of self-reliance, self-confidence and psychological and physical health( As seen in Uganda’s case where youth who constitute majority of the population are being used and energies, potential is being wasted in things that make news rather than inspiring sense to achieve collective development and be part of the solutions to address challenges that affect the generation…) People have to know especially the youth that with political and civil liberty freedoms- enhance more on the ability of people to help themselves and also to influence the World , and these matters are central to the process of  development.

 In the past months, reports have indicated that crime rates are increasing, people are murdered in cold blood day by day and people seem to no longer hold so much value in humanity and the principles of rule of law have been rendered not serious, terrorism acts are becoming normal, gender violence, land grabbing has been talked and preached against during the Easter season…where have we gone wrong?

As development comes, it comes with its own advantages and disadvantages same applies to population increase more especially where we see majority of the population being challenged with questions of survival?

 In my field  of work,  I have been in the Districts of Kaliro, Iganga,Kasese, Mbarara, Ntungamo, Rukungiri, Kabale, Tororo, Butaleja, Mbale, Gulu…trying to assess how productively and constructively youth can be engaged in their local communities, some have suggested that there is need to make room for the new blood by ridding yourself of the old. Unfortunately, when things really do fall apart for a person, they tend to do so in a rather devastating way.