The head of public service and the secretary to cabinet in Uganda, Lucy Nakyobe executed her assignment of heading the planning committee for NAM/G77 without any hiccups and reports of misusing public resources. 

Previously, the country would be shocked to discover scandals mostly of embezzlement of public funds meant to facilitate such events. Some people had made it a habit to take advantage of these events to steal and misuse public funds

Some would also hire substandard service providers who would embarrass the country in the face of the world. The last time we hosted CHOGM, it looked as if it was a bonanza for people to steal huge amounts of money in the name of facilitating the preparations of the event.

This is the reason why Ugandans are usually less interested when they're told about these events and I think to some extent they're right. Why should people take advantage of an event to steal even when the public has been inconvenienced in their daily activities of making ends meet? 

Nakyobe started by asking the public servants to surrender their vehicles to be used by the guests, she did not plan to procure new ones which usually are abandoned after these events. She used the available resources to make her country proud.

I think the NAM/G77 summits were a success and we were lucky that most of the delegates turned up despite that the Opposition tried to interfere with the occasions. The Opposition had always lied to Ugandans that President Yoweri Museveni was isolated by the world because of several reasons they would give.

I think they were disappointed when suddenly Kampala turned into a beehive of activities with international delegates flying into the country. I think they had expected the conference to flop so that they would get something to lie about.

That's why we have always said and continue to say that politics based on lies and propaganda isn't sustainable. At one point in time, people will get to know the truth. 

The Opposition in Uganda has invested a lot in the politics of lies and propaganda.

The demonstrations of planting matoke in the potholes weren't meant to protest poor road Networks, but rather to sabotage the success of the NAM conference, they couldn't get a better solution to taint the Ugandan President's image in the eyes of the world. 

Of course, everyone is aware that once we receive lots of rain our roads are affected not because the government doesn't care about making good roads, but because it (the government) has no control over nature.

It should be noted that some of the people who organized and participated in these protests were supposed to provide solutions for such problems. For instance, Lord Mayor Elias Lukwago is a political head of Kampala city.

He has an executive committee and the council that sits and plans for the city. The executive arm of government led by the President has never dictated what they should include or not include in their budget. 

The government instead through the Ministry of Finance continue to fund the budget of KCCA without delay or hesitation. Why then would a person who has the budget to solve a problem organize protests against that same problem? Isn't that betraying the public and openly misleading them?

The opportunity to host the NAM/G77 summits portrayed to the world that Uganda is a safe country, a few weeks ago some people wrote advisory notes to their citizens and the world that Uganda isn't safe for them. 

They, however, been proved wrong. The President of Uganda who is responsible for the safety of all the citizens has always said that the UPDF can secure the country. 

We could have had a few challenges like the attacks of ADF but of course, all countries including those with the most modern technology experience these kinds of crimes, what matters is how one can control and reduce the crime. 

The Democratic Republic of Congo gave Uganda a lee way to fight the enemies who had turned the DRC forests into a zone of survival and organizing crimes, from the time the operations began, they had a hard time with the Ugandan army and they will be eliminated.

The new chairman of NAM/G77 who is the president of Uganda made interesting remarks during the opening of the head of state summit. 

He wondered why people indulge in the affairs of other countries and also try to force their beliefs on other countries even when they call themselves democratic. During colonial times, the same people ruled Africans without mercy and humanity, they got free labour from Africans and sent so many to their graves.

So many decades now, the same people want to be the ones to think for African countries and also participate in making decisions for African countries. Africa has never indulged in their affairs even when we've thought about their behaviours and politics, we reserve them. 

But without shame, several European countries want to give their views on our cultural beliefs and even our internal politics. That's the shallowness that President Museveni talks about.

That's the disrespect that most African countries have gone through, the views of Ugandans about homosexuality are known, and through Members of Parliament, a law was enacted to protect and preserve the culture of Ugandans. However, some people do not feel good about the law and feel they should lecture Ugandans and their leaders about it.

Therefore, in a country where people have taken pride in misusing public resources and embarrassing the country with cases of corruption, it's legitimate to appreciate someone who does a good job and makes the country proud. 

It means that we haven't run short of patriotic Ugandans who give attention to service more than what they've gained as individuals. I am sure some people who targeted to steal billions from these summits must be annoyed.

The habit of primitive accumulation of wealth in most Ugandan civil servants and politicians has affected the economic growth of the country and service delivery.

The writer is a deputy RDC Sheema District.