Africa-Press – Uganda. ‘‘… we all now qualify for that infamous label, describing that fellow who asked to have his bed made, while the house was on fire…’ Mzee Mashurubu admits, pensively looking at the picture of a long time comrade just snatched by this Runyaga, his new name for Covid-19. Runyaga refers to a ravager: cattle rustler, resource plunderer, man-killer…
Yes, we all qualified.
We qualified when we ‘obeyed’ the constitution at cost of human life.
We qualified when we pursued ‘democracy’ at the cost of human life
We qualified when we pursued hedonism at the cost of human life.
We qualified when we pursued mammon cost of human life.
We qualified when a policewoman’s salary forfeited went wayward
We qualified when a pupil’s pan-cake forfeited, dropped to bottomless pit
We qualified. We qualify. We all are guilty.
We all are under peril. Nobody is safe…till everybody is safe.
Vaccines elusive…Oxygen cylinders scarce.…
Vaccines booked three years ahead by the mighty…
Hundred million doses, scores times above their needs
An insular superpower vaccinated more than the entire Africa
The Mighty Club meets…
Allocates a few million doses to the wretched world…one entity
Promises of donations…Words of Commitments….
In the months to come…in the years ahead…in times indefinite
Global Pandemic…evolves to Wretched World Endemic
Selfish Beings, we call them…a verbal malevolence against Mbogo Buffalo.
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Yet, we all have the power and obligation to save ourselves and our loved ones. Nobody else will.
We cannot play Nyakazaana, nor remain Nantabuulilirwa much less Ndiwulira.
We resurrect the national anti-Covid war of March-May 2020
The second anti-corona war arms and ammunition stand thus:
· Government suspends the purchase of vehicles to MPs
· All MPs drop 70 per cent of gross monthly earnings into the corona war chest for six months
· All local government leaders and legislators drop 40 per cent of gross monthly earnings into corona chest for six months
· All corporates drop 40 per cent of annual EBITDA( 2020 figures) into corona war chest
· All MDAs drop 70 per cent recurrent budgets into the corona war chest for 6 months
Energised thus as of March-May 2020,
·a schoolgirl will forfeit her pan-cake and drop in a coin
· a cassva farmer will drop in a coin
· a milkman will drop in a coin
· a teacher will drop in a coin
· a policeman will drop in a coin
· a church will collect and drop in a pence
· a kingdom will mobilise and drop in a brick
· a Whatsapp group will drop in a coin
· everybody will drop in a widow’s offertory
We retreat indoors, squat, listen to the moves of the enemy
Our commanders and planners ( Taskforce of March -May 2020) take the lead
Survival rations distributed evenly to the deserving
Relief Fund for businesses affected
We shall triumph. Corona shall diminish.
Matsiko Kahunga,
