{"id":13270,"date":"2021-07-01T16:01:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T16:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=13270"},"modified":"2021-07-01T15:15:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T15:15:25","slug":"nobody-is-safetill-everybody-is-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/nobody-is-safetill-everybody-is-safe","title":{"rendered":"Nobody is safe\u2026till everybody is safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>\u2018\u2018\u2026 we all now qualify for that infamous label, describing that fellow who asked to have his bed made, while the house was on fire\u2026\u2019 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\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we all qualified.<\/p>\n<p>We qualified when we \u2018obeyed\u2019 the constitution at cost of human life.<\/p>\n<p>We qualified when we pursued \u2018democracy\u2019 at the cost of human life<\/p>\n<p>We qualified when we pursued hedonism at the cost of human life.<\/p>\n<p>We qualified when we pursued mammon cost of human life.<\/p>\n<p>We qualified when a policewoman\u2019s salary forfeited went wayward<\/p>\n<p>We qualified when a pupil\u2019s pan-cake forfeited, dropped to bottomless pit<\/p>\n<p>We qualified. We qualify. We all are guilty.<\/p>\n<p>We all are under peril. Nobody is safe\u2026till everybody is safe.<\/p>\n<p>Vaccines elusive\u2026Oxygen cylinders scarce.\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Vaccines booked three years ahead by the mighty&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hundred million doses, scores times above their needs<\/p>\n<p>An insular superpower vaccinated more than the entire Africa<\/p>\n<p>The Mighty Club meets\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Allocates a few million doses to the wretched world&#8230;one entity<\/p>\n<p>Promises of donations\u2026Words of Commitments\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>In the months to come\u2026in the years ahead\u2026in times indefinite<\/p>\n<p>Global Pandemic\u2026evolves to Wretched World Endemic<\/p>\n<p>Selfish Beings, we call them\u2026a verbal malevolence against Mbogo Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>*** ***<\/p>\n<p>Yet, we all have the power and obligation to save ourselves and our loved ones. Nobody else will.<\/p>\n<p>We cannot play Nyakazaana, nor remain Nantabuulilirwa much less Ndiwulira.<\/p>\n<p>We resurrect the national anti-Covid war of March-May 2020<\/p>\n<p>The second anti-corona war arms and ammunition stand thus:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Government suspends the purchase of vehicles to MPs<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 All MPs drop 70 per cent of gross monthly earnings into the corona war chest for six months<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 All local government leaders and legislators drop 40 per cent of gross monthly earnings into corona chest for six months<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 All corporates drop 40 per cent of annual EBITDA( 2020 figures) into corona war chest<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 All MDAs drop 70 per cent recurrent budgets into the corona war chest for 6 months<\/p>\n<p>Energised thus as of March-May 2020,<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7a schoolgirl will forfeit her pan-cake and drop in a coin<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 a cassva farmer will drop in a coin<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 a milkman will drop in a coin<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 a teacher will drop in a coin<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 a policeman will drop in a coin<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 a church will collect and drop in a pence<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 a kingdom will mobilise and drop in a brick<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 a Whatsapp group will drop in a coin<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 everybody will drop in a widow\u2019s offertory<\/p>\n<p>We retreat indoors, squat, listen to the moves of the enemy<\/p>\n<p>Our commanders and planners ( Taskforce of March -May 2020) take the lead<\/p>\n<p>Survival rations distributed evenly to the deserving<\/p>\n<p>Relief Fund for businesses affected<\/p>\n<p>We shall triumph. Corona shall diminish.<\/p>\n<p><b>Matsiko Kahunga,<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>isherugaba@gmail.com<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. \u2018\u2018\u2026 we all now qualify for that infamous label, describing that fellow who asked to have his bed made, while the house was on fire\u2026\u2019 Mzee Mashurubu admits, pensively looking at the picture of a long time comrade just snatched by this Runyaga, his new name for Covid-19. 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