LETTER TO MY SISTER NABUKENYA BRENDA

Dear Brenda

Congratulations upon your landslide win in Luweero. As a brother, I was proud of your performance both on the campaign trail and on the ballot, which announced your defiant arrival on Uganda’s murky political climate in spectacular fashion. 

The mammoth numbers you pulled on your rallies,   which were later replicated on the ballot paper, clearly showed how your message resonated perfectly well with the hopes and aspirations of the Luweero electorate, a fact that made our father’s message pale in comparision.  I am happy to hear from you and talk to you my sister and deliver the message from my father.

I know am your little brother and so you might want to take my advice lightly, but please allow your now busy self to go through what I’ve struggled to scribble down. Of course I acknowledge that small birds shouldn’t in normal circumstances be found to advise bigguns, but please, allow me to unusually defy protocol.  

In a recently held family meeting with our father, he expressed fears that you might be losing track if you continue those ill behaviors of even shunning family meetings. In his communication, I was meant to believe that our father is still witty and can see farther than we can see. He told me how you and our big brother, the professor from your clan made him lose his face in a place that led to the birth of a peaceful home we have embraced for more than 28years.

I should tell you that having seen how our other big brother who had thought he was unable to adapt to changing times to the new job as the mayor. And everything that he did seemed working against him and had taken tribunal resolutions mere jokes. You see where he is now? As a littlun, it becomes evident that compliance rather than violence constitutes the wisest principle for survival. I should advise you to read Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” because having read it inside out, I was made to believe not all animals are equal. 

You should remember the Runyankore adage that goes, “eibega noburyakukura, tirikukira mutwe” literally meaning that even if a shoulder grows big and bigger, a head remains a head.

Our father remains our father and you should understand that you remain under him even if you go out to make your own family. Therefore some animals are more equal than others.

I therefore ask you also to convey my message to our family doctor, (the professor from your clan) that my father is not happy with what he did in our natal village-Luweero. My father said they used to be friends and that he at one time thought of making him the heir to our family and because of his greed, he could not wait my father’s blessings and our father was annoyed.

When we asked him how to go about the professor, he said that he has not denounced him from the family and that he still considers him as part of us. He said he is willing to father him in case he repents. He advised us to tell you to go to Bunyoro in the next sitting so you can atone. He added if he does not comply, he will be forced to join the other four prodigal sons.

You should therefore not keep the smile expecting your fellow clan members to join you in civil naughtiness, the only family Professor who stood with you on the podium shall not be with you forever. He was a disgrace to the family and he is willing to come back home tosurreptitiously receive his strokes.

Your usual suspect DVDtheSON

POLITICISING THE MAKEREREAN NEWS PAPER WOULD BACK FIRE AT THE PLANNERS

All eyes will be on the new editorial board of the University students “news” paper, The makererean after it landed in the hands of lawyers.

This of course comes after the majority our right thinking honourable members of the 80^th students’ guild parliament overwhelmingly voted a one Mayambala Michel a student from law school as the Chief Editor to the newspaper.

I would therefore sound unwelcome if  I go on without congratulating the man with the mantle “to give directives to those who will be working on the paper,” I pray you have the best time as the Editor.

Reservations are therefore made to anyone who be offended by this article but please this is what I think comrades. Politicking around under the guise of wanting to win the elections even without the knowledge of what one does not know, I would refer to that one as applying what John Rawls refers to as the veil of Ignorance in his book A Theory Of Justice.  I therefore strongly hold that political reasoning is expected to cast a long shadow on the recovery of the paper, even as prospects of a swivel remain firm. 

Reference is made to the Bible in the book of Mark 12:17 “....render to Ceasar the things that are Ceasar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. In the same way, I have a feeling that there should be a demarcation on who does what or who should do the other.

Recently, a friend of mine in “that house” intimated to me that he was not happy with some of the decisions made by the big dog of the house. This was after he said the big dog had messed some ministries and gave them to people who were not in that line of duty (all in the name of pleasing his loyalists during the race).

From that background, I can categorically say that say that yes, no doubt anybody can write what appeals to them and they should have a right to think whatever they have written positions them to be editors. However, our honourable members, it is not true that anybody can be an editor. That is why a doctor cannot win law suit unless they hire lawyers. In other wards everyone has their areas of specialisation and I am made to believe that a journalism student would be the best candidate to suit the chief editor position for “news” paper.

I have learn't that these journalism students who have been approached to work towards the well being of the paper have turned down the offers claiming that they could not receive directives from someone who does not have the background in the paper.     

The argument is that this paper should have been given to a journalism student whose aim would be developing the paper as they would be more responsible since it falls under their jurisdiction.

I think they do not have a moral grounding to dictate on the editorial decisions when they don’t know them. The argument that may be some one can write and produce a magazine is rather obscure.

   To be quoted, I don’t support of lazy fellows who under the guise of offering Journalism and Mass communication claim they are all know and that no other person can manage to write. But trust me, here, I am talking about professionalism and working ethically.