DEVELOPMENT AS WE KNOW IT

In a need to understand Uganda's situation in regard to development,I found myself wondering about all the elements that make up sustainable development and how far we have come as a country.well this was a thought that drove me from side stepping from the direction of my previous posts so that I could indulge in matters that keep me awake all night thinking of what my children will meet for a country in a few years from now....
So development as we know it is the first blog in a line of very many others that will follow suit in the next couple of months.
Recently in the pipeline of the media houses stories have ranged from political havoc and power struggles to social impunity and so much for bad news but what was disturbing was the lack of will power to say anything about the situations from the citizens of our nation...it then got me wondering,are we really independent as a country or are in denial of the chain hands and numb lips that we have become over time..apathy comes with a price and it is until we rise to the front of freedom that we Will have a country to offer our children with dignity and with love because then they will be masters of the journey they will take.

May be to  indulge you more, on issues of the Asian nationalities and the two different rape cases that happened in a period of two weeks difference,one would have expected a concerned citizenry but to my dismay Ugandans sat back and watched  the disdain go on..and then came our very politicised police that  took sides with the Pakistan men (am sure then stopped  being men when they raped a lady) and many other political figures that disgustedly defended that so called investors.So to say in countries were those fellows come from rape is punishable with death and yet at home we sweetheart with such offenders.
May be a case like that explains why we are stuck in underdevelopment...Our lack of zeal to act and our lack of motivation to dare and change the status quo of what things are today.

Most developed countries are what they are because their citizenry was daring enough to dare and question the status quo.Mediocrity has eaten up the ability for many of my people to rise above the ordinary..
we either enjoy being poor or rather we have chosen to let thing be for reason best known to God.
It baffles me to see our neighbours are shifting their standards of living as well as their development into a better phase but we sit back and admire or envy what they turned out to be.Kenya ha by far run a race we have not even dared to start....I marvel every time I sit out and analyse the dynamics of the Kenyan economy especially if it compared with our own..we probably stop seeing growth in our economy many years back and we are living on the sugar coated belief that we are progressing towards development. Development as we know it in Uganda is a bluff sorry to say the bitter truth but what better way to address issues of stagnation than to air them out regardless of the response they get.

So what should we do, I will tell you,how about we start with changing our attitude towards issues that affect our society and its moral fabric...if it means taking to the streets or to social media(which has more radical effect in the world lately) then we should use it to effect change in our society.A country is only a country if its citizenry play a role in turning it into one.We Can go on living in apathy,we are human and we need to be in touch with our humane system in order for us to grow and develop properly.We need to step out of mediocrity it should settle well with us not at all.Our  greatest asset is our brain and if we use it limited then we are bound to stay stuck in underdevelopment.
Remember, looking to the government for every little need fails us a people who ought to work hard and surface in your own efforts.The government is only custodian f our resources for a while and we should remember governments come and go but we are always here and we need to be able to survive even at the change of government.
If for anything lets us learn to question the status quo be interested in change and cause it...Rome was not built in one day.learning has never really ended,we could learn from practical examples like Kenya who slowly but surely is rising to a different level in development.we as the citizenry run the development process,we hold the radar and the wheel of our development for a future that is going to appreciate us.
our generation needs to set an example for the next so that we do not take this blessed nation into a recession or a backward sprawl because lately we look like we are headed that way.
May God who gave us this earth and the knowledge to use it to our benefit look down and smile not because he gave you what you have been praying for(which often is to remove the president from power).The Lord Almighty,has nothing t change apart from guiding you to use your knowledge and understanding to cause change and survive mediocrity.and that in the end will deliver our long awaited development.
We can change development(which in any sense in under development) as we know it.
For God and My Country.