We were sick before, COVID-19 only exposed our rot and wickedness.

Let’s not pretend that we are shocked about MPs getting UGX 20m or is it UGX 40m now? They have stolen a lot more and we have watched on. The Black Monday Movement exposed the maleficent theft of public resources and the people pillaging this country and we called them noisemakers. Now, theft has become the new normal and we are still waiting for a sign, some miracle to prove that the country is being plundered.

Impunity lingered in our beds and households and we turned, and looked the other way. Women and men were shot and murdered in cold blood, and we asked why they were moving at night or alone. Women were raped and we asked what they were wearing and why they were hanging around their abusers.

Unpaid care work, exploitive bosses and poor pay existed before COVID-19. The pandemic only exposed our indifference to them before the crisis.

Hunger, violence and strife, hopelessness and sheer madness loomed over our streets but privilege blinded us from reality until we were all put on forced lockdown.

Why are we pretending that we are now awake? Why are we crying now for a country and economy that died years ago? Are we just discovering the body is missing? Did we not laugh and clap while the body lay in the streets; devoured by vultures and violated by flies and maggots?

How many calls to wake up have we received and yet still snoozed because it’s not yet our time ? How much money need to dispear before we rise up in arms? How many must be raped, tortured, and murdered before we realize that enough is enough?

Are we not the ones who accused bicycles riders, motorcyclists and taxi drivers for driving recklessly only to turn around and drive like lumpens? Were we not the ones who sang songs of victory while our laws were raped and abused continually? Did we not say the rest were mere noisemakers because “it was our turn to eat?”

We all know we have been sick a long time? The signs and symptoms were clear and we still chose not to medicate. Now, we are witnessing the impact of our misbehavior in failed systems and a falling economy and we are still silent.

Foolish Ugandans, who bewitched us?!

Comments (6)

  1. Thanks ma Penelope for this insightful piece! Cheeyyyyiiiii the timing is even perfect because it is more of a wake up call to we the people of Uganda. Indeed who bewitched us?
    Today i have confirmed that you are one of the best writers I know because everything u author is always on point.
    Well-done and keep doing this great work and sharing with the world.

      • Nanti mbu the government brought us sleep. Its just sad sad sad, we have laid with the devil are silent as he rapes us daily but the witness in us reminds us that the power of choice lies with us. Who will arise, who will wake up from their slumber and call on Him to dress them with the strength of Dominion? One step at a time, one day at a time, one people of renewed mind, are the pieces we need to see the beauty of the big picture.
        Well written. May there be no witchcraft among God’s elect.

  2. Thanks ma Penelope for this insightful piece! Cheeyyyyiiiii the timing is even perfect because it is more of a wake up call to we the people of Uganda. Indeed who bewitched us?
    Today i have confirmed that you are one of the best writers I know because everything u author is always on point.
    Well-done and keep doing this great work and sharing with the world.

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