Why the commemoration of Teenage pregnancies this World Population Day is a Waste of Resources in Developing Nations

As the world marks the July11th World Population day in commemoration of the day in which it is believed that the world's population hit the 5 billion persons in 1987, again as the purpose of the day dictates the world shall be reflecting on “the population trends and related issues” with focus this year on Teenage pregnancies.

In Uganda it is not the first time that the plight of innocent girls and boys – yes boys as well are affected by the problem world over – is being given attention. In 2007 the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) ranked Uganda 9th with 54.1% of girls married off before clocking 18 years in their 2006 survey publication entitled “Too Young to Wed: Education and action toward Child Marriage”. In their 2008 survey publication entitled “Before She's Ready: 15 places girls marry before 15” by World Vision Uganda ranked 13th in the world with 15.9% of girls married off before the age of 15.

Black Monday Campaign: Who accounts for your taxes?

Does it ever occur to you that with direct taxes scrapped-off in the late 90's; the elite citizens of this country more willingly pay their tithe, participate in / give to charity drives organized by Churches, NGOs, Associations etc than give to government.

Unfortunately for every individual Ugandan avoiding taxes is not an option because for every sum of Ushs.10,000/= that is spent in transactions that pay for ones day to day needs about Ushs.1,800/= is taken to the “public” coffers code named “consolidated fund” which is managed by Government. The fund is meant to serve the ordinary Ugandan by offering quality Health, Education, Transport and other services and infrastructure but an ordinary Ugandan does not stand the opportunity to enjoy that right from the delegated government parastatals.