The Five Prayers of a Common-Man

             Anthony Mugabira delivering amessage to leaders

Dear leaders, in church, Politics, NGOs, Tradition and other institutions!!

We are happy for all that you do for this country, we love all your noble contributions; you are worthy of appreciation.

We like the way you love our country, which is by buying luxurious vehicles for your comfortable travel along the badly potholed roads; you only reach out to us on independence, commemoration and burial days.

We are humbled by the pathetic social state of our motherland which is on the brink of total
collapse. 

Thousands of miles away, you represent our country men whose feet and fingers are jigger infested; we have stunted potbellied bony children.

We are abandoned in camps, in structures where we share rooms with our children---we are a helpless wasted generation.

We are the old men and women, also called senior citizens; miserable with old age and for years relentlessly mourning our denied pensions, but we hear NSSF money goes missing and the culprits never prosecuted.

Our dear leaders, for miles and miles we walk to access health services, neither finding staff nor medicine; the ever increasing prices of essential commodities are the order of the day, earth is now hell.

Anthony with woman MP of Shema District Rosemary Nyakyikongoro

Humbled by the journey our country is taking, we are only asking for the minimum, without which life becomes impossible. Our dear leaders:

·         Represent our views not your own

·         Redesign UPE programme to enable its graduates to at least recite the alphabet

·         Improve our roads at least to better murram

·         Have the will and empower the instruments to fight corruption

·         We pray you do not sound like empty tins, making empty promises.

We pray to live long enough to see the light at the end of the tunnel, we shall always work harder.

I salute you all.

Written By Anthony Mugabira – FOWODE young leaders