Why teach how to love my country!?!
I hear that there is a club officiated by the president of Uganda advocating for, and teaching people how to love their country. Advocating for patriotism! I wonder how?
Loving ones country!
I strongly oppose, believe and assert that it should be naturally part of them. Loving ones country should be in their blood, depending on what the current and previous governments are, and what they have done for their citizens. If they have been un conducive harsh and unbearable, then the citizens will lose the natural love for their country. If the governments have done peoples will, dreams and expectations, then the love for their country will be multiplied rather than deteriorated!
Don’t reckon I am foregoing the saying;
“Don’t ask what the nation is done for you, but rather ask what you have done for the nation?”
Truth is that I should do a lot for my country, and more so love her if she loves me and provides a good and conducive environment for me too!
This is like a case in which a child is borne to and brought up by a cruel, harsh and quarrelsome assertive uncaring mother! Who only gives corporal punishments and beatings as a thanks to the child! Can there ever be love between them as long as they live together without her perverting her ways? May be only if Gods hand intervenes, lest there be no good relation between mother and child.
This I believe applies to loving ones mother country as well!
Do you really think a body can coax oneself to love ones mother country! Or it should be automatic? You can’t really convince me as long as;
I am always scoffed at, for no reason but, because I come from that constituency with the worst road network. With not even a single tarmac road for that which is about to bear another constituency!
You imagine am in tax filled to more than its excess capacity; travelling back to my home district that is really in need, on the most ragged dry weather roads! Those heart-breaking potholes, flue cough and all sorts of bad aches whenever I travel!.
All the above troubling my disgusted soul, we get at traffic check point in those remote areas, feeling relived that something is going to be done about the situation of over loading, I only get perturbed and embarrassed when the traffic officer only accepts a USHS.10,000= from the driver without saying a word! Meaning that this is done always! Imagine risking over 30souls for only a ten thousand Ugandan shillings note! And with such, you coax me to love my country?
Uhm!
That I love her yet I know very well that after a parent spending a fortune on my education, I can never get employed as a civil servant or any other job without paying a bribe for it or without someone close to me to find favour with me. With this education system that only teaches us to only work for money without any where to go working!
The funny education system that produces only job seekers rather that job creators! And in the end of it all the youthful young men and women of the nation are employed on the streets as prostitutes, gabblers, thugs and robbers who worsen the little well living one has.
There where you be lucky and have gotten a job in town, you be worried of being fired because of late coming due to the bad traffic in town for the insufficient inefficient poor roads. Not only from that but also from favouritism, tribalism, religious differences and also corrupt minds of the employers.
When you are blessed with entrepreneur skills, and become employer, you even not at ease at all! Those high taxes, insecurity (for even today those that keep law and order turn against their oaths and fuel disorder), robbery, exploitation and even sorcery since even in my beloved motherland witches are given licences to do their craft and whichever they please.
As I peruse through the list of school fees defaulters, probably seeking my name, only to realise that the students who come from well to do families have the word “state” written against their names! That would be no problem for there is also free education for the children from the wanting poverty ridden families. Yeah free education for the poor, but how useless and unproductive to a greater extent! Because I have myself witnessed thousands of upcountry UPE school graduates who cannot express themselves in the English language.
Really!
I should love her only if the government did something about these ill-fated situations to arouse my patriotism spirit.
I should instead mourn and weep for my motherland. For it is ranked dirtiest in east Africa and also part of the leading corrupt countries in the world.
Being corrupt country would be no bad for even the leading corrupt countries like India have prospered. If only the government liberalised infrastructural development to private sectors and individuals such that the corrupt minded money mongers would contribute to the development of social infrastructure such as roads, hospitals and other necessary infrastructure on behalf of the government.
How do I love that that afflicts and defies me of my good health and wealthy living? Government, its leaders and many civil servants forego our lives for the sake of materialism! It’s evident in case where one is able to put funds meant for public health catering (Global Funds) to their individual selfish gains!
Is there a murder more than that?
And there off you teach me how to love my country without putting this these messes right? Heeding to that would be a real myth.
That I love her yet I spent the whole year seated at home without going to school because my father was scrapped off the pay role for one and a half year to no reason but not supporting a member of parliament of his constituency for his second term? And he had to spend a fortune to be shortlisted again.
I apologise if this seems like treason to you; but my point of view is that governments shouldn’t teach us how to love our countries but rather, do thing that will automatically sentence us to loving our nations. Of course we meant to love our motherlands especially a country like Uganda, “the pearl of Africa!” wouldn’t one be insane if they don’t love the most beautiful country in Africa?
That should be unheard of, barbaric and disastrous! For there cannot be any justification for failure to love the African pearl everyone admires!
Though; it all goes back to the fact that: “it’s not what happened at the beginning of the world (at creation) that causes one to hate their mother country!” But that that has happened yesterday, or that which is happening today and that which is likely to happen tomorrow that determines whether one loves or hate their country, whether to curse the day they were borne to such a nagging and disgusting mother country, OR embrace the day they were borne to such a caring and adorable mother land country.
For God and mine Country!
Mianiez Daily 