"Don't go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention!"

A message to His Excellence the President of Uganda: "Don't go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention!" This is applicable to the developments after Kabaka Mutebi was stopped from going to Kayunga and people rioted. The Government of Uganda responded with an iron hand, ended up not only taking so many people prisoners, but also closed CBS Radio up to today! The morality of what is written below is that the speed at which Government went to stop Kabaka the rightful authority in Buganda to visit part of his area was so distressing that the people reacted with riots, but on a second thought, Government and especially President Museveni would learn a simple lesson for the story.


A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new expensive car. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something. As his car passed, no children appeared. Instead, a brick smashed into the expensive car’s side door! He slammed on the brakes and backed the Jag back to the spot where the brick had been thrown. The angry driver
then jumped out of the car, grabbed the nearest kid and pushed him up against
a parked car shouting, "What was that all about and who are you? Just what the heck are you doing? That's a new car and that brick you threw is going to cost a lot of money. Why did you do it?" The young boy was apologetic. "Please, mister...please, I'm sorry but I didn't know what else to do," He pleaded. "I threw the brick because no one else would stop..." With tears dripping down his face and off his chin, the youth pointed to a spot just around a parked car. "It's my brother," he said. "He rolled off the curb and fell out of his wheelchair and I can't lift him up."


Now sobbing, the boy asked the stunned executive, "Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He's hurt and he's too heavy for me."
Moved beyond words, the driver tried to swallow the rapidly swelling lump in his throat. He hurriedly lifted the handicapped boy back into the wheelchair, then took out a linen handkerchief and dabbed at the fresh scrapes and cuts. A quick look told him everything was going to be okay. "Thank you and may God bless you," the grateful child told the stranger. Too shook up for words, the man simply watched the boy push his wheelchair-bound brother down the sidewalk toward their home.

It was a long, slow walk back to the executive car. The damage was very noticeable, but the driver never bothered to repair the dented side door. He kept the dent there to remind him of this message: "Don't go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention!" God whispers in our souls and speaks to our hearts. Sometimes when we don't have time to listen, He has to throw a brick at us. It's our choice to listen or not.
God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.



Read this line very slowly and let it sink in...




If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.

"Don't go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention!"

A message to His Excellence the President of Uganda: "Don't go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention!" This is applicable to the developments after Kabaka Mutebi was stopped from going to Kayunga and people rioted. The Government of Uganda responded with an iron hand, ended up not only taking so many people prisoners, but also closed CBS Radio up to today! The morality of what is written below is that the speed at which Government went to stop Kabaka the rightful authority in Buganda to visit part of his area was so distressing that the people reacted with riots, but on a second thought, Government and especially President Museveni would learn a simple lesson for the story.


A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new expensive car. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something. As his car passed, no children appeared. Instead, a brick smashed into the expensive car’s side door! He slammed on the brakes and backed the Jag back to the spot where the brick had been thrown. The angry driver
then jumped out of the car, grabbed the nearest kid and pushed him up against
a parked car shouting, "What was that all about and who are you? Just what the heck are you doing? That's a new car and that brick you threw is going to cost a lot of money. Why did you do it?" The young boy was apologetic. "Please, mister...please, I'm sorry but I didn't know what else to do," He pleaded. "I threw the brick because no one else would stop..." With tears dripping down his face and off his chin, the youth pointed to a spot just around a parked car. "It's my brother," he said. "He rolled off the curb and fell out of his wheelchair and I can't lift him up."


Now sobbing, the boy asked the stunned executive, "Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He's hurt and he's too heavy for me."
Moved beyond words, the driver tried to swallow the rapidly swelling lump in his throat. He hurriedly lifted the handicapped boy back into the wheelchair, then took out a linen handkerchief and dabbed at the fresh scrapes and cuts. A quick look told him everything was going to be okay. "Thank you and may God bless you," the grateful child told the stranger. Too shook up for words, the man simply watched the boy push his wheelchair-bound brother down the sidewalk toward their home.

It was a long, slow walk back to the executive car. The damage was very noticeable, but the driver never bothered to repair the dented side door. He kept the dent there to remind him of this message: "Don't go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention!" God whispers in our souls and speaks to our hearts. Sometimes when we don't have time to listen, He has to throw a brick at us. It's our choice to listen or not.
God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.



Read this line very slowly and let it sink in...




If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.

Makerere Exploiting the poor

Minister Namirembe Bitamazire
New Vision Publication date: Thursday, 18th August, 2005
SIR — Makerere University Private Students' Parents’ Association (MUPRISPA) has learnt with profound shock Government’s decision to increase tuition fees by sh215,000 per semester per student irrespective of the course offered. MUPRISPA made a submission to the parliamentary sub-committee put in place to review the proposed increase of tuition at Makerere and are convinced that the reasons against the increase were credible.
We find it extremely hard to believe that the Ministry of Education could endorse such an increment moreover by a flat rate for all courses! It is true Makerere has financial constraints but the administration on realising that Government has no additional funding for the students it sponsors, ended up exploiting the situation in which the unfortunate private students find themselves. We see this continued subsidising of Government-sponsored students by private students not only morally wrong, but also open injustice. Staff remuneration and maintenance of the Information and Communication technology are some of the reasons given for the increase! If these services benefit both Government and private students, why is the burden left on the shoulders of the private students only? In a letter dated July 15, 2002 to the Minister of Education and Sports, MUPRISPA requested for an amendment of the Universities and other Tertiary Institutions Act 2001 to accommodate the role of parents who sponsor over 80% of the students. however, as I write we have not received any communication from the ministry on the matter. Much as they like to milk all the possible and impossible cash from the parents, they shy away from constructive dialogue. So, the parents are left at the receiving end of whatever decisions made, however irrational or punitive! Earlier on, the University Council Chairman in justifying increases in tuition fees, is reported to have said that even some secondary schools demand higher fees than is paid for some university courses. Yes, a parent in many of these schools pays not only for attending class as is the case at Makerere, but also for accommodation and meals, not forgetting that these students have no transport costs as they reside at school. He also compared the incomparable, tuition paid at other universities! Once we are a poor country, we must cut our coat according to our cloth. It is on record that MUPRISA proposed to Makerere to lease out land to private developers from whom they would rent space, which is a cheaper option. however, as I write it is not clear how far they have gone.
The Government says that it “appreciates that most Ugandans might not afford the tuition fees but needs adequate funding to maintain standards and quality”. This does not exonerate the state of its social responsibility of funding the infrastructure developments and the staff welfare. Instead, it is implementing a punitive policy on private students but maintaining “credit” for the Government-sponsorship scheme, which it is now leaving to poor parents to sustain!

Willy Kituuka
Chairman, MUPRISPA

Parents to Lobby For Private Students Loan

Published by the Monitor; May 21 2001

Kampala — Makerere Private Parents Students Association (MUPRISPA) shall lobby government to establish a students loan scheme.
This will help finance the students who may have fees constraints or deficits, interim coordinator MUPRISPA Willy Kituuka told The Monitor yesterday at St Augustine in Makerere. We will negotiate with Makerere University administration so that the welfare of the private students is improved, Kituuka said, adding that private students study under unfavourable conditions and yet pay so much.

Concern About duration to get a Birth Certificate

This is for the attention of the concerned committee and the Minister of Justice as well as Ethics and Integrity.

It disturbs to learn that ‘officially one is expected to get a Birth Certificate after three weeks on paying to the bank (shs 7,000), which in itself is a long period of time given that we are in an era where the processing of documents, should take very short time. What is hard to believe is that when one thinks that 3 weeks is long and he waits for that long, it is not abnormal to give him/her another week. This type of inefficiency is what actually promotes corruption. When you get to this office at Amamu House you are first asked whether you are in a hurry, if you are; then they can help process your things in a record time! For those of us who are not ready to bribe, looks like we shall continue suffering the consequences of come tomorrow, come the other day; it really disgusts. What on earth do these people have to do for three weeks when one gets proof to them of the birth particulars?

Uganda Registration Services Bureau should ensure that delay to get Birth Certificates is not deliberate to have people bribe them. By copy of this, the Minister of Justice and Attorney General is informed as well as Hon. (Dr. James Nsaba Butulo) as well as the Assistant Registrar General, Mr. Bisereko Kyomuhendo.

William Kituuka

My version why Uganda has failed to develop

My version of why Uganda has failed to develop
1) People the electorate have their wishes to be better governed, but
those they elect, with the assumption that they know more, refuse to
deliver what the electorate wish hence failure to develop;
2) Our leaders don’t want to take professional advice. When they get
to power, more often than not, they see themselves as a jack of all
trades;
3) Many of the leaders we elect are interested in initiating their own
development models, and this experimentation is greatly responsible
for failed development;
4) Our leaders are outright corrupt. It is simply because they are
corrupt that corruption flourishes;
5) Our leaders see planning as a luxury, hence push through things
unplanned as if funds to get the projects moving will come from
heaven;
6) Much of what our leaders tell us is lies. If leaders can give
wrong growth figures; you can be sure that what they provide is an
illusion to donors and the international community;
7) Our leaders are so interested in sorting/fixing other people’s
problems hence spending resources their as their own people languish
in poverty;
8) Our leaders have poor understanding of economics. Therefore, it is
no surprise that political wishes dictates over economic sense in much
of what they implement;
9) Our leaders are crisis leaders. They wait for problems and then
get to fix issues; instead of looking for the diagnosis of these
before they become problems;
10) Our leaders have least respect for the constitutions. They more
often than not prevail over the constitutions hence at liberty to
change them;

William Kituuka

We shall keep opposing President Museveni until…

While President Museveni is still in power, I wish to appeal to him to
modernize the jails because he can be sure that we shall keep opposing
his strategies as they are characteristic of leaders of the 60’s, they
are not dot com! He is not a man of this era, otherwise he would heed
to a lot of advice. Leaders of this era cannot tell people wrongs,
for instance; ‘this is my last term’ but keep on postponing. For the
sake of those who firmly say, ‘enough is enough’ with President
Museveni, at least his ¼ a century as a leader of Uganda has done
enough harm, I appeal that he modernizes the cells for us, because
this country can be a better place for many currently impoverished by
NRM policies. Uganda is not a company where the Chief Executive is at
liberty to make any decision, whether it is detrimental to the company
or not. We cannot have new districts every other day, it simply
cannot work. Government can not use such a policy which impoverishes
people every other day and imagine that those who went to school were
just there to beat mosquitoes. We have ideas which we believe the
country as impoverished by NRM needs to benefit from.

I don’t know whether any body in NRM is happy with disasters everyday.
Impoverished people are sacrificing others; parents selling children
to survive because NRM has taken away every hope from them.
Sincerely, we deserve better. Even though President Museveni has so
much love for power, at least he should heed to advice; not to create
districts for the sake of his calculation for reduced support. We are
fed up of being impoverished, yet some people who are looting tax
payers’ resources are having their bellies swell; with the sources of
their riches not easy to establish.

William Kituuka