It’s sad that we no longer believe in volunteerism!

From a LIB reader who saw the little boy...

I was on my way to a shop in the market at Eke Awka in Anambra state and I saw this little child sleeping. First thing that came to my mind was that this child is resting after hawking either satchet (pure) water or any other goods he was asked to sell and was sleeping in such an environment, whereas his peers are in the classrooms learning. These are our future leaders and musn't be pass through all these sufferings in this 21st century. Please...

Having dropped off a daladala that has stopped just for “msaada” (read illegal) at a bus stop just across one of your roadside locals, you walk to the counter. As it were, you’re dying for a drink.

“Had my son been alive, I would have not lived a miserable life like this. Perhaps, I would have been taken abroad for treatment,” these are the words of an approximately 80-year-old woman Aisha Baraka, who has spent most of her time in the last fifteen years lying in a traditional rope-crafted bed, famously known as Teremka Tukaze in Kiswahili.

There is a tendency in Uganda, to personalise matters. Instead of looking at the causes of events and analysing any underlying trends, we are content to focus on the transient and the trivial.

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It is nothing but mere perception, which means holders of high public office simply might simply pooh-pooh it. We are referring to the 2014 Pew Research Centre survey on people’s concerns, which shows that 90 per cent of Tanzanians consider their political leaders corrupt.

Some members of the animal kingdom of Tanzania’s northern tourist circuit are endangered species, ‘thanks’ to soul-less fellows who see elephants, rhinos and other wildlife as agencies for quick riches. I’m talking here, of tusks, horns, claws, skins, and what-not.

Parliament is currently in its budget sitting and it is sad watching the conduct of the majority of its members.

>They turned up in big numbers; not even the tricky weather could stop them. They flocked towards one point carrying with them placards and banners bearing different messages aimed at their employer number one -- the President.