Ronald Leonard Egesa

Born in late 1984, I can easily pass for a ‘Museveni kid’. I have admired Mr Museveni all my life and he has inspired me in setting out to achieve my dreams. I am however confused now, since after 23 years in power, I’m seeing things that I would expect to find in a Failed State- like what we have been taught about the Amin regime. We are seeing unwarranted detentions, reports of torture in ‘safe houses’, poor condition of roads even in the capital, corruption and embezzlement, claims of nepotism in national institutions, reports of land grabbing by army men, people dying of famine, rampant riots, claims of vote rigging, use of force to suppress frequent demonstrations, rise of ritual and contract murders and rampant school fires. The question still lingering in my mind is: when will the ‘fundamental change’ dream be realised? Any honourable leader or freedom fighter ought to accept failure and pave way for fresh blood to come in with new ideas.

Ronald Leonard Egesa,
256-752442375

This was published in the letters section of The Daily Monitor newspaper of August 21 2009

I am greatly disappointed in the city council engineering team in Kawempe Division. There seems to be a general lack of vigilance in the leadership of Kawempe Division and Kampala as a whole. Since the start of the year, I have observed that the state of Sir Apollo Kaggwa Road at the junction with Makerere Hill Road between Makerere College School and Chez Johnson has been terrible and nothing is being done.

In the past five years, I have witnessed three accidents involving deaths at that point and two of them resulted from someone trying to dodge a pothole. The problems in this area stem from the failure to properly drain water and take it off the road surface. I do not think working on this joint would produce a budget deficit for Kawempe Division or Kampala City Council and even if it did, such a deficit would justify the need for more financial support!

Another dangerous point is the pothole just before the roundabout at Kubbiri on Bombo Road. All vehicles and bikes try to squeeze on the narrow section of the road where the tarmac is still intact. This started like a small pothole, but it has eaten up the three quarter width of the road and it will not be long before we see lives lost at this spot.

KCC, it is my humble request that you take it upon yourselves to always fix these small potholes before lives are lost!

Ronald Leonard Egesa,
Kampala
leo@ronaldegesa.com

Published in the Daily Monitor on Monday August 3, 2009