Aboneka Writes

There has been a lot of public appraisal for the police's action recently when they joined and supported Makerere University students while demonstrating against the 4,000 Ush as money proposed for feeding by the University Council and of course I will also take that with a pinch of salt. For long, demonstrations at Makerere University have always been violent with Police crashing the students and vice versa and I am wondering that if the Police had done what it did that time by protecting and even joining the students lobbying for their right, we would not have had ugly situations of death and destruction of property. Be that as it may, The police has also played double standards on the issue of protecting people lobbying for their rights and entiltlements by dispersing organised groups, teargassing them and even shooting at them? If it is the role of the police to protect and serve, why do they protect a few and beat others who are peaceful demonstrating and demanding action o

I have come to learn through media about a certain organization which was operating as a home for children with different age categories and it collected them from various places. What is disheartening is that this organization misrepresented to the donor that the children were orphans and yet their parents were alive and thus used this as a scheme to get money from the donor. As if this is not enough they further went and taught/inculcated a new religion into the children to the effect that the children were told to deny their parents and follow God’s path just as Abraham did. I was again at pains when one of the children denied his parent relying on the Bible as justification. Children are a blessing to the parents from God and as such parents ought to take care of their children as enunciated in Article 34 of the Constitution and also Section 5 of the Children Act. The same article, 34 of the Constitution provides that every child deserves the right to know and be taken care o