Kasaato, who doubles as the President of the Mothers’ Union for Buganda Region, urged youths to desist from meaninglessly sing ‘Tuliyambala Engule’ (We shall don crowns), adding, “How do you expect to wear divine thrones when you do not even bathe, do not want to work and spend days chewing grass?”
The State House Assistant Private Secretary in-charge of Women’s Affairs, Josephine Kasaato has attributed the new phenomenal indiscipline called ‘eggaali’ (organized hooliganism and vandalism) on misguided and uncultured upbringing of children, and urged all right-thinking Ugandans to feel duty bound to bring the vice to an end beginning from their homes.
She observed that by attaching themselves to all forces involuntarily engaged in fighting all forms of indiscipline in homes, they will be on track in dealing a death blow to evils like acid pouring, domestic violence, promiscuity and all forms of ungodliness.
Kasaato made the remarks while delivering a message from the Senior Presidential Advisor on Political Affairs, Moses Byaruhanga at the launch of the Greater House Mukono Foundation (GHMF), a forum for rallying together beginners and successors of homes in the region set up from the 1950s and earlier, to forge a unified front for restoration of neglected cultures, inter-house peace and understanding, the spirit to work and educate children.
Other key areas of the foundation initiated by a group of elders led by the head of born-again believers in the region, Bp. Samuel Lwandasa, include stepping up patriotism, decampaigning crime and committing lives to God.
Kasaato hailed beginners of the forum saying it is a long-term national development dream which rekindles cherished cultures where people did not marry simply because they had become of marrying age, but getting into matrimonial covenant after scrutinizing family backgrounds of couples.
Turning to fathers, she implored them to go back on the drawing board, establish what could have led to collapse of their traditional respect and adequately address the loopholes.
“For how do you expect to be respected when you cannot provide for the family, educate the children and exhibit love to their mother?” she wondered.
Kasaato, who doubles as the President of the Mothers’ Union for Buganda Region, urged youths to desist from meaninglessly sing ‘Tuliyambala Engule’ (We shall don crowns), adding, “How do you expect to wear divine thrones when you do not even bathe, do not want to work and spend days chewing grass?”
In an earlier address, Mukono Resident District Commissioner (RDC) Hajat Fatuma Ndisaba Nabitaka advised voters to turn a blind eye to politicians pestering them for votes after spending decades in leadership and doing nothing progressive for their areas.
“Such politicians will only serve the purpose of destroying good programmes like the GHMF as they are bent on keeping people in unending battles, and when people are battling, such programmes will fail to achieve their missions and diseases like poverty will remain deep rooted in society,” Ndisaba noted.
Mukono Community Liaison Officer (CLO) ASSP Shafick Kasujja advised people to endeavor to acquire documentation backing ownership of their pieces of land, pointing out that many people buy land online without bothering to establish whether the land is incumbrance free, and end up antagonizing bibanja holders who have been in occupancy for ages.
Kasujja appealed to parents to sacrifice everything and educate their children, noting that more often than not, the uneducated are the reserve force for the infamous ‘eggaali’ hooliganism.
The function was also attended by the Tororo Circuit High Court Judge, Bp. Dr. Justice Henry Kaweesa Isabirye who called on people not to fear making wills, reasoning that people dying intestate are usually the cause of undue battles of dividing their property by relatives.
Justice Kaweesi decried the rampant deceased persons’ property grabbing incidents which he noted is one of the biggest problems of civil courts, and discouraged the tendency of sharing property immediately after reading wills, saying it denies would-be appellants the opportunity to voice their dissatisfaction.
The GHMF vision bearer, Bp. Samuel Lwandasa noted that being a hub of development and Kampala city’s entry point, Mukono needs to be identified with stepped up security, unity, peace and the spirit of working with all development partners.
He decried the rampant negative and tarnishing reports about Mukono, and expressed optimism that under the umbrella of the foundation, households have the ability to phase out this by providing the beginning point for doing away with all negative tendencies in the community.
Lwandasa lamented that although billions worth of merchandise traverses the four districts daily, indigenous citizens have no stake in these businesses other than playing the role of onlookers, and added that the forum wants to change this by making these people contributors to these businesses.
“Working house by house and with support from The Mengo and central governments, our houses can generate capacity to get required tonnage for export as Greater Mukono alone, and we are determined to see this come to pass”, Lwandasa said.