St. Francis House presented a poem titled ‘A Call to Rise’ where they made desperate calls for good governance to be practical and not only theoretical, and de-campaigning leaders who do not deliver and only appear before voters only at times of looking for votes.
Parents of St. Francis Namiryango Hillside Nursery and Primary School could not hold back tears and wearing tired and hopeless faces as their children, basing in their respective houses, made nerve raking presentations reflecting misgivings in the contemporary Uganda, depicting suffering occasioned by misgovernance manifesting in many forms of dehumanizing acts.
The learners were on Sunday 23rd November2025 holding their end-of-year inter-house music, dance and drama competition held at Le-Kasa Gardens in Upper Kauga zone in Mukono Central Division, under the theme ‘Good Governance’.
The children’s presentations presented in form of poems, contemporary dances, drama, and mimes highlighted modern day suffering occasioned to Ugandans through atrocities including land grabbing, illegal detentions, human trafficking, political intolerance and other forms of injustices, all components of bad governance.
St. Francis House presented a poem titled ‘A Call to Rise’ where they made desperate calls for good governance to be practical and not only theoretical, and de-campaigning leaders who do not deliver and only appear before voters only at times of looking for votes.
The learners appealed to voters to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to such politicians, adding that this is the time for Ugandans to rise up and demand for what rightly belongs to them.
In their skit, Rieman House showcased effects of destructive child upbringing in the name of showing love, and in the long run breeding children in uncultured ways fraught with exposing them to life dangers like rape, unwanted pregnancies, substance and drug abuse and addiction, crime commission and premature death.
Mother Kevin House presented a contemporary dance depicting humans who tend to usurp the powers of God the creator, and nursing such false powers to abuse Ugandans left and right, in the process creating scores of widows and orphans with nobody to offer them protection, love and care.
Meridith House presented a mime highlighting inhuman treatment with land grabbing at the peak, showing single mothers thrown out of their marital homes with their fatherless children, uneducated, malnourished and outrightly denied a future.
The daylong show was graced by the Mukono Municipality Mayor, Elisa Mukasa Nkoyooyo who urged family heads to always make wills as a means of avoiding property-related wrangles, and called on parents to desist from using corporal punishments as a form of disciplining children.
“Instead of a corporal punishment, just deny the child that favorable item he or she cherishes, and let him understand the reason why, in a long run, they will change into representable citizens,” he said adding; “That is one of the tactics I have used to nurture my children into good citizens of this country and all of them are already employed.”
Apart from the parents, the function has also been graced by the headteacher of St. Theresa Girls Boarding Primary School, Sr. Florence Nalumu, legendary footballer and coach, Jackson Mayanja a.k.a Mia Mia, business community led by the proprietor of Sion Hard Wares and Governors Hotel in Mukono, Frank Mpoobe, among others.
