Have you had a great day? (Audience claps)
I hope the day was not long, you are not tired!
but let me
in what I will
be saying I will be thinking on the fact that you want us to end the day
those who spent time here could go to relax.
But the first thing I would like to start with is to thank you. People, when
you have taken time, thinking about an issue, I think here you have taken
time to reflect on the issue related to developing/building our country. You
took time on what can build our country today, and the tomorrow of our
country. You gave that priority to the youth. This is all good, for those
who prepared the event, those who came to participate and are here, I would
like to start by thanking you for that.
The second part [of thanks] is for those who gave us testimonies, those who
shared learning, those who told us many elements we can build on in
understanding everybodys roles, and where we should be aiming.
Starting with the youth, the one which is here,
the reason I did not go
into the usual protocol of starting by greeting their excellences, I went
straight to the youth. (audience claps) That means I went to the
excellencies of the upcoming future. As for our case, I suppose our time has
reached somewhere where we should be putting ourselves aside.
Youth! It is the future, it is leadership, it is the value of the country.
All these aspects combined. It is the strength. It is leadership. It is
value for tomorrow. That is what the youth means. But the youth only, saying
only the youth, and understand that you have implicitly referred to those
other elements is not correct. Youth! The concept itself, with you here as
the youth, to call you only the youth is not enough. There is something you
must have. Requirements you should be fulfilling. There is dignity you must
be portraying yourself, or your carers/guardians/parents ensuring you to
carry. In order that that youth we see as strong, as bearer of the future,
as bearer of dignity, all that must be groomed/developed/built. It is not
enough to talk of youth only
.eh
lets refer to something commonly used in
Kinyarwanda, agaseke [decorative basket], when someone mentions agaseke,
what do they mean? The word agaseke is commonly used. But when I hear
agaseke, I run looking at what is inside. ..eh
an empty agaseke, or an empty
agatebo [ruff bigger basket], or an empty inkangara [much bigger ruff
basket]? It is only an inkangara
.eh
there must be put inside something.
And even you cannot put whatever inside. Valuable things are put inside.
In these souls, in this intelligence, of the youth, what are we putting in?
What is there?
in order for this youth to be what we expect from it. What
should we put in? The youth you starve,
you understand
malnutrition!
Malnutrition, do you understand that? Do you know people who dont eat, or
who dont eat well, how they are or become? They catch kwashiorkor. Do you
know kwashiorkor?
aha
eh
a seed [imbuto] I even refer to Imbuto
[Foundation] which brought us together here, [audience claps]
a seed you
plant in a place where the sun does not reach, do you know how it becomes?
it does as well suffer from kwashiorkor. Instead of being a green plant it
becomes yellow. When it has become yellow it means it is dead.
Youth you have not fed, ends with the same fate. But as you mustve noticed,
the physical part, what we see, which carries kwashiorkor, even in the
brain, the location of intelligence, that we dont see, even that part
becomes yellow. That place also starves. Particularly, when the brain is
starving, we see that kwashiorkor in performed actions. You see actions of
someone starving intellectually; you then understand that in his brain there
is kwashiorkor. You notice that. You see that through what we chose to do.
You see that in what we say, you see that in actions. When you see someone
promoting hatred, hating others, opting for laziness, not doing anything,
using lies,
when you see someone prioritising theft, you understand then
that they have kwashiorkor in their brain. You understand that their brain
is starving. You understand that it has not been fed properly. This is the
focus where I want to talk about the youth. Our youth, you who even came
here and took responsibilities/ engagements and swore to the country that
you will never allow it to become as it was under the bad periods, the first
area you concentrate on is to feed your intelligence.
TO BE CONTINUED
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"
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