THE CHARACTER-IDENTITY/STRENGTH TO BELONG!

I do help out with a small NGO in the Kampala Capitol whose basic service is to rehabilitate mostly street Children.

In the course of my trade I have found out that 70% of these Children don’t run to the streets because of either  losing parents/guardians or lacking a home or where to stay, but from what I have come to call “Character-identity/strength to belong.”

These have come destitute because of failing to belong in a community/family of either abuse, absent parental-fibre or split Paternal-Maternal tribal lineage/roots.

They always opt to run or turn to the streets to belong somewhere or at least associate with peers of identical character-identity/strength.

Unfortunately, this new found character-identity is often characterized by substance or behavioral abuses and addictions that include but not limited to; drug abuse, prostitution and criminality.

NOTE: Most worrying is that this character-detriment also manifests in adults that have been well schooled, employed, travelled and some of the brightest minds have become victims of this silent assassin!!

*Stephen Magyezi

Omukiga-Wekiniga

INCLINED PERFECTLY

Great conviction of success attainable

Conversation laced with perfect talk

Meeting points with the most ideal timing

Words coined with sheer precision

Struck with perfect inclination

Devoid of bother but utter convenience

Crazy yet madly-grounded

Chiseled with sublime innocence

The patience to wait a little longer

The impatience not to slide into imperfection

The balance between hope and success attainable!
Steve

I am (not) Good Enough: Three Ways to Battle This Feeling

I am (not) Good Enough: Three Ways to Battle This Feeling https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/now-is-everything/201002/i-am-not-good-enough-three-ways-battle-feeling

PTA DOING WONDERS IN WESTERN UGANDA!

As most government-aided schools grapple with a frailly-motivated human resource machinery and an ill-funded physical infrastructural-setting, to contain the ever-increasing volume of students’ enrolment every year; Two secondary schools in Ntungamo District namely; Kyamate Secondary School and Rubaare Secondary School have put to proper office their Parents-Teachers Associations (PTA).

This PTA magic wand has been crafted out a re-energized and well organized engagement between school administrators and parents. 

In the last academic year, all PTA members were called upon to contribute a paltry Ugshs 20,000 for each academic term and this financial pool has enabled Kyamate Secondary School to put up a fully-equipped Computer lab and a Boys’ dormitory recently commissioned by the First Lady Janet Museveni and Rubaare Secondary School has built a set of self contained staff quarters, a boys’ dormitory and a girls’ dormitory recently commissioned by the Ntungamo RDC Fred Bamwine.

The self-drive within these up-country folks to “walk the talk” of creating a conducive academic and physical environment for today’s child is a lesson the government and other key-stakeholders in the Education sector should pick, and the fact that it has been done under a year is totally amazing.

Stephen Magyezi

@Gyezimania

This Wedding Band!

The itch beneath its grip

The irritation it lets off with every roll

The choke it spurs with every fist clenched

The attention it sources with every flash

The regret it ignites with every quarrel bout

BUT still I carry this promise,

Still I carry this promise on my finger!

My ring finger!

@gyezimania

"How Lukwago got his groove back"

Unlike politics or falling in love, matters of law should be left to individuals that can successfully munch away on them. No kind of mind-gymnasium can swiftly work its way round what the law states, you either follow what  it states or be slapped by what it orders!

So today we are doing a little bit of Law school and break nerve of what befell KCCA attempt to impeach the Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago inface of a court injunction.

Below are basic notes of what a court interim injunction envisages:

• The basic rationale behind injunctive power is to restore status quo, so that fairness can prevail, NO LEVEL OF SERVICE(of the court injunction) BARS THIS.
• What does this mean?

An injunction commands an act that the court regards as essential to justice, or it prohibits an act that is deemed to be contrary to good conscience. 

It is an extraordinary remedy, reserved for special circumstances in which the temporary preservation of the status quo is necessary.

An injunction is ordinarily and properly elicited from other proceedings. For example, a landlord might bring an action against a tenant for waste, in which the right to protect the land-lord's interest in the ownership of the premises is at issue. The landlord might apply to the court for an injunction against the tenant's continuing harmful use of the property. The injunction is an ancillary remedy in the action against the tenant.

Injunctive relief is not a matter of right, but its denial is within the discretion of the court. Whether or not an injunction will be granted varies with the facts of each case.

The courts exercise their power to issue injunctions judiciously, and only when necessity exists. 

An injunction is usually issued only in cases where irreparable injury to the rights of an individual would result otherwise. It must be readily apparent to the court that some act has been performed, or is threatened, that will produce irreparable injury to the party seeking the injunction. An injury is considered irreparable when it cannot be adequately compensated by an award of damages. 

The pecuniary damage that would be incurred from the threatened action need not be great, however. If a loss can be calculated in terms of money, there is no irreparable injury. The consequent refusal by a court to grant an injunction is, therefore, proper. Loss of profits alone is insufficient to establish irreparable injury. The potential destruction of property is sufficient.

Injunctive relief is not a remedy that is liberally granted, and, therefore, a court will always consider any hardship that the parties will sustain by the granting or refusal of an injunction. The court that issues an injunction may, in exercise of its discretion, modify or dissolve it at a later date if the circumstances so warrant.

*Additional info sourced from: http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Court+injunction

@gyezimania.

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'How the rest of us can join the MPs' I-Pad party!'

Munching away @skaheru's blog piece[http://skaheru.wordpress.com] yesterday, I was specifically drawn to the part in which he took dig at a print media story on Dokolo district residents who have conveniently turned bee-hives into coffins and any-other 'scrap' accessory your mind can find home in!

This drew me to I-Pads freely handed to all 375 MPs at a cost of Ushs900m and wondered, if Dokolo residents could turn a bee-keeping project on which their livelihood depended into burial 'aid', what of MPs that move around with I-Pads like they are holding onto poodle pet-dogs!

If Parliament availed these hi-tech gadgets to cut down on stationery expenses, did it first examine whether;

(1) Were the 'hard-copied' Parliament business documents dropped in MPs offices being read any-way!

(2) If some could fail to read these hard copy documents which could be read even stealthily during plenary or committee meetings[Time which some use to sleep-off!], what of wired documents that will need downloading[our weak internet connection with-standing] and much more bite on one's concentration energy?

I believe even before diving into supplying I-Pads to MPs like they were dishing out Nsenene, a few things should have been crafted out;

 (1) Whoever is tasked with scripting documents to be wired to MPs must know[have known] that just like the rest of us(Ugandans), we rarely read passed the 3rd paragraph of a 20-plus page document, especially if the gist of the matter is not captured in those opening paragraphs or document header. Text 'irrelevancies' and 'redundant' statements should be nipped out to create more 'punchy' and precise information documents.

(2) MPs were supposed to be literally taught (classroom-style) on how to maximally use I-Pads, I-Pads are not information granaries that you only open in time of information drought!

You only make productive use of such documents when you share the information with people that best benefit from it.

MPs are simply representatives of a larger Uganda setting, therefore any information on Parliament business must be directly fed to respective constituencies, and this where I-Pads must come in handy.  

• ·         How can this be done?

(a) MPs must create what I call 'on-line constituency head committees’; these can be made up of 4-6 resident constituents who are tasked to;

 (i) create a constituency email group,

(ii) A constituency Social Media group and

(iii) A constituency mobile chat-room!

(b) This constituency head committee is then tasked to tap information from their Member of Parliament and broken down into local languages and shared among members in these groups. 

In this, we not only bridge the gap between Parliament and the masses, but we also account for such expenses by Parliament.

@gyezimania

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