Your Excellency,
It was nothing short of a national mockery for you, the President of Uganda to proudly pose for a photograph with a poverty-stricken family, barefooted children included, as if that scene were a trophy worth celebrating. After nearly 40 years in power, Your Excellency, is this really the Uganda you want to showcase? A family so impoverished they haven’t tasted sugar for half a year, yet they were carefully lined up to smile next to you in yellow donated T-shirts and oversized NRM regalia like actors in a tragic comedy.
What message were you sending? That even the poorest of the poor can still be used for your PR stunts? That it is an achievement to dress up suffering in party colours and call it patriotism?
Your Excellency, even the shoes Father and Mum wore for your “moment,” were borrowed from neighbours just for the showbiz. But once the cameras left, they returned to barefoot life, to empty plates, and to the silence of forgotten promises.
Surprisingly, tomorrow, you will stand before the nation, before the media and boldly claim that Uganda is now a Middle-Income country. Based on what? Borrowed shoes, dirty and unpolished, and photo poses with families who can not afford sugar?
Meanwhile, you spend 2 billion shillings every single day to maintain your lavish home meals while preaching humanity and patriotism to citizens who can barely afford soap.
With your family controlling the nation’s wealth, billions are diverted to friends like Pinneti, MPs are bribed to bend laws for your survival in power, and you call it leadership. Taxpayers watch as their hard-earned money is wasted on tear gas, political showdowns, and convoys of luxury vehicles carrying ministers like Full Figure and Butchaman, appointed not for merit but mockery.
Your Excellency, Uganda is not fooled. The image you posed for has gone viral, not as a symbol of your leadership, but as a poster of Uganda’s broken promises. That single photo says more than your speeches ever could.
Respectfully,
Disappointed Ugandan
NKOOLA MIKE