For TV cameras to show people in Katakwi District in Teso sub-region plucking leaves from a wild tree to boil and eat is a solemn commentary on the lack of planning in our country.
From "up there to down there" we seem to live for now. Nobody, it seems, cares anymore for tomorrow. When disaster strikes we blame some supernatural forces. The simplicity of our thinking mirrors or even amplifies the simplicity and wretchedness of the livelihoods of the majority of our people.
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