One of my favourite sayings is 'do not ask for too much, the gods might just give it to you.' Our Zimbabwean brothers and sisters asked for financial freedom and wealth and they became zillionaires! You see it never rains but pours. If you are feeling hard done by, you ask for rain and viola, the gods will send floods to wash away your troubles. The problem with the gods answering your prayers is always the unintended consequences.
We Ugandans have been trying out different efforts to get us to middle income status. The most recent ones include 'bonna bagagawale' (let them all grow rich) and 'Operation Wealth Creation'. What all these schemes have in common is they call for hard work. Now that is not a very Ugandan ethos and those schemes seem to have run into the ground. So how then, how can we Ugandans become billionaires by 2021, without breaking sweat? We can do this by practicing a little populism. Add in a bit of praise for the powers above and we will be on the way to using wheelbarrows to carry our cash around.
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