Why MP Alyek Shouldn't Be Crucified over Botched Akii-Bua Stadium Construction

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. Our motherland still exudes the beauty in its serenity beyond the imagination of many of my people. Lango as a tribe and as a people owe it to themselves and no heavenly intervention to get motivated and driven to pull forward by the future instead of meandering and being discouraged to pull back by the past

In this metropolis of our diabolical Lango and its environ, the umbilical cord holding our dream of sharing the national cake in the form of AKII BUA STADIUM has boomeranged into a curse rather than a blessing. Whereas the political hop -step and jump athletics repertoire seeks to deploy the northern lights, emissaries like the three wise men have fed into the dog eat dog in armageddonian proportion.

The political juggernaut, erudite and well-spoken ogwang “USUK” recent bare bone presentation of the final solution picturesque stadium was a welcome addition to the lango ensemble. Clad in the political regalia and spewing stanzas of service delivery, the edifice of Lango sports mecca was presented with an Egyptian embroidered son of the pyramid. 

The king is naked -so the saying goes and in tandem so was the handover of the mighty nomenclature of Akii Bua to the populace in a populist extravaganza. The dramatic reality has made a landing sooner than the dust has settled. Political foes and frienemies are offensively launching tirades of vague opinions rather than facts in our holy land of the parliament

The Member of Parliament from Erute South Hon. Jonathan Odur who has since distanced himself albeit not a member of LPG  has manifested skills of excellence that is reverberating across the not yet UHURU stadium let alone the Lango palace. “What the wise have seen in a sitting position, would take millenniums for those even on Mount Everest to see. Fools criticize abundantly without alternatives, so they say.

The belle of Lango Hon Alyek has been a recipient of criticism beyond measure bellowing from annals of history to the nano of modern politics. Lango must awaken to the realities and smell the coffee of collectivity in responsibility. Politics is not everybody’s cup of water. No wonder Lango as a people are being short changed and heading to a cataclysmic political abyss. In the aspirations of Lango as a people, all the dreams, journey, trials and tribulations are done as a homogenous group. Why then do we castigate Hon Alyek as an NRM when she stands tall to speak as an NRM stalwart?

Wishing Hon Alyek political death is explicitly murder in the heart. Its murder that you desire, but don’t want to do it yourself, or don’t want to get caught. A good politician takes collective responsibility and other parties must take heed and a lesson from her. Like minded politicians in Lango must stand with types of Alyek in the parties be it UPC, NRM, DP, FDC

It is normal to see “ Ryemo Alyek from parliament en aber” cohort amongst us. This comes from our primitive brain which lacks the authority to decipher process. All service deliveries be it in Lango or anywhere else goes through procedures such as community demand, budget processes, policies etc. We are quick to be the judge, jury and the executioner without the big question “HOW DID WE GET HERE WITH THE AKII BUA SAGA”. Great philosophers have said, imagine in your brain lives a stupid person who always wants to please you. It is the person who says “You like to drink, have another one.” It is the person who says “Smoking is not good, but we have to die anyway.” That person senses that you dislike somebody and say “ I wish he/She could drop dead just now.”

The fountain of honor his Excellency the president in his shrewd administrative prowess has meticulously presented his position as far as Akii Bua Stadium is concerned. Our cracker jacks in the form and shape of political representation from Lango must not hum the orchestra of symptomatic relapse but rather the cause of why the quagmire now

Our observation of gerontology in our members of parliament manifest an imminent danger to the success of Lango. Garbage in garbage out “GIGO” We keep putting in the same resources as input and expect a different results in service delivery as a people. Weep not my tribe for the bible says, I will honor you with leaders who are of equal measure of yourself at the time of your choosing.

There's a huge difference between cold blooded pointless castigation and motivated deserved revenge. A very, very big difference indeed. There is such a thing as worse than a criminal as a criminal has the means to change and do well with their future. The type I am referring to were just born genetically disturbed and sometimes there’s no prison or therapy for them once someone is so far gone they're not coming back. So your celebration of Alyek’s imminent political death is beyond comprehension as life is so risky that you the celebrant won’t get out alive.

Your lamentation doesn’t solve or fix anything. Audit your Member of Parliament and ask where he/she was when the initial debate about Akii Bua was brought up by the president, parliament, and policy makes etc. Till next time let it RIP.

The author  is a civil and political activist,adual Ugandan and Canadian Citizen