“Economic deception has become routine and has been institutionalized in Uganda. Such institutionalization of economic deception has normalized and intensified fraud, economic crime and trickery in doing business,” Pretty much sums up the state of affairs in Uganda.
From the top to the bottom. The deception happens in the corridors of power. Taking various shapes, including, promising middle-income status by year blah blah blah, without providing any blueprint for attaining that.
In the boardrooms, with crafty businessmen and women cutting corners and questionable deals.
In the streets, with boda bodas inflating the price threefold, if they suspect that you’re new.
In churches, with the ever-imploring pastors finding ways to extort more and more from their spiritually needy, unsuspecting flock.
And virtually everywhere.
We celebrate individuals who, without any evidence of the means, wake up one day and start splashing cash, showing off wealth they would never be comfortable accounting for.
The same accountability is absent in the public service, starting at the very top – and that’s why we have people earning less than Shs. 5M becoming overnight business moguls and owners of castles and mansions they really don’t need.
In the end, fresh graduates from University start stealing with urgency, as soon as they get into the labor market, aspiring to join the showy lives they have been brought up to believe in.
The collective national dream has been hijacked by liberal capitalism and turned into selfish individualistic endeavors.
With most people forgetting that it’s in their best interests to work on developing Project Uganda in our collective African ‘Ubuntu’ way so that it is a good place for generations to come.
Instead, we get a little money from here and there and sell the soul of our very being.
We forget that if we don’t develop together as a nation, our very own dreams won’t find a sustainable environment to thrive in. I could go on and on.
This post is a comment by Josh on “Economic deception and poverty in Uganda.” Click on the link at the start of the post to read it.
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