The Pirate Farm.

THE PIRATE FARM



Wow.... wow... wow...!

Arid land is no farm land.
The land produces no crops but violence
The crops like government doesn’t yield
Where do I sow my seeds?

The seeds are easy to find
Guns are in plenty
Time is never valuable or expensive
The sea is wide and expansive
Sorrow, emptiness is intensive
The warlords are countless
Where do I sow my seeds?

Ship, ship, ship…..
Who cultivate and harvest ships?
Whose land is so fertile?
Farm tools, I lack not.
The guns are plenty
Somali land is Somali land!
Somali water is Somali water!
Where do I sow my seeds?

Ransom my money, my life.
The crops must yield in the field.
If the warlords farm no more
I find my field and farm
The guns are plenty.
Can someone help the warlords?
Somali land can cultivate and harvest
Good crop – the government.
Where do I sow my seeds?

I want to farm
I want to harvest ships too.
The farm tools, I lack not.
Plenty are the guns
The water land is Somali land.
I will farm, I will harvest.
But what about the “Philips”?
Are they not plenty?
Do they farm like we do? I guess not!
What about their farm tools?
Farm tools, I lack not.
The farmland is mine, is Ours.
Where do I sow my seeds?


By Lakony Wilson DD
(lakwildd@yahoo.com)

Justice Kanyeihamba questions Museveni’s vision on patriotism

By Isaac Imaka

Kampala



Justice Prof. G.W.Kanyeihamba—Justice of the Supreme Court on Tuesday blasted President Yoweri Museveni on patriotism saying that the president is preaching a virtue, whose meaning he does not fully understand.



Kanyeihamba also accused the president of looking for people’s devotion to the person of the president instead of the nation.



“Patriotism is a devotion and love for one’s country and not allegiance to an individual. If someone is going everywhere preaching patriotism; patriotism for whom if he tells MPs to place their parties before the nation,” Kanyeihamba said during a public lecture at Makerere University on constitutional amendments in Uganda’s constitution.



The President is on nationwide education drive trying to teach Ugandans how to practice patriotism in a hope that this might curtail the increasing cases of corruption and bad governance.



Prof. Kanyeihamba said that while addressing Members of Parliament sometime ago, he advised them to put the state first, their constituency next and lastly the party to which they are affiliated to, an argument that the president did not buy.



“President Museveni strongly opposed my argument and he convened another meeting and told the MPs that they should place their party as the first priority and not the country,” Kanyeihamba said.



He also noted that Uganda has never been well governed, and accused the present leadership and MPs of poor leadership, bad governance, and ignoring the rule of law, something that has exacerbated corruption and underdevelopment in the country.



“The leadership and the mode of governance of today not only haunt Uganda but it is very bad. The current leadership and rulers appear more comfortable and wallowing in the same evils of the past. They look at how to accumulate wealth for themselves other than the nation,” he said



He added: “MPs who are supposed to champion the rule of democracy have instead hesitated to fight bad governance and are indulging in aggravated corruption.”

He added: “MPs who are supposed to champion the rule of democracy have instead hesitated to fight bad governance and are indulging in aggravated corruption.”

The government of Uganda has for long been trying to fight bad governance and corruption in the country but the fight has always hit a dead end because of the unscrupulous legislators who instated of fighting corruption indulge in the act.



The Professor said that although the president is trying to teach patriotism to fight corruption and bad governance, the country already has laws to fight corruption and bad governance and it only lacks good will from those who indulge in dubious activities and at the same time try to show the people that they care yet they do not.



“Corruption and bad governance has not only become a danger to society but they have been accepted as a way of life,” he said.


“What Uganda lacks to fight corruption and bad governance is not patriotism, a new law, or a court, but the political will from the people concerned.”


Full version of a paper he presented at Makerere University on April 7.