The Proverbial Saying of ” Two Heads are better than One ” needs to be Amended.

If I personally landed on the initiator of such a proverbial saying of “two heads are better than one”, then we would have an endless debate about it. The attitudinal mentality of a thought that every two heads are always better than one is more far away from a factual finding.

When the Ugandan Right Honorable prime minister noted that the government would at a certain point start imprisoning the poor so that they answer their “criminal charge” of being poor, the masses ridiculed her.

In one of his eminent speeches, our Ugandan Fountain of Honor once humorously put it asking Ugandans whether they would put their mattresses and sleep on the well-tarmacked roads if it so happened that they existed. Here, he was literally asking them to work hard for themselves and their families so that they would also put to use, a few government social services that are in place. The president has not only stopped there, but has always castigated the opposition leaders who discourage the electorate from engaging and embracing government poverty-alleviation programs.

If there’s a very indescribably the hardest task on earth, it is dealing with pessimists. After more than a very good period of water and electricity absence in my Rujumbura constituency, there came a miraculous discovery that indeed portrays Uganda as Africa’s pearl. From the jungles of Kahoko parish, Nyakagyeme subcounty, Rukungiri district, Rujumbura county, water was discovered. Here, the government blessed its citizens by playing the role of drilling water and distributing it through public water taps. As a prerequisite of endlessly fetching this clean water, the flow scheme requires a weekly “exorbitant and abnormal fee” of UGX 500 per family for electricity bills to keep a stable public water supply.

Well, to my surprise, most of these taps have been disbanded and disabled because families have failed to raise a weekly UGX 500 coin! To cut the long story short, one would ask whether these families are so poor to raise a mere UGX 500 coin, whether it’s a mindset disease, or something else.

So would a family that fails to raise a weekly UGX 500 coin manage to pay electricity bills even if the government extends it to every village?

And if a family of eight members sit and conclude that they would rather walk miles to fetch dirty water instead of paying a weekly UGX 500 coin to fetch limitless clean water also claim that their eight heads are better than one?

GORDON AGABA

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The writer is a journalist and a public relations professional.