TILL EVERYBODY IS SAFE

 NOBODY IS SAFE…TILL EVERYBODY IS SAFE

( Matsiko Kahunga)

‘… we all now qualify for that infamous label, describing that fellow  who asked  to have his bed made ,  while the house was on fire…’ ,  Mzee Mashurubu admits, pensively looking at the picture of a long time comrade just snatched by this Runyaga, his new name for Covid 19. Runyaga refers to a ravager: cattle rustler, resource plunderer, man-killer…

Yes, we all  qualified.

We qualified when we ‘obeyed’ the constitution at cost  of human life.

We qualified when we pursued ‘democracy’ at the cost  of human life

We qualified when we pursued hedonism at the cost  of human life.

We qualified when we pursued mammon cost of human life.

We qualified when a policewoman’s salary forfeited went wayward

We qualified when a pupil’s  pan-cake forfeited, dropped to bottomless pit

We qualified. We qualify. We all are guilty.

We all are under peril. Nobody is safe…till everybody is safe.

Vaccines  elusive.…Oxygen cylinders  scarce.…

Vaccines  booked three years ahead by the mighty...

Hundred million doses, scores times above their needs

An insular  superpower   vaccinated more than the entire Africa

The Mighty Club  meets…

Allocates a few million doses to the wretched world...one entity

Promises of donations…Words of Commitments….

In the months to come…in the years ahead…in times indefinite

Global Pandemic…evolves to Wretched World Endemic

Selfish Beings, we call them…a verbal malevolence against Mbogo Buffalo.

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Yet, we all have the power  and obligation to save ourselves and our loved ones. Nobody else will. 

We cannot play Nyakazaana, nor remain Nantabuulilirwa much less Ndiwulira.

We resurrect the national anti-Covid war of March-May 2020

The second anti-corona war arms and ammunition stand thus:

• Government suspends the purchase of vehicles to MPs

• All MPs drop  70% of gross monthly earnings into the corona war chest for 6 months

• All Local Government leaders and legislators drop 40% of gross monthly earnings into corona chest for 6 months

• All corporates drop 40% of annual EBITDA( 2020 figures) into corona war chest

• All MDAs drop  70%  recurrent budgets into the corona war chest for 6 months

Energised thus as of March-May 2020,  

• a schoolgirl will forfeit her pan-cake and drop in a coin

• a cassva farmer will drop in a coin

• a milkman will drop in a coin 

• a teacher will drop in a coin

• a policeman will drop in a coin

• a church will collect and drop in a pence

• a kingdom will mobilise and drop in a brick

• a  Whatsapp group will drop in a coin

• EVERYBODY will drop in a widow’s offertory

The Power of Numbers

The Energy of National Pride

The Instinct of Self-Preservation

We retreat indoors, squat, listen to the moves of the enemy

Our commanders and planners( Taskforce of March -May 2020) take the lead

Survival rations distributed evenly  to the deserving

Relief Fund for businesses affected 

We shall triumph. Corona shall diminish

The time is now…not tomorrow

NOBODY IS SAFE…TILL EVERYBODY IS SAFE