The hustle for survival in Kampala is becoming more complicated as our society gets more eroded of human values. The News of a gruesome killing of a Boda Boda rider by thugs who were captured on CCTV camera mounted to nearby school gate, is yet another alarming incident that proves our society to be collapsing.
In scenarios like this the public is quick to blame the government for not providing security to its natives. They have the right to. The unfriendly international community is quick to side with the laments in these times, I wonder why there are no NGOs that fight crime as a form of human right to the innocent people being murdered by selfish and heartless fellow humans.
Before we go to politicking these disturbing happenings, I suggest that we focus on our selves. Every day a new church is started in a suburb somewhere in the city. One would expect a shift in morals with the kind of outreach that several organizations and churches are doing but increasingly the biggest enemies we have are our brothers. From Land grabbing, corruption, fraud and all sorts of crime, whys should man kill fellow man to take a way property that can be earned.
If it were a case of cannibalism, one would put up a vague debate of the food chain, but the food chain doesn’t indicate man to eat man. Why then kill a fellow human being.
The video of that incident, which occurred on June 29, 2019 at round 4am, at Kakeeka Zone, Rubaga Division shows two young lads who any person could never suspect to be murderers from their physical appearance however their tact and speed of killing the Boda Boda rider is a shocker. It reminds me of the quote from a famous crime movie that killers look cool and warm. Which brings me to a question, how should man identify the beast in a fellow man.
As the family of the young man that lost his life to these cruel murderers mourn and seek justice, the rest of can only be cautious.
Let us embrace a few technologies like “safeboda” apps, have CCTV installations if one can afford-it can enable you and a few neighbours get justice. These incidents are so disturbing that all the remedies suggested are nothing but post mortem. The biggest remedy we need is cleansing our hearts of criminality. I am not a priest neither am I sheik, so will not argue religiously but the Bible in Genesis 9:6 says “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.”
Police and security agencies should in cases like this where there is preliminary evidence follow up to the dot. Human right activists should interest themselves in such petty murderers because they cause economic and development regression in a bigger picture.
