{UAH} Dear Mr President

Dear Mr President, as you and your cronies were "planning" for your children, you made our parents our dependants.

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 Like President Museveni says, it's a fact the children of the "Class of 1986" don't need jobs because their parents "planned for them." 

What he forgets to add is that most of these "1986" parents have gone as far as rob what belongs to other children of Uganda (the bazukulu) through their corrupt tendencies just to secure the financial futures of their biological children.

Why this statement is insulting is that the other children badly need jobs, not only to fend for themselves and their children, but also their parents!!!!

Sometime back, Daily Monitor ran a story of "The New Poor." 

These are the former public servants who served their country diligently only to retire to poverty and their children now have to provide for them.

Many of these agemates of Mzee ended up without "plans" for their children simply because they were not corrupt and they thought they had it figured out because they would receive their pension when they reached the retirement age. 

Unfortunately, the government had no plans for them upon retirement. Many of these are public servants who were laid off their jobs because the President couldn't preside over the smooth running of state enterprises. Some were laid off during "privatisation" which was craftily used by some members of the class of 1986 to take over ownership of former state enterprises.

Some of these parents were not able to plan for their children because someone who thought he must plan for his children swindled billions of what was meant to be their pension money. 

You must remember the "pension scandal" where a few individuals shared Shs360billion that was meant to have thousands of former civil servants retire in dignity. 

Maybe if our parents had received their money, they would have been able to plan for us.

Now most people from their mid-20s to late 40s are stuck in a situation of bearing the financial burden of taking care of three generations – their parents, themselves and their children. 

These people are putting roofs over their parents' houses, taking care of medical bills because there was no planned medical insurance scheme for these elderly people and they are providing even simple basics like salt!!!

These elderly parents are doctors, engineers, bankers, teachers and others who served their country, but the country can't serve them back because the leaders have to plan for their children!

These same bazukulu of Mzee in their 30s who were not privileged to have parents loot for them are fending for themselves trying to have decent accommodation and food on the table on top of taking care of their children's needs from school fees to basic feeding.  

Thanks for the immunisation Mzee but it's the duty of your government to preside over a stable and functioning economy where we can have jobs. 

You already created a big burden for us. And please don't add insult to injury by mocking our parents because of a hopeless situation your government put them into.

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