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Here is how you raise a speaker of Parliament
Eve Kagoya Kadaga, and her daughter, Rebecca Kadaga, who the mother simply refers to as Rebecca. PHOTO BY sam caleb opio.
Posted Saturday, May 11 2013 at 01:00
In Summary
If you have been a mother, you probably appreciate that it is not a given that your best efforts will pay off, especially in the form of such powerful and inspirational women as the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga. At the same time, it does not take any miracles short of your best, as the woman Hon. Kadaga calls mother revealed to John K. Abimanyi when he sought her out at her humble dwelling in Bulambuti village, a 10-minute drive from Kamuli town.
It is a sign of her nature as a very unassuming woman, careful not to gloat in the pride of mothering the country’s first female speaker of Parliament, and simply calling herself lucky to have done so. She is probably a reminder that great things can, and do, indeed come from simple people.
Eve Kadaga on parenting today
“Hmm... In my perception, what can be called children are those at your (reporter’s) level, 25 years and older. The rest are not children, because they are badly behaved. We raised you people well, but those you have raised, there is no child among them. There are those who do not want to study; some are bayaye (hooligans). That, which I have said, that we don’t have children anymore, is it.
The reasons are many. There are TVs, and these things that they do in town like discos, have spoilt our children, young or old, which we did not have. I think that has hurt our country.
TV and local video shacks have
brought trouble. And if the government could help us and put restrictions on their use, it would help the young children and maybe, there would be some children among them, after all. But we are doing badly.
The problem today is that if in the past, if I found a friend’s child behaving inappropriately, I would correct them. But today, if you found a child misbehaving, say you found them in a discotheque, and went to the parent and told them, the parent would reply, “leave my child alone. It’s not your child.” You see such things. Now, even if you would have given them advice, you keep it to yourself.
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