FOURTH DIMENSION: Present with competence

If we were to use church jargon to explain the failure to pass crucial bills into law, we would say there is the devil’s agent in the drafting department of government. In church terms a devil’s agent is one planted to frustrate the work of establishing the kingdom of God among men. The agent uses all possible means to ensure that no progress is made that would expose the insidious nature of the devil.

There have been laws that were well intentioned but got miscarried in the process of establishment. In the matter of seeking to protect the young boys who were and often sexually defiled by male offenders, the devils agent misled the proponents of the desired law to brand it the anti-homosexuality bill. With such a brand name, it was destined to crash before takeoff. There were and there are still many other ways to achieve the desired goal without positioning the law as ammunition against a particular group of members of the society.

To present the desired law in the matter of pornography as the mini skirt bill is to dig a grave instead of building an office for the bill. The agent’s operation appears to be aimed at blinding the leaders to the importance of packaging of truth.

When prophet Nathan had to present a tough bill to his boss King David, he drafted the truth in such a compelling way that David immediately responded: “ He became very angry and said to Nathan, “As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this deserves to die! Because he committed this cold-hearted crime, he must pay for the lamb four times over!” ( 2 Samuel 12)
Nathan said to David, “You are that man!” And the judgment of God is come upon you. The bible indicates that David repented and corrected his life towards God’s demands.

We cannot establish compelling laws if we continue with the flagrant approach to the drafting and presentation of the desired bills. Someone is acting as a devil’s agent by having a mediocre outlook to the task of drafting the laws of Uganda. We must reject this attitude and seek to hold these persons accountable for amusing their offices and causing the nation to bleed.

The Bible teaches that we must proclaim the truth in love. This should form the framework by which we seek to establish legislation that promotes the truth of God. Truth spoken without love is cruelty to man yet love shared without the truth is hypocrisy. The people entrusted with the task of drafting the desired laws must include in their assignment, the designing of the bill presentations in such a way that does not lend the intentions of the law towards sectarian persecution.

In the past, evil thrived because good people did nothing in response to the prevailing evil. Today evil will prevail because of a poor positioning of the truth on the national table of legislation.