By Namanya Primah
A student at Nyina wa Jambo Girls’ High school
The evils in our society
First of all an evil is anything that is actively harmful to a community or society. In order to have a peaceful community or society we must end all evils. These evils are considered harmful to the overall health and happiness of people in societies. We can all agree that some or all illegal activities are evil, such as the sale of illegal drugs, corporate corruption, domestic terrorism, etc
Evils can also be legal actions that are considered morally wrong by some people such as racism, sexism, prostitution, kidnapping, labour exploitation, raping of women and children, social exclusion, mob justice, organized crimes, misinformation, alcohol abuse and drug abuse. These ill behaviors are like a sickness to society.
In our societies, there has been associated evils that are social, financial and political. These are mainly accumulated by state holders and the people themselves.
To a higher degree, corruption has been rampant in our societies. For instance, there are different forms of corruption in our country Uganda today, namely; Misappropriation of public funds, use of money to influence decisions, misuse of government vehicles though doing private work such as introduction programs, promotion and giving jobs on sectarian grounds like tribalism and nepotism, commercialization of politics through vote buying. These are mainly caused by greed for money, power, wealth, general moral regeneration, lack of trust among leaders, stagnation in economic development and bureaucracy in public offices. However, corruption itself has led to income inequality whereby some people become rich without working as the rich exploit the poor hence increasing the economic and social gap between the two.
There is loss of government funds hence failure to implement policies and government programs and this is normally done by politicians. So as a concerned citizen, I recommend that the government should ensure full accountability for all government enterprises fraudulently sold and ensure prosecution and punishment of the culprits. Still, the government should ensure protection of persons who provide evidence to corruption cases.
More so, immorality has deeply rooted the hearts of many people as young qualified woman in search for jobs are told to first spread their thighs on the table before being employed as this is enough justification to show that immorality is on it’s peak meaning that to some extent, qualifications have lost value. In addition, young women are sexually harassed by their bosses at their work places in order to retain their jobs. In education, lecturers at universities sexually harass students on a condition of giving them marks. A good example is a girl from Rwampara who refused to soothe a lecturer at one of the universities in Uganda and then she failed to graduate until the man got retired from the job. This was in 2019 and the girl had to graduate in 2020. This causes stress to students and later one might later end up into suicidal acts. And some end up being un employed.
Further more, exploitation in the world has deeply affected the masses and this is mostly among the rich who exploit the poor through robbery and theft. A good example is in Kenya as it is still alleged that there has been imperialists who came to teach Kenyans on how to steal and grab. A few of the people that have tried have managed to be rich through theft and robbery. They normally have a saying that “…..He who is able to grab should be allowed to grab, I grab, you grab and then we see who beats who in the game…..”.This clearly shows how exploitation is in the hearts of people and it results into too much poverty to the poor.
More still, betrayal has been an itching factor to our today’s young generation because of different issues but mostly money and love conflicts. There is a saying that goes, “….There is no love that is not linked with hate….” Which I think is wrong because someone can easily love not expecting money but only trying to fulfill the heart’s desires. This results into divorce among married couples and heart breaks mostly by the so called boy-girl relationships.
Lastly, oppression as an evil has been rampant but this normally corresponds with exploitation for example most of the rich people exploit the poor, they strike against this hence some are killed and others put in prison and this brings out oppression to the poor people who suffer as they try to ask for Uhuru that is freedom.
By Namanya Primah
A student at Nyina wa Jambo Girls’ High school
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