SOME PEOPLE ARE “BAYAAYE” BECAUSE IT IS THEIR LAST OPTION

Article by Johnious Tumusiime

Have you ever wondered why many youth in developing countries are “bayaaye”?! You might have ever, or maybe, you think it is the kind of life they prefer, or you think it is not your business to think about bayaaye and their life. I am one of those people that rarely take for granted anything affecting my countrymate, even though such thing may not be directly affecting me personally.

Let me in the first place give you the meaning of “bayaaye”! Bayaaye is a common term in Ugandan languages that is used to refer to “rogue people”. Bayaaye (rogue people) or Abayaaye (rogue people) is plural and its singular is Muyaaye (rogue) or Omuyaaye (a rogue) respectively. According to online dictionaries, a rogue (omuyaaye) is a mean, mischievous, bad, evil, or unprincipled person, who is often liked by people not minding his or her bad character. However, the same word, muyaaye is also commonly used to refer to refer to “hooligan” or “bad guy”. The lifestyle of omuyaaye or abayaaye is commonly referred to as kiyaaye lifestyle or buyaaye, while the acts of omuyaaye or abayaaye are commonly referred to as obuyaaye, or eby’ekiyaaye.

Uganda is one of the countries with many bayaaye, common everywhere, urban and rural but more in urban. Whereas, it is very bad, in the traditions of Uganda to be omuyaaye, and considered abnormal, many Ugandans are becoming bayaaye day and night.

I recently spent some time studying the life of bayaaye and came to understand the reason they choose to live such life. In fact, it is not anyone’s chice to be omuyaaye. The strongest reason people choose to lead the kiyaaye lifestyle is that they are poor, hopeless and worried!

Extreme poverty is the commonest characteristic among bayaaye. Well, there are some people who choose to live the kiyaaye lifestyle while they are not poor but they are the fewest, and, if well traced still, many of these start living this lifestyle while they are still young, poor and either hopeless or in hard struggles for hope, and end up getting addicted to this lifestyle.

One of the worst boosting agents of the kiyaaye lifestyle is discrimination. Discrimination, often being a result of the gap between the poor and the rich, or tribalism or religious beliefs causes hopelessness which in turn forces people, especially the youth to choose the kiyaaye lifestyle.

The other is poor upbringing of children by their family heads, which is also, on clear analysis, a result of poverty, discrimination, low education and hopelessness.

There is no way you can describe a muyaaye without the word “poverty”. Every muyaaye has, either in one’s background, history or present-day life the word “poverty”.

The government of Uganda has many times condemned obuyaaye, though the question remains, has the government done enough in preventing people from being abayaaye?

Keep following this site both on website and social media so you don’t miss the other articles coming to complement this one. In the following articles, we shall see how harmful it is to have many bayaaye in the country, why it is hard to fight obuyaaye, how best we can fight obuyaaye, how the bayaaye can be helped to overcome their challenges and become good citizens, etc.

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MAKERERE UNIVERSITY'S ICONIC MAIN ADMINISTRATION BUILDING ON FIRE

 

BY: ATWIINE RHONET AND OCHOLA ISAAC

The signature of Makerere University has caught fire leaving invaluable property and records shut down.

According to Deputy Police Spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire, the fire is believed to have started at midnight from the roof spreading to floors that house both records and finance departments. Fire and rescue services responded and managed to contain its spread, however, several offices were affected.

“The Police Fire Brigade is trying to put out the fire which has now covered almost half of the roof. It’s a trying moment for us,” the university tweeted.

On top of that, also offices of records, Finance, Vice Chancellor's, Audit Administration and the basement full of archive files spanking the whole University history are all destroyed.

According to the university, efforts to save the left-wing of the building which houses the Human Resources and staff records of the university were being defeated by the highly powerful flames whose blaze was increased by the wooden furnishings.

Julius Katerega, the institution's guild president says, " the face of Makerere University has been destroyed because those were one of the most important centers of our university".

However, Barnabus Nawangwe, the Makerere University Vice-Chancellor advice and promise all the student, staff, and the public that the ivory tower is to be restored as soon as possible.

" It is a very dark morning for Makerere University. Our iconic Main Administration Building caught fire and the destruction is unbelievable. But we are determined to restore the building to its historic state in the shortest time possible. " He tweeted.

Currently, the fire has come as Uganda is on wait for today's presidential speech on the COVID-19 situation. Parents and students are eagerly hoping to have education institutions open.

About the main building

According to Makerere University, the Main Administration Building was completed in 1941 under the leadership of George C. Turner, the Principal, Makerere College (1939-46).

Earlier in 1938, the duke of Gloucester, representing His Majesty King George VI had cut the first sod for the construction of the building on 3rd November.

The Main Building with its unique 20th-century British architecture is easily Makerere’s most recognizable symbol and was constructed with funds from the Colonial Development hours.

The building’s construction was greatly delayed by a scarcity of resources to purchase materials as Britain and her allies grappled with the expenses of World War II.

As a result, some of the carpentry work had to be done on-site at the Technical College.

The Principal then focused on turning Makerere into a University College and establishing buildings. As a result both the St. Francis and St. Augustine Chapels were completed in the same year 1941 and by 1944, plans for the establishment of a School of Civil Engineering at Makerere were already being discussed by the British House of Common.

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BUGWERE KINGDOM PARTNERS WITH BUSTEMA UNIVERSITY IN PROMOTING VALUE ADDED PROJECTS IN THE REGION.

STORY BY: MOSES NUWAGABA; EDITING DONE BY: JOHNIOUS TUMUSIIME

With many programs like NAADS, skilling the youth, wealth creation, and emyoga having been introduced by the government, many institutions are getting involved with new inventions to make the government’s visions of eradicating poverty in Uganda and adding value on Uganda’s products through producing already processed and quality goods ready for international markets achievable.

The latest to join the race is one of the public universities, Bustema University under the guidance of its Vice Chancellor Prof. Wako and legendary engineer Prof. Kant Kanyarusoke together with other members of its engineering doctrine partnering with Bugwere Kingdom under His Royal Highness Bishop John Christom Wabwire on matters of innovations aiming at making variety of value added projects that would change the lives of Bagwere and the region who literally depend on subsistance economy.

An agreement of cooperation was signed today at the Bugwere Palace, Buddaka between Bustema University Vice Chancellor Prof. Wako and Bugwere King His Royal Highness Bishop John Christom Wabwire. This cooperation contains provision of machines like solar driers which would help in drying crops of the people of Bugwere that would be of quality and ready to compete with other products both in local and international markets. Others are water purifiers, water systems and processing machines.

According to this agreement as signed today, Prof. Kanti Kanyarusoke, the incoming Head of Electrical Engineering Department will lead the project on Bustema University side while Prof. Kajet on Bugwere Kingdom side.

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