![]() Otako, a very well built and energetic young man is a casual worker. (Willy Ewal Anokbonggo is based in Hongkong)Īs always, I endeavor to exercise my creativity Īs you well know that the Lira region is characterized by water shortage and poverty It's fading into a dry season and people have to travel long distances to fetch water for domestic use and for animals. Deceived a nagging wife he bought one after losing money stupidly. Or even many bicycles in a lot, then he picks the wrong one. an absent minded mistake by a troubled man who picks the wrong bicycle eg from a place he had left his own earlier/ a few days before. or death of family member in village and he cant afford to pay fare home. (Kisiki is one of the Editors at New Vision who also writes a weekly column on relationships/marriage) Sorry, this is not as short as you characteristically want them. Sees the bicycle and takes it, to move faster. They give chase and, when he has taken enough, he sees bicycle 'parked' by roadside (or wherever) and rides off. While there, wifey's brothers gang up and tell him: You neglected our sister, travelling all over the place, yet brining no worthwhile money home. He is a herbalist who travels a lot, selling drugs in markets all over Lango. Some are turning wild on him he can't manage alone. Man goes to visit his ex-wife's people, to plead that she returns to him. That's when cheating couple come out of bush to find bicycle left under mango tree taken. Desperado picks bicycle and rides off, to take child to hospital in Lira town. They all cry one thing: Money? Immediately after THIS war? Brother!Īs he walks back home, he finds this 'abandoned' bicycle. On that basis, let me put in my two-pence worth:Ī child lays dying the dad goes in search of a friend (or anybody else) who can give/lend him money. Lira and Apac made me break a vow I made as a little boy growing up on the fringes of Nowhere, in Busoga, where I saw the first road that comes to an end: Lira and Apac made me travel by water. While I am not from Lira, I have ties there. Ok OOB says CM cannot write directly to LDF - of course - since he is not a member, but he says he will get you linked up to the LDF group. (Zamora is a Dutch/Surinamese based in Suriname) In Holland everyone steals bikes because everyone else steals yours anyway and in Suriname no one steals bikes because they don't like riding them anyway. He also wants to participate in the race because he could win some money it is almost a sure deal that he wins the race but the hospital can't afford to believe any stories, part of payment has to be made before treatment. The position is tight, to save one of his most important treasures daughter or name. Moses is from a good family background but he has to find the list way possible to save his daughter. However on his way from the well, he has sighted one of his cruel neighbours bicycle parked in the bush at his garden. He has fail to get transport much less a bicycle from anyone because there's a bicycle race in the central village and anyone is welcome to participate. The market for the day s in the two villages away. He has to sell one of the bage to get money for the hospital bill. one for G/nuts and the other for dry cassava. The hospital is 6km away and he has to pass via central village.He only has two bags in his house. He ha no money and for the hospital bill and not transport is hard to get. Unfortunately she is left with a few hours because she is critically ill and the local harbs Moses has been using to treat her have failed to perform a miracle, from the advices her recieved fron the relatives and neigbours, he has to take her to the hospital. He has to look after his 5 year old daughter. Moses is a farmer who tries so hard to make ends meet eversince he lost his wife. ![]()
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