Chairman Noman, the Court Case, the Ethur and the Future

Mr. OCHERO Jimbricky Norman, the LC V Chairperson of Abim district last week got cleared by the Anti-Corruption Court sitting in Kampala over several horrible corruption charges that would otherwise ruin his political career and also probably hit the final nail on his integrity coffin and get him firmly exposed at home in Abim and certainly also presented unpleasantly nationwide and to the world.

As a proud Athur, I have always maintained that, Ethur are a very small group of people but are strongly endowed with far reaching dreams. We are only challenged a lot by a petty thing called disunion and a bizarre sort of individualism. That self- ego and the existence of some ungracious social snobs armed with that horrendous audacity to keep the small Ethur community shamelessly in shreds, forever and forever. This is a fact, and it’s too bad for us dear brothers and sisters, we need to know it and face it.

In a unified small community, the ideal situation would be such that when Norman got his bats on this discrediting legal inquiry, all eyes and hearts would turn gloomy and a strong fight to let him survive and have a second chance would prevail despite, - yes the usual diversity of interests along politics, along clan, along sex, along race, religion, name it.

Obviously this wasn’t the case in Abim. Boy, it simply couldn’t be. The people were bitterly divided; one side wanted the man effectively bundled off and jailed or even castrated, yet another lot wanted him safe and titanic, - whatever hell of theft he could have actually committed. This is just a pure demonstration of how painfully divided the small Ethur people are. Well, it was also proper for the Anti-Corruption Court to job-wisely and dig into the accusations as presented by the whistle blowers. NB: I think this was not really any politically motivated case as ‘Aunt Alexandria’ wrongly presented it somewhere on social media. I wish we stop such wrong assumptions that only divide us.

In my deeply held honest opinion, the better has surely happened to Brother Norman. Forget about my political orientation if you naively want to suspect! I can’t help repeating that we need to start behaving like Israelites who will always feel deeply snubbed when one of their very own is killed by their Palestinian adversaries, despite the thickness, vividness of the crimes of the Israeli victim.  Reader, you must believe me.

Again, important to note is that winning or losing a court case does not really necessarily mean that someone is clean or dirty. It is also about the strength of the defense /legal team or the amount of money that went into assembling the defense etc., etc. thus, when the accused escapes or loses, all he/she remains with is sorting out him/herself by trying to live a transformed life to avoid another problem because not all court cases can be worn and also not all can be lost.

Now finally Mr. Ochero deservedly sneaked safely out of the malodorous court case. All of us, yes, the whole of Thur ideally needed to breathtakingly come back home, sit our brother down and design a positive strategy to enter into living the second chance to clean life. I don’t mean he didn’t really live a clean life before, am referring to the life where people and or authorities will not take you for granted and take you for a fraud-star suspect even when you could be clean. That life where everyone can duly rely on what you do, what you say and truly believe in you. Then we can move on and let the bad past rot down deep.  

However, am saddened now by the scheme underway to celebrate this deserved escape of our brother. Already, according to sources, the egocentric forces have hoodwinked our protagonist into taking the political-opportunistic approach to commemorate this second chance achievement.

Word has sneaked out that the protagonist plan to organize a big rally where he will scrub repaper (kamlara) in his eyes to force crocodile tears out of his head and painfully cry with the name of his political opponent such that electorates will automatically shower him with sympathy votes in 2016 as they scorn the opponent and consider him a traitor. Boy, this kind of intrigue, antagonism, egocentrism, treachery and fraud display can only drive the Ethur people down lower and lower.

I believe that as district chairman for about a decade, there exist very good things that Norman has done for the people of Abim district. Those positives if well summarized and spoken out to electorates can smartly lift Norman up to victory instead of disgraceful reliance on baseless tricks. Indeed, some of Norman’s achievements include not only the peace struggle and the victory on the Abuk positioning of the district headquarters.

We can also mention his accomplishments in the health sector. His work for the education sector. The road maintenance achievements in all Sub Counties. The effective and selfless employment of genuine people from all areas in the district and beyond. Others are the youth empowerment programs (youth fund). The land conflict settlements in Alerek and Morulem Sub Counties. His effective fight and success against corruption attempts and mismanagement of public funds in the district etc., etc.  

The above are really huge achievements if well explained and we could - yes count on them to make people believe that we really can have our deeply loved chairman represent us tomorrow at a higher level. Then Ethur can decide for a better, steady future instead of wasting time instigating potential leaders to embrace fights, lies, mistrust, and disparagement as usual. What do you think?

 

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