BUWEMBO: Mbu ‘facts?’ ‘Free vaccine?’ Not if it’s the govt around our children
Vaccines have faced resistance in other countries, some of them developed, so Uganda is not the first one. But the problem in Uganda is that arguments are rarely based on facts, but suspicion. ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGA | NMG
Uganda has been independent for 57 years, and so last time a government could conceivably take official positions that were against the citizens/natives was like 58 years ago. For then it was a foreign, occupation government.
But today there are more elderly polio-crippled people than middle aged or younger persons, for even the colonial state also meant well for the natives by immunising them; it is those whose parents defied mass vaccination that had to live with such disability for the rest of their lives, if they didn't die in infancy.
