Parents and children vie over property

It’s true that we come across a variety of news everyday through the print and audiovisual media and a good number of them happen to be unusual too. We go through those news, discuss them and enrich ourselves. But perhaps none has gone through this form of news. Have you ever heard children become the decisive factor in the family and prevent parents from selling properties? Isn’t this amazing? Well, this has happened and been happening at the newly created district of Lyantonde in Uganda. All these came forward in the recent days owing to the deep anguishes and frustrations of Joyce Rugasa, the Deputy Resident District Commissioner of Lyantonde.

She appeared to be in a fiery mood at the time of talking to the parents who had turned up for Olly and M Nursery and Primary School open day in Lyantonde. What did she say candidly? She spoke wholly against the children who were trying best to prevent their own parents from selling possessed properties. According to her, it was sad that the children (whose parents had sold the property during their childhoods) were found to attack and harm the purchasers and grab it from them. How can this rising trend be stopped? In this regard she said that it’s the duty of the parents to teach their children to work for their own properties in place of waiting for the parents’ properties.

Well she was equally vocal against the mothers also and was found to chastise the mothers to side with the children blindly. Rugasa said, “You don’t want your husbands to guide the lazy children.” “I have seen women pleading for children who are mature enough to set up their own homes but remain with their parents,” she added. The best for the parents, according to her, would be to make the most of the universal primary and secondary education. This would not only enable their children to benefit from the programs but also to discern their own responsibilities. They would get interested to have their own properties in place of their parents.