By Sharon Nagenjwa

You will find him saluting a comedian pretending to be his brother, not because he’s confused, but because he’s confirmed.

You’ll also find some people, after touching small small money, washing their mother’s hands before greeting her, forgetting the unpleasant scenery and the ingredients involved in the route used for their birth.

We have a big problem. We live in a generation that would rather gossip about greatness than learn from it.
If studying character feels like worshipping idols to you, maybe mediocrity has been your real religion.

Gen. Saleh, lived with farmers in Gulu, jammed with musicians in ghettos, and built industries in Kapeeka, where over 30 factories now hum harder than Kampala traffic at rush hour. (If you haven’t yet, Google it, I didn’t come to trigger NUGU (jealousy)

This is the same man who told OWC officers in 2025 that agriculture must move from subsistence to substance and yes, the numbers are real: 72% of Ugandans are in agriculture, 32% of GDP sits there, and 90% of those people still think “value addition” means adding salt to cassava.

Even I got my shocker. I went there confidently pitching my “raw material” proposals, and let me tell you , Kapeeka didn’t just reject them, it laughed in my face.
That’s when I learned the new national language: Value Addition or Go Home. 😂 because in Kapeeka, you don’t present ideas, you present products.

People confuse him for quiet. But quiet people aren’t weak they’re just too busy producing results while others are producing gossip.

So before you mock a salute between humility and humor, remember this: some people rule departments, others rule destinies.

If humility had a factory, it would be in Kapeeka and its brand name would be “Saleh Limited.”