Mwiine Derrick

by Hector Musoke
(Kampala, Uganda)

Mwiine Derrick, a Mukiga boy by tribe from Kabale District was born on 12th/Sept/1996.He did not grow up with his mother Called Irene. He never at any time enjoyed what most of us call mother’s love. He didn’t know his mother well until he was five years when he started communicating with her through a cell-phone bought for him by his loving and caring father. Before Mwiine was one year old, her mother Irene who was a college student had already left, leaving the entire burden of raising Mwiine to his father who had just graduated without enough money & experience in raising a baby! Mwiine’s father has never blamed his girl friend Irene for abandoning him with a baby and he doesn’t want to talk about the incident. He claimed that it wasn’t her decision if she had a way out! Talking to Derrick’s Auntie, she has no kind words instead she blamed the entire family of Irene & Government politicians for having messed up his brother’s romantic relationship with Irene, the mother of Derrick. “My brother is a very wonderful man with a very kind heart, he is only being disorganized by Irene’s family with the help of the Government officials, but they will never defeat my brother. The way I know Nathan, unless you kill him” she claimed. Derrick’s father refused everyone including his own parents to raise his son Derrick. He even rejected the house maids hired for him by his well to do well wishers who wanted to be there for his son. He never trusted anyone with his son. He had several fights with his family & the Police who were trying to retrieve Derrick from him thinking that he couldn’t manage. Although Derrick never had a mother near him, in his father, Muhiire Nathan; Derrick found real parental love & care which very few people in this world have ever experienced! In his father, Mr. Muhiire Nathan, a professional teacher & researcher, Mwiine found a defender, a true mother, Father, Sister, Brother, and a trusted friend with unfailing love. Mwiine is very proud of his father and he trusts him with everything of his! His father has been there for his son! Mwiine will tell you that he only enjoys food which has been prepared by his father! The two are just great friends and Mwiine Derrick tries hard not to upset his father. He would not hastate to tell you that he has the best father in the whole world who should be happy forever.

No wonder, what most of us call spoiling a kid, Mwiine has had it all! At three years, He had a powerful 12-band Sony radio set & a Kodak camera, at four years; he had a colored Sony TV set in his room, at six years he had a Dell computer & an expensive mobile phone, at eight years he had a Sony Video Camera & a Laptop. His father never believes in normal playing toys! These items have greatly influenced Mwiine’s upbringing! Mwiine is a person who has gone places. He is very brave, confident, and intelligent. His father claims that there is no young child in this world. He goes on to say that if you want your child to be young then your son or daughter will be a baby for all his or her life! He emphasizes that parents should stop curtailing the capabilities of their children by restraining them under the pretext of being young! GIVE YOUR KID THREE Es-(1) education (2) experience (3) EXPOSURE and monitor by fighting laziness, and leave the rest to God.
More about Mwiine Derrick:
http://travel-videos.com/video/15610
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5N0dW4I9uQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE-BrbO_mws
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM2jBonxF6M
http://pearlafrica.blogspot.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwiinederrick
http://www.change.org/petitions/view/make_uganda_the_most_green_country_greenest_in_the_whole_world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qRjKfYNQ8M
http://allafrica.com/stories/200908070617.html
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=115760311770037&index=1
Mwiine Derrick is:
1)a Ugandan nationalist
2)an Environmentalist
3)An inspiring christian
4) Good example of the current generation