dream on president

8/14/2019 Dream on President

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by Reece Ayoub, Darryl Dizon,

David Samaan, Zack Kaltoum and Adrian Lee

Dream on President


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Akkiki still remembers the horric day where guns were red

violently and screams of agony and excruciating pain were heard.

Akikki remains traumatized since he was 3 as he witnessed the

brutality and gruesomeness of his parents being axed by two

merciless rebels. It has been 10 years since the devastating eventand Akkiki has studied overwhelmingly hard at school to hope-

fully achieve his ambition of becoming the president of Uganda.

He promises himself everyday that when he becomes president

he shall protect all civilians by eliminating rebels, crime and most

importantly, abolish poverty.

However, Akkikis dream appears seemingly unattainable

due to one unfortunate day. He was participating in a soccer com-

petition held at his favourite eld known as Lolonga. The com-

petition began as he faced and battled against the greatest teams in

Uganda. His team epitomized hard work, dedication and pride as

they stood victorious in the qualication rounds, quarter match and

additionally the semi-nal match of the annual competition.

His team qualied for the grand nals where he was des-

tined to face the challenge of his life- versing the Redganidans who

were remarkably deemed unbeatable. Akkiki was not frightened

or pressured at all as he was regarded as the boy with the biggest

heart amongst his little village.

Whistles suddenly went off and the grand nals had been

ofcially commenced. Almost immediately, the Redganidans had

amazingly scored 3 goals in one minute in the arid and desert

like eld. Soon after, Akkiki found himself in a situation he had

never encountered before- he had an open shot to score a goal.

This was his rst opportunity for him to score as he was terrible at

soccer, primarily because he frequently daydreamed about being

a president on the eld. Screams of anticipation and excitement

began as Akkiki attempted to kick the ball. He struck the ball with

condence and pride and suprisingly the ball had been kicked so

tremendously strong that it ew 150 metres off the eld. Akkiki

was obviously extremely embarrassed and he sequentially ran after

the ball to comfort himself and to get way from the eld. He was 2

metres away from the ball until a loud explosion occurred- Akkiki

had sadly stepped on a detrimental land mine.


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Everyone at Lolonga soon realised that Akkiki had stepped on a

land mine and most people had bursted into tears due to the demor-

alizing situation. His distressed teammates had instantly called the

ambulance. Minutes later, the reckoning and disheartening sounds

from the ambulance whizzed past around the villiage as the stronghearted and distressed Akkiki is driven to the hospital with life

threatening injuries.

Momentarily Akkiki opens his eyes and witnesses a monstrous and

unforgettable sight of blood spewing from his arms and legs, and

saw eyes of uncertainty from the paramedics in the ambulance. Ak-

kiki was unconscious as he arrived at the hospital. The doctors hadconversations that were principally about the doubt and uncertainty

of Akikki surviving such harmful injuries. The doctors immediate-

ly had operated on Akkiki and the results were surprisingly posi-

tive. Akkiki woke up escaping with just an amputated leg. He suc-

cessively continued to study incredibly hard which was necessary

if he wished to achieve his life long dream (i.e. become president).

He overcame numerous obstacles throughout his next 5 years. For

instance he was denied enrollment to universities where he wished

to continue his essential studies and practice skill necessary for the

presidential role. Akkiki persisted and persisted until he eventually

was accepted to the best university in Uganda after being rejected

by inferior schools. After attending the university for approximate-

ly 5 years he successfully completed his courses and degrees with

exemplary attendance. He was immediately recruited by politicians

of the State House. After years of being mentored and tutored by

the politicians of Uganda, he was ultimately given the green light

to participate in the presidential election. Akkiki was exceedingly

excited and exhilarated that his dream is almost attained despite

having just one real leg. He spent weeks practicing for the debates,

speeches and campaigns he would inevitably complete. The day in

which he would present his rst speech eventually came and was

literally gazing at the intimidating podium where he would give

his speech. Akkiki strongly believes that he had prepared a highly

effective and possibly memorable speech that all voters would ap-

preciate.


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I was condently striding onto the stage. Amongst the vast crowd,

the ashing camera lights were ickering before my eyes. The

cheering was immense as the energy lled up the state house. The

smell of excitement and happiness arose in the air as I walked up

to the podium and proudly stood in front of my people. I clearedmy throat and began my speech to my people. To the citizens of

Uganda! Your next president is in your hands! But, you may be

lead into a faulty president such as Kigongo! How can Uganda

trust the doings of this lthy man? It is up to us to change the hap-

penings of this country. We will take in control and make a better

country for us and for you! It is your decision that could make the

difference of great and disastrous. I have made many mistakes inmy life but I can promise you this, the guarantee of a better, greater

country is up to you if I become your next president. There will be

no more poverty, wars and lack of supplies in this country! I thank

my people for a great opportunity to make a fantastic, leading

country. The crowd went tremendously wild as there was a chant

going on amongst the people. Akiiki for president! Akiiki for

president! The chant now lled the room and posts saying Akiiki

number 1 was swayed about. I raised my hand up to the crowd in

honour and sat back down.

The opposition was intimidated by my speech and the positive

roars of the crowd. Consequently, Kigongo and his cohort lled

with extreme jealously and anxiety, slowly rose to deliver his

speech.

Before he could start, the crowd was booing him from the moment

he stood up. The people of Uganda! The crowd settled down

when he commenced. How do we know that this man can guar-

antee such a promise? He is manipulating you people for his own

doings! We cannot trust this man to be our next president. How

do I know this? It is because Ive seen and had many experiences

with these elections. I cannot let this cunning man take over our

country!We cannot take the risks of Akiiki being our president. The

country and the world might go corrupt! I say, that the promises

isnt the way to go. One or two of the promises may sound possible

but it is extremely hard to manage all those things.


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So think about the risks that we might suffer from, think about if

it is possible that he can guarantee all those promises! People of

Uganda, I ask once again to re-think about how those promises

are going to happen! I can promise that we will strive further as a

country! The perspiration on Kigongo was noticeable as it wassliding down from his forehead to the cheeks. Half the crowd was

booing and the other half was cheering Kigongo on. The state

house looked delicate as the wildness of the crowd was rampaging

the room. They came to settle down when the host of the election

came forth. The cameramen at the front brightened up the room

again with those ashes ickering in the background. The host of

this election shook both Kigongo and my hand for a great effect.Kigongo offered a handshake and I accepted. Kigongo mumbled,

Good luck in the election. He smirked and walked off the stage.

I was so condent that I would won the election and became the

president. A couple of days later, Akiiko made the news of using

propoganda.

Kigongo and his fellow party wish to reclaim the reputation and

votes which was theirs to begin with . Kigongo ordered an unex-

pected meeting with his party. As all of Kigongos men were seated

at the large circular table, Kigongo ordered that there be silence so

that he may begin. He cleared his throat and addressed his audi-

ence will the following statement ; All of you before me today

must wake up and realize what is happening, Akiiki is nothing but

a beginner in politics and he is raking in the votes! We must come

up with manipulative ways or actions in which we can take back

the respect and most of all the votes of our own people ! Kigongo

ordered his men to think up some different methods in which they

can lower the votes for Akiiki and raise the votes for their own

party. Kigongo dismissed all of his men leaving them with many

thoughts upon their minds. Days passed and Kigongo called his

fellow party together once again. He ordered his party to be seated

and waited for silence in the room. Kigongo then stood up and

turned to the white board positioned behind him.


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Im sure that all of you seated before me have come up with

some great plans to bring Akiiki down, down low where he rst

started! Kigongo started pacing around the room anxiously wait-

ing for one of his members to address the party with some plans.

Minutes passed by and nothing was said as the room was dead withsilence. In good time one of the fellow members of the party stood

up and cleared his throat as he started to speak nervously, feeding

his audience with ideas and plans. The palms of his hands began to

sweat as he announced My fellow congressmen, I have put great

thought into plans that we may use to bring Akiiki down, I believe

that by making false accounts and documents that show that Akiiki

has been involved with crime in his past life we can manipulate thegullible community bellow us! As his speech concluded another

one of the members of the party stood up and began to share his

ideas with the rest of his party By falsely accusing Akiiki of as-

sassinating someone from our own party and keeping them hos-

tage in Akiikis house by doing this my fellow congressmen we

can easily convince that Akiiki is nothing but obsessed with getting

the votes of our people. Kigongo stood up, with a large grin upon

his thin and bony face. My Fellow party, I cannot congratulate

enough about the thoughts put into these plans, Go forth now and

remove these thoughts from your mind into the real world All of

the men were dismissed and the room was lled with emptiness as

the door was shut. The following day Kigongo strolled through his

partys headquarters to check that the plans were being perfected.

He was impressed and ordered that all the plans are put on his desk

by the end of the day. Time is of the essence and Kigongo began to

worry as there were no folders consisting of all the sabotage plans

on his desk. kigongos heart rate started to rise as he was pacing

around the room waiting for a knock on his door. Minutes passed

by and Kigongo heard the rst knock on his door for th day. He

ran rapidly to open the door and was very impressed as he saw

one of his Congressmen holding a folder out to him. He shut the

door and began reading. The smirk on his face grew bigger and

bigger as he came closer to the completion of the report. The door

knocked yet again and Kigongo jumped from his seat and opened

it.


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It was only a matter of seconds until the door was shut again and

Kigongo had another folder is his hands. He opened the second

folder and began reading. Minutes passed by and Kigongo had

nished reading both of the reports and seemed quite pleased. The

following morning was the day in which Kigongo and his partyput their manipulative plans into action. The whole of the party

were called in the meeting room so that they may be briefed and

have an understanding of what will be happening for the day. All

men were seated at the popular circular table, and were briefed on

what will be happening. As the brieng ended Kigongo was certain

that he would win back the votes of his community. Kigongo got

to work straight away and headed down to the local police stationwith a stash of money in his jacket pocket. As he makes his way in

to the police headquarters front desk he removes the bag of money

and places it on the desk. The Police ofcer seated behind the desk

stared vigorously at the stack of money sitting on the counter. He

picks it up and notices a yellow note sitting on top. The note was

opened and it read the following

Take this money but in return I need you write me up a false

criminal offense under the name of Akiiki Mrumba... Nothing

ever happened

Signed Kigongo.

After the ofcer nished reading the note he stood up in silence

took the money and went into the back. Minutes passed and the of-

cer returned with a folder containing all the false information that

will be used to manipulate the ugandan community. Kigongo took

the folder and walked out heading back to the partys ofce. As he

enters the ofce he orders his party to get ready to make a trip to

Akiikis house. Kigongos party t in two cars and made their way

to Akiikis house. On the arrival to Akiikis house they made sure

that he wasnt around. They all exited their cars and entered his

house via a side window that had been left open.


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The one member that was chosen to act as hostage in akiikis house

had his clothes torn up and was made as if he was there for days

in complete starvation. After setting up the false hostage the party

left the house leaving the hostage behind. Hours went by and a

town meeting was announced to occur in half an hour. All pers-

onel of the community were asked to attend. As the majority of

the community had come to town square Kigongo stood upon the

microphone cleared his throat and began by saying My beloved

people, I have called you to this town meeting to inform you of

some bad news about one of the politics within our society. I am

reffering to Akiiki Mrumba , the man who has made himself out

to be loving and caring towards this community, but I must tellyou all something that may shock you Kigongo was feeling more

powerful then ever as he had his audience under his control. As he

leaned forward to continue his speech the whole of the community

gasped I come before you today to tell you that akiiki Mrumba,

the man who is in running to be president of our community has

been involved with criminal offenses throughout the history of his

life. I will not name these offense in front of you as i dont want to

embaress the poor man. All of this is in hard copy evidence for you

all to see! Kigongo paused and looked upon his audience. In the

far distance he could see Akiiki making his way to the meeting.

Kigonga started to get nervous, sweat came upon his body. Kigon-

ga took a deep breathe and continued to adress his audience about

the second issue. I know you people may be in some shock, but

i have not nished with the bad news, we have found one of our

missing members of our party kept as a hostage wihtin akiikis

house! He has been in complete starvation for days ! The Gull-

ible audience were astonished with the speech and looked at akiiki

in a strange manner as he would walk past. His mind was full of

thoughts as to why everyone was acting this way. Kigongo stood

infront of the Microphone for the last time I Now dissmiss you

all my beloved community and I hope you are all alright, I know

that I myself was in great shock when these matters caught my

eye All of the community left with people Groaning and whisper-

ing as they made there way home. Akiiki was left there with no

clue what so ever as to what had happened that day.


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The following morning Akiiki made his way to one of his friends

house for some company. Akiiki knocked on the door. As hes

friend opened the door and saw who it was his friend spoke What

are you doing here? I dont want to see you after what i heard yes-

terday! Akiiki felt so lost and upset and asked his good friend totell him what had happened the previous day.

After days of Kigongos successful attempts to sabotage Akiikis

political career, he knew that he was going to win easily, because

of the recent news that Akiiki had not been seen for weeks and

weeks. Akiiki was made out to be like he ran away scared like a

dog with his tail between his legs. As the day of the nal electionand the voting drew near kigongos body lled with excitement as

he new this election was his. All this propaganda and manipula-

tion he had used had helped him succeed in his quest to become

president. There was only three days before the election and Akiiki

was situated in the harsh and dangerous bushland not far from his

village of Yoocooba. Akiiki sat in the sands and was contemplat-

ing on weather or not he should return and attempt to take over the

corrupt country and turn it into a democratic utopia. He thought of

all the things that Kigongo did to win the hearts of all the African

voters, he was just using a lot of lies and telling the people what

they wonted to here to make them feel better, he used at lot of false

facts like those sheet with all the expenses that I had suppository

used, I knew it was fake but the people of this country didnt. Then

suddenly it hit him! Like a bullet through a rebel ghters body. The

only way he will win this is by using propaganda and manipulation

his self, so he ran, ran like the wind! As he got to the government

house he began writing some fact documents he was typing so fast

the his ngers were like a huge blear, when he was done he ran to

Kigongos home were he was having a electorate party with all his

friends and guards, Akiiki ran in and stood on the podium he began

to sweat, and he gulped his throat and began to speak. Fellow

voters and all the people of Africa I have here a written confession

that Kigongo has been lying about all the things he has said about

me in the last few weeks.


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A man spoke out in the crowed and said hay, if kigongo is lying

why does he have written documentation? Akiiki was so angry

he had veins popping out of his head It wasnt true! he yelled

at the top of his voice. Another voice from the distance began to

speak. We all like Kigongo he his a good leader so why dontyou crawl back the hole you came from The rest of the crowd

began to laugh. Akiiki was lled with rage, he stood still and took

a deep breathe and listen to the cool breeze of the African winds,

and then something clicked to him and he began to speak. my

fellow Africans have you ever stopped to feel the beautiful African

breeze. Everyone stopped. Its so nice and cool and refreshing

isnt it. Do you know what kigongo is doing to our nice breeze heis polluting it with all the mining factories and the iron and the coal

factories to. Some people stopped and thought about what he had

to say and realized he was right, but most of the people thought

and said no one cares about what you have to say then they all

started chanting Kigonogo, Kigonogo, Kigonogo then they look

at him and seen kigonogo stand up and approach the podium and

walk up to Akiiki and said with his very high and mighty voice

good work son you have done what no one else could have....

The crowd look at him like the things Akiiki said was true and the

document was real, then he began to speak again with a sly and

shifty little smirk on his bony face and kept on speaking ... you

have made yourself look like a total idiot in front of all the commu-

nity. he began to chuckling like Santa. Then Akiiki erupted like a

science fare volcano and swung as hard as he could at the man who

smeared his political carer, and hit his fat cheeks he drop to the

aw like a bag of potatoes. Then Akiiki smiles and says you make

a very bad president and spat in his face, as soon as he did that

vial and very disrespectful act the guards jumped up and grabbed

him so hard his arms went purple and Kigonogo said take this

disrespectful scum bag around the back, and I never wont to see

him again As he did this he slipped a 100 dolor note in his pocket,

and the crowed began to cheer and say very rood and disrespectful

things to Akiiki.


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Akiiki was yelling out to them all All I wonted to do was to save

your lives you have been corrupted by this man has been taking

over our country from the start of his Candace you dont under-

stand all you people have been corrupted bye this man he will take

more of your money to fund his little holidays and he will lie aboutit and say that it was about the benet of the country that he went

and found out new ideas from the other government types, you

people must ght back, Rebel and win our beautiful land back

as they dragged him away a tire dripped from his eye and he, they

through him against the wall and then he closed his eyes and said

quietly make it quick and then a large BANG noise chilled the

bodies all the people of the party. As Akiikis head was splatteredagainst the wall like a painter splashing paint onto a canvas, that

was the last time anyone had ever heard from Akiiki in the African

community.

Beep Beep Beeeep, the sound of the electrocardiogram starts to

shows signs of life. Doctors and nurses rush to the surgery room

and to their amazement, nd Akiiki rise from the medical bed,

showing great strength since just having recovered from a coma.

Doctors stressfully urge Akiiki to rest, you have been in a coma

for a month said one of the Doctors. But but? Akiiki stumbles for

words, how could I have been in a coma for a month he thinks to

himself. In the whole suspense of the moment Akiiki hadnt even

realised he was missing a leg. Suddenly a doctors shadow falls

over Akiiki and as Akiiki tries to rise out of bed and investigate

what is happening, he is restrained by nurses and the doctor gives

him a shot of morpheme.

Later that day after Akkikis morpheme had worn off, he spent

time contemplating over the last few days of his life which he had

believed were real. He couldnt quite grasp the idea of being in a

coma after he had so vividly experienced all these events over the

past month. He remembered every day as clear as a crystal in his

mind. He cant help but feel feelings of resentment that his dream

had literally become a nightmare.


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