Let me tell you something,
Everyone has their faults in life. Once on earth, none goes about perfectly.
What matters in my view is to do the right thing always and not to offer a mediocre attempt to anything one decides to do. I get bothered seeing people give half service.
This man Mr Rupiiha or AR as we called him when I worked under him was a good man.
He did his best each day. Never to miss correcting a fault. I was in middle management under him and he was at top management. By nature of my job, I took a chair at Senior Management with him too. Never was he to keep quiet. He calmly corrected even the tensest situations. I remember them - I mean the episodes.
So one day and as usual those days, I was supposed to recommend some documents before they got to him for approval. This particular one day, I recommended/endorse one on a hurry. It was a Friday afternoon. Someone reading this maybe will add the dots. I often got on the bus to Kampala nearly every Friday.
This man never took anything by face value. he scrutinized everything in detail. He was Acting as the topmost manager at the workplace then. He kept the document intact. He scolded me, and thoroughly well on Monday morning. He was incensed.
I took the lesson.
''Don't attempt something as serious as this on a hurry. You must be keen on detail if you are to be a good manager.''
Let in the evening of the someday, I met him. We talked about farming, football, buying land, politics and my late grandmother. She happened to be from his birthplace.
He was a fine man. Always generous with his wise counsel. So boastful about his accomplishments of long-life service.
We had him as one of the best mentors as we started out to work. I think we benefited a lot from him. Some of us were young. I worked under him for just 4 years before I left. To another place of work. We keep moving from here to there until we go. Until we leave for good.
I can tell you, we really worked. Smart and hard! He made his contribution.
Bishop Stuart University
should thank this man!We are here for a season and maybe a reason. His time is up and off he has left. May God comfort your family.
