Let us practice responsible social media use
Last week media was full of news of a young footballer that past on from wounds after he was stabbed to death with a kitchen knife by his pregnant girlfriend after posting another woman’s photo on his facebook wall.
It is alleged that the girlfriend having spotted the photo on facebook, could not stand the anger of betrayal and therefore opted to stab the boyfriend leading to the untimely death.
This is not an isolated case, misuse of social media has for some time caused chaos and some end up to serious injuries after fights or to the extreme of death as in this case.
The most affected people are teens and young adults, people who are full of energy, strong and sufficient to benefit the country and society at large in different ways. They end up wasting away without achieving their life dreams. One dead another one in prison for murder with regretful conscience.
Talent end up being wasted, strong people who could have done exploits and gone places are gone never to be seen again only to remain in the hearts of their loved ones with nostalgic memories.
For instance in the past case the deceased by the name Kelvin Mugala Ikatwa, aka Razor, a third year student at the UON, was a good talented young man in football who had came from far to reach where he was.
He began nurturing his talent in football by playing improvised football called ‘Lilibu’ in the native Idakho language during his free time after homework and other duties.
At barely 13 years old, he was fielded for a local football club, the older players could not keep with his agility and technical play and since then he never turned back.
After KCPE at Shibuname primary he joined Shikokho secondary from there he under went various transfers during his secondary education with many schools admiring his talent in football.
For the love of education Kelvin did not only base on football but rather kept on and on yearning to get to university level. Though he managed to pass his KCSE, he could not proceed due to lack of fees for he came from a humble background thus did not get to university straight.
He joined Agro Chemical Football club of Muhoroni where he played in the national wide league for two season, he later briefly played for Tena United in provincial league.
Later on was spotted by who took him and made his university dream come true, he was spotted during the annual Wazito cup tournament held in Bushiangala in 2012.
Kelvin Mugala Ikatwa a promising talent from western and Ikolomani to be precise, is no more through unfortunate death on 15th march 2016 over misuse of the social media, this is just but one, there are many more incidences that are not reported, therefore lets check on our use of the social media.
When on social media look before you leap, for its no use being a busy fool. Let use practice responsible social media use.
