Sometime ago, there was a man called Bitwayeko who had a wife and one son. The family lived in Nakivale. The son, known as Munyabibazo had dropped out of school due to joining bad company. One day, Bitwayeko told his son that, “my son other children are about to complete their studies, but don’t you want to go back and study?” Munyabibazo replied to his father, “but father, your age mates are all dead. Why are you still alive?” Bitwayeko told him that “son, you have replied to your father in a bad way”. Later, Bitwayeko narrated to his wife what Munyabibazo had told him. The wife suggested to her husband that “we have to take our son to school”. Later, they told their son that they wanted him to join school. The son accepted and went back to school.
The English say that ‘old habits die hard’. Given the fact that Munyabibazo used to take alcohol from home, when he reached school, he resumed taking alcohol and even joined bad groups. He then rejected school and used to escape from home to go and live with his peers within the bad group. He spent a lot of time with his bad friends. As time went by, he started feeling hungry and starving. He looked pale and had nowhere to sleep, but on the streets.
Munyabibazo started stealing so that he could get what to eat. Later, he realized that he had acted irresponsibly and disrespected his parents. Then he decided to go back home to his parents. When he reached home, he asked for forgiveness. He then went back to school since it is never too late to go back to school. His parents forgave him. Back to school, this time he became very serious with books because he had experienced hard life on the streets and the beatings, he got for stealing from shops.