Uganda, March 19 -- With reference to the Daily Monitor's recent story titled, 'Candidates in hard-to-reach areas post improved results' (March 11, 2024), I am such a candidate with a difference, being a former Primary school teacher, who scored two principle passes in Maths and Biology with ICT as a subsidiary.

I was born in the hard-to-reach Maruzi county, Apac District, where former president Milton Obote hailed from.

Inspired by Prof Reinhold Niebuhr, an American Reformed theologian, who wrote that "aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky", I wanted to be another Dr Apollo Obote, not the politician, but a medical Dr Obote Emmanuel.

Orphaned at birth, my circumstances did not allow me to proceed to A-Level although I had sc...