Uganda, Oct. 12 -- I once asked friends on social media to grab a pen and a piece of paper and write down three important things the government of Uganda and politicians have done for them, without which their lives would be particularly difficult.

I also asked them to write down three things the government and politicians had not done for them but they should be doing.

I did not get proper answers, but I told them that while I was able to reel off a laundry list of things the government and politicians were not doing for me, I had trouble thinking of what they were doing for me-and my family.

I am recounting this because of the sheer incompetence I have seen in our government since the coronavirus entered Uganda-and the excitement Ugand...