Editorial: Don’t take chances, work for your pay

The recent engagement of many countrymen in the lottery business has left a good number of able-bodied young people to look at sweepstake as the only means of survival. These are untapped labour resources for the country; youths should not take chances but work for their pay. The current lottery boom in Rwanda involves teenager students, football funs and other important personalities who huddle in small groups to watch horse races and international soccer matches that appear to be the latest bait. This is a new phenomenon that is taking Kigali suburbs by storm. Many of the country’s would-be intellectuals and daily bread earners spend most of their precious time running for the most disappointing of all games, Lottery. City dwellers get up each morning for no other reasons but to collect ‘quick’ money from Lotto. They leisurely wander Remera Streets towards the Lotto place in excitement with their heads high hoping for no sweat-flowing incomes. True, dreams come real for lucky people who pursue them consistently, but at these gamble games, people are locked in a life and death struggle with a lot of expectation that may end in tear sessions. If one of God’s first intentions of creating man; to co-create with Him, fill the earth and subdue it has to be realised among the Rwandan society, then fellow country men should not take chances, but work for your pay. In the main story of The Sunday Magazine, we bring you an extensive follow up of Remera Lotto house and what lotto funs take to be their only pathway to prosperity. Not to miss out is child naming in Rwanda, how to make your home look elegant and relationships among other features. Keep on reading… Ends