Greatness, Fame and Money comes to those who work hard at it.

In recent months, the press has been full of two people for their wealth. One is a civil servant and the other is Kiprotich. The civil servant has acquired fame for amassing wealth through corruption. Kiprotich found his way to Olympics through hard work and he did it. Kiprotich was received by a minister on his return, dined with the president and his children were playing around the state House. That is fame. Winning the Gold that is greatness in one of the last events in the Olympics took him to the world stage that is fame. He wrote Uganda's Olympic story with a Gold that is greatness, dominated the news for the right reasons that is greatness. Compare this to two full pages story of the war between Bobi Wine and Bebe cool that is fame but for the wrong reasons. I like Bobi Wine he should not mistake me for running him down, he is a good guy (whenever you talk about salvation, your mind goes to Jesus Christ but our local papers talked about national Salvation, this was Kiprotich). The Kenyan runners know that long distance races are their birth rights, they were shocked when Kiprotich beat them, that was greatness. The President handed him a cheque of 200 million, that was wealth creation he made the money and he earned it. But most important, i quote the East African "Kiprotich stepped up to the plate and he single handedly moved Uganda out of the ' we were also there' category. In 2hours, 8 minutes and 1 second he spruced up his country's image in a way that no amount of money handed out to foreign agencies for the same purpose could achieve.