Leadership is a divine responsibility. Serve God, not the approval of people, and use your authority to protect life. Across Uganda, alcohol-related harm is leaving children hungry, students unable to complete school, women exposed to gender-based violence, families impoverished and innocent road users killed by drink-driving. The Auditor General’s FY 2024/25 report identified 216 private facilities providing inpatient mental-health services, including treatment for substance-use disorders. This reflects the growing need for prevention, regulation and quality treatment. Alcohol’s worst consequence is not drunkenness-it is preventable death. Before death, it may destroy the liver, cause cancer, damage the brain, break families and permanently harm unborn children. Its victims include people who have never consumed it. The death of 23-year-old Martha Ahumuza Murari after collapsing at a Kololo nightclub made me reflect: could effective enforcement of midnight closing hours and stronger nightlife safeguards have changed the circumstances of that night? Alcohol was not officially established as her cause of death, but the tragedy reminds us that leadership must act before more lives are lost. God holds leaders accountable not only for what they did, but also for the suffering they had the authority to prevent and chose to ignore. – at Wakiso, Uganda