There are people who love being in power for the sake of helping others who are….. well, not in power. Then there are those that love being in power so that they can brag to their friends that they are important, like when we were kids and used to tell others “our house is bigger than yours, so I expect u to respect me.”
The clowns at KCC belong to the latter group and their antics week in week out never cease to amaze. Its like they are one day going to release a DVD, probably during the next election time, aptly titled “power to the people; comedy geniuses”. This will have a footnote “the best comedy series, no writers, no script, and far better than the nonsense you see on TV. We have been the best on Live TV since the closure of Sanyu TV and subsequently TV Africa. Amarula family and Barbed wire can’t compete, so vote for us for 1 more term, as we keep you highly entertained!!
The most recent drama, involves the Central division chairman, who was a boxer at one time. He seems to still be using the conventional teachings of boxing, where you are in one corner, and the mayor of the city on the other. These 2 have done nothing but entertain us since they were elected to office. So the division chairman a couple of days ago hired lumpens to attack the official KCC offices and “rescue” items belonging to disabled chaps, that were confisicated for operating in “non-gazzeted” areas, since the disabled chaps couldn’t do the rescue themselves coz, well, they were unable to, and disabled too!
The central division chairman went ahead and put a congratulation ad, in full color, sending felicitations to the king of Tooro for marking 13 years as king. We were left wondering why money from the Kampala City cofferes was used to congratulate a king 600 miles away. Efforts to find adverts from the “Fort Portal” town council and the “Kabarole” central division, 2 towns located in the center of Toro kingdom, were futile! We were thinking, maybe this chap was sending congratulations, coz the Toro kingdom had been very effective in donating items to the disabled in Kampala, while totally ignoring their own people!
The mayor, who apparently doesn’t work well with the division chap (we are still figuring out the difference) is worthy of praise in equal comical measures! This chap went to the United States for a Mayor’s conference on sustaining roads, and he wound up buying himself a Hammer, and completed the transaction with personalised plates. He said he bought it for several reasons;
1- The Toyota Prado, 2001 version wasn’t worthy of a man of his calibre, and he could feel the pot holes in town!
2- Since Kampala was so full of pot holes, he needed a car that could run over them without feeling an iota of vibration, “since he doesn’t know when whichever lumpen responsible for fixing the pot holes will ever fix them.”
3- As a man of the people, he wanted a car that will make the people work for him more everyday, while they receive less for themselves, and heres how: By buying a car that consumes 10 times more fuel to drive from his office to home than the official car, that way the money budgeted for filling pot holes could buy his fuel, and the people will be happy that their “king” is living like one, neva mind they elected him so he could help them put more bread on their tables.
So the second season of this drama will continue in 2011 when the Uganda network executives vote to keep this tragic-comedy on air, probably after the execs are bribed with a few bars of soap!! Development, here we come!
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