When fuel gets scarce, pump attendants become the most sought after commodities. These guys be so wanted, they should be advised to launch an album or something, cash in on the popularity before Chameleon releases yet another song with the exact same beat!!
These chap’s phones be ringing every second, guys saying “boss, please keep for me fuel in a jerry can, I swear this time al pay, it’s not like those days”, and the reply is always “boss, the mafuta is finish!! Only oils for car and battery and tyres at station”.
Kampala residents then start doing the most bullshit thing since electing that punk for Mayor…….driving aimlessly around. Ok, it’s not aimless, seeing as they are looking for fuel, but what baffles the mind is, even the little fuel left is being burnt up!
As car owners roam around, their sights are set on every gas station. The assumption is that a station that has a queue of at least 3 salon cars, has fuel, even if the chaps are waiting for stuff from the supermarket, we just wait in line.
Gone are the days when Kla chaps were complaining, writing everyday in the papers “petrol stations are TOO MANY!! KCC should do something about licensing these useless businesses”. Funny, now we are wishing there were more!
At a gas station, a chap drives there with a quarter tank left, but he sees a long queue, probably 9 cars, so he joins. The slow drive to the pump means he uses almost half of the quarter tank, only to get just 1 car next in line, then the pump guy crosses his arms “no fuel”. U start wishing we were riding donkeys, what’s the cost, water??
During the bad days after the Kenya election, a single fuel truck would come into the country. Boda riders would follow the truck like flies on a KCC garbage truck! When it would park at a station, their phones were busy, informing everyone of this new discovery of a scarce resource. Within minutes, 50 cars would be parked at the station while the truck is still manoeuvring a proper parking position. Guys would be fighting to form a queue, to the point of almost exchanging blows. This time round however, its been better.
What baffles everyone however is why this fuel scarcity shit keeps happening. Idi Amin, vilified for killing chaps and named as the hugest monster that ever happened to Uganda, had the sense to build huge fuel reserve tanks in Jinja, that store up to 2 million liters of fuel, that can last us 3 days, as the shortage issues are being sorted out, and not at the bad price of 7,000 bucks as it is today in some places.
This government is so pissed off with Amin and anything he did, that they have decided to never use these reserve tanks. The only future thing they will ever want to yap about is “2011 elections and how we shall win” not “how we shall avert a fuel crisis in future”.
Ah what the heck, the usual easter messages shall be coming in from “religious leaders” with the same stuff of “end poverty, fight hunger, end corruption, stop sinning”, maybe they should add in a ka “start using the fuel reserves…….punks!!”
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