Strikes......Strikes....Strikes!!!

The latest fad in Ug these days is strikes, even students in freakin’ Bupadhengo SS in Kamuli yesterday were at it, and for the stupidest reasons brought forth thus far – vote rigging in favor of boarding students! What the hell is that??? On further questioning, they reluctantly confessed that the actual reason for the strike was that they were pissed off because Cesc Fabregas wanted to leave Arsenal and that the Government was doing nothing to intervene……plus they were being caned with thorns too, as a bonus reason for the strike, make it more legit!

These little fuckers picked a leaf from their lumpen cousins at St Kaggwa School in Bushenyi whose school was closed last week due to a strike for the extremely flimsy reason that they were being fed on posho and beans, yet they wanted more rice! Where do these maggots come up with these strange reasons from? Do they know what we ate while still there? For 6 straight years? (Some of us Kabojja boys can add 7 years to the posho and beans eating tally!).

Recently, students at some obscure school you don’t give a shit about located in Kabale went on a rampage destroying school sauce pans and vandalizing the kitchen stores for raw cassava and sweet potatoe tubes instead of learning the real use of a vernier calipers, for the silly reason that they wanted GTV because all soccer games had been moved away from DSTV, and the poor headmaster gave in, but on the day he procured the set, GTV closed, it’s management disappearing like Micheal Ezra’s dimes!

Campus students are now looking like the civilized lot among all students, having not had a riot in the last 3 months! Congs fellas! Maybe we shall see more first class degree holders this next graduation, as we watch the grad process for 7 days!

The students may not be wrong after all, seeing as everyone else is striking, starting with the Opposition groups who were super pissed they did not get a podium finish after the elections, missing out on holding that famous bible and swearing all sorts of promises they shall never keep! Like “ensuring service delivery by curbing corruption!” They walked to work and were tear gassed back to oblivion till they get more dimes!

Traders felt that they were not getting enough attention, and closed their shops for 2 days, till some of them reached home and saw there were only Ground nuts instead of the usual meat in the main food bowl. They quickly re-opened before we knew weather they had actually been listened to or not. But it seems they didn’t, cause they have promised to shut down for a week if govt doesn’t do something in 2 weeks time. Looks like they are saving up for that protest this time round.

Teachers seem to also be tired of their little lumpen students taking all the shine – as if they are not there! They have promised to lay down their tools, which consist of boxes upon boxes of chalk, in 2 weeks time, if their salaries are not doubled – and then some – from a paltry 200,000 to 460,000 or thereabouts, “our money cant afford firewood anymore, yet our former students are all buying cooking gas and staying in the Bugolobi flats”, one of them was overheard wailing to a government official! They have told them to wait for the next budget, or rather the next Government, if they cant be patient for one more year!

Smelly taxi touts and their caveman uncivilized co-workers, the taxi drivers halted work for 1 day to demand answers from government! They had promised to do 2 days but the brokenness was for CHOGM and World Cup combined. They have since resumed their daily tasks of spreading nasty rotten-egg-like arm pit odor to sassily dressed corporate bu-nankas heading to work, by spreading their arms allover the taxi trying to collect that 1 k note from that charcoal vendor seated at the back! Hope their grievances were solved, because the Samona health and beauty division was given a contract to manufacture more low priced bathing soap this week!

In the meantime, studies have shown that usually it’s broke people that protest, riot and cause mayhem to the rest of the unfairly advantaged world citizens with dimes, so in case you find yourself striking…….just know you may be broke!

As for me, av been on strike (read broke!!!)