Don’t spoil the fight, police tells Baganda 1 Year, 5 Months ago
WORM’S EYE
With the Analyst
KAMPALA, July: The police has explained why it arrested and charged some Baganda youth who were demonstrating against government plans to resettle in Buganda the “Balaalo” evicted from Bugungu.
According to the self-styled police spokesman, Afande Black Mamba, the Baganda youth were arrested for “trying to spoil the anticipated fight between Baganda peasants and the Balaalo”.
Afande said that police could not stand by and just watch as the Baganda youth “spoiled for everyone a good, bloody fight such as we have seen in Bugungu and before that in Teso.”
“The role of the police is to keep law and order,” Afande said, “And that includes ensuring that no one unnecessarily disrupts a looming fight; that is pretty much what the Baganda youth were trying to do. By demonstrating even before the Balaalo had set foot in Buganda, they were, in effect, alerting them that they are not welcome. That is a very unUgandan thing to do.”
Afande said that under “normal” practice, the Baganda should have pretended that they were keen to receive the “Balaalo” and then pounced on them and their cattle once they arrived in Buganda.
“Now these herdsmen will be scared of coming to Buganda or the government will be forced to take them elsewhere, all because of these riotous youth who decided to put the cart before the horse.”
Afande likened the Baganda youth to the Mabira forest protesters who decided to take to the streets before the forest had actually been given away.
“As His Excellency suggested, they should have waited for government to give away the forest and the sugarcane to grow before taking to the streets. You don’t protest against something that has not yet happened. You wait until it is too late, then you protest. That is why we, the police, always arrive at the crime scene too late. You should never spoil a good show,” Afande explained.
He warned the Baganda youth not to attempt any further demonstrations. “Wait for the herdsmen to come and then do your thing. Just give us, the police, a tip off before you invade the herdsmen because, truth be told, we love free meat like crazy,” he said.
Re:Don’t spoil the fight, police tells Baganda 1 Year, 5 Months ago
Interesting. Yeah, but....for there is always a but situation, this Mabira Forest issue, from where I am, is real embarassment for Uganda.After all the American ex-vice president Al Gore is doing and saying for the environment, this is a bad timing for our government to be having problems with the people over a forest. Global warming and environmental disasters are a fact now. Down here, two weeks ago, ten people died from the heat. Today we had 44 on the Celsuis scale, and tommorow we are going to have 45. It's insufferable!! What is developemnt for, without oxygen?
