What a choice of news!
Apr 08, 2007
SIR — My ancestors in Karagwe, Nkore-Mpororo and Buganda have several synonyms for ‘wrong, sin, crime’ and related words. So to an ordinary person, the twin headline by <i>The New Vision</i> and <i>The Daily Monitor</i> on April 6 literally meant adultery is normal, legal, holy, moral and natu
SIR — My ancestors in Karagwe, Nkore-Mpororo and Buganda have several synonyms for ‘wrong, sin, crime’ and related words. So to an ordinary person, the twin headline by The New Vision and The Daily Monitor on April 6 literally meant adultery is normal, legal, holy, moral and natural!
The Constitutional Court, basing on the frustartion of an ‘activist’s’ failed marriage, went ahead to bless the sinful, to moralise the immoral, and legalise the illegal! And to steal the show from the tabloid, our mainstream press gave it an even more alluring spicing.
And this is development! Well, the arguments aside, was this the best headline on a Good Friday, when we should be refelecting on the suffering brought by the evils of this world, as exhibited in the trial of Jesus, over 2000 years ago?
Injustice, corrupt leaders, cheap popularity, deceit, all living and crimson-red in Uganda today! On the heels of the Mabira saga, the United Nations last Thursday in Brussels, sent out a chilling warning on the impending catastrophe of global warming on Africa in particular. yet nothing of this is judged press-worthy.
Indeed, Prof. Timothy Wangusa’s piece in The New Vision should have been the lead story, to counter our ...’zeena ky'enkoba’ Cabinet’s stand!
How about the bio-fuel database, now on very high pitch in Kenya, where as usual, Europe is poised to continue its plunder through this as well? Anyhow, this is Uganda, where power belongs to the people!
Amon B. Mbekiza
Kampala
The Constitutional Court, basing on the frustartion of an ‘activist’s’ failed marriage, went ahead to bless the sinful, to moralise the immoral, and legalise the illegal! And to steal the show from the tabloid, our mainstream press gave it an even more alluring spicing.
And this is development! Well, the arguments aside, was this the best headline on a Good Friday, when we should be refelecting on the suffering brought by the evils of this world, as exhibited in the trial of Jesus, over 2000 years ago?
Injustice, corrupt leaders, cheap popularity, deceit, all living and crimson-red in Uganda today! On the heels of the Mabira saga, the United Nations last Thursday in Brussels, sent out a chilling warning on the impending catastrophe of global warming on Africa in particular. yet nothing of this is judged press-worthy.
Indeed, Prof. Timothy Wangusa’s piece in The New Vision should have been the lead story, to counter our ...’zeena ky'enkoba’ Cabinet’s stand!
How about the bio-fuel database, now on very high pitch in Kenya, where as usual, Europe is poised to continue its plunder through this as well? Anyhow, this is Uganda, where power belongs to the people!
Amon B. Mbekiza
Kampala