Corridors of power
Apr 15, 2010
MP Charles Olweny Ojok is a generous man. Recently, he and Bunyaruguru MP Gaudioso Tindamanyire went for lunch at City Annex Hotel on Dewinton Road.
Generous Ojok
MP Charles Olweny Ojok is a generous man. Recently, he and Bunyaruguru MP Gaudioso Tindamanyire went for lunch at City Annex Hotel on Dewinton Road. After their meal each of them paid their own bill but Ojok seeing that the waitress had brought many coins in change exclaimed: “Eeeeeee, why have you chosen to give me all these coins. Please have them.†But the legislator was quick enough to pick out the paper money which mostly consisted of 1,000 notes. Honourable Ojok, could you not forego the notes?
Kirunda is ‘mboko’
If you thought internal affairs minister Ali Kirunda Kivejinja, 75, was an old man and therefore weak, think again. Recently, he saved a youthful parliamentary from falling and hurting heself. Parliament had been suspended for about 15 minutes and as the clerk and Speaker were resuming their seats, the former tripped and almost hit her head on the floor. All MPs were stunned but it was only Kivejinja who quickly jumped and held the female clerk in a tight embrace. His fellow MPs started cheering him saying he was still “mboko†meaning youthful and fit. Well done.
Kakooza's Report
Whoever taught Kabula MP and state minister for health James Kakooza English did not do a good job. The MP recently bored Parliament to death when, during a report he was presenting, kept referring to the words “long-lasting insecticide treated mosquito net†over and over again. The words kept coming up in every paragraph or even sometimes twice in one paragraph! After his presentation, Speaker Edward Ssekandi offered him a free lesson and advised him that he could have used the words once and then substituted them with a simpler word like mosquito net thereafter. His fellow legislators shouted: “Teach him!â€
Hunter Hunted
A traffic officer called Oryema was recently attacked by an angry motorist.
The officer had come to accuse the motorist of blocking traffic at Esso Corner on Jinja Road. When the policeman started ordering the driver to get off the road immediately, the driver, who occasionally spoke Kiswahili, retorted furiously: “Are you not the ones who keep us here in the jam? Now the car has heated up and you are telling me to go. Where do you want me to go?†Other motorists joined in and the traffic officer vanished from the scene. Talk of the hunter being hunted!
MP Charles Olweny Ojok is a generous man. Recently, he and Bunyaruguru MP Gaudioso Tindamanyire went for lunch at City Annex Hotel on Dewinton Road. After their meal each of them paid their own bill but Ojok seeing that the waitress had brought many coins in change exclaimed: “Eeeeeee, why have you chosen to give me all these coins. Please have them.†But the legislator was quick enough to pick out the paper money which mostly consisted of 1,000 notes. Honourable Ojok, could you not forego the notes?
Kirunda is ‘mboko’
If you thought internal affairs minister Ali Kirunda Kivejinja, 75, was an old man and therefore weak, think again. Recently, he saved a youthful parliamentary from falling and hurting heself. Parliament had been suspended for about 15 minutes and as the clerk and Speaker were resuming their seats, the former tripped and almost hit her head on the floor. All MPs were stunned but it was only Kivejinja who quickly jumped and held the female clerk in a tight embrace. His fellow MPs started cheering him saying he was still “mboko†meaning youthful and fit. Well done.
Kakooza's Report
Whoever taught Kabula MP and state minister for health James Kakooza English did not do a good job. The MP recently bored Parliament to death when, during a report he was presenting, kept referring to the words “long-lasting insecticide treated mosquito net†over and over again. The words kept coming up in every paragraph or even sometimes twice in one paragraph! After his presentation, Speaker Edward Ssekandi offered him a free lesson and advised him that he could have used the words once and then substituted them with a simpler word like mosquito net thereafter. His fellow legislators shouted: “Teach him!â€
Hunter Hunted
A traffic officer called Oryema was recently attacked by an angry motorist.
The officer had come to accuse the motorist of blocking traffic at Esso Corner on Jinja Road. When the policeman started ordering the driver to get off the road immediately, the driver, who occasionally spoke Kiswahili, retorted furiously: “Are you not the ones who keep us here in the jam? Now the car has heated up and you are telling me to go. Where do you want me to go?†Other motorists joined in and the traffic officer vanished from the scene. Talk of the hunter being hunted!