Corridors of power

Aug 29, 2011

<b>Tough judge </b><br>RETIRED Supreme Court judge Prof. George Kanyeihamba will never stop amusing people. While chairing the Uganda Wildlife Authority probe at Farmers House, Kanyeihamba attacked journalists for taking the commission’s tea and failing to produce stories in newspapers.

Tough judge
RETIRED Supreme Court judge Prof. George Kanyeihamba will never stop amusing people. While chairing the Uganda Wildlife Authority probe at Farmers House, Kanyeihamba attacked journalists for taking the commission’s tea and failing to produce stories in newspapers. “You, why do you keep coming here? Only to drink our tea?” the retired judge charged at journalists. Other commissioners looked on in amusement. He accused some media houses of blocking publication of stories from the probe committee.

Terrific Tanga Odoi

Makerere University Academic Staff Association (MUASA) chairman Dr. Tanga Odoi is good at shutting up fellow dons who try to oppose him. While discussing the dropped rape allegations against the university vice-chancellor Prof. Venansius Baryamureeba in a MUASA general assembly recently, Prof. Baker Nyakaana kept shouting and interjecting Tanga. But Tanga simply said: “We are all learned. Some are professors of law, others of chemistry. I am a doctor of political history, but Nyakaana is a professor of tourism and geography.” Nyakaana was not amused and simply kept quiet.

Archbishop with style
Some Catholics still disregard men who braid and treat their hair, but Kampala Archbishop Dr. Cyprian Kizito Lwanga seems to embrace change. While ordaining deacons and priests at Rubaga Cathedral recently, Lwanga defended Bobi Wine’s trademark hairstyle. “Wearing dreadlocks is a fashion like one would choose French cut or straight perm,” Lwanga said. The congregation remained silent.

Solid Banyenzaki
Formerly ranked among the ‘rebel’ NRM MPs, economic monitoring state minister Henry Banyenzaki is not that type of politician who can merely keep quiet at people’s mistakes. Speaking during a workshop at Sheraton Hotel recently, Banyenzaki vowed to continue “shouting”.

He also gave tips to whoever wanted to oppose President Museveni. “Criticising Museveni is okay, but you need to present facts and figures and do not think that I have changed,” he stated, attracting applause from Betty Anywar and other opposition fellows.


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