MP Dombo’s sh5m rice and meat party!
Nov 16, 2004
<b>Bukumunhe’s Idle Notes</b><br>MP MANUEL DOMBO<br><br>QUESTION: <b>TB, this Manuel Dombo whom you claim is a member of parliament, why have I never heard of him? Just clarify that he is indeed an MP before you go on.</b>
Bukumunhe’s Idle Notes
MP MANUEL DOMBO
QUESTION: TB, this Manuel Dombo whom you claim is a member of parliament, why have I never heard of him? Just clarify that he is indeed an MP before you go on.
To be quite honest, I too had never heard of him, but upon consulting with Mr Ras, he tells me Dombo is from the east — Tororo area. Idly speaking, I also think we should just refer to him as Dom because it has a better ring to it than Dombo. What do you say?
Ah, that is a good idle suggestion TB. Getting on with it, in your headline, you say Dom threw a sh5m party. Is there anything wrong with throwing a sh5m party or was it the bash of the year that deserved to be written about?
As far as my people tell me, it was not the bash of the year. However, what draws our attention to him is the source of the sh5m he spent on the bash. I would presume Dom simply went to his ATM and drew the cash. Or he might have been saving up on his allowances that he gets from the various parliamentary committees he sits on.
That’s what I thought but I am told he was given the sh5m at Mosa Courts. That sh5m was supposed to be used to educate his constituents about the White Paper on the proposed constitutional amendments and not to throw a bash.
Dear me TB, tell us how he spent the sh5m? Did he hit the pork joint in Ntinda’s Valley Point and declare all the swine was on him or did he book out Ange Noir and throw a private party where everything was on the house?
Can you imagine Dom told the nation his party just consisted of rice and meat! He does not even tell us if he bought some spices, onions, tomatoes, or herbs. How can a whole MP just throw a rice and meat party? Obviously he needs help, and if I were in charge at the Movement Secretariat, I would bring him to book on charges of misappropriation of funds and wasting money by throwing a bash that was lousy.
I also hear he used some of the money to put fuel in his car. Was that in order?
Of course not! I think when Dom heard about the sh5m, he was the most excited MP. Who knows, it might have been a tight month for him — what with paying the rent, drinks at Kampala Club, fuel, school fees and the festivities of Idd looming. I am tempted to think he drove from Parliament to Mosa Court on the fumes of his 2k fuel, got his sh5m, then glided all the way down Nile Avenue to Shell Jinja Road and put in a full tank of fuel. That done he headed to Meat Packers in Industrial Area to buy the meat and then off to Uchumi for the rice!
TB, tell me, do you think at Dom’s rice and meat party, he educated his people on the White Paper?
I don’t think so. The people of his Bunyole County constituency must be very green on matters to do with the White Paper. When rice and meat is being served, who do you think is going to listen to an argument on the White Paper? And I am sure once food was over, the satisfied diners walked to the edge of the gardens rubbing their stomachs and passing wind as they exclaimed what a feast Dom had thrown them.
Do you think President Museveni will be impressed when he learns how Dom spent the sh5m?
Ah, TB while I am not privy to State House matters, I think Dom might be put out to dry.
“If it was all about fuel and putting rice and meat on the table, all you had to do was come and see me for a hardship allowance,†President Museveni would have probably told him.
Bukumunhe’s Idle Notes
MP MANUEL DOMBO
QUESTION: TB, this Manuel Dombo whom you claim is a member of parliament, why have I never heard of him? Just clarify that he is indeed an MP before you go on.
To be quite honest, I too had never heard of him, but upon consulting with Mr Ras, he tells me Dombo is from the east — Tororo area. Idly speaking, I also think we should just refer to him as Dom because it has a better ring to it than Dombo. What do you say?
Ah, that is a good idle suggestion TB. Getting on with it, in your headline, you say Dom threw a sh5m party. Is there anything wrong with throwing a sh5m party or was it the bash of the year that deserved to be written about?
As far as my people tell me, it was not the bash of the year. However, what draws our attention to him is the source of the sh5m he spent on the bash. I would presume Dom simply went to his ATM and drew the cash. Or he might have been saving up on his allowances that he gets from the various parliamentary committees he sits on.
That’s what I thought but I am told he was given the sh5m at Mosa Courts. That sh5m was supposed to be used to educate his constituents about the White Paper on the proposed constitutional amendments and not to throw a bash.
Dear me TB, tell us how he spent the sh5m? Did he hit the pork joint in Ntinda’s Valley Point and declare all the swine was on him or did he book out Ange Noir and throw a private party where everything was on the house?
Can you imagine Dom told the nation his party just consisted of rice and meat! He does not even tell us if he bought some spices, onions, tomatoes, or herbs. How can a whole MP just throw a rice and meat party? Obviously he needs help, and if I were in charge at the Movement Secretariat, I would bring him to book on charges of misappropriation of funds and wasting money by throwing a bash that was lousy.
I also hear he used some of the money to put fuel in his car. Was that in order?
Of course not! I think when Dom heard about the sh5m, he was the most excited MP. Who knows, it might have been a tight month for him — what with paying the rent, drinks at Kampala Club, fuel, school fees and the festivities of Idd looming. I am tempted to think he drove from Parliament to Mosa Court on the fumes of his 2k fuel, got his sh5m, then glided all the way down Nile Avenue to Shell Jinja Road and put in a full tank of fuel. That done he headed to Meat Packers in Industrial Area to buy the meat and then off to Uchumi for the rice!
TB, tell me, do you think at Dom’s rice and meat party, he educated his people on the White Paper?
I don’t think so. The people of his Bunyole County constituency must be very green on matters to do with the White Paper. When rice and meat is being served, who do you think is going to listen to an argument on the White Paper? And I am sure once food was over, the satisfied diners walked to the edge of the gardens rubbing their stomachs and passing wind as they exclaimed what a feast Dom had thrown them.
Do you think President Museveni will be impressed when he learns how Dom spent the sh5m?
Ah, TB while I am not privy to State House matters, I think Dom might be put out to dry.
“If it was all about fuel and putting rice and meat on the table, all you had to do was come and see me for a hardship allowance,†President Museveni would have probably told him.
Bukumunhe’s Idle Notes