Why has Syda Bbumba been telling lies?
Oct 12, 2004
<b>Confession to make <em>Timothy Bukhumune</em>, but just who on earth is Syda Bbumba and why has she been telling us a pack of lies as your headline suggests?</b><br>Actually, I too had never heard of her, but upon some research, I am told she is the Minister of Energy. <br>In her capacity as en
Confession to make TB, but just who on earth is Syda Bbumba and why has she been telling us a pack of lies as your headline suggests?
Actually, I too had never heard of her, but upon some research, I am told she is the Minister of Energy.
In her capacity as energy minister, she is tasked with overseeing Uganda Electricity Distribution Company (UEDC), the most unremorseful company the country has seen to-date. Unremorseful in that they have made and are continuing to make our lives a misery by load-shedding on a daily basis.
If that is their attitude TB, then why don’t they just fire them and bring in people who can give us what we want?
I don’t know whose job it is to hire and fire people from UEDC, but I can tell you the wannanchi are not amused! During the Independence Day celebrations at Kololo Airstrip last Saturday, can you imagine that UEDC staff turned up and sought to march past guests, including President Yoweri Museveni?
How would you feel if you were in the UPDF and turned up at Kololo in a shirt that had not been ironed because of load shedding? And then you have to do your march –– past alongside them? Well people were not happy so they booed them off the airstrip and into the gutters where they belong!
I like it when a nation unites together to take on the bad boys.
Now this Bbumba lady, what sort of lies has she been spreading?
Can you imagine, she thought President Museveni was stupid and would not read through the notes she presented him? And rather than call her to State House to give her kibookos in private, Museveni did the right thing. He laid her out at Kololo Airstrip and gave her the lashing of her life!
Do you know if Bbumba cried? And if she did, did she cry for her mummy and start sucking her thumb too?
Alas, the kibookos Museveni gave her were not of the strokes of the cane as I, and many others had hoped. Rather they were kibookos of the mouth.
He said: “The Minister of Energy is playing lullabies for me, saying the shortage is because of the drought....†And then, he requested the band play him his favourite Kinyankole lullaby Oyonkye Nkusherekye saying Bbumba was trying to put him to sleep.
I am not nagging but I don’t ‘click’. If Bbumba was trying to put Museveni to sleep, why did she not just get some sleeping pills from Dr. Ian Clarke’s clinic?
She would have saved the president from having to call out a band to play his favourite lullaby for him.
So what happens to Bbumba now? Does she get to keep her job? Do we have to import power or start stocking up on candles and solar panels?
Bbumba tells us she is going to import power from Kenya, a move which I find baffling because as far as I am aware, Uganda exports power to Kenya. How that works, I don’t quite know.
I hear that plans to build dams at Kalagala, Bujagali and Karuma have fallen through because “Uganda would suffer from too much electricity. What is the rationale behind that?
Man the world can be strange! We don’t have enough power to light our homes and when we suggest building dams to take care of the problem, somebody –– probably Bbumba at that –– decides to tell us that having too much power is not good for the country.
Why, what are we going to do? Leave on the lights all night long, boil the kettle to make more cups of tea –– is that why they won’t build us more dams?
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Actually, I too had never heard of her, but upon some research, I am told she is the Minister of Energy.
In her capacity as energy minister, she is tasked with overseeing Uganda Electricity Distribution Company (UEDC), the most unremorseful company the country has seen to-date. Unremorseful in that they have made and are continuing to make our lives a misery by load-shedding on a daily basis.
If that is their attitude TB, then why don’t they just fire them and bring in people who can give us what we want?
I don’t know whose job it is to hire and fire people from UEDC, but I can tell you the wannanchi are not amused! During the Independence Day celebrations at Kololo Airstrip last Saturday, can you imagine that UEDC staff turned up and sought to march past guests, including President Yoweri Museveni?
How would you feel if you were in the UPDF and turned up at Kololo in a shirt that had not been ironed because of load shedding? And then you have to do your march –– past alongside them? Well people were not happy so they booed them off the airstrip and into the gutters where they belong!
I like it when a nation unites together to take on the bad boys.
Now this Bbumba lady, what sort of lies has she been spreading?
Can you imagine, she thought President Museveni was stupid and would not read through the notes she presented him? And rather than call her to State House to give her kibookos in private, Museveni did the right thing. He laid her out at Kololo Airstrip and gave her the lashing of her life!
Do you know if Bbumba cried? And if she did, did she cry for her mummy and start sucking her thumb too?
Alas, the kibookos Museveni gave her were not of the strokes of the cane as I, and many others had hoped. Rather they were kibookos of the mouth.
He said: “The Minister of Energy is playing lullabies for me, saying the shortage is because of the drought....†And then, he requested the band play him his favourite Kinyankole lullaby Oyonkye Nkusherekye saying Bbumba was trying to put him to sleep.
I am not nagging but I don’t ‘click’. If Bbumba was trying to put Museveni to sleep, why did she not just get some sleeping pills from Dr. Ian Clarke’s clinic?
She would have saved the president from having to call out a band to play his favourite lullaby for him.
So what happens to Bbumba now? Does she get to keep her job? Do we have to import power or start stocking up on candles and solar panels?
Bbumba tells us she is going to import power from Kenya, a move which I find baffling because as far as I am aware, Uganda exports power to Kenya. How that works, I don’t quite know.
I hear that plans to build dams at Kalagala, Bujagali and Karuma have fallen through because “Uganda would suffer from too much electricity. What is the rationale behind that?
Man the world can be strange! We don’t have enough power to light our homes and when we suggest building dams to take care of the problem, somebody –– probably Bbumba at that –– decides to tell us that having too much power is not good for the country.
Why, what are we going to do? Leave on the lights all night long, boil the kettle to make more cups of tea –– is that why they won’t build us more dams?
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