The grand melees of the week â€"â€" who boxed who
Jul 09, 2004
While he may have been voted African journalist of the year recently in South Africa, Monitor FMs Simon Kasyate (below) cannot throw a solid punch.
While he may have been voted African journalist of the year recently in South Africa, Monitor FMs Simon Kasyate (below) cannot throw a solid punch. Scouts tell me that last Sunday at 1:00pm at the Nakawa flyover, when a taxi driver crashed into the side of Kasyate’s corona, which was heavily laden with four shapely squeezes. Like a charged buffalo that has been spurned by its mate, Kasyate jumped out of the car and downloaded not one but two heavy slaps on the driver.
Not done, he frothed at the mouth like a dog with rabies then hurled his keys at the taxi windscreen so hard that the screen cracked. Done with the show of aggression and bravado, he went in for the kill –– the verbal abuse, which he starts off with the immortal words: “Do you know who you are f*****g around with?†They were the last words he uttered. Touts and taxi drivers descended upon him and the beating started in earnest. Only the shrieks from the female occupants of the car saved Kasyate from a further beating and being stripped naked. The last we heard was that one of the squeezes in the car drove the bleeding Kasyate off to an unknown destination.
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Meanwhile, my boys tell me that one of Kampala's renowned photographer who at one point had his dread-locks cut off by an irate army captain outside Angenoir sometime back, spent his Saturday cooling off in CPS. Time check: 4:00am. Location: Rhino Bar. After guzzling a good number of beers with his female company, the dread-locked snapper got embroiled in an argument with her. Frustrated, he clenched his fits and starts boxing her in the face, in the process breaking her nose and leaving her sprawled on the floor with blood oozing profusely out of her nose. Muscled security men then jumped in and hauled him onto a waiting Protectorate pick-up bound for CPS where he was locked up!
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And if you thought that only the guys fought, think again. Olivia Lukwiya, the squeeze with the dread-locked hair, tangled with a muzungu babe last week in Steakout. Funny enough, the muzungu, Olivia and Benita Bageire all walked in together to celebrate Benita’s birthday. Then somewhere down the line, the air got ugly as Olivia and the muzungu exchanged words. The heated exchange then led to a full-blown fist, slaps, hair pulling and kicking melee. They were later separated by Steakout management.
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Not done, he frothed at the mouth like a dog with rabies then hurled his keys at the taxi windscreen so hard that the screen cracked. Done with the show of aggression and bravado, he went in for the kill –– the verbal abuse, which he starts off with the immortal words: “Do you know who you are f*****g around with?†They were the last words he uttered. Touts and taxi drivers descended upon him and the beating started in earnest. Only the shrieks from the female occupants of the car saved Kasyate from a further beating and being stripped naked. The last we heard was that one of the squeezes in the car drove the bleeding Kasyate off to an unknown destination.
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Meanwhile, my boys tell me that one of Kampala's renowned photographer who at one point had his dread-locks cut off by an irate army captain outside Angenoir sometime back, spent his Saturday cooling off in CPS. Time check: 4:00am. Location: Rhino Bar. After guzzling a good number of beers with his female company, the dread-locked snapper got embroiled in an argument with her. Frustrated, he clenched his fits and starts boxing her in the face, in the process breaking her nose and leaving her sprawled on the floor with blood oozing profusely out of her nose. Muscled security men then jumped in and hauled him onto a waiting Protectorate pick-up bound for CPS where he was locked up!
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And if you thought that only the guys fought, think again. Olivia Lukwiya, the squeeze with the dread-locked hair, tangled with a muzungu babe last week in Steakout. Funny enough, the muzungu, Olivia and Benita Bageire all walked in together to celebrate Benita’s birthday. Then somewhere down the line, the air got ugly as Olivia and the muzungu exchanged words. The heated exchange then led to a full-blown fist, slaps, hair pulling and kicking melee. They were later separated by Steakout management.
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