CORRIDORS OF POWER

Nov 25, 2007

<b>Nasasira’s CHOGM holiday advice</b><br>Works minister John Nasasira has an idea or two about relaxing. Explaining why government had made Thursday and Friday public holidays.. He said, “The less people and children you have going to work and school means less traffic in the city centre and

Nasasira’s CHOGM holiday advice
Works minister John Nasasira has an idea or two about relaxing. Explaining why government had made Thursday and Friday public holidays.. He said, “The less people and children you have going to work and school means less traffic in the city centre and less congestion and traffic jam. He then launched into an appeal. “Therefore those who won’t be having anything to do in the city on that day should just stay at home, kick off their shoes, cross their feet and watch movies while sipping some juice or tea.”

Accredited to insult
If there was a desk for CHOGM accreditation where tempers flared, it was the Media desk––all courtesy of the woman behind the desk. She had such a propensity to annoy that she managed to rile in equal proportions both the local and international media, to such an extent that at one point, an international journalist threatened violence but was only restrained. in another instance she asked a local journalist who had failed to trace his accreditation card but had insisted on getting it, “Now do you want me to urinate your card?” Oops talk about managing a desk!

Rev Gideon’s openess
Rev. Canon Gideon Byamugisha is one of the people living positively with HIV who does not mince words while speaking about his condition. He recently said, “If I had died of AIDS in 1998, the religious leaders who would have conducted the funeral, would have told the mourners: The Lord who gave us Gideon, has now taken him away; blessed be his name”. People would have said Amen, convinced that God was the one who took my life away. Yet most of these AIDS deaths are preventable. HIV is treatable. The inaction and mis-action is killing us.”

Mbabazi’s vision for next CHOGM
Minister of Security, Amama Mbabazi is a man of dreams and visions. At the opening of the Unity cultural festival at Shimoni grounds he shared one of them -- that CHOGM may come again after 106 years. “Some of us will be slightly older then,” he said. No wonder the good book says people perish for lack of a vision.

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