Crowds throng One Love Beach
Dec 30, 2009
MAYHEM and pandemonium ruled the day at One Love Beach in Busaabala, singer Bobi Wine’s latest project at its unveiling on Boxing Day. Emotions ran high, with traffic flowing from the Shell Kaazi junction on Entebbe Road through Salaama Road.
By Moses Opobo
MAYHEM and pandemonium ruled the day at One Love Beach in Busaabala, singer Bobi Wine’s latest project at its unveiling on Boxing Day. Emotions ran high, with traffic flowing from the Shell Kaazi junction on Entebbe Road through Salaama Road.
As early as 10:00am, commuter taxis, and boda bodas dropped-off revellers. One did not have to know where the beach is located. You only needed to follow the long traffic queues to the end.
For the best part of the afternoon, armed police and private security guards engaged the impatient crowds in running battles, as they surged back and forth, some in a bid to gain forceful entry.
At about 2:30pm, Bobi Wine was forced to call in a reinforcement of 10 armed police men to calm the situation, although the effort yielded no results as they failed to manoeuver past the traffic.
It took the intervention of a Police Patrol pick up truck with blazing sirens to deliver the reinforcements.
By 3:00pm, 100 crates of beer, and another one hundred of soda had been consumed, although efforts to bring in more drinks were frustrated by traffic.
At one corner of the beach, pandemonium broke out when a group of youths ran down the barbed wire fence and crowds gushed in. Some fireworks canisters had to be fired in the air to tame this crowd.
After a 20-minute fireworks display, Bobi Wine eventually came on stage at 11:00pm. Evidently tired, but in a mood to entertain, he could not help but admit that he was overwhelmed.
MAYHEM and pandemonium ruled the day at One Love Beach in Busaabala, singer Bobi Wine’s latest project at its unveiling on Boxing Day. Emotions ran high, with traffic flowing from the Shell Kaazi junction on Entebbe Road through Salaama Road.
As early as 10:00am, commuter taxis, and boda bodas dropped-off revellers. One did not have to know where the beach is located. You only needed to follow the long traffic queues to the end.
For the best part of the afternoon, armed police and private security guards engaged the impatient crowds in running battles, as they surged back and forth, some in a bid to gain forceful entry.
At about 2:30pm, Bobi Wine was forced to call in a reinforcement of 10 armed police men to calm the situation, although the effort yielded no results as they failed to manoeuver past the traffic.
It took the intervention of a Police Patrol pick up truck with blazing sirens to deliver the reinforcements.
By 3:00pm, 100 crates of beer, and another one hundred of soda had been consumed, although efforts to bring in more drinks were frustrated by traffic.
At one corner of the beach, pandemonium broke out when a group of youths ran down the barbed wire fence and crowds gushed in. Some fireworks canisters had to be fired in the air to tame this crowd.
After a 20-minute fireworks display, Bobi Wine eventually came on stage at 11:00pm. Evidently tired, but in a mood to entertain, he could not help but admit that he was overwhelmed.