Corridors of power

Feb 08, 2010

I attended the show, but it was a rip-off of the public. Many people who had bought the tickets were still struggling to enter when the artiste ended his one-hour show and left the stage.

They said it:

“I attended the show, but it was a rip-off of the public. Many people who had bought the tickets were still struggling to enter when the artiste ended his one-hour show and left the stage,” the Inspector General of Police, Maj Gen Kale Kayihura, expressing discontent over the recent R Kelly’s show at Lugogo Cricket oval.

“Some people have been spreading lies that Kayunga will break away from Buganda. Kayunga is part of Buganda but the Banyala have a right to practise their culture. It is a constitutional right. We understand the constitution,” President Museveni addressing residents of Kayunga at a rally during his tour of the district last week.
“Me to cry in public? What for? What are you talking about? Why should I cry? Where will I get the time to cry? Who will have beaten me to prompt me to cry? Public or private, I never cry,” trade and industry minister Kahinda Otafiire reacting to a question on whether he has ever cried.


“I have over the past week taken time to consider and reflect on the issues relating to a relationship I had outside of wedlock. It has put a lot of pressure on my family and my organization, the African National Congress. I deeply regret the pain that I have caused to my family, the ANC, and South Africans in general,” South African President Jacob Zuma apologising on Saturday for fathering an illegitimate child, in the face of national outcry.

“I don’t believe in that path (military coup). Even if I had the opportunity, I would not have overthrown Yoweri Museveni because I know the army cannot democratise the country. Instead, it creates more coups. The army is undemocratic in nature and, therefore, cannot be relied on to instill democratic principles,” former Army Commander and FDC presidential aspirant Maj Gen Mugisha Muntu answering a question the party supporter recently.

“The ABC strategy is to save lives.
It is not religious. Those who say remove the C (for condom) are not serious,” Vice-President Dr Gilbert Bukenya commissioning modern laboratories at the Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe.

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