The last couple of days into weeks have been a roller-coaster for many a follower of the trending things on Uganda.
The happenings leave you no time to internalize one episode before another, more often unrelated but more captivating, manifests and sways you.
There has been this joke making rounds on social media, but when the guffaws subside and you examine the content of the so-called joke, nothing puts the Uganda situation more succinctly!
This joke was about the ‘Uganda Movie,’ from one event to another, increasing in bizarre the magnitude even before taking stock of the previous one.
We are a country on the move, excited by every episode, and while the excitement lasts, one wouldn’t be wrong to imagine that either that’s the worst we have seen or perhaps the last we shall ever see.
We shall talk till the cows come home, but before the cock crows, we are unto something totally different, but with as much vile, leaving the previous talk unyielding.
And so when the ‘boys’ at The Pub had all become forensic experts following the Kanyamunyu story, in came Kasese and half have become tribal/cultural curators while the rest have become overnight security experts and governance commentators.
All this by the way is shared as vivid as an eye witness account! They are baying for blood on either side of the conflict and exalting their heroes over their imagined villains. There has not been a dull evening at The Pub in the last two months!
But the drama in our distinguished Members of Parliament fundraising for Makerere University was the highlight of the now chronic ‘Zungululu’ moments. It was not just drama, but dishonesty. The usual dishonesty they have lived with, pretending to care when in fact that is the veil to fleece us with for their own greedy pecuniary gain. Those people!
But we are also a gullible lot that keeps not history for reference at times it is needed the most. We are easily excited and swayed by high sounding rhetoric. We cheer on the liars, give them platform, quote them as gospel truth tellers and give the false impression that they are on top of their game.
We also pretend to care when in fact we do not. You must have heard this drive, which I believe by the time you read this it will already be dead, as dead as those on that government list of dead from Kasese.
And you ask, so what after the list has been released? Are those calling for it going to move to the respective families presenting commiserations? Do they want to hang the list on a monument for remembrance?
Or are they riding on such demands and declarations for their two minutes’ shine on television? And then social media happened! From whichever rat hole we come, everyone has an opinion they wish the reader to take for fact. Here, no opinion is just that; an opinion. No, it is fact!
Yet in fact, facts are the first casualities of a social media discourse. But well, that’s us for you. Let’s wait for what will happen this week to give us talking points till Christmas, and life moves on ‒ as usual.