The friends we have make or break us. Some, in bid to raise our esteem tell such blatant lies to our faces, the spur and urge us on. They encourage us to inbox that pretty girl immensely out of our league, they deceive us into believing we can actually write or sing: refusing to tell us our music is shit.
If indeed James Kazungu [a Makerere guild candidate who got only one vote in the recently concluded elections] has honest friends, or an honest girlfriend (which we highly doubt) they should have told him he stood no chance at all at the heavily commercialised Makerere Guild Presidential elections. Someone should have told “Mr One Vote” his political game needed polishing! No one did- so Kazungu woke up one morning to fulfill a prophecy.
Perhaps he’s always been hoarding a few monies for the election! He must have visited the finest tailor who pieced up a suit, yes all for one vote.
He paid120,000 in nomination fees for one vote. He spent 2k transport from Kikoni to Makerere every rally day for just one vote. On the nomination day, Kazungu spent 5K at his Kinyonzi for a haircut so he could secure one vote.
“But that dude who got only one vote, didn’t he have a girlfriend, coursemates or even loyal friends?” one of the students wondered.
Kazungu spent 15K designing his poster and 10k to on his photography guy all for one vote.
Kazungu spent 8k for the 20 posters he had all over campus so he could secure one vote.
He spent 15k x 5, a cool 75K rallies at halls of residence for the culture boxes for a single vote which wasn’t even his.
He spent 5K for the 10 whistles at 500 for one vote. Naye wait, all that noise for one vote.
He spent 3K for the occasional bottle of water at the rallies all for one vote.
But we shouldn’t let Kazungu’s vote distract us from the fact that NRM’s Ruth Nsubuga was the God chosen Guild President, at least in Pastor Kayanja’s eyes whose prophesied that he’d seen Ruthie carried high in the air. A sea of yellow flags around her.
Kazungu could have been a victim of his status because the voters here are predominantly Africans yet he’s a little Mzungu. And no, he didn’t garner the vote from his colleague. An ex who hoped Kazungu would win was kind enough to vote for him.
In total Kazungu spent shs233,000 for a vote. Welcome to Makerere!
Meanwhile, Kazungu’s campaign manager is a wanted man. And if by any chance you ate Kazungu’s money, we can only caution you keep inside whenever it gets dark. Byebyo.
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