Uganda’s Parliament made world headlines a couple of weeks ago; after members traded offensive words, hurled chairs at each other, broke microphones and used stands for whips. All this was sparked off by the heated debate about removal of presidential age limits from the Constitution of The Republic, which the opposition politicians were demonstrating against. Soldiers from the Special Forces Command (SFC), clothed in black suits, took The House by storm – leaving no stone unturned!
The highlight of the day was when one of the vibrant opposition MPs, Hon. Zaake Francis, the Mityana representative was given the blow of his life. Zaake who was making chairs buoy allover the house to hit his assailants, was pulled aside by a fellow MP, the State Minister for Works and Former UPDF Chief of Defense Forces (CDF), General Katumba Wamala. Just like a little child, Zaake abidded, and was consequently given a heavy, not-so-parental punch below the temple of his head. He got hospitalized as a result. He said he couldn’t bear the shock he got when it dawned on him, that a person he saw as a father and mentor, turned his unkind tormentor.
“Because he was ‘serving ice cream in form of chairs’ and destroying parliament property in the process” was the Tweet sent by Gen. Katumba moments later, after apologists were pinning him for Zaake’s critical condition – he visited the bedridden parliamentarian.
On Wednesday 18th October at about 4pm, a team of Makerere University students visited Hon. Zaake at his residence in Nalumunye, Mutundwe. The gallant intellectuals, with forearms and heads strapped with red ribbons, showed solidarity and commitment to the struggle of ‘protecting Article 102b’.
The young elites donated a cock and a red gown to Zaake, warming his broken heart in the process.
“His Health is too terrible. His process of securing medication abroad is being delayed by the Medical Board yet the situation is not good.” Said Musiime Martin, a third year student of Bachelor of Laws, famous for his incarceration after showing President Museveni a placard of Togikwatako 102b’ during Nelson Mandela’s Commemoration Day at Makerere University.
This, by-the-way, birthed the viral #FreeMusiime campaign by university students on social media, which was followed by his immediate release. Musiime further states, “The Honorable is worried for the injections he was given while in Police custody.”
The students went on to pray for the Honorable Member of Parliament to have a quick recovery so as to serve their general interests in The House.
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