Police raid Mukono’s Casa; Confiscate shisha pots

The mood was tense on Saturday evening at one of UCU’s favorite hangouts, Casablanca, when police invaded the bar and confiscated shisha pots that were being smoked.

Merrymakers were rounded up as they resisted giving in their pots to the suspicious snatchers who later addressed themselves as part of a task force clamping down shisha smoking.

However, after a long scuffle, the pots were finally taken out of the bar into police pick-ups.

Parliamentarians late last year passed the Tobacco Control Act that seeks to regulate smoking and a ban to the smoking of shisha.

Youths dissatisfied with the new law, were however hopeful that such a law would not be implemented.

Shisha is a form of flavored tobacco whose experiences can only be attested to by those that have blown it out straight from the pot. Those who have blown it confess that “it has a sensational taste with exotic flavors, that smells of vanilla, minty, pineapple or apple.”

“With just a single puff you would feel like heaven has just been drawn down to you,” says one frequent user who desires anonymity.

Partygoers have been aggrieved by the implementation, others concluding that without shisha at the bar, there would be no plot.

The owners of the bar have similarly expressed disappointment given the fact that shisha is one of the pull factor of students to the bar.

However, no arrests were made.