Okello Maber – I pray that police kill your relative
By Bernard Ddumba
16th April 2012: First things first! I am now totally convinced that there is no such “thing” as “Peter Okello Maber”. If I was a betting man, I would have happily put 1million of my hard-earned Museveni- shillings on the possibility that “Peter Okello Maber” could actually be Robert Kabushenga of The New Vision.
I will tell you why: I have listened to Kabushenga on many radio and TV programmes. I have also read countless articles authored by him over the years. In all cases, there is an embarrassing, and in fact, un-nerving degree of sycophancy that flows through all his views.
In Kabushenga’s eyes, the monster called Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and his band of NRM kleptocrats is the best thing that has ever happened to Ugandans since they first tasted “Treetop” juice. In Kabushenga’s eyes, therefore, Museveni and the NRM can do no wrong! How could they?
Over the last few weeks, perhaps even months, I have keenly [although with profound sadness] followed this ghostly “thing” called “Peter Okello Maber” trying to challenge any view published in Uganda Correspondent that is critical of Museveni’s government. Like Kabushenga therefore, in Peter Okello Maber’s eyes, Museveni and the NRM can do no wrong!
It is as if the two top NRM sycophants are conjoined twins who share one very active, creative, and yet sick and seriously convoluted brain. Men and women who are much wiser than I will ever be have always taught us that the first step towards finding a solution to a problem is by first admitting that the problem or problems exist in the first place.
Unfortunately, vested political interests have rendered both Kabushenga and Okello Maber totally belligerent to this wisdom – even though I suspect that there must be moments when sanity prevails for a few seconds and they question their hostility to our quest to enjoy our God rights to freedom and democracy.
There is something the white man calls “altruism” – or the ability to empathise with the plight others. This is what the likes of Kabushenga and Okello Maber lack.
There is also another self-confessed NRM sycophant called Adam Kazoora who falls in this category. For some reason, he has gone very quiet. May be he is still eating what he earned from singing NRM praises in this newspaper.
But here is the point: Just because a few of these NRM characters are living in total freedom from police harassment, they have completely lost any sympathy for the majority of Ugandans who don’t enjoy the protection and privileges they enjoy.
As the saying goes, you can never feel the pain of bereavement until death strikes at your doorstep. Therefore, if these “heart-less” NRM characters were to taste “kiboko”, teargas, pepper spray, or better still – death of a loved one from a police bullet, then I am sure their views would change.
Sad as that may sound, that is the only way that these arrogant NRM sycophants will feel our pain and understand why we are so angry with them and their brutal police force led by top NRM cadre Gen. Kale Kayihura.
Call me a sadist – I really don’t care – because I pray to the almighty God everyday that a stray police bullet hits one of their relatives one of these days so that they feel our pain and perhaps advise their leaders to stop harassing us. END. Please login to www.ugandacorrespondent.com every Monday to read our top stories and anytime mid-week for our news updates.
