Oh dear, but that chap in
yellow – Arua Municipality MP, Ibrahim Abiriga who is almost as comical as
Iraqi Information minister, Comical Ali was during the 2nd Iraqi war, is back
in the news. A few weeks ago, Abiriga got himself goofed and slapped about in
the corridors of parliament by Ayivu County MP, Bernard Atiku. Hmm!
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| Ibrahim Abiriga, MP |
Let’s pause a minute and delve
into the lyrics of Coward of The County
by Kenny Rogers which, go along these lines:
“Everyone considered him the coward of the county, he'd never stood one
single time, to prove the county wrong his mama called him Tommy, but folks
just called him yellow...”
Is there any need to say more
on the subject – y’all know what the word ‘yellow’ means in the context of the
song and goofing that Abiriga got?
Getting back, less than a week
after his hiding, Abiriga decided to go and do the unthinkable – and no, don’t
go thinking he went scouring for goons from downtown to go beat up Atiku. After
a long day at parliament, he clambered into his yellow Volkswagen Beatle, drove
out of the gates of parliament and somewhere along Ministry of Finance on Nile
Avenue, he stopped found some shrubbery, unzipped his yellow strides, sprung
his thingy out and with no shame did susu. Let me repeat just in case you
think it’s a typo error sentence. “...unzipped his yellow strides, sprung his thingy out and with no shame did susu.” And for added measure Police
Bodyguard complete with Ak-47 stood behind him and probably encouraged him to shake
off the driblets once he was all done.
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| Caught In The Act |
The shame of Abiriga, is that
he did not flop thingy out to pee in
the dead of the night while the better part of Kampala were tucked up in their
beds and fast asleep. He did it the twilight of the afternoon when mothers were
picking up their kids from school!
When he was cornered by the
media a few days after the incident, with no remorse he admitted that he had
and said something along the lines of: “I was caught short. I had to pee. What
did you expect me to do, pee in my trousers?”
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| His Police Bodyguard Standing Guard |
Pause up. Is Ministry of
Finance not behind Parliament? Could he not have gone to the toilet before he
left the house? When he was a kid, did Parent not tell him to go to the toilet
before he went on a long trip?
What annoys is that while KCCA Executive
Director, Jenny Musisi took action and dragged him to court for being a 'public nuisance' amongst other things, Parliament Speaker, Rebecca Kadaga has kept
mum on the incident and allowed him to get away with it. I have always thought
there is a code of conduct that governs MPs and doing susu in the streets of Kampala City is just one of those conducts. But did he turn up to answer the charges? Bleak, so I guess that's that then?
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| How New Vision Online Broke The story |
Perhaps we could forgive him -
can’t we, because we all don’t come from backgrounds reaped with etiquette and moral
values. If Mr. Bukumunhe - dad that is, discovered I had peed on the walls of Ministry of Finance
regardless of the time, he would have been mortified. Then disown me.
But I figure the reason why Kadaga has not fined or reprimanded him, is after doing some
research on what might have possessed him to unleash in town, I came across a Daily Monitor article and the headline
was to the point - ‘In Arua, Latrines
Are A Luxury’ - that many homes have to make do with flying kaveera toilets. And Abiriga comes from and wait for it, wait for it...err
Arua! I guess his doing susu on walls in the
centre of town was no big deal because its an everyday occurrence back home in Arua.
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| Could This Be the Real Reason Abiriga Peed In The Streets? |
Ministry of Finance should
erect a commemorative plaque on the wall just above the patch of dead grass
that Abiriga’s susu killed that
reads: “Kino kyekifo omukungu wa
Palamenti Owekitiibwa Abiriga Weyakunkumula omusolo mu Seputemba 2017.”
(This marks the spot where Hon Abiriga peed in September, 2017).
Pictures: New Vision, Daily Monitor
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