While they are not yet on the same level as say Eddie Murphy,
Richard Pryor or the late Joanne Rivers, they nevertheless harness the talent
to take their careers to new heights because, if Joseph Opio who was my former
colleague at The New Vision as a sports writer can make it to New York as a
writer on The Daily Show for Trever Noah, then why can’t Patrick, Daniel or Ann
do it too?
For the record, a comedian is described as: “A person who seeks
to entertain an audience by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or
amusing situations or acting foolish or employing prop comedy.”
In one way or another, we all strive to be comedians – be it at
a wedding as MC, entertaining friends, at home or in the bar. We all have that
one joke which we heard from somebody else that we feel we should share. In
government, there a people who aspire to be comedians too. Some of them are
funny enough while others simply don’t know that its them who are the joke. One
such person is Father Lokodo at the Ministry of Ethics and Integrity.
 |
| Father Lokodo |
Time after time, the good father has the knack of putting his
foot in it. Just when you think he is about to say or do something serious,
something that has meaning, it turns out to be a joke that not even Patrick,
Daniel or Ann could have thought about even after weeks of burning the midnight
oil.
Okay, so he tried to ban porn. Not a bad idea except, nobody
told him that the porn industry is a multi-billion-dollar industry and the
chances of banning it are very slim at the best. Then he announced how he was
going to buy a sh2bn machine or gadget that can detect porn. Hmm. He has been
saying the same thing since 2016 – “it’s coming soon” that, he now sounds like
an irritating skipping CD on radio.” Yeah right Father Lokodo.
What does he do next? He calls up his friends at Uganda
Communications Commission (UCC) and asks them to start blocking porn sites.
Another joke. There are hundreds if not millions of porn site all over the word
and I would say that each day, there must be more than 1,000 that go online. As
of last night, when I logged on to some of the most popular and well know porn
sites, it seems that the people at UCC had not blocked them.
 |
| 'The Devils' That Thwarted Father Lokodo? |
But the biggest of Father Lokodo’s jokes came when he tried to
ban the MTN Nyege Nyege Festival in Jinja because he had credible information
that it was “a gathering for homosexuals”. The Nyege Nyege Festival, can be at
best described as Uganda’s answer to Woodstock or Stonehenge Festival. While it
means feeling horny in Swahili, it has a different connotation in
some local dialects. In Luganda for example, it means the 'irresistible
urge to dance', in Runyankole, it refers to a courtship dance – Runyege
while the organisers say it stands “peace, respect and abundant joy”.
 |
| Another 'She Devil' |
Obviously, his attempts to ban the festival were thwarted just
like his attempts to block porn sites or buy the porn machine. Licking his
wounds, he cried out: “The Devil won and I lost.” With that, I don’t think he
will be going to Jinja anytime soon! Do you?
 |
| She Devils Just Wanted To Have Fun! |
No comments:
Post a Comment