{UAH} ROBERT SHAKA TAKES ON MWENDA AGAIN

I am not good at throwing names of perceived "powerful" people occupying "influential" spaces in society as friends in public. I am a well groomed man.

Am actually intrigued by the culture of name throwing in Kampala.

"I am a friend of Gen.Muhoozi since our PUBERTY". What do you share in common? Did he attend your primary school? Did he attend University with you? Did he attend Nyakasura Secondary School? What about his sisters? What about his mother? Why exactly are you friends with Muhoozi for example since your puberty?

When we were teenagers, our friends who had beautiful sisters were conduits for our love letters to the girls. But the friendship emphasized here often is for Gen.Muhoozi and not the teenage budding beauties of the yester-years now married off to worthy "BALANGIRA" not these small "village zebu bulls".

I am not saying it is wrong for people to forge relationships. But what are the motivations? Why would you work so hard to be friends with the young son of a President when you don't share anything in common? He is soft spoken. You are a motor-mouth. You want to shout down your "intellectual" endowments to a modest man. Why would he make you his friend then unless he loves to just sit there as you engulf him in your social dogma.

How come the President's son seems quiet about his friendship with those in the noisy political market place but we are treated to this noise pollution in an already crowded and dusty city ?

"I can call Kagame now" So? Has that finished poverty in Kampala or Kigali?

"I can talk to General so and so on my phone now. I have access to classified intelligence briefings because my brother is a General and a friend to Gen.Muhoozi"

Let's be serious people. I have great respect for many officers and men in uniform some of whom I have known since 1981 when I was a little boy. I know they made a career choice to serve country in the modest way they can.

But throwing names in the public space to mask my insecurities is not my programming. I last met one of them in 1989, he is a poor Colonel now. He almost lost his poor life in the Kisangani clashes,now a born again Christian UPDF officer engaged in Operation Wealth Creation projects.

I am not saying Muhoozi or anyone cannot be friends with other people. All am saying is that friendship is personal, private and not a public good. The public has no business in your friendships.

Those who claim friends to members of the intelligence community today were cheer leaders of RPA when the UPDF was being pounded to pulp by the RPA in the 3 battles of Kisangani. I have never celebrated the death of a single UPDF officer on duty or Ugandans for historical reasons. We can trace a lot historical information of how we became personally close to Gen.Paul Kagame during and after the Kisangani clashes.

I have written here before, I do not engage in building relationships to bump up my self esteem. I last visited Kigali in 1997 on a guided tour by an old friend.

But I have never made attempts to use my history with President Kagame in the 5 year NRA bush war to chest thump, throw his name around, associate by osmosis, seek photo opportunity or seek material favors. It is not how the man in me was brought up. I saw some of these people eating weeds, cow hides, wearing torn clothes full of lice and some almost giving up on life. To some extent, I know how vulnerable we all are in times of crisis. BUT, am now retired.

AND, am a modestly intelligent fellow by normal standards reason my name keeps popping up from all corners of the internet like Archemedes has made some scientific discovery.

I should be able to make these appointments happen since even peasants walk up to State House and fight for food throwing their underwears on the flow and plates in the air. You think I can't make an appointment with Mr.Museveni? Come on!!

What am I saying? We are a country suffering from mass low self esteem problems. We rant when some people are in a bad mood swing and don't want pay attention to us so we "throw ourselves on the floor in a baby-like tantrum" in attention seeking mode.

We are used to our childhood self delusion that we "HAVE THE LAST WORD".

You don't need to be friends with the President's son to be able to live a descent life. Come on!

Mbu Justice Kavuma's son is a friend to Muhoozi. Amama Mbabazi's daughters are friends with Muhoozi.
MP so and so is a friend to Muhoozi. Why should we know or care? Why should that be public knowledge for consumption?

See, the moment people think rumor mongering clubs in bars are friendships from which the intelligence community gathers national security intelligence, you have a serious national crisis of unimaginable proportions.

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Kabulasoke retired General just telling people to relax

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"When a man is stung by a bee, he doesn't set off to destroy all beehives"

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