{UAH} DRESS CODE

Abbey Semuwamba/ Annet/ Robert Artuhairew,

Please advise Mr Besigye to pay more attention to his dress code. I know he plays different roles, as social activist, medical doctor, party boss, and international diplomat, so it is very difficult for him to come up with one idenfifiable dressing code- but he must. He should never be appearing as in the picture below.

I too have a problem with dressing, or rather choosing what to wear because of the different roles I play in life. It is easier now, because I juist wear a coat and a tie, but before, I had to change my attire, even within the course of a single day. For many years, I was as legal advisor for homeless people at the homelesnnesss organisation called SHELTER and at Brixton and Paddington Law Centres, and in those establisments, you have to dress in a manner that does not intimidate the clients- although a law centre, we never dressed like lawyers, but just as the ordinary person on the streets. But at the same time, I have been on the Board of Trustees of many charities and NGOs where the dress codes are different- and as Chair of Governors of a primary school, my children would never allow me to step foot anywhere on the school ground without being at my resplendent best.

I told a story here, in my early days in the UK, and I was called for a job interview- in fact with SHELTER- more than 20 years ago. My then Nigerian wife is a very smartly dressed person and always insited on me dressing very smart as well- she would not go anywhere out with me unless I was dressed to a standard she approved. Sobefore the interview, she went and bought a new suit for me, in the morning she dressed me up, I was looking almost as if I was going for a wedding. And yet I was going for job working with street homeless people, and people with serious addiction problems, not as a court lawyer of banker. I knew staright away I would not get the job if I turned out the way my wife had dressed me up, so I got off the train, went into a second hand charity shop, bought second hand clothes that were more appropriate, took off my suit and then dressed just with corduory trouser and jumper, so I llok very ordinary. And that did the trick. Before I got back home, I changed again in  my suit in a public toilet and then went home to wait for the outcome of the interview. And that was going to be our first job in London, my wife was a student and I really needed to get a job. And I got the job and our lives changed.

I tell this story as well, manily for the nbenefit of Mr Besigye's advisors like Abbey Semuwamba. They need to avoid dressing up or dressing down to ridiculous levels.

I hope this advice is not taking too much liberies or offensive.

Bobby

Kasagazi Kansaze

14 hrs

If you had an opportunity to slap this chap, would you? YES or no?

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