{UAH} KAYIBANDA APPEARS AT TIANANMEN SQUARE, BEIJING, CHINA.

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NOW YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THAT UGANDA IS HEADING IN A WRONG DIRECTION BY SEEING MUSEVENI SHABBY SUIT COMPARED TO OBOTE SMARTLY DRESSED IN A SHARP SUIT IN THOSE EARLY YEARS OF 1960s

I normally focus on the bigger picture and try to avoid delving into the gossip and tittle tattle that occupies the Ugandan political class. You will therefore forgive me for picking up on this small matter of Rwandan outlaw kayibanda Museveni's shocking appearance while on a begging tour of China.

 

Kayibanda Museveni's higgledy-piggledy appearance has horrified the nation. The whole of Ugandan social media is agog, either with hilarity and a satisfied sense of dejavu : "I told you so, you can dress a cattle herdsman in a suit and fly him to Beijing, but you can't take the cattle herder out of the man"; or with justified indignation and shame,and a feeling of anger that the buffoon Kayibanda does not care and neither does he give two monkeys about the pride of Ugandan citizens, and our desire to be taken seriously as civilised, urbane and polished people by the rest of the world.

President Obote always set an example for dressing as you can see in the picture below. He also dressed for the occasion. He was a believer in sartorial excellence, and dressed in simple but elegant style. Whether adorning a sharp suit to meet foreign dignitaries or on foreign trips, in a Kaunda suit for daily office work, or simple shirt and collar to meet ordinary people, President Obote always made sure his appearance was top drawer- smart, simple and powerful. He started a cultural revolution when he returned from exile dressed in his Kaunda suit, as everyone started to dress the same way throughout the length and breadth of the country.

But take the Rwandan outlaw Kayibanda Museveni. Of course, he has an excuse for being slovenly, ill-suited and unremarkable in his dressing style and taste. Afterall, what do you expect of the boy who grew up looking after cattle. All he needed in the morning was bark cloth or cow hide to wrap around his torso and tyre sandals to protect his feet from the elements, and off he was to the jungles with his cows for 2 weeks at a time. Having cows for company most of the time, there was no need for dressing up, and no need for elegance. This is the difference between President Obote and Rwandan outlaw Kayibanda Museveni: one was brought up to care about his physical appearance and how he presented himself to the world, the other was brought up to disregard his physical appearance and to hate the world that confined him to the jungles and bushes.

So lets come back to the infamous picture of Kayibanda paying his respects at the feet of the statue of Chairman Mao at Tiananmen Square, the one that has caused so much merriment and laughter, or horror and opprobrium, depending on where you are coming from.

At first, you can't make out the person standing infront of the giant statue of Chairman Mao ( I was there myself in 1989) is in fact a president of any country. Three thoughts went through my own mind:

1. This was a poorly disguised pregnant woman, probably an illegal African immigrant, trying to dodge or avoid Donald Trump's road blocks and security checks in order to cross the Mexican border into America.

2. This was an Islamic jihadist with a home made bomb strapped to his stomache, and ready to explode it at any minute.

3. This was a very sick man with a horribly distended potbelly who needed to be rushed to hospital for emergency caesarean in case the belly burst and triggered a tsunami of shit and fart.

I am minded to blame Kayibanda's minders, minions and officials for not pulling the  Rwandan tyrant aside and telling him a few home truths about his personal appearance. A few years back, Kayibanda's Vice President Sekandi came to London to address some obscure meeting on promoting tourism in Uganda. It looked like he was invited for the meeting at very short notice, so rushed to the Kikubo second hand clothes market in Kampala and picked up the first suit he could lay his hands on. In the morning in London, he must have discovered the suit was 5 times over-size, but instead of calling the embassy to try to get him an emergency suit, he decided to just make do with what he had. Sekandi had no belt, so he used a white nylon rope which he must have picked from the litter bins outside his hotel to tie his oversize trouser tightly to his waist to prevent it from falling off his arse. When Sekandi stood up to speak, I just walked off. I was apoplectic with rage. I couldn't tell my young daughter that the caricature standing infront of us, dressed like a scarecrow, was actually the Vice president of our country.

Ugandan children are deeply embarrassed to see the caricature displayed at Tiananmen Square being described as their "president". It hurts their feelings and dampens their self-confidence. They want a president they can look up to and be proud of, not one everyone laughs at, a man who is dressed up no better than a street urchin or tramp, and who frequently dresses in military fatigues making him look no different from a common thug.or bank robber.

Bobby

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