14/07/2020
NINE (9) CATEGORIES OF PEOPLE REAPING HUGE FROM COVID-19
As coronavirus ravages the world, its lop-sided impact on some groups of people (like bodaboda riders) is noticeable here. However, this COVID-19 pandemic is shining light onto some people, and is exposing some flaws in our society. Some people wish the existing situation worsens or that we go back to complete lock-down anti bo bafunyeemu kiralu (reaped huge)! Ho! Here is the list:
1. MBA (‘Mangweno’ Beaters Association): This ‘association’ of men has reaped big by taking advantage of broke girls/women, slay queens, single mothers and married women. If you can notice, women have been so nice, meek, compliant and welcoming during the lock-down. Some have remembered to call their forgotten friends, OBs and ex-boyfriends in this trying moment. And the cunning ‘mangweno beaters’ (or call them women-eaters of Tsavo) have ‘been there’ for the ‘insolvent’ beautiful women, bambi. Of course you know the reward in exchange for their favours.
Some of these MBAs would use jogging as a cover-up especially on weekends kumbe babaza biwala utilizing the opportunity to seduce the juicy slay queens who also fictitiously jog to target salivating men of the MBA, with tight sweatpants and skimpy jogging outfits. Hmmnh, kika buka!
2. Parasites (Kleptocrats): Hmmnh! What should I say, really? If also the President decries the despicable behaviour of parasites in his government, what can the rest of us say? Mujooga!!
3. Food vendors (oba babayita ‘vendors’, simanyi luzungu nze!): I mean people who sell food stuffs like matooke, potatoes, cassava, fruits, vegetables, etc. Bambi, these people have ‘been there’ for us, but also made money from us ‘the eaters’, by the way. You can’t tell me these food-sellers have felt consequences of the pandemic, at least not in towns. Soon you will see them marrying second, third, fourth or fifth wives and building skyscrapers all over, in the newly created cities. Aya bbaasi!
4. Police: It’s alleged that no single curfew ‘victim’ (offender) or breakers of lock-down rules has left a police cell without paying something to these horrendous but ‘understanding’ police officers. Bambi the LDUs have been ailing and yawning with hunger (perhaps that is why they wrathfully beat you) as their police counterparts are purportedly ‘eating’. Yiiii, ejjoogo!
5. Taxi men (ironically): The countrywide lockdown and pause on public transport hit hard these taxi men. Everyone sympathised with them as we did with our friends in the bodaboda sector.
Munnange, immediately Jjajja Museveni lifted the ban and ordered taxis to carry half the total number of passengers, it was an opportunity for them to crookedly hike fares.
Here is the ‘kibalo’: Before the pandemic, a Kampala-bound taxi from Bweyogerere would charge nkumi bbiri bbiri (2,000/-) from each passenger. This is 2,000 x 14 = 28,000/-.
Appallingly, at this juncture, the same taxi from Bweyogerere charges 5,000/- (bw’oba toyagala tolinnya, ow’amaanyi tolinnya, ayogera oluzungu tolinnya!!). This makes it 5,000 x 8 = 40,000/- (and sometimes they squeeze in excess passengers). Now tell me, do these taxi men wish for this situation to normalize? Hmmnh! Era mmwe kale!
6. Makers of masks, food suppliers (that kawunga and beans given to the ‘vulnerable’ people in Kampala, Wakiso, and oba where else?), sanitizers, protective and safety stuff, and others of the sort. Hmmnh, we hear the government paid Shs79 billion for masks expecting to give each Ugandan above the age of five a reusable mask. Sijja kwongerako!
7. Politicians: These have tried to show how so much they care about the dire situation of their voters; sending messages, donating relief items, and some MPs (including big opposition figures) ashamedly declined to refund the 20M ‘eating’ it with their washed up voters. In the end, such Machiavellian (manipulative) tactics will win them votes. Kale bassebo ne bannyabo!
8. High-end quarantine hotel owners: Trouble!!! Imagine accommodation (excluding meals) at a cost of Shs200,000 a day (for an unfortunate Ugandan returning from ‘kyeyo’ in Saudi Arabia or Tanzania) for 14 days! If one wants full-board accommodation with meals inclusive then the least he has to pay is an extra Shs140,000 a day, bringing the total to a whooping Shs340,000. And don’t forget a bottle of water goes for Shs3,500 and breakfast Shs40,000! Temumbuuza bya mmere. And this cost is not negotiable!! Ahaaaa, byebyo nno!
9. Wedding couples: Just imagine a scientific wedding where you spend only 100,000/-! And honeyhoom in your living room, then bedroom and may be in the compound or store jogging (as President Museveni advises)! Yiii, for sure this was the right time to fix a wedding! Unfortunately, nze bimpiseeko!!
