Bizonto should be remanded to the condemned section of Luzira Prison

Samuel Muhindo

Social media has been awash with videos of a choir of men highlighting the need why parents have to tell their children about Uganda and the origins of the leaders. They implore the parents to inform their children that all the leaders in the major offices come from a specific sub-region of this country. 

little did I know that the videos were making rounds and were being shared by Ugandans out of defiance. The Bizonto which literary means fools had been arrested by the police on charges of promoting sectarianism. Since when did fools call them madmen become a threat to a country led by a mass party? what then did the bushmen armed with 27 guns bring to this country that even the idiots give czar Joel sleepless nights?

I do not have kind words for these fools and they should be remanded to Luzira. This country has no tribalism but rather has a reward system. Of the 4O gallant men that attacked kabamba armed with 27 guns, I saw very few people that were not from the same village. So let these men enjoy their world animal because they risked their lives while hunting. When the conversation of tribalism is reduced to the Baganda and Banyankole, it loses meaning. This country is endowed with very many cultures. 

The comment on tribalism in their satire and use of Luganda was not because they were Baganda but because Luganda is Uganda's de facto national language. Luganda is widely spoken and understood by a large majority of this country. Am positive that these covidiots expected the backlash and they are now reaping from what they had sown (eminyafu).

 The Bizonto expected the powers that be to receive the message and when they received it, they responded to their cry to be put into solitary confinement. They are now our sacrificial lambs. As American civil rights activist John Lewis (RIP) would have affirmed, the Bizonto started good trouble. 

With porridge around the beards, you could not say that it wasn't you that had taken mama's porridge without giving the porridge. The issue of tribalism in this country is far beyond Baganda and Banyankole. We should end the tendency of asking why the cabinet does not have a Mukonzo, Muganda, a Muslim among others. let's now uncomfortably talk about the inequitable distribution of the national cake among Ugandans until we are comfortable to say that there's no tribalism in Uganda. 

"...Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise..." As said by the fool in Shakespeare's King Lear. The Bizonto should be kept in the condemned section for having made the Czar lose his sleep.

I wish to live in a Uganda where my child shall not be given or denied a job based on their name or religion but rather on their individual abilities as occupants of this beautiful land bequeathed to us by our forefathers.

This piece was written having listened to the "wretched of the earth" by Frantz Fanon