It’s easier to sympathise with Jamwa than Nabeta

There are things you just don’t attempt in January unless you are Donald Trump. Things like organising wedding meetings in January and your wedding at the beginning of February. Of course, some people are made of better metal than the alloy most of us were moulded from and can bravely attempt to pass a gush of wind when they have an acute case of diarrhoea.
Like Nathan Igeme Nabeta. The politician from Jinja must be naïve. For all I care, there was someone willing to give up anything except his life and his office to have age limit struck off the Constitution of the republic. This fellow would have even consented to ‘HE’ Walakiira Hamiidu Luutu’s wish to carve a ‘Republic of Kawempe’ from Uganda in exchange for that age limit chalice.
Olara Otunnu, for instance, would have received bales of kitenge straight from Kinshasa delivered by the presidential jet if he had come out to support the scrapping of age limit and given the old man such conditions. Things were really going fast.
But then somewhere in Jinja East, a politician knew he was living on borrowed time. He probably could sense his defenestration from Parliament was stayed only because his yes vote was needed. Once he had bleated yes like any of the other 317 MPs, he was going to face the wrath of the law.
But poor Nabeta, like a man who has just had a heavy, late 4pm lunch of egg plants floating in a jerrycan of soup and potatoes rests under a jackfruit tree, he prolonged a blink into a slumber. Rather than focus on the millions that were at stake, Nabeta would have negotiated for his stay of execution and that court verdict would have not come out as it did.
Now, some legal minds are going to go gaga over suggestions that the Temple of Justice is compromised, but who doesn’t know this? If anything, the courts are like littered with used political condoms and we are so used to it. That is why the other day a minister boldly announced that a group of media managers who had been incarcerated in Luzira would be released on bail at the next court session.
And it happened. Bail. How would the minister know that the court would consent to the arguments for bail if the court wasn’t acting on ‘orders from above’? In a land where criminals call a media conference to openly confess of how they work with police to commit wanton crime on citizens, anything is possible as long as you are not after a spotted animal’s furry shithole (these bad words are a merger of what two presidents said, not mine).
Oh wait, did I say going after the big seat? We heard even soldiers who confessed to treason were pardoned by the military court and released with just caution. And you thought Odonga Otto was the only joke in our land?
Nabeta’s political naivety makes one look at Jamwa’s inflated body mass and the bids of sweat that decorated his face like he was undergoing a Karimojong ritual and sympathise. Although even Jamwa would have sought audience with the Leo at the crucial juncture and promised to use his big size to canvas for the age limit bill to pass, Nabeta was much closer to the film scene and should have used his vote to make sense.
Now he faces accountability for bleating yes like a sheep when the voters had said to confidently say no.