Why Prof Nawangwe deserves our Nobel Prize
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Daniel, an old roomie from Nkrumah Hall days, is so livid with what has been going on at Makerere University that he has renamed the big man out there Bananas Nawa-something.
The vice chancellor of Uganda’s premier institution of high learning will surely feel unappreciated for all the shifts his administration is putting in to see to it that future leaders of this country are not riff-raff and social media warriors.
And I feel Nawangwe. If it were up to me, I would have him shortlisted for the Nobel Peace Prize. But we all know that it’s easier to convince the son of Kaguta to retire to his cows than get Nawangwe shortlisted for the big one. But there is a consolation. The Nobel Prize for Empty Tin can as well fete Prof Nawangwe and deservingly so.
Can you imagine the other guy in Ethiopia just did a few push-ups with a handful of rebellious soldiers, gifted strongmen from East Africa with designer jackets and allowed an Eritrean plane to land in Addis and the world is celebrating him like he invented a machine that creates artificial rain?
Prof Nawangwe is the real deal. Who else would have known that the solution to striking students is re-enactment of a mini-Kasese by pouring the military to wreak havoc on Makerere? The last person who was so clever by a half that he knew how things worked was the chief swine Idi Amin himself.
That was in 1976. Does it sound so much to you like I am feeling it here? 1976 and 1986, isn’t the difference the same?
According to media alarms, jeshi ya rais did a few crunches on the students at night, leaving them with funny elbows and ankles, a guarantee that even if they were offered science to go and strike again, they would refuse.
Ignore the musical instrument at Central Police Station who says students were being given science to strike, mbu police even uprooted a MoMo agent in Wandegeya.
For the unprimed, science has nothing to do with the discipline Museveni is always preening for as being the ideal for socio-economic progress, but the other discipline that his government has perfected to a fault, leaving Nigerians feeling envious.
The Empty Tin would also like to recognise Nawangwe for having the forethought to see what future leaders of this country need when they have hit retirement age and the current leaders are finally forced by natural will to vacate offices.
When that time ever co
mes, Nawangwe’s products from Makerere University will be as fit as fiddle and ideologically in shape to lead the country past those 1986 reminders.
The logic was simple. If Makerere had made it compulsory for every student to be taken to Kyankwanzi for chakam chaka and ideological orientation, they would have refused and threatened to strike.
When it refuses to rain, the farmer takes irrigation to the shamba and Nawangwe decided to do just that. Knowing the students would reject Kyankwanzi talk, he brought in the guys who do the orientation right to their doorsteps.
You see, it’s now a fad for the guys in madoadoa to be deployed to quell anything and everything. The other day they were deployed on my neighbour in Kireku in Kirinya to stop a domestic fight. They were present to beat up journalists into cabbages, leaving one confined to a wheelchair. They are even deployed to divert flooding in Kampala when the big man has to drive through.
Since they were expelled from the jungles in Congo and with no sign of anymore war after Kony fled to nowhere and Jamil Mukulu was captured somewhere, our soldiers have been so bored they fight for deployment to South Sudan and Somalia. But these two small countries cannot take in all the military chaps.
The rest have to be allowed to do some refresher target shooting and baton wielding on the streets.
Since Besigye has stopped running around in hooded shirts, where else were these soldiers to have some baton-xercise than at Makerere? It would have been selective deployment of resources if Nawangwe didn’t have these guys kick the living daylight at the hill.
The Empty Tin celebrates Prof Nawangwe for bullying for the future!
