Hi guys,
This post was not actually planned, but some extraordinary events yesterday caused me to pull up my socks, jumpers, vests and everything that is mine and write this post.
There is a warning though, please forgive the FOUL and EXPLICIT language that I m due to use in this post. The mental state was/is such that I have to use those foul words.
It all starts in the evening around 9.30 pm, we (me and my roomie) have our dinner and as usual move out for our usual evening quota of walks and rest outside our premises in the open. It is all well as we walk for a while and then exhausted we sit nearby for a few minutes. Its all good till now.
In comes the trouble, a group of 6 police guys come around (yeah they r the trouble, not some thieves or robbers, who robbed me on the highway!!), and to them we look as we were a threat equivalent to ALQAEDA or LASKAR -E -TAIBA. If they had asked us to just walk off and go home keeping in mind our safety as it was dangerous to lurk around town, then I wont had any problem.
But the problem came when the M*****F***** constable, yeah he was a bloody constable says to me that I am an IDLER..Fuck me, did I seriously look like an idler, was i littering there and posing as a harm to the law of the land. There are so many mulaloos moving around the area near my house sitting and boozing, smoking ganja and stuff. Our MF constable couldnt find any of them and we, as a decent citizen of Uganda, law abiding, hefty tax payers, working lawfully in all spectrums of life here in UG are caught and termed as idlers.
I just cant term how much I felt bad. If I had done a faulty thing, I would had been fair enough to jst move along with law, pay whatever fine I would had been demanded from. M saying this because I have had experiences with UG law previously also. I was caught once by KCC for briefly driving on the pavement (again under extraordinary circumstances, I was driving, but yeah I agree I was wrong in doing so) and I was thoroughly harrassed by them as well, but then I paid the full amount of fine they asked for, as I had committed a mistake and I wanted to regret it. But here it was not the case.
Ok, so I have been termed an anti-social, now they cant arrest me or anything, so this guy asks me to walk along with them for patrolling the area. As if its written on my face that I am an IDIOT, I denied to do that saying I need to work tomorrow and need to sleep. To this, the assistant MF constable answers that it is my duty also as a Ugandan to patrol the street, WTF, then why are you MF paid for (watever paltry thing he earns, I say that because no one will go around asking an expat for money unless you are like being paid peanuts, which self-respecting person would ask for money at at this unholy hour unless you a WHORE prying the streets of Kampala.).
The hilarity of this grim incident went even further, when I tried to call our guardian out here, so that he as a Mzee could put some brains into this guys ( i want to give numerous great sounding adjectives to this constables, but my conservative upbringing is stopping me from doing it). So at the time of making the phone call, he asks me if I am calling for the REBELS, so fight him or that if I was calling Gen Kayihura to fire him. At that moment I seriously hoped that I had General's no. so that i could jst call him and he could bash up this guys up..and screw this guys up!! And regarding the rebels, well this guys dont know what rebels are, come to India, (if they can afford it or may be if they want at my expense for an educational trip), I would surely be pleasured to show how rebels fight, they are terribly brutal. Jst two days back I read about an incidence, where in the inskirts of a rebel infected area, a local cop was beaten and killed (mutaliated wud be a more appropriate term), that even his family members said that the body dint look even like a human body.
The point being that ONE SHOULD ACTUALLY THINK A LOT BEFORE SPEAKING SOMETHING AS YOUR ACTIONS CAN BE WITHDRAWN BUT A WORD OUT OF YOU MOUTH IS LIKE AN ARROW OUT OF A BOW, IT CANT BE TAKEN BACK!!.....
Readers, I know I have been too much in writing all this stuff, but let me ask you one thing, arent there enough criminals out there in the streets of Kampala for this guys to patrol upon rather than come onto us useless mortals who are jst outside our houses doing nothing more than taking a walk.
Anyways, I know that every cop or security guy is not like the above mentioned ones, and I do respect them with my whole heart, as they take much pains in guarding us, our localities, our country and they lose sleep so that we can sleep peacefully (well yeah more often than NOT)....
but then there are few like the above, who just dont seem to get on mind what is reasonable.
Guys, just put me out if I am wrong somewhere and please forgive me if I wrote something unholy or unreasonable, but then its the heart speaking out as I dont expect or deserve such a treatment from a public servant, whom we as citizens of the country pay and who are more or less the SERVANTS OF THE PUBLIC, and I take the liberty of deeming myself as a citizen of this country where I have spent some very valuable years of my life.
Hoping to cheer up the weekend with some ON THE ROCKS WHISKEY (yeah i broke my resolution of not boozing and kickstarted it, but then I lasted the most in my group in maintaining the resolution!!).
happy weekend
