Tuesday 21 January 2020

Poverty and Desperation in Neo-liberal Uganda : When Hundreds camp at New Vision to receive ‘Illuminati money’

  The Boda Boda riders and their passengers started arriving at the New Vision offices in Industrial Area as early as 3am Wednesday morning

Thousands of boda riders flock New Vision offices for ‘Head of Illuminati in Uganda’s’ Shs5m

 

Sometime this year, the Minister of Finance, Matia Kasaija, was lost for words when describing the rate at which Uganda’s economy was growing.

Then, he attributed its growth due to commercialisation of agriculture and increased infrastructure investments.

“The economy in Uganda has been stable over the last two decades and is expanding,” Kasaija told an awareness workshop for Parliamentary Oversight Committees on Public Financial Management.


He, however, said although the economy is growing steadily, the gap between the poor and the rich is also widening.
“We still have people who are poor and some cannot afford a meal a day but as minister,” Mr Kasaija said.

The Boda Boda riders and ‘regular people on foot’ who brought business on Third Street Industrial Area to a standstill are part of this lot.

Otherwise how do you explain grown men and women in their hundreds opting to camp around New Vision offices to receive free money as opposed to toiling for it?

According to our sources, the boda boda riders camped outside Uganda’s Leading Daily waiting for the “head of illuminati” in Uganda to come and give them Shs5million each.

This money was allegedly promised by the said chap, Kamada Mulyowa during a talk show on Bukedde Radio hosted by Uganda Journalists Association head, Bashir Kazibwe on Tuesday evening.
“The riders reportedly started flocking the premises as early as 3am waiting for the so-called head of illuminati to show up at 3pm on Wednesday afternoon,” the source said.
They came from as far Mbarara, Mbale and Rakai.
By 3pm, the lot became rowdy after waiting for too long, threatening to burn down New Vision premises.

The Police and Local Defence Unit (LDU) personnel who had been on watch since 7am used tear gas to dispese the crowd. Most however refused to leave, claiming New Vision management and staff wanted to take the money yet Kamada had specifically said it was theirs.

“This is our gift from (President) Museveni and God. Why would (Robert) Kabushenga call the Police yet our man (Kamada) is on his way to help us get out of poverty? Do you know what that money can do for our lives?” Hassan Kalema, a boda rider from Bwaise shouted as he rode away from the ensuing chaos.

Together with his colleagues, they were seen re-strategising around Chillies takeaway.

 

Hundreds camp at New Vision to receive ‘Illuminati money’





Several youth numbering to hundreds on Wednesday gathered at Vision Group offices located on Plot 19/21, First Street Industrial Area seeking to meet the alleged head of Illuminati secret society in Uganda.

The Illuminati is a name given to several groups, both real and fictitious. Historically, the name usually refers to the Bavarian Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era secret society founded on 1 May 1776.

Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, Patrick Onyango, expressed his disappointment in the state media after it was announced yesterday that the head of Illuminati would appear at New Vision offices.

“Our media houses should check what they broadcast. How can you go on air and announce that the head of Illuminati will be in New Vision today and he will be giving out money,” Onyango said.


Onyango urged the media regulator Uganda Communications Commission [UCC] to take action saying the action had interrupted people’s work.




 “People have gathered around New Vision waiting for him. People can’t work. UCC should look into this matter,” Onyango noted.
New Vision journalist Steven Odeke shared a video of the massive crowd camping outside their offices saying:
“Poverty has eaten Uganda. So, people camped at Vision Group very early to receive free “blessed” money from some chap who claimed he is illuminati on radio.”
The hundreds of unemployed youth joined by boda boda riders had reportedly gone to collect money from the money from a man who publicly announced on a local radio that he will be distributing illuminati money.




Police and LDUs deployed
This was during a talk show on Bukedde Radio hosted by Uganda Journalists Association head, Bashir Kazibwe on Tuesday evening.
The “head of illuminati” in Uganda had reportedly promised to hand out Shs5m to each person who showed up.
In response, people started flocking New Vision offices in Kampala as early as 3am. Their “saviour” was expected to arrive at the same venue at 3pm.
Police and Local Defence Unit [LDU] officers deployed swiftly to the scene to avoid possible chaos and contain the crowd from turning rowdy.


Please forgive me for hoodwinking you on behalf of the Illuminati man – New Vision’s Kabushenga apologises to angry boda riders seeking free money

 Robert Kabushenga has publicly apologized to people who gathered outside his office with the hope o receiving Shs5,000,000.

On Wednesday morning, hundreds of Boda Boda riders and ‘regular people on foot’ brought business in  Industrial Area to a standstill as they waited for a one Kamada Mulyowa to give them the said money, allegedly on behalf of the Illuminati.

Kamada, the self proclaimed head of Illuminati in Uganda, is said to have made the pronouncement on Tuesday evening during a talk show hosted by Uganda Journalists Association head, Bashir Kazibwe on Bukedde Radio.

According to our sources, the boda boda riders camped outside Uganda’s Leading Daily, New Vision from as early as 3am waiting for the so-called head of illuminati to show up at 3pm on Wednesday afternoon.
They came from as far Mbarara, Mbale and Rakai.


By 3pm, the lot became rowdy after waiting for too long, threatening to burn down New Vision premises.

The Police and Local Defence Unit (LDU) personnel who had been on watch since 7am used tear gas to disperse the crowd. Most, however, refused to leave, claiming New Vision management and staff wanted to take the money yet Kamada had specifically said it was theirs.

“This is our gift from (President) Museveni and God. Why would (Robert) Kabushenga call the Police yet our man (Kamada) is on his way to help us get out of poverty? Do you know what that money can do for our lives?” Hassan Kalema, a boda rider from Bwaise shouted as he rode away from the ensuing chaos.

Together with his colleagues, they were seen re-strategising around Chillies takeaway.
This prompted Kabushenga, the Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director and Managing Director of The New Vision Printing & Publishing Co to apologise to the agitated lot.

You have asked that I apologise, for all that you have gone through and before this big camera here, I apologise. Please forgive me,” he said in Luganda, a local dialect.
He added, “The man hoodwinked us and we also did the same to you. Please forgive me.”



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