There is something that
seems wrong with this month. This September started entirely in bad
disposition. The only thing news is bloody! In a span of hardly one week;
strange, fatal or actually death reports are the things people can hear
and talk of. As I put this down, a colleague at my work place is reported
bruised in an accident. She was on her way home to leak the sugar in an annual
leave. Back at office, we are on our knees -to pray hard for her quick
recuperation.
But the main issues are
these critical accidents that rocked the vicinity of my current location –
Karamoja. Comical ones are those reported at two Campuses of discipline –the prison
stories in Kotido and Moroto. In Kotido, inmates reportedly scattered into the
bushes as police officers in charge went for body fitness exercise -a road run.
Bullets, am told roared in this dusty town until most of the campus students
were fetched back.
Similarly, in Moroto,
the afande in charge was ostensibly duped by these disciplined citizens. The boys,
am told tricked police that they needed to pick their phone calls from nature! Boy,
eye witnesses narrate that these students took the role of Steven Kiprotich after
getting behind some bush. Police had no option but to shoot without missing. One
unlucky gold medallist was hit and hurt not in the leg as required. Good thing,
this wounded sprinter is currently chewing free medicine at Moroto regional referral
boarding school.
Critical injuries
caused by Asian craps called pikipikis
are of all most weird considering the way they rocked the region. It’s
unbelievable, yet we must accept and probably do something about it –at least pray
for it. Late last week; a man on a bike
in Nakapiripirit district reportedly hit at a Tipa Lorry and his bones were immediately
in broken pieces, limbs were badly out of order according to reports. As we say
our prayers, the victim is receiving help in West Germany because no hospitals
and no doctors were good enough for his assistance within our Country.
At the same time, another
Youngblood in Moroto also landed with one more pikipiki and painfully broke all his two legs –bones chopped. As we pray, this brother is being nursed at Mulago
Hospital. Another man in Nyakwae Sub County of Abim district Friday last week
reportedly kick-started the engine of his bajaj machine and entered gear one, gear
two, three and four at the highest speed as he aimed at the sign post. His injuries
according to those who saw are also terrible.
The motorbikes’
accident report that reached this website indicates that between Friday and Saturday
last week alone, a total of nine people were admitted at Morulem Health Centre
and most of them got transferred to Matany Hospital. A friend of mine who
visited Matany tells that, the surgical ward is the busiest at present. “Almost
every case is serious and nearly all of them are accidents from motor bikes”,
he says. Before completing this write up, here is a phone call and guess what?
Another accident! My Two home boys who were heading to Abim to attend two separate
funeral services have entered the pikipiki
‘ambush!’ Moroto regional referral is trying to do service on the one injured
person. As we pray, I even fear now to board a boda boda. My bicycle will be my
jet for now.
Then, fire on the
mountain! This should have been my catch-word; like never before, I almost
witnessed live gunshot to kill. As we traversed Nakonyen village in Tapac Sub
County Monday, people are on the run. The driver and me are stuck in thought
that the farmers are either jogging to capture time, or the heavens is beginning
to bleed. It was a simple stop that gave us the lession.
A self appointed 2nd
lieutenant is down and blood is burbling from his coconut. The young warrior
clad in an army uniform had his ‘made-of-thread’ rank. According to the UPDF,
the boy had a gun and was shooting at the combatants, before the trained men
shouted bullets on his head. The army say the ‘lieutenant’ was with two other
boys who had no guns, the two scattered free. Other cases of shootings and
death are said to have occurred in Lorengedwat...
Thus, in order to try
and save lives, traffic police might need to do more serious and real verification
of the riders. There is need to regulate on speed. Police have all other
possible reasons for the occurrence of accidents; I call upon them to do
something. Then, as the grass continue to grow toll, let’s watch that some stubborn
brothers still try to take advantage and look for innocent lives...Let’s be
careful, this must be a crazy month!
