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Every Ugandan needs a Ka safe corridor

The only true philosophers are the prisoners. They know what power really is

NO MORE: Naalya Estate is a representation of everything that has gone wrong with the country. Run-down houses, lack of elegance, and just another collection of things that claims to be an estate. Those of us who lived in Buru Buru estates (in our dreams) can tell you that Naalya estate is just smoking air.

The weeks are short, the days are long. You blink only to wake up to a new week. But the days, they are really long. But we start somewhere. First of all, Naalya Estate people, I just don’t understand you. What is it you are protecting about your ka-estate? The potholes? The boredom? The nostalgia for the good old days, when there was a semblance of an estate. Oba the spas, the massage parlours and the mushrooming low-budget International schools?

You see good people, I woke up to a surprise, Naalya Estate had shut itself off the rest of the world. Closed all the roads that lead out of it. Mbu, the motorists headed to Namugongo and Kyaliwajjala have been enjoying these areas as a way of cutting traffic jam. Well, some of the motorists have been over-speeding, but that’s another case. The good old estate decided to dump piles of murram at every exit route. It claims the roads are under construction. Now, one needs a ka safe corridor to access the estate.

But I should tell you, there’s really no need. There was never a need. Naalya Estate is a representation of everything that has gone wrong with the country…

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