The English native speaker, I would like to emphasize the word native because I’ not one of them and I have never attempted to learn the depth of the language like some other people have done but in all fairness I can effectively communicate thanks to my teacher at the Bantu school I attended many years ago
The reason I raise this in this platform is because I have been looking at words or a word to describe two people of different background and because of my limitation with the language I managed only to get stooge which means a person who is under the control of the other it goes on to say being called a stooge is an insult and I have no reason to insult anyone but on my wish list was to find a word that can best describe both John Nagenda and Ofuno Opondo both leading candidates for being under the control of the chairman of the NRM-O I have used chairperson because their deployments into their respective structures are political rather than qualification.
I would have wanted to look in detail at the life and characters of the two gentle men but I shall only zero to John Naganda who a few weeks ago made news headlines with a stinging attack of his political mentor which took every body by surprise I’m sure including the appointing authority but the non surprise element was his continued use of his rich knowledge of the queen’s language to describe people he has disagreements over tactics and strategy but that is vintage Naganda for years he has used his articles in the government-owned newspaper to insult any individual or group of people who dare raised an issue about the leadership style of the Chairperson and at some extent becoming personal the likes of Mike Mabbike and Tamale mirundi recently can attest to this years ago the Good John describe him as a bar tender who should keep it to service tots rather than engage in issues of politics he knows nothing about and in his article he described Tamale as a spoilt brat but here is a simple insight why he treats people the way he does
Mao-zedong wrote “ there is a serious tendency towards capitalism among well to do peasants and he was referring to people like John since he comes from a background that treated less privileged people like trash and his long time association with the colonialist he is a modern-day colonial master the difference is the skin and people who have worked with his ISP company would agree to this he has no regard for any human being that did not attend Kings collage, whose background is that of a working class parents like Tamale or Mabbike he grew up in a home that looked at less privileged people as sub-human whose opinion can only be responded to with insults and that’s the kind of legacy he carries with him even ever he goes
For years he hang on his useless job which he carried out through the new vision simply because the chairperson enjoyed his verbose approach to real issues with the change in the media world from newsprint to social media the old John finds himself isolated and taking it out on people around the chairperson one of them being Tamale rater than blaming it on his failed bid to adopt to new changes.
Bottom line is you acted like the real peasant when u took the role of praise singer all the years you insulted any Ugandan who rose above-board instead of encouraging debate you laid the foundation of non response from the chairperson because each time people attempted to reach out to him many did not escape the power of your pen and tongue I’m sure it’s too late to evolve just keeping the stooge life style gets your bills paid why not keep the status quo
