If you are ever having a rough day, just hop online; the drama, the subs, and the unsolicited wisdom! Uganda’s timeline is that one chaotic drama series where if you blink, you miss a plot twist. Skip a day, and boom you are two seasons behind, someone has been cancelled (again). In this column, we catch you up on everything you missed because FOMO is real, and UG does not wait!
The TL was on fire this week after former Foreign Affairs Minister and professional veteran of the scandal hall of fame, Sam Kuteesa, unveiled a new church he constructed in Sembabule. The man, the legend, the whisper behind many a closed-door meeting, returned from a six-month medical stay in Germany, where he successfully battled cancer. Thanksgiving for his life, he built a church. If there is one thing we do not joke about, it is ribbon-cutting as it ends in food. Now, before you praise the Lord, the internet and its many unpaid opinion leaders had questions. “Why build a church?” “Why not donate that money to the Uganda Cancer Institute?” Just like that, Ugandans online were divided between those who believe in saving lives, and those who believe in saving souls. In came Ogon to remind us that this world gives you two Sams.
Samuel Leeds, a British investor, tourist, and now philanthropist who came to Uganda for adventure and almost got escorted to the afterlife after a nasty accident on the Nile. He was rushed to Jinja Hospital for basic first aid, thankfully the medics were not on strike that day. Grateful to be alive, he returned to the UK, recovered, then came back and built a top tier orthopedic wing at Jinja hospital. Man came, saw, got broken and built a ward. Second Sam, flew for premium healthcare to a country where even the hospital coffee is probably healthier than our entire medical system. Comes back half a year later, hugs his family, looks around, and says this country needs a church. To be fair, the good honourable does not owe us a hospital, it is his money. He can build a church, a mosque, or even a life-sized bronze statue of himself. As long as the people in Sembabule are thrilled. If the hospital won’t save them, maybe the altar will.
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