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I plead guilty to ‘terrorism’

Kampala, Uganda: On a cool Saturday morning as we prepared our house for our weekend visitors, my wife heard some irritating noise that went on and on. Her instinct was that this noise must have been coming from some enemy with ill intentions of interfering with our peace. “Honey, please act fast and find out what’s causing this noise”, she sweetly called out.

I hurried to the rescue and found some rare insect number 1 dancing around the window curtains. I suspected that it was the author of the noise, but was very hesitant to claim its life. I was torn between pleasing my wife and getting rid of this insect. It remains my personal principle NEVER to kill anything except in self defense. So, before I could do injustice to this insect, I said a little prayer and hit it once with a slipper, and it lay lifeless on the floor. Meantime, my wife had long taken to her heels frightened.

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