Tempers flare as Ugandans shoot each other like there will be no guns tomorrow

The prolonged drought must have done something to the heads of Ugandan men. Now they are going around shooting at one another like they have been told there will be no guns tomorrow.

Only last week one man was charged for pumping bullets into another man’s stomach just because he had scratched his car in a parking lot.

As we, women, were still gasping at the senselessness of this, four other men riding two motor bikes cornered two other men and showered then with bullets. Both incidents took place in Kampala city, the first in the early evening, the second in the early morning.

The second shooting's victims were army officers, driving in an official army vehicle. The boda boda riding fellows shot the car’s tyre and it veered off the road.

The soldiers inside, one a major and his guard, a sergeant, were then showered with thirty bullets, I hear they call it a full magazine, kicked the bodies and left them on display.

And then the men in authority, for some unclear reasons, left the bodies on the road in the city for about three hours, as if to ensure that everybody got to confirm that the season for killing is now open.

And then more followed. The soldiers were killed on the last Saturday of November. On Sunday, the killing theatre had shifted to the beautiful ‘mountains of the moon’ in the western region. The theatre was none other that the royal palace of the mountainous kingdom of Rwenzoruru.

I am not sure what the men were killing each other for, but at the end of the palace massacre, over one hundred people had died, sixteen of them officers of the security forces. Most of the rest were royal guards of the Rwenzoruru king. The palace was set ablaze and the king was captured.

His Royal Highness Charles Wesley Mumbere was put on a plane and flown to his new home, the maximum security prison of Nalufenya at Jinja.

But now the rains have started. I think the cool temperatures are going to cool the tempers of our men.

I pray that they put those guns away and pick up hoes to take advantage of the rains and plant seeds for maize and beans so that we get enough food next year. We need the grain more than the bullets, someone should tell that to Ugandan men.