Moka Energy Fuel station along Entebbe road today evening caught fire days after the country is still mourning Makerere’s signature building. The cause of this fire could not be ascertained immediately but credible sources say it could have sparked from negligence of the pump attendants. By the time of filing this report, the fire had been put out but the fuel station is counting losses worth millions of shillings.
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The rampant fires from one side to another have placed this government under public scrutiny following the realisation that the entire fire service of Uganda has about 10 functioning old fashioned vehicles. The dramatic moment at Makerere where the firemen struggled to reignite the mute engine of their vehicle left Ugandans in total dismay as many criticised the police for investing heavily in teargas trucks which are used to quash protests and yet essentials like fire trucks are scarce.
Reports we’ve already got indicate that the NRM regime is to invest in online propagandists to peddle a narrative that all these fires are attributed to the opposition plan B. Earlier today, NRM musician Bebe Cool posted on his Facebook a controversial ill punctuated narrative that the opposition had lit a fire at Makerere in a hid to discredit the NRM government, something that has sparked anger from the students and alumni who have tasked him to stick to his music and restrain himself from making childish remarks. The Gagamel boss wrote a very unpatterned statement that could even be hardly be authored by a school dropout at such a time. “Not all smart phone users have smart brains. We are in an era where some people think owning a smart phone makes them analysts,” reacted one of the Makeree students stinging the Gagamel boss.
