Walusimbi 🇺🇬

Wekesa is so obsessed with the money he makes from tourism that he seems to have developed a peculiar allergy to conversations about human suffering. Someone is abducted? Don't affect tourism. Someone is tortured? Don't affect tourism. Someone disappears? Please, think about tourism. Someone is killed for their political views? His first instinct is still to worry about tourism. At this point, one has to wonder whether Wekesa is actually protecting Uganda's tourism industry or protecting his own financial interests. Because the pattern is becoming rather embarrassing. Human beings are being brutalised, families are being destroyed, and this gentleman is behaving like Uganda's biggest national emergency is a tourist cancelling a safari. I would think that before selling Uganda's beautiful landscapes to the world, we should first be concerned about the people who inhabit them, because if your first instinct when a Ugandan is killed is to calculate the potential loss in tourism revenue, perhaps it is time we stopped pretending that your concern is patriotism. It might just be business wearing a national flag.