The dispute between Kenya and Uganda over the ownership of Migingo Island has taken a new angle with president Museveni demanding an apology from some sections of Kenyans "who are insulting Ugandans".
| It's a speck of an island in Lake Victoria between the two countries. See a photo and background article here. It's a place only smugglers could love. Therefore, the two countries will go to war and suffer horrific casualties. |
The president, who refused to retract his alleged attacks on Kenyan Jaluos, instead told a press conference of Uganda and Kenyan journalists at Entebbe Airport yesterday that Kenyan politicians, specifically Lands Minister James Orengo, must apologise for calling Ugandans hyenas.
| Over here the children chant, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me." Besides, everyone knows Ugandans are actually vultures, soaring high and free above the world while they wait for something to die, not a skulking trapezoid of a spotted animal whose females look like well-endowed males. |
Mr Museveni said the BBC took his "Jaluos are mad" remark out of context, insisting that the reference was only to those who uprooted the railway line in Nairobi, not the entire Luo community. |