By Aggrey Buluba
In a fiery episode of a popular political program aired every Tuesday night on a Ntinda-based TV station, MP Daudi Kabanda of Kasambya County dropped a bombshell assertion that sent ripples through Uganda’s political landscape. Known for his unfiltered commentary, Kabanda declared that all Ugandan politicians are in politics for survival rather than service.
The comments came in response to a probing question from the program’s moderator, who asked the panelists to reveal the true intentions of the opposition parties. Without missing a beat, Kabanda launched into a colorful analogy, comparing the opposition parties to “kiosks” in the political marketplace, while labeling the ruling NRM party as a “supermarket” with much deeper resources.
Kabanda didn’t stop there. To further back his bold claim, he quoted Minister Norbert Mao, who had famously quipped that he would rather own a 1% share in a supermarket than a 50% stake in a kiosk, explaining his decision to join a coalition with President Museveni. The supermarket, in this case, was none other than the NRM party, while the “kiosks” represented the opposition parties, small, struggling, and barely surviving.
The outspoken MP’s remarks have sparked a whirlwind of debate, with many Ugandans left wondering: Are these politicians genuinely here to serve their voters, or are they merely in it for their own survival and benefit? As the political temperature continues to rise, its evident that Daudi Kabanda’s “kiosk vs. supermarket” analogy has added a new layer of intrigue to Uganda’s ever evolving political drama.
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