This ring finger on my right

I do realise this is a second post today in a drought-stricken blog, but I am feeling a bit concerned about a matter of great national importance. Members of our Parliament are worried about a swollen ring finger on the right hand of President Yoweri Museveni.


You see our visionary leader (It's a good thing that his vision is intact since it is not his eyes that are swollen - though many have observed that he is quite fond of bulging them during his lectures - and since he himself once said that doctors had warned him to tone down his schedule or risk blindness) has allowed his vulnerable side to show by wearing a plaster for more than two weeks now. I heard that the spicy piece of red vegetable has been on the trail of the finger that grew into a chipolata and now is 'the size of a sausage' (these last being their very words).




What is the point of this post? I have a request for all you analysts, experts, quack doctors, witch...I mean which doctors and conspiracy theorists: What do you think happened to that little (admittedly now large) finger on the president's right?



I know it was not a fish that bit his finger, because he did not himself go to Migingo Island to settle the dispute between Uganda and Kenya.

Personally, I became a bit suspicious after watching a skit on the comedy show 'Barbed Wire' when someone played the president ordering two of his ministers to prove their fitness by doing press ups.


When 'Namirembe' and 'Otafiire' fail to press even one up, the 'president' gets down to demonstrate his fitness. He shows several moves, suported on open palms, on bunched fists and even with one hand. Then he attempts to show how he does it with one finger...and collapses in a heap that only paramedics could uncollapse.

When five days later the plaster started appearing I wondered whether fiction had married truth.

So, people, hit me with your speculations.