Abandoned engalaabi exposes Entebbe International Airport

The story of the abandoned Engalaabi at Entebbe International Airport is one typical example of how security operatives and other staff members take bribes from innocent Ugandans.

Instead of explaining and helping travellers, the staff at the airport are ever looking for slight opportunities resulting from lack of knowledge that places the victim a boxing corner.

Most times the desperate travellers are forced to bribe their way out because they want to reduce costs that can be brought about by missed flights.

Well, this is the story of Engalaabi abandoned at the Airport as told by cultural artiste.

While this source was at Uganda’s Entebbe International Airport after saying bye to his friend  Flavia Apio, his eyes  landed a long drum locally known as (engalaabi) that seemed ripped out of its ready-to-travel-wrap, terribly abandoned and left on its own.

Being a cultural performer and creative etreprenuer, he reached out to it as if to ask who left it there and if he could come back with it and place it where it belongs in their instruments store.

No sooner had he got closer to it  than an officer /Warden from UWA came closer to him and asked why he was disturbing the peace of his “EXHIBIT” of wayward cultural performers who were forced to abandon the long drum on their performance trip to China?

He then asked why and what happened so he and the team at Hot-House of Talent Entertainment never get into such an embarrassment and ambush next time they want travel.

The UWA officer with a huge smile reportedly told him how he confiscated the long drum from the cultural performers as they did not have the permit of the engalaabi that is made from an endangered species,  the MONITOR LIZARD ? that UWA is mandated to protect from extinction.

A good number of Long drums skins are made from monitor lizards that have to be killed to make this particular drum.

You may feel sorry for that team that went to perform without the engalaabi well knowing how that drum is instrumental in a number of our cultural and traditional dances.

This is an appeal to cultural performers especially those planning to travel with the long drum to get that permit from UWA before they get  into the bribe racket of the goons at the airport.

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