Emmanuel Dombo complies to cassava decree

If you thought you were alone, read this: NRM man Emmanuel Dombo has complied to “cassava decree.”

As Dombo drove to Omoro for issues related to by-elections, he took an opportunity to buy loads of roasted cassava that he found along Gulu-Omoro Road.

He then tweeted: ” Emmanuel Dombo @emmanuel_dombo. Import substitution and austerity measures by govt are the only immediate feasible options against skyrocketing prices. This morning while on my way to Omoro, I had to heed the President’s advice to buy cassava if one cannot afford the bread. Cassava is cheaper and better.”

The Drone Media has established that the price of cassava has gone high after the President of Republic of Uganda, His Excellency Tibuhaburwa Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, sarcastically advised Ugandans to buy cassava Instead of bread.

Museveni’s statement has since been persistently implemented by both his loyalties  and mischievous Ugandans. Many Ugandans took it as a mockery; they likened it to Marie Antoinette’s of the French Revolution.

Historians have likened President Museveni to Marie Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne, the last Queen of France before the French Revolution.

At some point around 1789, when being told that her French subjects had no bread, Marie-Antoinette (bride of France’s King Louis XVI) supposedly sniffed, “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche”—“Let them eat cake.” With that callous remark, the queen became a hated symbol of the decadent monarchy and fueled the revolution that would cause her to (literally) lose her head several years later.

But did Marie-Antoinette really say those infuriating words? Not according to historians. These are the same historians querying the president’s statement about bread and cassava. This has become a problem.

However, this talk about cassava has not solved problems of the current hiked prices of commodities. In fact, it seems the mighty are nodding their heads in affirmative.