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Common Sense: Here is the thing about Ingrid Turinawe
What you need to know:
Ingrid Turinawe has become the darling of media houses courtesy of the one thing politicians crave for; the limelight.
She has become the darling of media houses courtesy of the one thing politicians crave for; the limelight.
She is so adept at having the flashing lights on her and dominating newspaper headlines with all kinds of pictures of her that for a second you would think she is part of that group of ours that would do anything for a newspaper headline; the Ugandan artiste.
She and the likes of Judith Heard have one thing in common and that is, the camera loves them.
A day cannot pass without a picture, radio sound bite or a declaration from Ingrid Turinawe (captured on all TV channels) of how the curent government’s days are all but over in the next few months!
Turinawe has positioned herself as a political activist. That is all nice and sweet but here is the problem with that positioning; it seems everyone is an activist of sorts. Is it me or is the latest byword for “cool and hip” an activist!?
Goodness me, do we have all sorts of activists or what!? We have Ssubi pressure group, IPC, A4C, Ekoba, Bishops, Cardinals, former NRM cabinet members, name it!
Recently, we had some bare-chested women appear at Central Police Station in Kampala calling themselves…you guessed it…activists!
In other words, Turinawe is part of a movement composed of all sorts of individuals who have all these “grand” ideas on how to transform Uganda.
And if you are Turinawe, how would you stand out from all the other “activists” in order to be noticed and heard by Ugandans? Well how about adding a huge dose of drama to my persona!
Now if you looked at Turinawe, do you see someone who can competently discuss the health sector in Uganda and how to improve it?
The many times she has hogged our television screens have you ever heard her discuss fiscal policy and how the fiscal idea she has can transform millions of Uganda?
Of course, Turinawe has never done the above. Her attempt to speak to the electorate about her idea on how Uganda can be governed came when she stood for the Rukungiri Municipality seat as FDC’S flag bearer last year.
She lost rather miserably coming in, no, not second but third place .The winner, Rolland Mugumu pulled in 132 votes. That is our Turinawe.
Now let us get to the recent incident of her breast being savagely caressed by some police official.
This incident had our “activists” up in arms about the police brutality. And they were right.
A simple thing like towing Turnawe’s car to the nearest police station, with her in it would have solved the matter, than attempting to pluck her out.
But before we crucify the police, we need to look at Turinawe a little bit more analytically.
During one of the many episodes of Walk-to-Work protest, police had Turinawe under house arrest according to Police, to avoid chaos.
However, a memorable clip of her running away from the police on a boda boda having pretended that she was off to the well to collect water was played on NTV.
In other words, Turinawe refused to comply with police orders. Actually after her sprint, she later went off to town in some car and when police apprehended her, as usual, the drama queen in her came out; she shouted at the police as the crowd screamed.
Grabbing of her breast aside, what picture do we get from Turinawe after all this? Is it one of a fearsome intellectual (an Aung San Suu Kyi kind) bent on transforming Uganda or that of an Ebonies actress trying to flex their muscles in the political helms of Uganda…at whatever cost?
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