If you participate in any form of social media, you’ve probably heard of Mirundi’s Law: that inevitably, if any Internet discussion goes on long enough, someone will compare something to Museveni.
There is, I think another law: that defending the indefensible on Twitter will get you trending.
It worked for it is working for the Kasangati first son – Anselm Besigye.
I’m talking about the unseemly war of words that erupted this morning involving his father Dr Kizza Besigye and a number of his followers. At the centre of the skirmish is Oxfam ED Winnie Byanyima, who only is meant to be praised by the husband. She is, in fact, for single handedly bringing up their son.
I am grateful to Winnie for singlehandedly bringing up this young man. His heart is in the right place. pic.twitter.com/2K407yVupX
— Kifefe Kizza-Besigye (@kizzabesigye1) December 26, 2016
Misinterpreted?
For their part, twitterati think Dr Besigye, a four-time presidential candidate is a bad father and should have been there more for his son than have Ms Byanyima do all the work.
All of this began with a tweet from a user, Habib Mboowa hitting out at the politician for having failed to play hisrole as a father to the young man but wants to be given the top most job in the country.
Enter Dr. Besigye with a follow-up tweet read, “Struggle is very costly 2 activists-this is one such cost! Change will benefit Anselm &his generation!”
Then it got weirder, with Fred Kawere asking Besigye to work on his son’s hair because: “That is not typical of statehouse.”
And then boom: another user called Anslem a gay.
