{"id":423344,"date":"2011-05-13T03:06:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T03:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/13\/museveni-guests-say-better-late-than-never\/"},"modified":"2011-05-13T03:06:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T03:06:51","slug":"museveni-guests-say-better-late-than-never","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/13\/museveni-guests-say-better-late-than-never\/","title":{"rendered":"Museveni Guests Say Better Late Than Never"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Muchiri Karanja<\/p>\n

12 May 2011<\/p>\n

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Nairobi \u2014 Did Kenya’s President breach protocol on Thursday by arriving late for the inauguration of his host, President Yoweri Museveni, or does the Ugandan protocol demand that the guest arrives later?<\/p>\n

Perhaps, perhaps not. Either way, both President Kibaki and Tanzania’s President Jakaya Kikwete arrived several minutes after their host during Thursday’s inauguration ceremony.<\/p>\n

The 67-year-old president, who is serving his fourth term — albeit with heightened opposition from his main challenger, Dr Kizza Besigye — was sworn in yesterday in Kampala.<\/p>\n

Dr Besigye missed the occasion as he was seemingly having a ball in Kenya — if the denials by both Kenya and Uganda that they barred the good doctor from boarding a Kenya Airways plane were anything to go by.<\/p>\n

The punctuality or otherwise, of African presidents invited to the function had some tongues wagging in Kenya, thanks to live coverage of the event.<\/p>\n

Social blunder<\/strong><\/p>\n

A number of bloggers felt that a number of heads of state — including President Kibaki — committed a faux pas (social blunder) by arriving long after their host was seated and the inauguration ceremony was under way.<\/p>\n

President Kibaki arrived at least 10 minutes after his host Museveni was already seated. Presidents Jakaya Kikwete, Robert Mugabe and Sharif Ahmed of the transitional government of Somalia were also late.<\/p>\n

As a result, Museveni and the rest of his visitors, already seated on the dais, kept rising from their seats to welcome the latecomers.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the live coverage, the faux pas did not go unnoticed.<\/p>\n

“His Excellency arrived late because of the time zone differences between Kenya and Uganda,” said one blogger.<\/p>\n

In the marching and the fly-past, the Ugandans seem to be catching up with their Kenyan military counterparts. A lot in the military band looked more like the Kenya Army Band during a Kenyan national day, complete with white gloves and red uniform.<\/p>\n

The soldiers, who saluted every time a head of state arrived, appeared strikingly Kenyan — save for a few fidgeting ones who differed from their more frozen Kenyan counterparts.<\/p>\n

Then there was the fly-past. A month before the inauguration, the Ugandan military acquired six new jet fighters from the Russians at a cost of over one trillion Ugandan shillings (Sh37 billion). News of the budget came together with that of a three billion shilling (Sh111 million) budget for the inauguration.<\/p>\n

The thundering jets of the Kenyan air force during national days must have inspired Thursday’s fly-past in Kampala, complete with the mid-air tricks.<\/p>\n

The tricks might not silence the opposition’s criticism of the spending, but it sure thrilled the thousands of Ugandans at the stadium, what with decades after independence, without an air force!<\/p>\n

Although the Ugandan opposition has been in the forefront in criticising the spending on jet fighters and the inauguration, the fighter-jet trillions and the inauguration party billions were clearly on display in Kampala on Thursday.<\/p>\n

There were no jet formations though — either all of the six jet fighters did not go on air, or it was Museveni’s preference for simplicity. The Ugandan president was himself driven into the inauguration in a Toyota Lexus. His colleagues would probably have gone for the limousine.<\/p>\n

For the Kenyan media, one wedding and an inauguration, all in two weeks must have been more than a scoop.<\/p>\n

It was exactly two weeks after live coverage of the a royal wedding in far away Britain, the land of our colonial masters.<\/p>\n

All three national television stations in Kenya went live during the inauguration of Uganda President Yoweri Museveni.<\/p>\n

The live coverage also raised an online debate in Kenya. While some critics wondered whether the Ugandan national TV would cover the swearing in of a Kenyan president live, a cheeky commentator retorted that the only reason the most recent Kenyan inauguration was not covered in Uganda was because it was done at night.<\/p>\n

This was in reference to the swearing in of President Kibaki back in 2008, which got very little coverage both in the Kenyan and East African Press.<\/p>\n

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