Kampala. A city resident who had gone out to buy milk from across the street was left perplexed after he failed to find his way back home due to the unrecognisable empty streets in the city.
The over 14 days lockdown being implemented strictly by the security personnel as part of combating the corona virus in Uganda and has left most of Kampala looking like a ghost city and people who venture out have a tough time with security. But what happened to Andrew Kabalega was rather weird as he was not able to recognize the roads on his way back home after shopping.
Kabalega started from his home today morning in Ntinda center towards the market road to fetch some milk for his family. He reached the grocery store easily as there were some two people moving towards the direction. But it was while returning alone that he faced a big challenge in recognizing the roads. He covered a distance of almost 10-15 kilometers in search of his home in vain. The grocery store he shopped from was just 150 meters from his house.
On realising he was lost, he conveyed his problem to a policeman at one of the junctions and a police officer helped him reach home. Even while he was going back home in the vehicle, he was still not able to recognize even a single road.
An unreliable source from CPS told our reporter “We found that man loitering in kamwokya, he looked lost and the LDU alerted police. He should thank our CCTV system that managed to trace the house he came from”
UCN later caught up with him at his house as his family prepared to delete the “Free Kabalega” messages they had posted on Social media an hour earlier “I have grown up on this street and before the lockdown, I used to see several people which would help me find my way home easily. 20 meters from the store, there was always a begger, followed by a street preacher and then a body stage right opposite our gate which had newspaper vendors and a mobile money kiosk, I didn’t see any of them and that confused me”.
Government has hailed the work of Police and reminded people to stay at home while the opposition thinks the Kabalega story is a stunt by government to divert Ugandans from real issues. “Anyone can get lost in Kampala dues to buildings not marked well and we know the CCTV cameras do not work”, an opposition MP told our reporter
