Komutale's wedding: Are we that bored?

some people didn't understand what the romp and publicity of this wedding was about

A wise man once said, “Its better to say too much than never to say what you need to say”, I must admit I learnt a lot from the statement even when I got issues with his general English.

I love getting my voice heard, I guess it’s the reason I joined a journalism school in the first place.

Last weekend our TV screens, courtesy of the national broadcaster condemned us to a wedding by one gorgeous (obviously that’s an understatement) Ruth Komutale.

I personally couldn’t understand what the fuss was all about, a national broadcaster scrapping the entire day schedule for a wedding?

Are we really this depressed?

If this had been a private TV, nobody would be complaining, in fact we could have treated this as a fully paid for advert for Toro.

A national broadcaster is usually a government owned TV and radio stations, with the main aim of informing the masses. Well on November 17^th, our national broadcaster probably forgot all about this.

For crying out loud, it was so unprofessional for a national TV to broadcast a person’s wedding for over 8 hours. True the wedding was a big thing and could have made headlines in any paper, radio and TV bulletins but in my personal opinion (which is so right) a live broadcast on two national TVs was simply overboard.

What national interest does Princess Komutale generate? She may be a princess but she is of Toro not Uganda. This is what makes the Kate Middleton case different, she and Prince William are royals of the Great Britain and in anyway you clearly understood BBC broadcasting that wedding live.

This could not come to act in the case of the gorgeous Komutale or the Kabaka’s wedding thirteen years ago.

The Kabaka may be a central figure among the Baganda just like Princess Komutale meant a lot to the people of Toro, but majority of the Ugandan citizens harbour no interest in these two’s marriage, they care less if Komutale is single or not.

I don’t want anyone to get me wrong, am happy for the princess and even at a tender age I was indeed happy for the kabaka in 1999 but, the broadcast of these two weddings is still questionable.

They are royals and thus very much respected in their respective kingdoms but to a larger Uganda, they are human beings like me and you. To a Muganda, the Kabaka deserves devine respect yet to a non Ganda, he’s just some man. The same goes to the princess.

Thus considering the fact that Uganda is not a monarch, scrapping an all day programme to screen a wedding that meant nothing to over 75% of the country citizens was an abuse.

I understand someone may reason that its part of their objective to promote culture, if that’s true did they broadcast different coronation ceremonies of different kingdoms be them big or small? Can we assume that only two royals got married or introduced in the past thirteen years?

Whatever happened to inspiring Uganda with constructive information?

Well as your cameras were rolling to some semi American-Toro wedding, for the first time in Uganda’s history of football, fans met and had sometime with the Cranes players. Just to refresh your minds on who the Cranes are, these are the boys who represent this country in multiple nations qualifiers and that other tournament we’ve won 12 times. I doubt if you have ever covered their training in real time, and next week they will have their backs against the ropes for the Ugandan pride, now that’s something of national interest.

And, oh yes, I would rather watch the Miss Uganda beauty pageant because at the end, she’s Miss Uganda not Buganda, Busoga, Toro or anything. If she’s to win at Miss World, few will even remember her name but her country of origin. As trivial as it sounds, it’s of national interest thus worth broadcasting on a national TV but a kingdom wedding! Do we lack a life or we are simply too bored?