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... on I saw this article in the New Vision about two weeks ago, about this guy exporting Ugandan monkeys to Russia. I thought it would make a good feature story I could easily sell. I called the Vision reporter and got the guy’s phone number, Yekoyada Nuwagaba. I call him.
“Mama, what do you want? What do you want? Why do you want to write about this?” Nuwagaba asked me.
I explained I thought people were interested in monkeys and it would make a good story. He told me to call the next day. I did. He told me to call two days later. I did. He told me to call in another day. I did. Again, and again. About five phone calls later, he told me to talk to the Vision reporter for information. I told him it’s bad journalism to rely on another journalist rather than doing your own reporting. He hung up on me.
I was angry – he made me call back so many times, waste all that airtime and personal energy, only to tell me no. Why couldn’t he have just said no at first instead of making me jump through so many hoops?
I thought something was fishy. Why wouldn’t someone with a nascent business not want a little publicity to help boost his cause? He wouldn’t, if he were doing something devious and evil to those innocent little monkeys.
And then in today’s Vision, I saw this article (which I can’t find online, so I’ll quote here):
NEW VISION, Monday Feb 4Over 300 monkeys have been exported to Russia by a private company, Navia Exports, using an expired license.
This was exposed last Wednesday when Ronald Sendagire, a primate trapper, was arrested at Gerenge landing site on the shores of Lake Victoria in Wakiso.
The monkeys were loaded in sacks and some were kept in cages, which attracted the attention of residents.
A witness said the trapper, after realising that he was in danger, called Yekoyada Nuwagaba, the managing director of Navia exports….
UWA’s acting chief, Sam Mwandha, said Nuwagaba erred in exporting monkeys using an expired license.
Fishy indeed! I’d call this monkey business. Jane Goodall, where are you when we need you?
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