Sebidde Kiryowa
11 January 2009
Kampala — ONE is a 36-year-old single secretary with Rainbow Services in Tororo district. The other is a 46-year-old father, married with six children and a dealer in foodstuffs in Arua district.
What the two; Catherine Musosa and Charles Ewani, have in common is that by a stroke of luck last Friday night, they were called up on a uganda telecom limited (utl) number.
The voice on the other side told them that each of them was a proud winner of a new Toyota Premio worth about sh13m.
The excitement in their voices was unmistakable.
The phone was amplified for the crowd, that gathered on Nabowa Road in Mbale town, to witness the sixth draw of the utl's on-going Vroomula promotion.
The two were the 15th and 16th out of the 35 premios the company put up for grabs.
Ewani said he worked hard to win. "I loaded a lot of airtime," he said. About the car, he said, it came in handy. "I was thinking of saving for a car."
But the humongous crowd that night was concerned about more than just the winners. They were very, if not more, thrilled by the entertainment line-up.
There was Dr. Dolibondo, the wacky fellow who won the Pilsner Stand-up Comic contest last year. He was incredifunny and the crowd could not get enough of his clowning.
From his whimsical mimicking of Whitney Houston singing her runaway hit "I'll Always Love You" down to that famous Dr Kitch song, Dolibondo's buffoonery kept the crowd shaking with laughter.
Then there were musicians, the hottest of whom were Bebe Cool, Tool Man and Desire Luzinda. Luzinda, "the Beyonce of Uganda," as the evening's emcee introduced her (apparently more in reference to her delightful physique than singing abilities), was every inch as scintillating as we had been led to believe.
The crowd though was a little too cold for her charm. The same cannot be said of the highly energetic Tool Man and Bebe Cool.
They did what they normally do best-fire up the crowd with their bouncy beats and crowd-stirring antics.
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