Suppose it were true Aprin can be used to cure a headache. And suppose that Asprin were also found to have among other qualities, to help fight heart attacks, etc? And suppose Asprin might, under some (perhaps spurious) conditions be used as chalk.
What would Asprin be useful for?
Must an item be single purpose only?
So we should ner use oil for anything else but make petrol (aka gas)
Well, well multi-processing, multi-threading (can Nigerians do this?) debaters, what do ya say? Much ado about nothing?
How about simply importing or better yet locally manufacturing these nets??? I mean, mosquitoes are not about to go away just because of a couple of years of drought. Neither is marriage going out of style anytime soon. Further, the propability we Ugandans will become affluent or even middle class is less that that of a flea jumping to the moon! Jobs, jobs, jobs .... to paraphrase a famous Texan.
And to think that this topic has burned so many cpu cycles! I wonder, would anyone have paid attention to this if it had emanated from, say, The Monitor?
All the same, hats off to Abraham Odeke for duping the BBC into carrying a non-story. After all, a man has to put bread on the table (and take his "take-away" places), don't he?
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Subject: ugnet_: [abujaNig] THE UGANDA ANARCHY CONTINUES
> Tuesday, 5 November, 2002, 17:47 GMT
> Love bug craze hits Uganda
>
> By Abraham Odeke
> Mosquito nets make cheap but beautiful wedding dresses
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>
> BBC, Tororo
> Health department officials in the eastern Uganda district of Tororo
have warned villagers not to misuse the mosquito nets intended to control
the spread of malaria.
>
> The warning is intended to stop villagers turning mosquito nets into
cheap bridal gowns in the on-going mass weddings ahead of Christmas.
>
> The God-fearing but poverty-stricken villagers are being encouraged
by their parish priests to graduate from their customary marriages to
Christian weddings so that they spend the coming Christmas holidays as
special people in the eyes of God.
>
> While the bridegrooms are finding it easy to buy second-hand coats
and neckties for the ceremony, the brides appear to have difficulty raising
money to purchase sparkling-white wedding gowns.
>
> They have therefore resorted to pulling down the spotless white
mosquito nets in their bedrooms.
>
> And the tailors in the villages have turned the mosquito nets into
simple, but impressive bridal gowns.
>
> The most impressive display of the gowns made from the mosquito nets
was witnessed in the border town of Malaba last Sunday.
>
> Nearly all 29 brides at the ceremony sported sparkling white gowns
that were originally mosquito nets.
>
> There was a similar display of the unique gowns in several churches
in Tororo town.
>
> Mass wedding
>
> Now Tororo Director of Health Services Dr David Okumu has issued a
warning to the village communities to stop turning the mosquito nets into
cheap bridal gowns.
>
>
> Preachers are urging people to have church weddings before
Christmas
>
>
> According to Dr Okumu, mosquito nets are the best weapon for
fighting mosquitoes that transmit malaria, and should not leave the village
bedrooms.
>
> He told me that aid organisations like Plan International, who are
giving the properly treated nets to impoverished families free of charge,
are bound to get upset if the villagers continue misusing the nets.
>
> The born-again pastors in Tororo are planning another mass wedding
next Saturday.
>
> It remains to be seen whether the new batch of wedding couples will
heed the warning of the Tororo medical chiefs to keep away from the mosquito
nets.
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