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Monday, 18 January 2010 |
When I order my dog Ollie to do something that he's not particularly interested in, he gives me a vacant stare that says ‘If I keep looking at you like this for long enough, you'll forget what you wanted me to do'. Overall, I find, this is the same kind of reaction that you get from cabinet and the MPs: Confront them with anything that went badly wrong (maize? Triton?), or some other niggle such as taxing their income (those allowances sure are a mighty tail wagging a an anorexic doglet), and you get the rhetorical equivalent of Ollie's blank stare. Some also seem to softly hum Shaggy's ‘It wasn't me'. The latest helpful suggestion was the proposal to increase the salary so that the take-home pay would be the same after taxes. But on to brighter, and sweatier, things: I attended the East Africa Petroleum Conference in Mombasa , which was a very moist affair thanks to the hotel AC performing almost as impressively as the grand coalition government. Uganda , with its recent discoveries and now very real prospects for commercially viable oil production, is becoming East Africa 's front runner and has thrown a spotlight on the region.
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