Stella Nyanzi has again released merciless jots to the late Speaker Rt.Hon. Jacob Oulanyah. The 47-year-old has been writing series of poems following the demise of the former speaker of parliament on 20th March 2022. However in this third poem titled VULTURES ENCIRCLE YOUR WARM CORPSE, the no nonsense human right activist who doubles as a celebrated author of books such as “Don’t Come In My Mouth & No Roses from my Mouth” assures the deceased of how his close friends turned vultures for his position even amidst public mourning, this is as a result of 3 close friends of the late Jacob showing interest to be suitable substitution of the former even after visiting him on his death bed in Seattle US; they include Minister of Health Dr Jane Ruth Aceng Ocero & Deputy Speaker Hon. Anita Among. She claims the latter has been showing series of crocodile tears with hidden intentions behind the scenes.
Nyanzi is renown Ugandan human rights advocate, poet, medical anthropologist, feminist, queer rights advocate, and scholar of sexuality, family planning, and public health commonly also known as Nalongo. She is known for fighting the government through her impeccable oratory prowess and the power of a pen. Below is a copy of her 3rd Poem.
POEM 3: VULTURES ENCIRCLE YOUR WARM CORPSE
Verse 1)
Oh Yakobo, Speaker of the August house!
Arise and see the hunger-stricken yellow vultures.
Wake up and catch them encircling your seat.
Open your lifeless eyes and look at their greed.
Watch them sharpening their beaks to eat your flesh.
Their nostrils flare as they smell your rotting cadaver.
These vultures, you once called friends and cronies…
Their talons will tear your warm corpse apart,
As they throw dice to decide who takes your seat.
They vie for your seat that is still too warm to occupy!
The vultures in Museveni’s NRM are cannibals!
Verse 2)
Oh Yakobo, Speaker of the House of Parliament!
Open your stiff lips and speak to your Jesus – Museveni.
Speak the ugly truth about the finality of death.
Just as the wise say that every dog has its day,
Even Museveni’s most powerful dogs are still dogs!
His mightiest sub-machine gun cannot shoot away death.
Unlike Jesus of the Bible who raised Lazarus,
Your Mchwezi Jesus is as impotent as a lump of poop.
He cannot even stop the bleached zebra’s hypocrisy!
She wept crocodile tears and then joined the vultures.
As your wrinkled Jesus grieves and looks on,
The yellow vultures encircle your warm corpse.
Verse 3)
Oh Yakobo, Speaker of thieving legislators!
The yellow vultures are joined by yellow hyenas;
These scavengers dance around you in rings.
They descend on your posh home in Muyenga.
The hyenas want a final cut off your plump corpse.
Wailing loudly, they mock masses of grieving Ugandans;
Citizens whom closure eludes for four decades,
Our loved ones murdered in cold blood by your Jesus –
Your Jesus who committed treason to become president!
Your Jesus who ordered mass murders of Ugandans.
Your Jesus who boasted about mastering violence!
Your Jesus intoxicating the vultures and hyenas in Muyenga…
Alas, he cannot turn any water into wine,
And yet he turns living civilians into corpses.
The vultures that previously devoured our beloved corpses,
Now fly low as they await your fattened body.
Verse 4)
Oh Yakobo, Speaker of Museveni’s government!
Open your mouth and speak truth to power.
Tell the world secrets you are taking to the grave.
What Speaker lies silent and does not speak?
Move your tongue and crack your last joke!
Fight against the rigor motis and deny tyranny.
Exert your last will power and speak justly.
Re-echo the written words of the mad witch:
“Mucheveni matako butako!”
Scream this truth before the vultures eat your tongue out!
Shout the vulgar truth as a form of self-preservation.
Alas, the vultures have descended too close for comfort.
Just like Jesus was betrayed by his twelve disciples,
Twelve yellow vultures encircle your warm seat!
Twelve NRM Judases encircle your warm corpse…
Credit: Stella Nyanzi
