The Deputy Director of the Government Citizen Interaction Centre (GCIC) Duncan Abigaba is a very worried man.
He has spent 14 sleepless nights looking at his wife like a plumber without working tools would look at a leaking bathroom shower.
Abigaba’s worry is compounded by the realization that a plumber with no functional tool is no plumber at all and risks losing even his legal rights.
He has been consigned to looking at his wife like a dog looking at a coin — he is wary she could be gone by the morning.
Abigaba was introduced by his fiancé last year in a colourful ceremony in which his in-laws asked him to fulfill God’s words in Genesis 1:28, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.”
Mr Abigaba is worried about failing the word of God.
The youthful government official attributes his ordeal to AstraZeneca, a Covid vaccine that he says, after a second jab, has left him unable to see any 45 degrees in his system.
He shared his agony on Monday saying he has been battling erectile dysfunction after receiving the second jab to guard him against deadly Covid-19 two weeks ago.
“I know men are afraid to talk about this. But doctors should have warned us about the second AstraZeneca jab. Two weeks now and certain quarters cannot function properly. Men, speak out before your marriages and relationships end unceremoniously,” he said in a tweet.
The tweet was received with mixed feelings but friends of the staunch NRM cadre have intimated to this website that the fellow bought all the compasses and tape measures in Nakasero Market in an attempt to see if there would be some difference at all.
“He wanted to see if the compass could measure the direction of the plumbing unit but the thing did not even flinch an inch,” the friend said.
“He then grabbed a mathematical set and yanked a protractor from inside it in a desperate attempt to measure the angle of his system but it was akin to a man attempting to cue a pool ball with a sisal string.”
Before tweeting, Abigaba was seen emerging from a Sauna looking every bit a man with two “crestfallen heads” — assuming AstraZeneca has left him with a head down-south anyway.
“He sat in the sauna without moving for a very long time. The only thing that moved on him was a tape measure and a protractor that he kept putting around his groin, little did we know he was measuring the angle and projectile of his powering unit.”
Abigaba who is a strong cadre of the ruling National Resistance Movement – NRM Political party and a strong supporter of government programmes was however quick to put a disclaimer, saying his message to men was not against vaccination but a call to the Ministry of Health to advise the general public.
“Guys, I am a supporter of vaccination 101%. Also, my allegations aren’t scientifically proven. However, a few colleagues and I haven’t been doing well after the jab. I have only spoken out to implore the Ministry of Health to advise in case a study has been done about this,” he added.
Earlier in March, the country received 864,000 doses of Astrazeneca vaccine which were used to vaccinate Ugandans with first priority given to frontline workers and the elderly.
