Okay. So a thread of the most ridiculous things done by #AfricanPoliticians according to your submissions.
Warning: Some of this content may seem like fiction
Country: Zimbabwe
Year: 2007
A delegation of ministers were convinced to pay a $5million and a cow on the promise that diesel would come from a rock. They were convinced by a witchdoctor who claimed there was an ancestral spirit living in her.
More nehandaradio.com/2010/08/10/pic…
Country: Malawi
Year: ~2008
Former President of Malawi Dr. Bakili Mulizi promised to buy a whole village shoes once he got re-elected only to say later to say that he did not know the shoes-sizes of the people in the village when he was asked. #AfricanPoliticians
Country: South Africa
Year: 2006
Former President of South Africa Jacob Zuma (Affectionately known to me as uBaba) remarked that he had had a shower after having consensual unprotected sex in order to avoid getting HIV #AfricanPoliticians
More :news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/48…
Country: Zimbabwe
Year: 2015
Former President Mugabe delivered the wrong speech. He had given the speech in a State of the Nation address the month before. The 25 minutes long speech was deliver to cheering by some parliamentarians. #AfricanPoliticians
aljazeera.com/news/2015/09/m…
Country: Uganda
Year: 2018
President Yoweri Museveni said while addressing the nation said that the youth, instead of complaining about unemployment should be grateful that they were immunised when they were young.
Report: observer.ug/news/headlines…
Country: Zimbabwe
Year: 2018
Then Finance Minister (Yes, Finance) Patrick Chinamasa officiated an opening Ceremony for a bin (A refuse bin) in Rusape, Zimbabwe. #AfricanPoliticians
news24.com/Africa/Zimbabw…
Country: Uganda
Year: 2018
WATCH: This is more comical than ridiculous: Uganda's Deputy Prime Minister was invited to officially kickoff the Ugandan Premier League and took a hilarious tumble #AfricanPoliticians
Country: Zimbabwe
Year: 2018
Then Mayor, His Worship @BenManyenyeni officiated the opening ceremony for an elevator in Harare #AfricanPoliticians
news.pindula.co.zw/2018/05/23/har…
Country: South Africa.
Supra Mahumapelo was ANC chair and also Provincial Executive was asked to resign then he sent himself a resignation letter (as Executive), then proceeded to have a meeting with himself in both capacities to decide whether to accept the resignation
Country: Uganda
Year: 2018
Patrick Okumu-Ringa who lost a parliamentary elections in Nebbi Municipality, started dismantling the boreholes that he had drilled because he was bitter about the loss #AfricanPoliticians
nairobinews.nation.co.ke/news/election-…
Country: Burundi
Year: 2018
President Nkurunzinza jailed a mayor and another official because he was tackled in a football match by a player the mayor recruited. They were accused of crimes against National Security bbc.com/sport/football…
Country: Nigeria
Year:2014
President Goodluck Jonathan went on a 2 day pilgrimage to Jerusalem to pray the country's problems away
Country: Burundi
Here President Nkurunzinza, who brags to be an exceptional footballer himself says (In French) he admires one of the greatest footballers to ever come from Brazil, Zinedine Zidane!
Country: Zambia
Year: 2015
President Edgar Lungu responds to national drought that was affecting National Electrical Output by declaring a day of National Prayer and fasting, something that has been done since then
allafrica.com/stories/201510…
Okay, so comical relief,
Here is an absolute gem of a clip from a session of the South African parliament where Honorable Madisha was saying "hong hong hong hong hong "
Just a picture of President Nkurunzinza of Burundi dancing with the Presidential choir back in 2010
Country: Uganda
Year: 2016
President Yoweri Museveni stopped his motorcade in the middle of the highway on his way to a public engagement so that he could make a phonecall.
theguardian.com/world/2016/jul…
Still on Highways
Country: Malawi,
Year: 2018
The Presidential Motorcade stopped and had to halt traffic because the President Muthatika had to urinate #AfricanPoliticians
Back to Uganda
Year: 2017
President Yoweri Museveni changes his Date of Birth to make him eligible to stand for re-election #AfricanPoliticians
Country: South Africa
Year: Unclear
Then Health Minister of South Africa, Aaron Motsoaledi wanted to ban doggy style during sexual intercourse #AfricanPoliticians
Country: Malawi
Year: 2011
Then Justice Minister George Chaponda wanted to introduce a law that would make it illegal to fart in public in order to promote public decency #AfricanPoliticians bbc.com/news/world-afr…
Country: South Africa
Year: 2000s
Minister of Health Dr. Tshabalala-Msimang prescribed beetroot, sweet potatoes & garlic for AIDS. She also cut to the front of a liver transplant when she had Liver Cirrhosis, she still continue drinking in hospital and eventually died
Country: South Africa
Year: 2000s
Minister of Health Dr. Tshabalala-Msimang prescribed beetroot, sweet potatoes & garlic for AIDS. She also cut to the front of a liver transplant when she had Liver Cirrhosis, she still continue drinking in hospital and eventually died
CDE Mahumapelo must make this list again because I am advised he went on to refuse his own resignation #AfricanPoliticians
Country: Gambia
Year: 2007
Then President Yayha Jammeh insisted he had found a cure for HIV/AIDS. He said that his cure works only on Tuesdays and Thursdays and forced citizens to undergo it. He is now being sued by some of his victims bbc.com/news/stories-4…
Country: Nigeria
Year: 2018
Philomena Chieshe who works at the Nigerian Examination board claimed that a sanke had eaten $100 000 worth of Cash bbc.com/news/world-afr…
Country: Kenya
Year: 2014
President Uhuru Kenyatta commissions public toilets in Machakos #AfricanPoliticians
Still in Kenya
Year: Unclear
Dr Evans Kidero who was then Governer of Nairobi walked across from his office in at City Hall to officiall open the KICC 'gate'. He addressed a press conference thereafter
Kenya again
Year: 2013
Gideon Mwiti MP Central Imenti officially opened a DStv installation with a plaque during a fundraiser in his constituency.
Uganda
The Year is 2005.
The Director of Information at the Movement Secretariat, Mr Ofwono Opondo, was in a shoplifting scandal involving undeclared underwear
allafrica.com/stories/200504…
Country: Kenya
Year: 2011
WATCH: Mwai Kibaki, the President of Kenya holds a press conference solely for the purpose of telling the nation that he has only one wife
Country: Malawi
Year: 2016
The President, His Excellency Peter Mutharika leaves the country for the United Nations General Assembly and does not return in more than a month.
washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-ca…
Country: South Africa
Year: 2015
Then Police Minister Nhleku defends uBaba (Jacob Zuma) by claiming that a swimming pool built on his private Nkandla Residence was a Firepool which fell under security upgrades and hence shouldn't reimburse the state news24.com/SouthAfrica/Ne…
Country: Uganda
Year: 2018
WATCH: Watch as President Yoweri Museveni moves to ban Oral Sex in the Nation and dismisses as a practice of foreign. "The mouth is for eating"
Country : Kenya
Year: 2015
WATCH: Kiambu Governor William Kabogo had to run for dear life after spirits he had set fire to explode.
Comic Relief: Just a tweet about The Zambia President inspecting Road Works
Country: South Africa
Year: 2013
It emerged after Nelson Mandela's funeral (Which was broadcasted and watched by millions all over the world ) that the sign language interpreter was in fact not an interpreter and was winging it the whole time
theguardian.com/world/2013/dec…
Country: Zambia
Year : 2015
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mutembo Nchito took over a case as the prosecutor where he was the accused and proceeded to drop all the charges against himself
Country: Zimbabwe
Year: 2017
There was a pause in the-thing-that-not-a-coup in Zimbabwe in November 2017 for a graduation ceremony. Mary Chiwenga, who is is the then General's wife (Now Vice President) happened to be graduating at the ceremony 😍😍😍😍😍😍
Not my Handwriting
Country: Zimbabwe
Year: 2017
Then first lady of Zimbabwe, Grace Mugabe (affectionately known to us as Dr. Amai) assaulted a 24 year old model in a South African hotel room who was with her son. She used an electric cable
Country: Uganda
Year: 2018
WATCH: Video of Yoweri Museveni doing only the Lord knows what
Okay, so L am definitely tired now. Might continue with the thread tomorrow. Continue sharing #AfricanPoliticians . It seems there is plenty more content out there. Our Politicians keep surprising us
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