Essanja Hat (hat made of a coat and dry banana leaves)

I do not want to comment on the lifting of the third term limit for presidents of the Republic of Uganda. This is up to the people to decide. They should be granted the right to freely express their opinion on this issue and it should follow the appropriate (legal) political processes. And if President Museveni was elected again under those circumstances, it would be fine because it would be the people's will.

However, what I want to comment on is this terrible symbol one choose to symbol the support of the Third Term. Who decided on dried banana leaves? What is it about this half rotten leaves, which supposedly even carry plant diseases? It looks just ugly. If was the president of any country and someone would chose dried banana or any other plant's dired leaves as a symbol of support, I would definitely reject it and either hire a PR manager or fire the present. Come on, this is not only ugly, I would also associate decay rather than anything else with it.

Well, but fortunatel, I am not the President and thus I am not forced to wear essanja hats...