August 21, 2006
Under Uganda's ideology of suspicion avoid your phone!
Ugandans are very paranoid, according to an article in the The East African, and cell phones are fueling their natural inclination to be suspicious of the world around them.
"... Everyone here believes they are that important and someone is listening in to their conversations 24 hours a day. Uganda today has some 2.1 million mobile-phone users, in a population of 27 million people. This nine per cent who have cell phones all consider themselves VIPs whose every word a state agent is paid to note.
... Some people subscribe to more than one network in a cautious attempt to elude the tapping agencies. They argue that security chiefs, who are rampant public figures in this country unlike elsewhere, also keep two to three phones because they know their dirty little game."
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