Uganda, Feb. 25 -- Brethren, we cannot continue like this. I am so tired of watching people treat our roads like open-air dustbins, turning taxis and personal cars into flying trashcans. Yoghurt tubs, maize cobs, banana peels, chicken bones, cling film, fruit peels, chewing gum wrappers, gobs of phlegm and saliva (yuck!) .. There is nothing our poor roads have not been defiled by.

What punishment is befitting for these serial offenders? It is not an issue of education, because even those who claim to be well-educated (an education which obviously failed to include how not to behave like an antisocial lout) do it too. It is not an issue of age because the perpetrators include grandmothers as well as children. Oh dear!

We already have law...