Uganda, Jan. 27 -- On Wednesday January 24, while appearing on NTV flagship morning programme, Henry Oryem Okello , the junior Foreign Affairs minister said; "Those dying of hunger in Uganda are idiots because there is enough food, land and the right climate."

It could be true, the land is enough, but whether the climate today is right or the food is enough, are subjects to debate. In a country where parents are failing to feed their children in schools, some families can hardly have three straight meals a day, patients are dying of starvation in hospitals, and universities scrapping food rations; it is absurd that a leader of that stature can appear before national television to abuse the starving population.

The minister further disre...