Behind The Scenes: A Journalist’s Vantage Point of MV Templar Tragedy
November 24, 2018 came as any other day but will never be forgotten by those who lost their loved ones and to those who now live to narrate their narrow escape from capsized MV Templar. The boat with over 100 revealers aboard capsized in Lake Victoria near Mutima Country Haven in Mpatta Sub County in Mukono District sending shock and grief to the entire country. Many people have since termed it the tragedy of the year. To a journalist, whenever tragedy befall then duty calls. That day your blogger had been in deep in villages of Namayumba for an interview as revealers were setting to board a ‘ship’ to an exclusive party at K-Palm Beach. By 9:00pm social media was awash with posts indicating that boat had capsized. “Uganda Radio Network is a newsroom of newsroom so we should get it (information) fast or better,” these words are repeatedly emphasized by the ‘High Command’ (URN editor in chief). The phrase translates that whenever something happens the foot soldier near