Ugandans baffled by sleeping ministers

Ugandans have criticized Ministers and MPs who were caught on camera sleeping through important speeches. At the most recent state-of-the-nation address, Uganda's second deputy prime minister Moses Ali wore sunglasses too dark to enable anyone to see his eyes were opened (seen in picture above).

Moses Ali, 74, is one of the cabinet ministers who seem to have improvised a way to escape the scrutiny of nosy media cameras that have on several occasions caught senior government officials and MPs dozing when the president is delivering his address and when the national budget is read. 

It all started four years ago when a local tabloid splashed the pictures of sleeping ministers and MPs on its front page as President Yoweri Museveni delivered his address to the country.
The paper's headline on the day was "Sleeping Nation".

The public has since come to covet these events as much as the politicians seem to dread them. TV cameras are always out for who is napping, and photographs of ministers and MPs sleeping though these important speeches - delivered annually in June - end up on social media, with many lampooning the politicians.