Kololo Airstrip is for all of us!
I am one of those who regularly used to do their evening runs at Kololo airstrip. First, I used to park my car there, run around the hills of Kololo and return later to drive away. Then one evening, we returned and found that one of my colleague’s cars had been broken into, despite the fact that there is a police post and armed policemen with a full view of the airstrip. We wisely refrained ourselves from bringing up the matter with the policemen, most especially that we had not asked them to guard our cars. I specifically argued that it was wrong for us to assume that the police will involuntarily be interested in looking after our property. From then on a few of my colleagues disappeared never to run in Kololo again, while I decided to design my run in such a way that it always ended at the airstrip for me to stretch on that lawn. That is when I got to know that what I always thought to be a public space is not public after all. Some two police men armed with AK47s like they w...