AFRICA GOSSIP

december, 2010
Barthe Cortes Arrested for Violating the Dignity of Congo Government!
  

Barthe Cortes Arrested for Violating the Dignity of  Government

According to media on December 16th, Barthe Cortes was arrested in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Naturally, there is no need to offer any explanation about what he was doing there: he was building another airport as a matter of course! This time, he chose Congo, which due to its political and sociological situation was rightly nicknamed the Heart of Darkness by renowned writer Joseph Conrad. The media gave various reasons for the arrest; some say that Cortes supposedly liaised with rebels, others - that he refused to release to the government a rebel who had been employed by BVC for a number of years, and still others give some unclear suggestions concerning a coup d'etat committed by...an euthanasia of a cow! We are definitely in favour of the latter, being an entertainment newspaper.

One should also note that Professor Joe Onyanga said to Kampala News that BC was arrested two months ago in Burma, for so-called lese majesty. When asked by newsman about the reasons of Cortes' offending the dignity of Burmese government, the Professor paraphrased a well-known marketing slogan of a certain credit card: "There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's M.....Card " [read full story]

Let us hope that little Bri, Cortes' daughter, will have some friendly souls to spend her Christmas with, as her mum is dead and daddy is in jail. Probably, when she grows up, she will end up on the sofa of some psychoanalyst, or - worse still - as a starlet of some talk-show ;-)

read: The Kampala News