When a famous writer referred to the world as a stage, he must have been referring to Kampala, Uganda because day and night, the drama keeps unfolding.
Yesterday, tweeps had a field day on the blue app after the infamous I-phone plug, Ssempijja Stanley’s morning flex took an unpleasant twist.
Stanley, who has made a name on the internet for his famous I-phone franchise, took to Twitter yesterday morning to show off his act of charity after he had compensated a street egg vendor whose stock had broken.
“Being a businessman, I know what a loss feels like. This young kid tripped and broke all his eggs so I had to compensate him. Just look at what it means to him,” he tweeted.
Tweeps stopped Stanley right in his tracks as the boy turned out to be a street con artist who uses the same broken-eggs trick to attract sympathy from onlookers who usually part with a fat sum of cash.
Twitter users further exposed the Ugandan reincarnation of the artful dodger and how he has been using his deceitful weapon of innocence to loot unsuspecting sympathizers.
The young man, right after fleecing Stanley was spotted on other streets with Twitter users posting pictures in real-time.
A one Fer Rouq posted, “Someone stop this kid please,” accompanying the tweet with a picture of the kid with broken eggs in yet another location.
Further threads kept budding up with pictures of him committing the same con-trickery on different streets.
Other users shared their personal experiences of how they were fleeced.
“How come I compensated the same kid about 5 days ago in Muyenga when he broke all his eggs? Is this a new way to scam?”
Nevertheless, a certain section of Twitter sympathized with the young con-man with one of the most outstanding remarks coming in from a tweep called Edgar who asked folk to cut the kid some slack.