UGANDA: The Accountant

Accountant Robert John Edwin Mc-Kerrow's undeniable skill with figures had brought him some doubtful rewards, among them a number of convictions for forgery and embezzlement. But a good talent is hard to suppress, and when British-born McKerrow was sentenced to 4½ years in Kampala's Luzira Prison for juggling an employer's books to the tune of $14,000, he was promptly assigned to take care of the prison accounts.

It was a happy day for the inmates at Luzira. Since it was McKerrow who paid the prison's pipers, he it was who called the tunes....

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