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Politician's Public Peeing Puts Spotlight On Need For Public Toilets

It's not exactly clear what prompted Ugandan MP Ibrahim Abriga to relieve himself on a city wall. But one thing is certain: Kampala is one of many places where public toilets can be hard to find.
Indian men use a roadside public urinal in New Delhi.

When you've got to go, you've got to go.

Or at least that's what Ugandan MP Ibrahim Abiriga insisted after he went for a "short call" — a Ugandan slang term for relieving one's self — on a wall near the country's finance ministry in the capital, Kampala, in broad daylight.

Someone took photos of him caught in the act. The went viral on social media, sparking outrage, jokes and spawning a new term for urinating among."

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