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Ofwono Opondo, do not Retire, Refire!!!

Reading the honest writeup by my elder Mr. Ofwono Opondo has simply re-inforced the validity of my thoughts on Life after Formal Employment. What he is going through is what I regard as transition / rebirth pains that my childhood neighbor Mr. Robert Kabushenga went through a few years back. This experience is inevitable for as long as you have been through formal employment and more-so risen…

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HOW DISTRICT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ARE KILLING NRM AND YOUR GOVERNMENT

[AN Open Letter to His Excellency] The National Resistance Movement democratized government by bringing it closer to the population through decentralization. Unfortunately, decentralization is going to be the cause of the political death of your party and government because of the rampant graft and growing disconnect from the population. Dear President Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Museveni, Happy New…

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Akon City Uganda: The Kiwaani Controversy Unveiled

Akon a celebrated international musician did meet President Museveni in 2021 and tabled interest in building a Satellite futuristic city in Uganda. As usual, our ever excited president when it comes to investment went ahead to give the idea a go ahead. Akon’s plan is to do a replica of the Akon City in Senegal whose launch had been done three years earlier in 2018. Land was quickly identified in…

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The problem is not EFRIS but Fiscal Molestation

It has been a seesaw game between the businessmen and women in Kampala and later countrywide over the past two weeks haggling over the EFRIS. EFRIS in full is the Electronic Fiscal Receipting and Invoicing Solution. It is a digitalised form of tax collection monitoring that is aimed at not only making the process easier for the Government to collect tax but also aimed at widening the catchment…

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A rebirth of Competence in Uganda's Academics

They made us become glorified users and implementers of imported technology for selfish reason and achieved their intended goal of making us net importers of solutions. However, the new Competence Based Curriculum (CBC) being rolled out is changing all this. Before you bludgeon me to smithereens, yes, you the naysayer, I ask you to sit down read, internalise and regurgitate before you respond.…

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Parliament, allow the Budget cut

When you throw a stone at a pack of dogs, the one that makes the loudest noise is the one that has been hit. The best Easter gift Ugandans can be proud of is the news about the budget cuts proposal. There is a plan to cut he travel budget for Parliament by 50% and guess who has led the pack of noise makers? Uganda’s version of Marie Antoinette who has used her office to normalize the abnormal.…

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Uganda, Sleepwalking into Middle Income Status.

Reading about the announcement by the UN that Uganda has met the requirements to be classified as a Lower-Middle-Income country following improvements in health, education and income levels left me with a careless gaze. The kind of gaze that a rural voter has when a political aspirant walks onto the podium and starts telling him how service delivery has improved when the nearby Health Center can…

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Anita Among’s Looting Vs Busolwe Hospital’s Needs

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Minister Musenero, Enough with the Lies!!!

Dear Ugandans, our satellite hardly lasted 6 months in space and by the look of things, gave us nothing totally.

They were intentionally stingy with information as they planned for the PearlAfricaSat-1 Uganda’s first ever Satellite (Cubesat). They gave the impression that it was going to solve numerous challenges regarding information collection in the country. The overrated Dr Musenero said the satellite would play a vital role in planning and resource management and environmental impact assessment in…

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Uganda’s Political Elite littered with Upgraded Paupers

News coming through of Karamoja Affairs Minister, Mary Goretti Kitutu asking the President for forgiveness over the Karamoja iron sheets scandal may not surprise many Ugandans but is indicative of the upgraded paupers that most of our politicians are. Uganda’s politics has been flooded with individuals who look at it as an avenue to swiftly accumulate wealth, fame and respect. Whether…

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Alien Skin 2023 – Uganda’s new discovery

The year 2023 shall forever be remembered as the year of Alien Skin. For good or for bad, take it or leave it. Alien Skin is an artist from Uganda who is known for his work as a singer, songwriter, and rapper who turned the music industry in Uganda upside down. From the days when Chameleon sung Kipepeo and my then nursery school going children were vigorously dancing to it, I kind of shut down…

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President Museveni, You are wrong on Rice in Uganda

Dear Your Excellency, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Happy New Year to you and your family. This is going to be a long read but I request that you get a cup of Obushera, sit in your compound under your favorite tent and take time to read what I have penned down. I would like to point out some mindset adulteration you have fallen victim of to condemn the rice production and its producers in…

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Deleted Satellite - Uganda, a nation let down by clueless officials

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Stop Normalising Opulence

The headline screamed “Former Speakers of Parliament get brand new Cars” hardly eighteen months after another one had been smacked in our face, “Shs 2.4 Billion for Speaker and Deputy’s cars is not expensive.” This got me thinking deeply about the kind of cretins behind such decisions fully dressed up claiming to be human biologicals with sane minds. Some dullard at the Parliament was quoted as…

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The beauty of Uganda’s new O'Level School Curriculum

For long our society has been blinded that for an individual to become productive, they have to first complete their studies in a University. This slowly but surely over the years begun fostering the output of useless graduates who were seemingly highly a

I came across a headline from the Daily Monitor reading, School Stuck with 700 Chicken raised by Students and it immediately got my face beaming with joy. In a previous post on this blog, I stated, “The introduction of the Competence Based Curriculum (CBC) in Uganda is one of the greatest highlights the NRM regime can pride in. This is a curriculum that emphasizes what learners are expected to…

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Let's Celebrate the Flooding of Kampala

Kampala, the City I was born and raised in has morphed over the decades into the muddled investment destination that it boasts of today. A city where sanity took a backstep paving the way for insanity to reign. Despite being managed by seemingly qualified individuals enjoying all sorts of benefits that accompany their job titles, you see a city that is daily heading towards higher levels of…

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Dress fully for 5k

Every Tuesday, the Mukono Municipality Kyikko Market attracts numerous traders because it is the open day when they are allowed to sell from any part of the market, even within the road. This leads to an influx of shoppers especially those intent on getting low cost deals for products. I got a chance to walk through the market and was astounded by what I saw and experienced. It was so humbling…