Opinion Posts

FDC, NUP; THE SQUABBLING DEMAGOGUES FACING POLITICAL ABYSS

When on 31 January 2002, Amama Mbabazi as Defence Minister, written by then journalist Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda said that the NRM was here for another sixty years, many in the opposition FDC, UPC and DP that still had a semblance of cooperation got enraged by what they considered his language of arrogance. In 2016 while in Masindi, an NRM stronghold, President Yoweri Museveni appeared to rub in salt saying by 2021, he would not wish to see a strong opposition.

PARLIAMENT REGIONAL SITTINGS AND OPPOSITION SHALLOW THEATRICS

It is probably true that for over a decade the role and stature of parliament as an institution has been diminished especially with low quality membership, leadership, style of debate, output and conduct of some its members which needs rehabilitation and a reset. And it may also be true that the NRM in its current form in parliament does not appear to have new invigorating ideas on how to make parliament better except probably as voting and money machine.

JOURNALIST TAMALE MIRUNDI, MUSEVENI CRITIC TURNED HATCHET MAN, DIES RESTLESS

Blasio ‘Joseph’ Tamale Mirundi, 60 has been a man of many colours from his humble journalistic-political road where he started as a street newspaper vendor 40 years ago to become a household name, as virulent NRM and President Museveni critic-turned hatchet man, dying disgruntled saying he was betrayed. His family says he rejected the name Blasio.

YOUTHS ON #MARCH2PARLIAMENT END CORRUPTION DESERVE A HEARING NOT HARRASSMENT

The hyped #March2Parliament #AnitaMustResign #EndCorruption is now more of nuisance value than a well-informed, genuine and spirited fight to cleanse public service of corruption. Many of them are social and political charlatans seeking personal validation possibly even unaware of possible ulterior motives, the reason they urged others to come to the streets while themselves stayed a safe distance.

IN JOE BIDEN'S AGE-HUMILIATION LIES PROSPECTS FOR DONALD TRUMP DEFEAT

Publicly mistaking his deputy Kamala Harris for rival, Donald Trump, and ally Volodymyr Zelensky for Russian President Putin, Joe Biden is an embarrassment to the US. So, last week, the cruelty of advanced age confronted insatiable ambition forced Biden 81, to drop out of race for a second term against former President Donald Trump 78 embroiled in many controversies, thirty-nine criminal charges, and felony conviction for buying a prostitute and trying to hide the facts.

UGANDAN FUNERALS, INVESTING MORE IN THE DEAD THAN THE LIVING

Two months ago, I lost my mother at 85 having battled sixteen years of debilitating sickness which confined her mostly to a wheelchair and eventually bed permanently. The long goodbye as most funerals in Uganda have become, is now investing more in the dead than the living. Most people, leaders inclusive, apparently care less about supporting a person in need of medical care, education tuition or business start-up, in than weddings and funerals.

CORRUPTION: MINISTERS, PSS, MPS ARE THE JUDAS ISCARIOT IN GOVERNMENT

From President Yoweri Museveni’s public speaking notes these days, corruption in government is a major problem delaying and derailing Uganda’s socio-economic transformation and has recommitted to “crush it.” According to the president, the subterfuge is widespread down to the parish levels where officials extort money to provide public service meant to be free of charge.

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