Rethink Federalism; The Weather Seems No Good for it.
I have nothing against Kingdoms in this Country. If I had the mandate I would do anything to promote them as cultural heritages. But when our Kingdoms start speaking of power sharing with the central government, then I am not sure any more. I am sure many proponents of the power sharing scheme seem to take the dynamics of it too lightly. Kenya and Zimbabwe are baffling with is ogre, a scenario which...
December 27th, 2011 by Angelo Munduni Dema
Kampala is Dirty, who is responsible? Let us Sue them!
What happened with the beauty of Kampala? Shall our streets remain crowded and filthy until we stampede and die in large numbers like the recent scenario in India to awake the responsible persons to action. Frankly speaking, during my recent visit to Kampala I was in tears to see deplorable filth in the city with foggily ‘liberated’ vendors selling in the middle of the roads while squeezing pedestrians....
February 21st, 2011 by Angelo Munduni Dema
Meaning of the constitutional judgment on independents
Problem is the learned judges of the Constitutional Court, have made a strict and literal interpretation of article 83(I) (g) (h) which provides that a member of parliament shall vacate his or her seat in parliament. (g) if the person leaves the party for which he or she stood as a candidate for election to parliament to join another party or to remain in parliament as an independent member. Much...
February 1st, 2011 by Moses Sserwanga, Weekend Editions Editor
Ivory Coast exposes fallacy of western democracy
Watching events on TV last week about the circus that was the Ivory Coast presidential run-off just cemented my belief that Africans have been living a lie called democracy and the earliest we owned up to our political realities the better for our continent. Before the colonialists shoved what we know as democracy (periodic elections, political parties, term limits) down our throats, ours was a continent...
December 5th, 2010 by Don Wanyama, Chief Sub Editor
Before we go to vote, can we go to Court?
A few weeks ago, Kampala Mayor Nasser Ntege Ssebagala wore his most nonchalant face and declared that he would not contest again because he had completed his mission. As Ssebagala made his mindboggling “mission accomplished” declaration, I wonder whether the people present laughed at him or cried for Uganda’s capital city. For a Mayor who drew up a very impressive programme, which came complete...
November 9th, 2010 by Benon Herbert Oluka, Senior Reporter
Uganda needs a Housing Re-alignment Bureau (or something of the sort)
After a night of working well past 1am, I woke up later than usual today. This provoked a quick mental debated whether to get ready and obligingly join the routine morning traffic jam to work or stay at home a little longer, complete the work that had kept me awake for the better part of the night and then drive out after the rush hour. When that little mental debate was resolved, I began to think...
October 4th, 2010 by Benon Herbert Oluka, Senior Reporter
Why NRM politicians will bludgeon themselves to death
For a new comer, it might look like life eternal is at stake here. The NRM primaries—what should have been an amiable contest of ideologically bound competitors—have turned into a raw battlefield. From Kanungu to Kapchorwa, from Tororo to Abim, the same thread runs through the tale—guns, sticks, bayonets are unsheathed as candidates seek the NRM endorsement. In Tororo, Minister Otaala had to...
August 23rd, 2010 by Don Wanyama, Chief Sub Editor
African Union Summit- Terror dominates
Africa, its friends and relations unfurled a host of local and global issues at yesterday’s summit of its leaders, presenting a picture of quiet but steady progress on the continent often used as a reference of where the rest of the world has been and should not return. Stunted infrastructure, preventable disease, feeble economies in a world of common challenges like the global financial slow down,...
July 25th, 2010 by Angelo Izama, Senior Reporter
We are paying the price for a one-man mission in Somalia
When Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni in mid-2007 made the solitary choice of sending our boys to Somalia to buttress the shaky Transitional Federal Government of Sheik Sherif, there were muted sounds in Kampala from isolated opposition politicians deriding him. Parliament, which by law is decreed to okay such external military deployments, was never even accorded the courtesy of being consulted....
July 13th, 2010 by Don Wanyama, Chief Sub Editor
Why can’t EC hire octopus for 2011 poll results?
The results from German-Spain match has proved that the octopus is currently the most reliable and accurate in predicting the likely winners in any competition and i am of a view that instead of conducting research and surveys on 2011 polls, the Electoral Commission should instead consult the Octopus and we stop this nonsense of campaigns.
July 8th, 2010 by Richard Wanambwa, Correspondent Investigations
