Why is sport not taken seriously by govt?

Dear Ugandans,
As a lover of football particularly the premier league, I feel disturbed that our governments in Uganda have not taken sports very seriously since independence. Sports in Uganda are not taken so seriously by the government because they say there have got to put money in other more pressing areas such as health and [...]

UPC started the rigging of elections in Uganda

Obote 2 and Amin both banned the guild offices at Makerere University because they looked at them as power threats. Under Obote 2 the student Guild was abolished because UPC had lost popularity at Makerere. Therefore, The Guild was abolished in 1981, the then Guild President Mr Opiyo Oloya was driven into exile. After [...]

Differences between Luwero-Museveni war and Kony war

The problem with some UPC supporters is that they just take things at face value without critically analysing issues.  Now let us analyse the internal dynamics of the war before they start comparing the silly Joseph Kony war and the NRA war (1980-86) again.
First of all, there is a difference between the conventional war and an irregular war (guerrilla [...]

Obote and UPC inheritted their Economic program from the colonialists

Dear Ugandans,
If you follow the speech made by Sir Andrew Cohen, the former Governor of Uganda at a joint meeting of the Royal African Society and the Royal Empire Society in 1957 before he handed the tools of leadership to Sir Frederick Crawford, then you will realise that Obote 1 inherited a good future plan [...]

Multipartism and Moshi conference explained

Dear Ugandans,
1.UPC was the first party to ban political parties in Uganda under Obote 1 in 1968 under the famous Lugogo ceremony.
2. Yes, it is true that UPC were more experienced in politics than any other group in Uganda and that’s why i called them the ‘tigers’ (1960-1980). They wanted to use their ‘tigerish’ status [...]

Banning political parties in Uganda was necessary in 1986

Dear readers,
The reason why I think that banning political parties, particularly UPC, was justified could be found on why Binaisa lost his presidency. If Binaisa had started by banning political parties, rather UPC, he would have lasted in that presidency as probably Museveni. You cannot organise elections in an environment that was as volatile as [...]

Museveni Bunyoro proposals are comparable to Jim Crow Laws in USA

Readers,
I beg to differ from President Museveni on the issue of Banyoro-Bafuluki. What Museveni has proposed in Bunyoro will open a can of worms he will not be able to put back in the tins. Ethnic federalism don’t accomplish the goal of unity in diversity anywhere in the world. It only empowers tribalists to disseminate [...]

Nyerere indirectly imposed UPC/Obote on Uganda through Moshi and UNLF

Dear readers,
Judge Kanyeihamba made some comments in his interview with the Uganda Observer on 02/08/09  that made him sound not as bright as we all thought.

Uganda was under a military dictatorship under Iddil Amin during the Moshi conference and the government before Amin( Obote 1) was a semi-military government, of which both could have been only [...]