English should be more promoted in East Africa than Swahilli

1. It is true that USA has got no official language . It is again true that official languages are those designated by the law. However, a language can be considered to be de facto official language, meaning that although a language may have no official status in a particular country, it is the most [...]

Please introduce Commuters in Kampala City

While I would like to agree that regional development is very important and I support every one to develop their regions, I can’t see how this can affect negatively the development of a capital city or commercial city such as Kampala. Kampala is apparently so jammed because there is nothing like public transport in that [...]

Coffee in Uganda

Dear Ugandans,
Could some one do us a favour and send a detailed programe which was unveiled by the new Katikiro,J.B .Walusimbi. We would like to know how the growth of coffee in Buganda is going to be boosted. Uganda used to be a strong coffee grower and I remember my grandfather paying school fees for [...]

Black Mambas did not start with Museveni

As far as I know, Black mambas were in existence during Obote 2 as has been the case in Museveni’s government too . Whatever Obote did during his reign, Museveni can do better. When president Museveni sent the ‘black mambas’ in the case of Dr.Kiiza Besigye and other PRA suspects Vs the state of Uganda [...]

Both federalism in Uganda and East Africa federation are good

Dear people,
The government needs to do more to prepare us for the East African federation. One of the things they need to do is to sort out the acceptable system of governance in their own respective countries. Uganda should become a federal state before it even thinks of establishing itself as a power in the [...]

Mengo is more of a political than cultural institution

Dear readers,
Africa is all about culture and traditions. Politics in Africa are embedded in the cultural institutions. When religion was introduced on the scene in Africa, it also joined the equation of things. Therefore, anybody knocking on your door and starts telling you that you can separate culture and religion from politics, just send them [...]

Bimeza should never have been banned in Uganda

Dear readers,
I know the president is very angry at the moment but leaders of the independent media council should have come out sooner and put their cards on the table when the five radio stations were closed and Bimeza were banned. This is the meaning of promoting institutions. Just holding a public dialogue is not [...]

Buganda’s CBS fm is not comparable to UNITA’s Guerilla radio

Yes, Savimbi’s clandestine radio played an important role in the 30-year war in Angola.It provided UNITA rebels broadcasting, provided a means of recruiting supporters, sustaining rebellion and appealing for external support . This is totally different from CBS since Buganda is not in some form of armed struggle against the government. However, CBS can be [...]

FEDERALISM AND NRMO FASCISM

Dear Ugandans,
I don’t know whether Besigye is right that Kabaka can have political power or not. I’m still thinking about it. All I know is that president Museveni has now got unbridled political power in Uganda such that nobody can stop him from doing anything he wants and that is why we need to all struggle [...]

FDC policies are different from NRMO

Ugandans,
I’m happy that some of you have put in the bin the myth that FDC is the same as NRM based on membership. So let’s move on to the next level some people have raised which is about ‘same policies’ between them. I wish to say that this is also a very wrong assumption and I hinted on it [...]

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 [...]

M7 was once a DP supporter

Dear all,
How could any one have separated a supporter, sympathiser and a member efficienly at that time in the 1960s when Museveni was arguably a DP member or supporter.All i know is that there is a thin line between a supporter, sympathiser and a member because at the end of the day each group end [...]

FDC IS DIFFERENT FROM NRM

People who say that FDC and NRM are the same don’t know what they are talking about. They are just playing dirty politics. FDC is a registered political party and totally independent of NRMO. Yes, some of its founders were former members of NRM but all parties in Uganda apart from DP have had a [...]

Why are politicians killed in Uganda?

UAH members,
Some of these problems have been created by the politicians themselves
and I don’t know if we will ever go back to ‘normal’. Politicians in
Uganda don’t want to bridge the gap between themselves and the people
they lead. They isolate themselves so much. For instance, recently
while i was in Uganda there were so many instances that [...]

Both homosexuality and prostitution should both be illegal

Dear Ugandans,
My feeling is that both homosexuality and prostitution should both be illegal. Legalising prostitution will make our children vulnerable to this immoral behaviour thus leading to higher child prostitution in the country. Right now, sex with a child is legally rape and assault but the old men abusing kids will start quoting legal child [...]

‘killing a muganda or a munyankole is as easy as riding a bicycle’

Dear Ugandans,
Uganda is a long way to uniting as one country which is sad. Late Obote divided the country so much and the current politicians are also still taking advantage of these divisions. Obote practically divided the north and south of Uganda from the 1960s. Museveni rightly used this division to get rid of Obote [...]

Ugandans should create their own jobs

I remember one ugandan wrote on the UAH forum that it is solely the role of the government to create jobs and not the private sector and I would like to partly disagree. I would like to say that the experiment of governments creating jobs has miserably failed and now it is upon us to [...]

Amin & Obote are part of most villainous people of the century

Dear readers,
I have never said that Hitler, Obote, Amin, Jean-Bedel Bokassa  and others in their category (who were nuttier than squirrel turds) did not do good things for their countries. The bad things they did outweigh the good things. All I know is that I pray and hope that [...]

Why Torture is not justifiable

The idea of ‘spying’ or trailing terrorist suspects is effective and it is the very reason why I support phone tapping of suspects as proposed by Minister Mbabazi. If you have got enough credible evidence against a suspect, all you need is to present it in front of the courts of law instead of torturing [...]

Internationalisation of the ICC is not defined by China and USA membership

Ugandans,
The ICC treaty is international by all the definitions of an international treaty. USA and China do not solely define internationalism in a written document. The ICC became international and ratified when the UN got 60 ratifications necessary to bring the ICC into being. By 2005, 99 states had ratified the treaty.
 
There is something else [...]

Isreal primeministers will one day face justice for their crimes

Hello people
Yes, I do think that all Israel prime ministers MUST be punished for the crimes committed against the Palestines and Lebanese. What recently happened in Gaza was against the international law but I think Israel has not yet ratified the ICC treaty and, therefore, it is difficult for anybody to drag them to ICC. [...]

Who are the real Ugandan killers

Ugandans,

I have been reading some messages on the UAH forum calling those who fought Obote dictatorship in 1980 to be ‘killers ‘or ‘murderers ‘ but is this justified at all. We all know that Obote was destroying democracy in Uganda in the 1980s and the quest for or preservation of “democracy” is often used as a justification [...]

ICC is good for Africa

1. a)We have got to support the existence of the ICC because Africa is the top beneficially compared to other countries. This treaty which created the ICC is not even as old as Museveni’s regime or Kony’s war in the north because it was adopted in 1998 at an international conference in Rome after intense [...]

Rich Masaka Men In Kampala should develop Masaka

I suggest that Ugandans should try to develop where they originally come from instead of solely depending on the government. The northerners should start putting money in the north instead of pouring most of their money in Buganda . The same goes for Banamasaka, bateso, batoro, Basoga, banansana, banabutambala, banabushenyi, e.t.c. I’m basically advancing for [...]

Common Man’s Charter Vs 10 point programme

Let us go slow on the comparison between Common Man’s Charter and Museveni’s 10 point programme. I’m not a Museveni sympathiser but sometimes I’m forced to defend his paper policies when some one starts ‘sugarcoating’ Obote’s failures. Ok, let us see what we know so far about these two paper policies:
1.Obote’s first administration started off [...]

‘Balalo’ and the land tittles

1. The current land bill in Uganda comes across as a document fighting for the small landlords or landless in Uganda but it loses its moral platform when the biggest land grabbers become the big people in the government or the elites in Uganda . So [...]

‘Sowing the Mustard seed’ is both Museveni and Obote’s book

‘Sowing the Mustard seed’ is both Museveni and Obote’s book. It is a book which don’t tell us a lot about some of the main things we need to know. I actually pray that another of the historicals like Besigye  and Muntu write a different book and keep it somewhere to act as a second [...]

Secrets Should be Protected at any level

Dear Ugandans,
As i watched sky sports news some time after work, my mind straightway went to the current saga going on between Beti Kamya and his party,FDC when I saw the news that Gallas William, has lost his Arsenal captaincy and. As a Chelsea supporter, I was so disturbed when Gallas crossed to Arsenal from Chelsea but [...]

BETI IS A POLITICIAN FIGHTING FOR HERSELF NOT BUGANDA

I would like to make one thing clear: I have got nothing personal against Beti Kamya. If I’m to look into my heart and not brain, I think I admire Beti’s passion and a bit of honesty when she is writing or saying things. I used to spend hours every day with my grandfather listening [...]

LOYALTY VS COMPETENCE

I’m gonna sound a bit confusing and like I’m defending Museveni’s poor policies but I’m not. I just want to defend his policy of loyalty to those closely working with him out of personal conviction when it comes to loyalty. Personal loyalty is fine and I don’t want to be among those that put Museveni’s [...]