Opinion Posts

MONEY HEIST IN PARLIAMENT AND MATHIAS MPUUGA’S FIGHT FOR POLITICAL LIFE

Uganda’s mainstream media houses with nearly 100 journalists accredited to cover Parliament all couldn’t sniff the stench from what appears to be fictitious expenses payouts until volunteer digital warriors exposed it in the ongoing #UgandaParliamentExhibition. Out of embarrassment they’re now diverting debate to the little fight of Robert Kyagulanyi a.k.a. Bobi Wine and Mathias Mpuuga. Meanwhile MPs across the aisle are as silent as a tombstone fearing to rock a vicious top to which many of them have become surrogates.

BEYOND NRM MEMBERSHIP REGISTRATION FAN-FARE LAUNCH; HEAVY CLOUDS HANG

In the yonder of this Wednesday’s re-launch of the membership registration, heavy-dark clouds hang over the vision and mission of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) ruling party of transforming Uganda from a backward peasant society to a united and modern country with a shared prosperity. NRM cadres, leaders and supporters, must therefore, rise to its leader Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s clarion call to vigorously articulate its Vision and Mission through sustainable and persuasive ways to lure Ugandans especially the young people back into its warm fold.

MK MOVEMENT, PATRIOTIC LEAGUE, NRM, AND QUARRELSOME OPPOSITION IN 2026

Uganda’s general elections are still two years away, but signs show contenders elbowing to have a foot ahead of potential rivals especially at the presidential and parliamentary levels where contests are usually stiff and brutal, but hopefully this time not. President Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Kaguta Museveni previously YKM, the man not to be under-estimated, and NRM’s presumptive candidate is leaving many including within to guess whether he is retiring after forty years at the helm or willing to stretch his record. 

ABRASIVE JUSTICE JULIA SEBUTINDE COULD BE OVERRATED

Justice Julia Sebutinde returned to the Uganda media spotlight but only briefly this week when she joined Israeli Judge, Aharon Barak to dissent on a case before the International Criminal Court (ICC) by South Africa against the State of Israel for its ongoing near-genocidal war on Palestinians in Gaza Strip most of them children, women and male civilians, and destruction of hospitals, schools and energy. 

CECILIA OGWAL’S BLUSTER GOES PERMANENTLY SILENT AS NRM TRUDGES ON

Nigerians say, “No matter how hot your anger is, it cannot cook yams.” Cecilia Atim Barbara Ogwal, the estranged former Assistant Secretary General of the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC), turned FDC honcho and Dakolo Woman MP being buried today was nasty and had hot anger toward the National Resistance Movement (NRM) and President Yoweri Museveni.

MPUUGA, LATIGO, MAFABI, WINNIE KIIZA, AND WAFULA OGUTTU; THE CURSE IN LOP

This week power changed at the National Unity Platform (NUP party with Mathias Mpuuga, the Nyendo-Mukungwe MP, former Leader of Opposition in Parliament (LoP) handing over to Journalist-turned politician Joel Ssenyonyi, 37. Mpuuga limped off as LoP after two and a half years without much to show in policy initiative or achievement except flourish language at the dispatch box. In fact, even his principal, Robert Kagulanyi a.k.a.

HOSTING CSPOC, NAM, AND G77 PLUS CHINA: COUNTING UGANDA’S BLESSINGS

Alexander Graham Bell, the Scot, turned Canadian-American inventor of the first practical telephone is quoted to have said many decades ago that “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” An African proverb too says, “He who chases you gives you a way out of troubles”, to show that life is a series of open doors with opportunities, not just one offered by the United States of America.

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