This week while on a drive around Mbalala Industrial Area in Mukono district I chanced on an old friend now working for Grainpulse Limited whose shareholder l discovered is another friend, Hannington Karuhanga. Karuhanga is a very low-key man you easily pass in town. 

Slowly but surely Kizza Besigye is coming to the end of his times as the leading let alone reasonable opposition voice in Uganda and therefore his recent ‘demand’ that the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) withdraws immediately from its current offensive against the Allied Democratic Front (ADF) terrorists who have used the DRC as their fertile ground should be treated with scorn coming from a terrorist apologist.

After three months of stay and extensive travels in China, as a witness to its rapid and tremendous rise as the second global power l returned home a much humbled person. I had fifty three field visits across China even under the COVID-19 pandemic including to the military museum in Nanxhang Jianxi province where the Long March began.

Former Singaporean prime minister Lee Kuan Yew (RIP) who led his country for thirty years from third to first world country wrote that the progress of a country is proportional to the quality of its leaders. He then admonished "if you elect or have leaders on the cheap trying to equaliser opportunities and results, you're done for."

The COVID-19 pandemic has blindshielded the world from other equally serious global issues like America's ongoing change of course. It's three months since the US beat a hasty, chaotic and humiliating retreat from Afghanistan upon defeat by the Taliban it ousted twenty years ago in a war of occupation where it installed and propped a puppet regime. The rapid and unceremonial collapse of President Ashraf Ghani's regime left US policy and craftsmanship in shumbles.

The developed countries who are the big environmental polluters of the northern hemisphere this week concluded COP26 summit in Glasgow, UK where they drumed up support for the scare over climate change and its gathering catestrophic consequences already facing humanity.

The developed countries who are the big environmental polluters of the northern hemisphere this week concluded COP26 summit in Glasgow, UK where they drumed up support for the scare over climate change and its gathering catestrophic consequences already facing humanity.

Recent actions by opposition MPs though perhaps unrelated to that of the terrorists who threw explosives in Kampala this week seem to come from the same rule book with overall objective to scare Ugandans into submission to criminality.

Last week the corterie of all-knowing and ever self-serving envoys from the European Union ( EU) delegation in Uganda trouped to the parliament conference hall for what was supposededly a 'closed ' meeting with  the Leader of Opposition in Parliament (LoP) Mathias Mpuuga and his quisling shadow cabinet.

Government recently announced the Parish development model where planning and implementation of projects will be brought closer to the people in an effort to boost the sluggish socio-economic transformation agenda especially among rural communities who constitute 68% of Uganda’s households.