Why the new electricity distributor is under fire from both the ministry and the regulator THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Daily Monitor reported on Friday, December 5, 2025, that the Prime Minister, Robinah Nabanja, had stopped the minister of energy from firing the top management …

    How our president greatest failure has been inability to manage his own success THE LAST WORD |  ANDREW M. MWENDA | Recently, I drove to Busia, then to Bushenyi. I often drive to Gulu, Hoima and Fort Portal via Mubende. These experiences both stress and depress me. Kampala and …

How it is intriguing that Museveni’s campaign has not sought to use new information weapons effectively THE LAST WORD |  ANDREW M. MWENDA | Look at social media, where most Ugandans have migrated to for information about campaigns. Both campaigns, President Yoweri Museveni and his NRM and Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi …

  Lessons for Bobi Wine from Zohran Mamdani’s campaign to become New York City mayor  THE LAST WORD |  Andrew M. Mwenda |  Zohran Mamdani, son of our own Prof. Mahmoud Mamdani of Buziga, Kampala, is poised to win the race for New York City (NYC) mayor. At 34, Zohran has …

  How Angola’s legendary rebel leader, Jonas Savimbi, turned on his friends and killed them in droves THE LAST WORD |  Andrew M. Mwenda | A couple of months ago, while visiting Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the Chief of Defense Forces (CDF), I found him reading a book titled The Guerrilla and …

  How electoral democracy has prostituted our governance and undermined the public spirit THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA |  Uganda is facing a moral crisis, a loss of the public spirit in public service. Public policy and actions no longer embody the public spirit. Instead, they reinforce a pattern …

 How Hamas lured Israel into taking actions that have ruined the reputation of the Jewish state THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | Will Durant, an American philosopher, after writing eleven volumes of a book titled The Story of Civilization, was asked what lessons he had drawn from such an extensive study …

  What the genocide in Gaza teaches us about the West and its claims to civilization and liberal democracy THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | We are witnessing, live on our smartphones and television screens, a genocide of the very first magnitude. It is not happening in the jungles of “the …

  How Beti Kamya has turned the ombudsman into into a theatre for her ego, nepotism, corruption and vindictiveness THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | I dreamt last week that a decision was made at a very high level to arrest the Inspector General of Government (IGG), Beti Kamya, for abuse …

  How the European intellectual domination of the African mind keeps our continent weak and divided THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | Ask any African elite what impedes our continent’s development, and they will list a litany of locally generated problems: corruption, lack of democracy, disregard for human rights, weak institutions, …