Museveni’s Rip Van Winkle MPs who sleeping and wake up to vote undermine democracy COMMENT | MWAMBUTSYA NDEBESA | I am sure most readers are familiar with a popular short story about escapist fantasy of a one Rip Van Winkle who instead of facing challenges of his home and solve them, …
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When land is understood in cultural and political terms, its value is not only monetary COMMENT |MWAMBUTSYA NDEBESA| Tensions over land threaten state integrity in Uganda. The proposed constitutional land amendment seems to have generated a lot of passion and tension both in the political and non-political class in …
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COMMENT: By Mwambutysa Ndebesa Recent ambassadorial appointments show domestic political calculations trumping ideological clarity The NRM government, and President Yoweri Museveni in particular, prides in being a president that is ideologically anchored. The President always says that his political actions are informed and guided by his beliefs and ideology. And …
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By Mwambutsya Ndebesa The politics of patronage by Museveni is exactly similar to that of previous UPC governments The Daily Monitor, Tuesday March 15, 2016 under the heading, `Don’t give opposition government business deals—NRM boss’, the NRM Chairman; a one Karangwa, warned Kayunga District officials against awarding any state contracts …
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By Mwambutsya Ndebesa Christians at the shrines be offered theological guidance Uganda is a superstitious prone country. There are some Ugandans who must sacrifice an animal and sometimes human beings because they want to be rich. Ugandans sacrifice in order to get blessings or to cover a new car or …
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By Mwambutsya Ndebesa Christians at the shrines be offered theological guidance Uganda is a superstitious prone country. There are some Ugandans who must sacrifice an animal and sometimes human beings because they want to be rich. Ugandans sacrifice in order to get blessings or to cover a new car or …
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By Mwambutsya Ndebesa Focus should be on harnessing right leadership attributes and resolving structural problems As we congratulate and welcome the brand new Vice Chancellor of Makerere University, Prof. John Ddumba Sentamu, we need to reflect on why almost all successive vice chancellors have had a not so successful administrative …
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By Mwambutsya Ndebesa Why the Banyakole say ogwakijungu gwita otagireyo, meaning the white colonial master only punishes those who do not show up Uganda has some of the best designed policies in Africa but some of the worst implementation record on the continent. Whether it is agricultural, fiscal, decentralisation, health, …
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By Mwambustya Ndebesa The 1999 winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics, Amartya Sen asserts that there has never been food shortage in a functioning democracy. There is an argument currently that demonstrations cannot bring rain. It’s an argument to discount those who are demonstrating because of high food prices. …
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By Mwambustya Ndebesa President Yoweri Museveni has applied to the Registration Service Bureau for exclusive intellectual property rights over the Banyankore Children’s rhyme song under the title “Another Rap”. For the non-Banyankore the general perception is that the two songs/rhymes/poems were a composition of Museveni. Those two songs/rhymes are old …
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