Solutions for the large number of people who spend their nights on Kampala city’s sidewalks, verandas, corridors, and trenches COMMENT | MICHAEL WOIRA | This week, I took a midnight walk around Kampala to experience the city during the early hours. I traversed from Ben Kiwanuka Road towards the Old Taxi …
Read More »Our noisy parliamentary theatre
Why the sacred institution has become a resting place for populists elected for their noise-making abilities COMMENT | MICHAEL WOIRA | In the heart of any functioning democracy lies its parliamentary system, a sacred institution entrusted with the responsibility of shaping the nation’s destiny. However, recent events have painted a …
Read More »Political party drama and democracy
Why comedy of well-crafted theater scripts has unfolded within FDC which used to be regarded as one of the best COMMENT | MICHAEL WOIRA | In the world of politics, what we learn in theory often doesn’t match up with what actually happens in practice. Speaking as someone who studied political …
Read More »End arts teachers strike
At least teachers should always schedule to strike during holidays to help students you teach COMMENT | MICHAEL WOIRA | A lot happens in this country of mine and sometimes I am forced to think that people have calendars of activities that they plan at every beginning of the year …
Read More »The Lumbuye ideology and our opposition
Its purpose is to support political goals and catch attention of those few people who are easily being misled COMMENT | MICHAEL WOIRA | We are now in August and our elections were held in February and the swearing ceremony for the rightfully elected president was also concluded some …
Read More »MPs, enjoy your monster rides as we suffer
God is watching as MPs cruise in Shs200 million vehicles to burials of unvaccinated voters who die of COVID-19 COMMENT | MICHAEL WOIRA | We are at a time when everyone is seated at home; very worried and sad, because they are not working and they are financially out …
Read More »COMMENT: Taxing social media
Social media should be regulated because it gives out so much information all day long but destroys common sense COMMENT | MICHAEL WOIRA | I know any increase of taxes, as is being proposed by the government in the 2018/19 Financial Year, is a thorny issue. However, I believe in better …
Read More »COMMENT: Deal with fake drugs
National Drug Authority should handle the issue of counterfeit drugs through monitoring systems and the law COMMENT | MICHAEL WOIRA | The Uganda National Drug Authority and the Ministry of Health need to urgently reexamine the systems and processes they use to examine all drugs that are being sold by public …
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