By Peter Nyanzi What moral authority will this Parliament have to demand that other departments handle public funds thriftily? Twenty six years ago when President Yoweri Museveni’s National Resistance Movement government captured power, they won acclaim for condemning the profligacy of the previous regimes, which had made those in power …
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By Peter Nyanzi Rwandan President Paul Kagame was in Kampala as chief guest at the Young Achievers Awards ceremony on Dec.11 and ended his visit with a media dialogue attended by The Independent’s Peter Nyanzi. Excerpts of the exchange follow. At the Young Achievers Awards ceremony you said leaders have …
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By Peter Nyanzi Isaya Mulondo worked as a mechanic for construction firms in Kampala for 20 years before he retired at 54. Eight years earlier, he had lost his first wife with whom he had three mature children. He married again and bore two more children. On retiring, he got …
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