| Stop crime
wave before it's too late |
EDITORIAL
Some Kampala suburbs are slowly degenerating into crime
zones under our noses. |
| Museveni
scored nil on food economics |
| Six years in the USA and I still had
trouble converting gallons into litres so that I could
understand the real impact of rising gas prices on my
purse. |
| Woes of
Uganda's 'monkey' employees |
| The last column I wrote here drew both
praise and ire. In the piece, I described the hardships
workers in the Ugandan hotel industry endure; that industry
which is supposed to be for hospitality! |
| Military
can't solve political problems |
| As the campaigns for the 1980 general
elections unfolded, Yoweri Museveni, then the leader
of the Uganda Patriotic Movement (UPM), blurted out
a daring statement. |
| Working hard
to feed leaders? |
| One of the statistics our President likes
to quote is about the improvement of revenue collection.
He wants the country to ever be grateful to him because
he found us collecting only Shs 40 billion in 1986 but
with his visionary help we are now collecting Shs 3,000
billion. |
| Road to
peace is never straight |
| On April 10, the reclusive Lord’s
Resistance Army (LRA) leader, Joseph Kony, declined
to sign the final peace agreement that many agree was
the best chance for peace in war-ravaged northern Uganda. |
| Speaker
who is MP short-changes voters |
| I don’t do personalities. I am
only exposing the flawlessness and inadequacy of the
Constitution which implausibly permits an elected MP
to be Speaker or Deputy Speaker of Parliament while
still retaining his/her parliamentary seat! |
| Men
get raw deal in Ugandan laws |
| Sometime back, during the commemoration
of 25 years after the first HIV/AIDS case was detected
in Uganda, President Museveni urged Ugandan
law-makers to consider hanging for those that
deliberately infect others with HIV. |
| To develop
Uganda, do away with villages |
| Uganda is poor, underdeveloped and cannot
feed its people. What can be done to solve all the intractable
problems facing our country? |
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