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Ivan Okuda, FCIArb

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3 years

Long live the king.

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4 years

Retired Chief Justice Bart Katurebe enjoying his retirement at his Lodge in Kichwamba- Queen Elizabeth National park. When I applied for an LLM, he was one of my recommenders and it took him one day to write the recommendation. A great man I truly like and deeply respect!

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2 years

Was Comedienne Ann Kansiime acting or she actually stands by this in real life?

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21 days

Headline writing is one of the most pleasurable things in an editor’s life.

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2 years

On the BBC this morning, a Moroccan fan says, “this is like nothing else. It’s a big day for Morocco and for all Arabs. Congratulations to Morocco and to all Arabs.” Yeah. He didn’t say “Congs to Morocco and all Africans.” Clearly, the guys feel more Arab than African.

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2 years

Dr. Kasenene is easily one of the more influential Kampalans. In offices, meetings, gyms, pork joints, saunas and bars in K’la, people discuss his health tips or confess how they’re trying to follow them as others share how he’s changed their diet habits. Now that’s impact.

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1 year

The Secretary General of the African National Congress got Steve Sucker removing his specs. Reality check.

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3 years

To be honest, you aren’t any different , in this regard, from Gen. Museveni who, when Daily Monitor reports what he doesn’t like, calls its editors names. Like M7, you’d probably close New Vision if you’d the power. Defend media freedom. Don’t gag the press through blackmail.

BOBI WINE

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3 years

What Museveni's puppet Don Wanyama has reduced the New Vision to! Worse than a tabloid. Happens when you personalise institutions and appoint incompetent stooges & sycophants to head them. Our nation is in deep crisis- they must manufacture lies to divert. #WeAreRemovingADictator

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4 years

This lady is a good news anchor. She’s authentic (doesn’t try too hard like some of our people who try to change accents and play with facial expressions to appear too serious like BBC or CNN anchors). She’s calm & natural. In a year or 2 she may be the best tv anchor in Uganda.

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4 years

This isn’t an art piece. It’s not even photoshop. These are the tree climbing lions of Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park. Photo credit: John Baguma.

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4 years

In 2012 as we filled our choices for uni, I put law as 1st, 2nd, 3rd choices. A teacher was enraged that I was wasting opportunities for gov’t scholarship. I told him to mind his business. Eventually I got both law & on gov’t scholarship. Enrolled today. Long, beautiful journey.

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2 years

Kenyan lawyers can really choose to impress you with their quality of submissions. Meanwhile the smoothness, calmness, class and eloquence with which Justice Smokin Wanjala speaks as he grills Counsel is a class apart. Boy oh boy! Kenya is truly the big brother of the region.

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5 years

Peterson Mwesiga the Giant from Ntungamo and the smartest UGANDAN I have met does it—-AGAIN! First Class (Electrical Engineering), First Class Bachelor of Laws(MUK), Distinction (MSC—Pretoria), Overall Best 2019 (LDC). A modest and decent human being but the finest brain in town!

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4 years

You may have your biases and misgivings about Ham but he is speaking the truth in this clip.

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2 years

Powerful testimony by Shaka. Reminds me of Kiira Coll. Butiki. In an S.3 exam, I once got 18% in maths. Surprisingly, Mr. Nyulya, rather than bash me, said, “You’ll have failed yourself in life if you don’t do law. Don’t worry, maths isn’t your strength.” He touched my life.

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3 months

Honoured to be inducted as Fellow of UK’s Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), the world’s gold standard for arbitration professionals. Humbled by the privilege to join the professional arbitrators high table. Attaining Fellowship was my 30th birthday dream. Glory to God.

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Ivan Okuda, FCIArb

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15 days

Watching a story on Aljazeera on funding challenges of rugby in Africa. The World Rugby Union gives every European country 5m$ but the entire continent of Africa is given 5m$ (55,000$ per country basically, on average). In the eyes of the World Rugby Union, Africa is a country.

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Ivan Okuda, FCIArb

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3 years

Officially graduated this afternoon from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg with a Master of Arts (Journalism & Media Studies). Grateful to @KasMedia for a full scholarship & my amazing supervisors @franzkruger & @AntonHarber for the research report support.

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3 years

LDC has issues and is ripe for radical reform but truth is, the quality of our (PRIVATE) law schools is LOW. We liberalized legal education, left standards to the wind. I met students at LDC who could hardly write a 1 page essay. How did they graduate with a law degree?

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3 years

The joy and privilege of being a muzungu tourist in Uganda.

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1 month

I had the honour of sharing a cup of coffee as we awaited a flight with a man who rose to the apex of his career and served as Chief Justice of Kenya, Mr. David Maraga. Many recall his court overturning a presidential election. Discussions with elders of virtue are enlightening.

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Ivan Okuda, FCIArb

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2 years

Officially started class this afternoon. LLM/MSc. Construction Law and Arbitration, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland. It’s gonna be an interesting journey of 3 years of building a specialisation in construction and arbitration, an area I find fascinating.

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Ivan Okuda, FCIArb

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3 years

This morning, my friend, the amiable Sec. Gen. of @NUP_Ug called me to share his views on our Twitter debate & other issues. Just had lunch & candid talk. @DavidLRubongoya is one of my generation’s torch bearers. Of course I had to do the ✋🏼 to salute the one and only Great UPC.

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3 years

“I have also refused the blanket,” Nabanjja Magufuli Junior says.

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2 years

When a similar proposal was made in Tanzania to appease President John P. Magufuli, his response was that the CCM party is a brewery of leaders and the country was not short of leaders who could continue doing a good job. How will @WilliamsRuto respond to similar temptation?

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4 years

Age is wisdom.

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2 years

What is success? A question many philosophers won’t have a uniform answer to. This lady from Kenya gives her perspective.

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2 years

Aggrey Awori shining even in his absence.

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2 years

“The lizard that jumped from the high iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no one else did,” Chinua Achebe- “Things Fall Apart”. Our Butiki H/Master Daudi H. Mulongo once said at assembly, “If no one blows your trumpet, pick it, go up the mountain & blow it.”

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2 years

The jokes Presidents crack🤣😝🫢🫢. The translator really had a hard time relaying the message.

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2 years

This police officer ticks all the boxes for an effective communicator; calm, credible, believable, message delivery done with illustrations of real life situations. Let’s take heed of her message. Don’t be a danger to other road users.

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Ivan Okuda, FCIArb

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5 years

Dear fellow UGANDANS aged below 30, please read these words carefully and store them in the heart. They come from an elder whose every word is loaded with experience and wisdom accumulated over more decades than you have lived or may ever live.

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Ivan Okuda, FCIArb

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3 months

The new Director, Law Development Center has an impressive and solid professional profile befitting the stature and role of the office. She’s clearly earned it. Merit-based appointments like this one are a breath of fresh air & a testament that hard work pays. All the best, Dr.

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6 years

Mr. Museveni writing as editor of Ntare Sch. Magazine centuries ago. I bet some masters degree holders in our education system today where getting a masters is a mere academic formality can write such polished English written by a 22 year old in 1966.

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5 years

Mr. Cyril Ramaphosa, President of the Republic of South Africa welcomes Mr. Trevor Noah to parliament where he was allowed special access to sit in throughout the proceeding of the August house. Recognizing talent and letting it flourish. Kudos Mr. President of the Republic.

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2 years

“It breaks my heart. Many Ukrainians were let into this country (Romania) with their ANIMALS but many Africans were turned away. It breaks my heart,” a Nigerian doctor on @BBCWorld in an interview. Reminds me of Julius Ocwinyo’s novel, ‘Fate of the Banished’.

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4 years

I was doing research recently and the numerous google searches led me to an article by a Philippines-based columnist. It was well-argued & persuasive. Sent him a shout out on Twitter & started following him. He’s won himself a new reader from Uganda. This is his latest column.

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8 months

Asked on Desert Island Discs why he started a newspaper in Kenya & not Uganda after leaving New Vision which he says was taking on, “a more propagandistic role”, William Pike says, “New Vision was my baby. I didn’t want to compete with it.” Plus, Kenya is a bigger economy.

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2 years

I passed by UG Registration Services Bureau to pay a courtesy call to my friend, big sister & mentor @Mercykains . Checked out, out of curiosity, the civil marriages notice board. A muzungu man of 80 is going to marry a 24 year old Ugandan. Can that guy’s engine even start kweli?

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2 years

The show line up is a mirror of the crisis of the media in Uganda and why it can’t grow. Out of touch with lived experience of we wannaichi. Why bring ONLY high income earners who don’t feel the pinch of high cost of living to discuss it? Bring a boda rider, Rolex guy too!

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2 years

Let’s have a conversation on economy and cost of living on Behind the Headlines at 10:00 pm.

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Ivan Okuda, FCIArb

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6 years

Reviews on 27 Guns. An absolute disaster for a movie, terrible try at propaganda on the NRA, it’s atrocities let alone idea of creating the impression that attrocities were committed by one side (UNLA), amateurish propaganda packaging! Why not hire bazungu to put in some brains?

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Ivan Okuda, FCIArb

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3 years

I made a comment in passing on the quality of MTN (U) network quality on a talk show & the house was on fire. MTN has become so big & arrogant that no tv, radio, newspaper can host a discussion on it. Even gov’t can’t touch it. This corporate tyranny is Idi Aminisque.

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3 years

At age 26, straight out of law school, Sarah Weddington argued (up to the USA Supreme Court) Roe vs Wade, a case that legalised abortion. She said then, that whatever she did in life, her tribute would read, ‘the lawyer who argued Roe vs Wade.’ She died today, 76. Life of IMPACT!

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2 years

Watching the debate on the DRC-Rwanda question between @AndrewMwenda and @Ochieno . Informed panelists, respectful to each other, with informative submissions. I’ve learnt so much in 1 hour. Now, these 2 are UPC-bred intellectuals. Not surprising they’d deliver on many a subject.

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2 years

Surely, placing law as first choice when filling those S.6 forms wasn’t a mistake. Oh, law was 1st, 2nd & 3rd choice and it had to be Makerere University or Dar-es-Salaam. Every passing day is a demonstration that we weren’t crazy teens. We just knew what we wanted, early enough!

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Ivan Okuda, FCIArb

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3 years

This is the Uganda Prisons Service staff Covid treatment Centre, with 25 Cylinders of Oxygen. @jbyabs this is leadership & foresight; that even with limited resources in crisis time like this, at least we can say, “they’re trying their best in the circumstances.” Kudos, Ejakait.

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3 years

Just got served at Cafe Javas Kamwokya by an amazing lad called Yusuf. He’s the true definition of being polished & passionate. He’s studying international hospitality in Switzerland. He was at Rainbow International for high school. Doing internship at Cafe Javas. He’s just 18!

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2 years

At breakfast in Masindi, my client introduces me to a political leader here who instantly asks, “Are you the son or brother of the Okuda of Daily Monitor?” Client tells him I worked with Monitor. Him, “Impossible. The Okuda of Monitor is an old man like in his 50s.” Haibo!

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Ivan Okuda, FCIArb

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4 years

Whoever thought of this bird as Uganda’s national emblem and its colors as our national colors really had their head working at its best. Such beautiful, gracious and adorable creatures, these crested cranes.

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Ivan Okuda, FCIArb

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6 years

Justice Kenneth Kakuru’s research assistant deserves a pay rise and pat on the back. That was one buffet of constitutional history of Uganda lecture.

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Ivan Okuda, FCIArb

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2 years

By 7:30am, the Director Public Prosecutions is in office, ready to make her contribution to our motherland. The commitment to serve, professionalism and warmth of this, my aunt (all K’jong are uncles/aunties to the Iteso) is inspiring. Justice Jane Abodo raises the bar high.

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