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Timothy Kalyegira

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2 years

For those Africans lamenting the postponement of the English Premier League, the reason you asked for independence decades ago was to create your own national football leagues. Go and watch your local teams play.

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2 years

In February I was quite busy and didn't find the time to wish Bobi Wine a happy birthday. I'm not really a Bobi Wine fan, but it's not too late today, April 23rd. Please join me in wishing him a belated Happy Birthday! Hashtag: #belatedhappybirthdaybobiwine

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2 years

Muhoozi is going mad. Frank Muhoozi, 25, a boda boda rider in Sheema district, recently started acting funny, causing concern for colleagues at the boda stage. Muhoozi claims he can ride his bike in the air and tried to show how, but had to be stopped before injuring himself.

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2 years

Muhoozi's tweets, my goodness. Is that a state of mind or a mind of state?

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2 years

Many westerners run their rural farms using government offices. Let's say I work in URA or CMI and visit my farm in Bushenyi or Fort Portal using the official vehicle. So, I look like a hardworking farmer, but government fuel and vehicles subsidise my farm's operating costs.

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2 years

Just been reading through the latest series of tweets by Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba. For the first time, I don't know what to think or say. I really don't.

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3 years

I've not seen many Ugandan politicians who genuinely, truly at heart, love people and would do anything to see their lives and circumstances get better, like Ssegirinya Muhammad. Amid his drama and raw antics, that's all that seems to motivate him: A better life for his people.

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2 years

What got me arrested in 2010 after I claimed that the July 2010 World Cup bombings in Kampala were not by Al-Shabab. The real reason was that I also revealed the very sensitive fact that the attack on Kichwamba Technical College outside Fort Portal was NOT by the ADF.

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6 months

Two points as we enter the Easter holiday: 2) Bobi Wine dropping Mpuuga despite appeals by Katikkiro Mayiga for unity shows a State House mole might have told NUP of M7's plans to do to NUP using Mpuuga what he did to DP using Mao, and NUP acted to avoid the fate of DP and FDC.

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4 years

The real reason President Museveni doesn't like visiting Europe is that he doesn't enjoy right-of-way on the roads or travel in an 18-vehicle convoy. Just two cars. Europe reminds him that there are parts of the world where he's treated as any ordinary man.

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3 years

So, people attend top universities in America and Europe for their Master's degree, return to Uganda, and then their new career growth path is about singing the praises of Muhoozi. An MBA whose end goal is to sing MK's praises. Just trying to understand.

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4 years

Since 1986, every Ugandan army spokesman has been from the ________ region. Maj. Roland Katunguka (Acholi) Col. Shaban Bantariza (Muganda) Maj. Phinehas Katirima (Kakwa) Col. Felix Kulayigye (Samia) Lt. Paddy Ankunda (Itesot) Brig. Richard Karemire (Mugisu)

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3 years

Around 2001, Uganda Telecom had a radio advert in which former President Nelson Mandela is in a phone conversation with President Museveni and asks, "How is Uganda?" to which Museveni blandly replies, "I'm fine". We're getting to that point now, where M7 sees Uganda as himself.

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7 months

Social media, Twitter especially, is becoming a Ugandan citizens' CMI. People in the government and other institutions are seated on insider information and are willing to share it with social media intelligence officers like Spire Ssentongo, Kakwenza, and Agather Atuhaire.

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3 years

Uganda's exhibits at the Dubai World Expo 2020: President Museveni, politicians, traditional dancers, and a message that Uganda welcomes foreign investors. That's Uganda's economy, in summary. M7 is the main product and praising father and son is the main GDP economic activity.

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4 years

If M7 had stepped down from power in 1990 as promised, today we'd be adoring him. Roads, schools, waterfalls, and sports stadiums would be named after him. It's good he stayed long enough to save us the national embarrassment of mistaking him for a Mandela.

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7 months

Anita Among crosses from FDC to NRM and becomes more powerful than the men who formed the NRM in 1981. She has nerves of steel, blasting the First Lady and Muhoozi whom everyone else fears. And then there's that compulsive thirst for an opulent lifestyle. Interesting woman.

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2 years

You can't be from Teso or Acholi, you know how brutally your own people were massacred, gang-raped, treated like animals, their granaries, crops, and huts set on fire by the NRA after 1986 --- you know all this, but want to convince me that you suddenly see the good in M7/NRM.

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1 year

Last week, I submitted an article to the Sunday Monitor analysing whether or not a military coup is possible in Uganda today. Editors felt that, even by Monitor's standards, I went too far and didn't publish it. But, if you have 50k, you can send it to my phone and read it.

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3 years

Meanwhile, are we to take it as a new official normal that Lt. Gen. Kainerugaba is now the de facto Ugandan Foreign Minister, visiting regional capitals, in a Uganda Airlines Bombardier plane that doubles as his Uber jet, waiting on him and flying him back? Is this it?

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1 year

That's why I get irritated when I see people of Acholi and Teso supporting the NRM. How do you vote for a regime that committed all those terrible atrocities against your people? How??

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3 years

"The biggest achievement by the NUP since the election has been to remain intact as a party. This might seem obvious, but it is no small feat...There is nothing the NRM state has not tried out to disorganise the NUP." (My Sunday Monitor analysis last week, March 20, 2022)

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2 years

Bobi Wine asked an important question yesterday that we should all face. In 1986 when the NRA marched into Kampala, it was welcomed by huge crowds, many of them parents and grandparents of the people who are now celebrating the deaths of NRM leaders. We must ask what happened.

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2 years

There's a country, located in the eastern part of its continent. The country's name starts with the letter U and contains the letters G and A. One of these days there might be uncoordinated troop movements, followed by a military coup. (Uruguay, you'd better take note.)

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2 years

If it's really true that Ugandans have been working hard all these years, only to discover that their NSSF savings have been "privatised" by M7 & family, an Arab Spring might finally happen.

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1 year

Whoever attacked the Kasese school clearly wanted to prevent M7 from reaping any political harvest from the release of Mumbere and the jubilation in Kasese. But M7's silence so far shows that he too knows that this is not the ADF, but the "ADF". So, who is the "ADF"?

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2 years

Joel Ssenyonyi is becoming Parliament's new Daudi Ochieng, in his scrutinising of Uganda Airlines. Even if one is NRM "kaganga", it's becoming hard to justify Ms. Bamuturaki as the airline's CEO. M7 should look for someone else. (Conrad Nkutu, in my view.)

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3 years

1. Masaka town in Nasarawa, Nigeria votes opposition. 2. The government orchestrates a wave of murders. 3. Blames murders on opposition; arrests MPs. 4. Stops the murders; pays bereaved families. 5. Says before town voted opposition, was peaceful. (Script of a Nigerian movie)

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3 years

Shoprite, Game, Pep Stores, Etihad Airways, Nakumatt, GulfAir, Uchumi, Steers, British Airways, Shell, Barclays, Nando's, Tuskys, Orange, now Africell - all leaving the Ugandan market since 2012. Are all these international, regional brands failures or is Uganda's economy weak?

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1 year

In 2006, the New Vision published an article about the LRA cutting off people's lips and ears in Acholi. Buried unwittingly in that story was an Acholi woman recounting how the LRA rebels who molested her spoke Swahili "with a Runyankore accent".

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3 years

Before he was elected, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky was a comedian with no political experience; but now he's gaining admiration around the world for his resolve. I guess that answers critics of Bobi Wine who argued that Uganda can't be led by an "unserious" musician.

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2 years

M7 is not the final authority in Uganda. The Board of Directors in Brussels, Washington, and London call the real shots. M7 is more like a powerful Country Manager. If the Board decide they've had enough of him, the opposition will come to power. That's our reality.

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2 years

Army fed up with MK's birthday events and his openly voicing presidential ambitions, against army rules. M7, as a result, orders MK not to attend the Kiruhura birthday rally, but anger in the army remains high. A week later, the army is put on the highest level of alertness.

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11 months

82% of Uganda's economy is located in areas that heavily voted NUP: Kampala, Jinja, Masaka, etc. The economy can't do well when the population in these areas is bitter, their people abducted, their land grabbed. So, stop this empty positivity talk and join the national cause.

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4 months

In the meeting with the UK High Commissioner, M7 might have dismissed London's claim about Among's house. He was then told London has a list of every property owned by EVERY Ugandan govt official. Shaken, M7 realised he must act on Among before London leaks the full list.

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3 years

So one of these days when you see me starting to praise Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba's mustache or admiring Natasha's taste in music, you'll know that I've joined the fastest-growing sector of Uganda's economy -- Praising and thanking the First Family.

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1 year

Even if all opposition leaders, cultural leaders, media, and civil society are bought off, these facts won't change: 1) National fatigue with the NRM's 37-year rule. 2) High unemployment. 3) Muhoozi's lack of personal charisma. 4) The NRM govt's corruption and blatant nepotism.

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2 years

I asked a businessman in Gulu what lessons he has learned. He said to succeed in business in Uganda you either must have a political godfather, or you must evade taxes.

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2 years

I don't know if we should worry, but what I can tell you who are reading this is that inside the army, the mood/morale is like what it was in the UNLA around early 1984. Not yet an all-out crisis, but certainly no longer the familiar, calm normal. You can quote me on that.

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3 years

At a press conference this afternoon, the Uganda Police has said the ADF is responsible for today's bomb blasts in Kampala. Somehow, the ADF itself never claims responsibility for such attacks. It's always the government that makes the claim on the ADF's behalf.

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2 years

Many are mentioning M7's political "genius" at getting Mao into the NRM. Political genius would be to get Besigye to re-join the NRM. Mao was exhausted politically, he adds nothing to the NRM, DP was eaten up by the NUP, and becoming a minister is really Mao's semi-retirement.

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3 years

Unlike social media or the entertainment industry, the role of a university is not to become a trending topic; it is to produce serious research and educate students. So to argue that Bad Black brings value to Victoria University is to fail to understand what a university is.

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1 year

If you're an intelligence officer at ISO or CMI, read carefully the social media data reflecting very high interest in the Gabon coup. This is the true, broad sentiment in Uganda. Let's stop deceiving M7, Saleh, Muhoozi, or Mama that the Ugandan public still loves them.

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2 years

The silly phase, the one the NRM officially entered today, April 23, is the most dangerous. Commitment in the ruling party collapses; national life is reduced to displays of nauseating sycophancy; sober minds get disgusted; angry minds begin to plot Plan B, including coups.

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7 months

He was silent during AfCON, the NAM summit, and everything else. But Samson Kasumba suddenly comes out of his Twitter retirement, just in time to defend and justify the massive corruption that has been exposed this week in parliament. Good, telling timing, don't you think?

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2 months

Yesterday's flopped march on parliament showed how much weaker at organisation Ugandans are than Kenyans. But by staying away, Ugandans (to their credit) also showed they now fully understand the single-minded ruthlessness of the man they welcomed as a liberator in 1986.

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4 years

I've challenged Andrew Mwenda to put his impressive economic data on Uganda to the test. I want him to choose a day and for 24 hours live by the World Bank data of $1.9 or 7,000 shs a day, walks to work, and has a chapati and juice in a kaveera for lunch.

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2 years

The army's move on Major Kakooza Mutale and Abdul Nadduli shows that intelligence isn't fooled by a public show of support for M7 or Muhoozi. They were not fooled by Col. Abiriga's all-yellow attire. So, many of you pretending to support M7 or MK are under close surveillance.

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2 years

It's driving State House crazy that it has so far failed to break up the NUP. It first seemed like a passing wave, but more than 60 NUP activists in various jails have refused to be broken by mistreatment. This rare, admirable show of conviction by Baganda is bothering M7.

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4 years

As President Museveni and Bobi Wine addressed the nation tonight, Bobi Wine's live feed received ten times more views than the president's. Whether ranked by social media data or the large crowds greeting Bobi Wine across the country, Uganda is now post-M7.

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2 years

- Gen. Kainerugaba abruptly deletes his Twitter handle. - ICT Minister Baryomunsi dismisses police summons. - Agriculture Minister Tumwebaze distances himself from govt decision to hand Uganda's coffee marketing to Italian firm. Sunday Monitor analyses chaos in the NRM state.

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2 years

NUP is a national party, but it was born in Buganda and drew most of its initial support from there. In the next general election, its support will most likely have broadened beyond Buganda into Busoga, Bugisu, and some other areas. I think this is what is disturbing M7.

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2 years

Dr. Paul Kasenene should be the first person charged under the new Computer Misuse Law. Always making law-abiding people feel guilty over the few delicacies that they get to enjoy in this difficult life.

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3 years

NUP's leadership needs to call an urgent meeting to diffuse this ugly mood between Acholi and Buganda. That's because I know the NRM's dirty tricks. They'll create fake NUP social media accounts that insult northerners, ending NUP's hope of ever establishing a foothold there.

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11 months

There are Ugandans troubled by the M7/NRM excesses but their jobs, businesses, or cowardice prevent them from speaking out. So they've taken to book clubs, jogging, motivational talks, or acting the jovial clown on social media to cope. I discuss them, Sunday Monitor, Nov. 5.

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3 years

Soldiers have surrounded the building where President Umaro Sissoco Embaló is presiding over a cabinet meeting, have taken charge of the state radio station, and have also surrounded the headquarters of the ruling party. A military coup is unfolding in Guinea-Bissau.

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7 months

- Baganda dominance (1945-1962) left an aftertaste of snobbery. - Northerner rule (1962-1986) left deep trauma. - Westerner rule (1986- ) has seen massive looting. - If Patrick Amuriat and Anita Among are a clue, Teso/easterners will match westerners in looting. So, what next?

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5 years

Fundraising for Makerere University fresher Henry Ssubi shows why Africa doesn't work. Crowdfunding and sympathy, good gestures, are no substitute for institutions that simply work. Much attention is now heaped on Ssubi; but how about others just as needy?

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7 months

I told you last week that the Speaker is not a normal person. There's something about her.

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7 months

Recently I told you here that the Financial Intelligence Authority was interrogating staff of Parliament who receive money on their accounts on behalf of the Speaker. Today I will start to share those details. It is said that on average the Speaker spends about shs 400m a week.

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11 months

You can give endless motivational talks, preach Uganda's tourism potential, or encourage entrepreneurs. But as long as we still have political impunity, human rights abuses, and massive corruption, businesses without a happy, free, prosperous population will keep struggling.

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5 years

Apple's first iPhone was released in June 2007 and was priced at $499. If you had bought Apple stock worth $499 instead of buying that first iPhone, today the stock would be worth $5,700. (Lesson: Buying Apple's stock is better than buying Apple's products.)

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The best thing to have happened to M7 was for People Power to become NUP and join parliament. The salaries, per diem, cars, and trips abroad have softened and corrupted NUP's spirit and resolve, ensuring the party will never expand beyond its current central stronghold.

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1 year

To those who ask if the Google tracking data is about Bobi Wine the musician or Bobi Wine the politician. In 2017 when he was elected MP, the two identities still overlapped. But now, in 2023, it's clear that Bobi Wine the politician is the main identity to most Ugandans.

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3 years

The Minister of Education suggests that MPs meet her not at parliament but at Kololo Airstrip. This impunity by the First Family that M7 turned a blind eye to for years is now rendering him a powerless figurehead, the way it was with President Robert Mugabe and Grace Mugabe.

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2 years

The best thing the United States can do for Uganda is to go right ahead and cut off all aid, followed hopefully by the European Union. The waste, lack of commitment, and lack of seriousness that runs through Uganda is the result of aid. We're under no pressure to be serious.

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2 years

The Uganda government established the Coffee Marketing Board in the 1960s to market Uganda's coffee. Now the Museveni government (not to be confused with the Uganda government) has given a private company the contract to market our coffee. (Steady regress?)

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1 year

July 12 - Iranian President Raisi arrives in Uganda on a visit. July 16 - Israeli intelligence discusses Iran's ties with Africa. August 8 - World Bank suspends financing to Uganda. August 12 - President Museveni inspects a parade in Kabale behind a bullet-proof glass shield.

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3 years

Ssegirinya Muhammad is always full of drama. He's just said on a radio station that Kawempe is doing so well since he got elected, people are shifting from other divisions to Kawempe. But he's one politician who works for the good of his people from the bottom of his heart.

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2 years

If he's not stopped by the Computer Misuse Law, Dr. Kasenene will soon be telling us that laughter causes muscular convulsions in the chest and this can lead to heart disease.

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4 years

Somebody needs to hack into the Lt. Gen. M.K. Twitter handle and permanently disable it. That Twitter account has done a lot of self-inflicted damage to the brand and public image that many of us once genuinely respected.

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6 months

If you (CMI, ISO, etc.) must launch a smear campaign against me, my advice is that you space out the posts over weeks and months to make them seem natural, rather than post everything all at once and make it obvious to everyone who you really are. Just a tip.

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3 years

Regarding President Museveni's claim yesterday about Uganda's economy, it was $4.2 billion in Jan. 1986. Adjusted for inflation, that's $10.6 billion in Dec. 2021. Uganda's GDP in late 2021 was $32.5 billion. So it's grown by three times since 1986, NOT 31 times as he said.

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3 years

11:59 a.m. East African Time, Nov. 16, 2021 Kampala No word yet from the other Twitter account from which military, pan-African, patriotic and Bigo bya Mugenyi/Nyabingi communiqués are usually sent out.

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2 years

Anxiety, shame over our humble background, self-doubt, fear of failure -- these are the inner demons that explain why so many of us have this compulsive need to announce our "wins", our job promotion, university graduation, car, etc. on social media. The story of insecurities.

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Baganda after the events of May 1966 resolved never again to support the UPC. No matter how many decades have gone by, they politely decided once and for all on that. And I think they decided the same, starting in 2021. How do you vote for your tormenter?

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2 years

Now that parliament has courageously censured a minister, we hope it will ask President Museveni or the army High Command to explain why one of its officers, against all military rules and protocol, traverses the country, holding political rallies instead of reporting to work.

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2 years

To parents in Uganda and Kenya: You are paying a lot of money in school fees for a curriculum that is outdated for the 21st Century. It won't help your children find jobs or create jobs.

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Col. Pecos Kutesa was a guest on 91.3 Capital FM's "Desert Island Discs" show on Jan. 1, 1995. He narrated how, as an NRA guerrilla embedded in the UNLA in 1981, his role was to harass civilians in and around Kampala in order to turn the public against Obote's new government.

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3 years

Somebody kindly tell Afande that the 1980 national population census recorded Luweero's population at about 150,000 people. This alone shows the Obote army could not have killed 300,000 people in Luweero. (Sorry, just doing my job as a presidential advisor on facts and data.)

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So, now you understand why M7 tries to prevent Bobi Wine from campaigning in other parts of Uganda. This is because the NUP only needs to gain a few more percentage points (say 7% to 10%) in western, northern, and eastern Uganda to win by a clear overall national margin.

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2 years

"Well...we've had an interruption. Strong wind blew away the tent that was [a] shed to the coffin of the late Jacob Oulanyah, which...in Luo tradition...shows clearly that something is not right and the spirit of the dead is really not rested." (Commentator, live on UBC Radio)

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3 years

Ssegirinya Muhammad is responding at three times the speed and ten times the empathy of the Uganda government. The question now is who is more efficient, Ssegirinya Muhammad or the Rwanda government? That was my update for now.

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2 years

Why do I have an uncomfortable feeling about William Ruto? Why do I feel that under him, Kenya will leave the jovial, easygoing mood under Uhuru Kenyatta and return to the fear, intrigue, and mysterious happenings of the Daniel Arap Moi years? I must be wrong, though.

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4 years

The fact that M7 doesn't seem to know that 70 percent of bars in Kampala, Mbarara, Jinja, Mbale and Entebbe (including nearby State House) have continued to operate secretly since March, has convinced me that we don't have a serious intelligence system.

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2 years

BREAKING NEWS: U.S. media reporting that the Twitter Board of Directors has agreed to sell Twitter to Elon Musk.

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2 years

For many of you discouraged by the many journalists who once stood for justice but crossed over to the tormenters, don't worry. You still have some like me who don't waver or fall for crumbs of cash. Do not be discouraged.

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2 years

The tension between Yoweri Museveni and Elly Tumwine was similar to the tension between Museveni and Sam Magara. Ankole's bloodline royals wanted their kingdom restored, while M7 wanted to create a new kingdom, with himself as the first monarch. (I know! Sounds bizarre!)

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Timothy Kalyegira

@TimKalyegira

6 months

If I were Anita Among, I would go a step further and start gathering votes from MPs to declare M7 Life President of Uganda. You make sure you keep reducing him to the lowest common denominator of a primitive 18th-century African chief and an international joke.

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@TimKalyegira

7 months

Something feels like a "Uganda Uprising" in the making. Where the FDC and NUP were called radical extremists, now the general population is also becoming radical and extreme. Anyone who tries to defend the M7 govt, or posture as a voice of moderation, is angrily shouted down.

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@TimKalyegira

2 years

1) President Idi Amin wanted to work with Benedicto Kiwanuka, that's why he appointed him Chief Justice. 2) Kiwanuka wanted to work with Amin, that's why he accepted the job. 3) Yesterday, M7 said his FRONASA group did not want Kiwanuka to work with Amin. - So, ____________?

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@TimKalyegira

3 years

People talk of the American Dream, but there's one dream that beats that one and it's the Ugandan Dream. I don't know of any country where so many people are paid so much money for doing so little that's of so little importance, and with so little accountability for the money.

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Timothy Kalyegira

@TimKalyegira

3 years

Shortly after swearing-in as president on Jan. 29, 1986, Yoweri Museveni and Amama Mbabazi flew to Kinshasa, Zaïre, for talks with President Mobutu. Last week, the two men attend a security summit in Brazzaville, Congo. Don't be surprised if Mbabazi is your next president.

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@TimKalyegira

1 year

Moves are being made behind the scenes to oust the Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among. I know exactly where that is coming from, i.e., from high up in the NRM system.

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@TimKalyegira

9 months

Aid-dependent states can't claim to be non-aligned, let alone independent. And a NAM summit host that receives 70 vehicles from China as "facilitation" for the summit of an organisation founded to assert neutrality from Great Power rivalry, is just as ridiculous.

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@TimKalyegira

3 years

President Museveni to State House officials: Pay the athletes their money. State House officials: 😆😆😆 Museveni: Please play their money State House officials: 🤣😁😂 Museveni: Okay. But why don't you listen to my orders? State House officials: 😜

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Timothy Kalyegira

@TimKalyegira

2 years

In Uganda, "success" is ultimately about closeness to the government, not one's talent. If NUP were in power today, Eddie Mutwe would be the Commander of SFC, Joel Ssenyonyi Foreign Minister, Mathias Mpuuga Prime Minister, and Barbara Kyagulanyi First Lady. It's all chance.

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Timothy Kalyegira

@TimKalyegira

3 years

Days after Shoprite announcing its exit from Madagascar and Uganda, another South African brand Game Stores is selling its supermarkets in East and West Africa to focus on South Africa. The myth of a rising African middle-class is falling apart. I hope DSTV doesn't pull out too.

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Timothy Kalyegira

@TimKalyegira

14 days

By the end of this year, I estimate that Isaac Ssemakadde will be among Uganda's top three male public figures in terms of Google tracking data. His militancy and theatrics make even Besigye and Bobi Wine seem mild. Today, I started monitoring Google data on him.

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Timothy Kalyegira

@TimKalyegira

2 years

If you didn't become a cabinet minister in the late 1980s or early 1990s when being a minister in M7's government still carried some weight, what's the excitement about becoming a minister in 2022 when anyone, fisherman or school dropout, can be appointed a minister?

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@TimKalyegira

2 years

Persis Namuganza is the Executive's unofficial Chief Whip, used to tame female Speakers of Parliament (Kadaga, Among) whom the Executive feels need to have their powers trimmed. She is the de facto Minister of the Presidency in charge of supervising the Speaker.

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