Muniini K. Mulera

Untamed anger of “honourable” adults in parliament

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 12, 20240 comments

#Uganda #Parliament #Obote #Nadine #Kenyatta #Pinto #brawls

Have you ever been angry in your adult life? Do you still get angry sometimes? If your answer to either of these questions is “no”, please do not read any further. Call your doctor. Seek an urgent referral to a mental health specialist for professional evaluation and, ...

Florence Lubega and other pioneers: who will tell their story?

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 3, 20210 comments

#Florence #Lubega #Sugra #Visram #Uganda #Parliament #KY #Mbire #Manga #Wesonga #Frances #Akello #UCW #Kalema

Mrs. Florence Alice Lubega, who departed Earth on October 28, just eight days shy of turning 104, may well be the last member of independent Uganda’s first parliament to die. My uncertainty reflects the awfully inadequate documentation of the lives of our immediate post-independence ...

Ugandan MPs need to get to work, as do teachers and nurses.

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 3, 20211 comments

#Uganda #parliament

Chris Obore, the Director for Communication and Public Affairs of Parliament, took issue with last week’s letter in which I commented on the greed of Uganda’s parliamentarians. My comments were prompted by the allocation of Sh. 200 million (US$56,000) to each of the country’s ...

Ugandan MPs self-indulgence not new

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 27, 20210 comments

#Uganda #MP #parliament

Uganda, still in the grip of a second and more dangerous wave of the new coronavirus pandemic, is like a group of malnourished wanderers in the desert. They lie down to rest their exhausted bodies. Their breaths, shallow and barely enough to sustain life, do not register sounds. Their ...

Museveni playing parliament with world class footballer’s finesse

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 18, 20200 comments

#Museveni #Uganda #parliament #Kadaga #corruption

It is the successor to HIV/AIDS. No, not as a human disease or its impact on the affected individuals and their families. COVID-19 is the successor to HIV/AIDS as a source of lucrative cashflows to the well-connected and the charlatans who shed their consciences so long ago that they ...

Is Kadaga pursuing a kamikaze strategy with predictable results?

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 4, 20200 comments

#Uganda #Museveni #Kadaga #Parliament #Mbabazi

Rebecca Kadaga, the speaker of the Ugandan parliament, who has been engaged in a battle for political survival for several years, has inexplicably adopted an apparent kamikaze strategy whose results we can reasonably predict. Prior to the last presidential elections, ...

US$2.6 million loot by Ugandan MPs is grand political corruption

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 27, 20200 comments

#Uganda #Parliament #Corruption #COVID19 #Kadaga

In a Low Income Country, twenty million shillings (US$5,250) is a very large amount of money. This is the latest loot that nearly each Ugandan MP has grabbed from the public kitty. With the exception of a handful with a healthy conscience, all the legislators have been united in this ...