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, ...

Botswana’s anthem fulfilled; Uganda’s betrayed

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 4, 20240 comments

#Botswana #Uganda #Masisi #Boko #Kgalemang #Tumediso #Motsete #Khama #Seretse

The seismic shift in Botswana’s political landscape last week is, so far, the most positive political development in Africa this year. Botswana, whose celebrated democracy had been backsliding in recent years, is born again. It has passed the essential test of democratic consolidation, ...

Preventable fuel tanker fiery deaths

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 28, 20240 comments

#BLEVE #Kigogwa #Kigoogwa #Kyanamira #fire #fuel #tanker #Uganda

Kyanamira, Kabaare inferno, Saturday October 26, 2024 Photographer: Unknown Last week’s fiery accidents in Uganda are another wake-up call to action. The first accident occurred at Kigoogwa, a town just north of Kampala, on Tuesday October 22. The driver lost control ...

Ugandan youth and elders need each other

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 15, 20241 comments

#Youth #Uganda #ANT

Hillary Niwagaba posted a “protest letter to the aged leaders” on a community WhatsApp Group last week, in which he wrote: “Dear honorable leaders. We, the younger generation, remember when you visited our schools, encouraging us to study hard and become future ...

Rigathi Gachagua’s day of Machiavellian reckoning

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 21, 20240 comments

#Gachagua #Ruto #Kenyatta #Moi #Pinto #Mboya #Kariuki #Tuko #Muge #Machiavelli #Kenya #Uganda #Nyayo #Moi

Photo: Nyayo House, Nairobi © Muniini K. Mulera Following his fall from the deputy presidency of Kenya last week, Rigathi Gachagua expressed his shock at the way his “brother and friend” President William Ruto had treated him. “I did not know that ...

Thin hope for peaceful presidential transition in Uganda

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 24, 20240 comments

#Uganda

I watched a video clip in which two Ugandan cabinet ministers lectured civil servants about the latter’s supposed obligation to be blindly loyal to the current president and his political party. The ministers were condescendingly unequivocal in their harangues. “It is ...

Quality, not quantity of doctors, must be Uganda’s priority

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 9, 20240 comments

#Uganda #doctors #medical #schools

Whereas full employment and continued education of all recent medical graduates in Uganda is of utmost urgency, it should be accompanied by concurrent, independent external reviews of the fourteen medical schools in the country. Thirteen of these medical schools have been started ...

A frightened Ugandan president, a courageous magistrate and the case against Rajat Neogy and Abu Mayanja

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 22, 20181 comments

#Uganda #Neogy #Rajat #Neogy #Abu #Mayanja #Milton #Obote #Transition #Mohammed #Saied

Photo: Hon. Abubakar Kakyama Mayanja (1929-2005) The imprisonment, 50 years ago, of Rajat Neogy, the legendary founder and editor of Transition, and Abubakar Kakyama Mayanja, a prominent barrister and parliamentarian, was a symptom of Uganda’s failed democratic experiment ...

Medical interns need help from their elders in their struggle for recognition as doctors

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaSeptember 2, 20240 comments

#Doctors #Uganda #Makerere #Mulago #Interns

Photo: left to right - E. M. K. Muwazi, E.S. Lubulwa, Banoba in 1934. These doctors were officially called Senior African Medical Assistants. (© Makerere Medical School Archives) From the first three graduates of Makerere Medical School in 1927 – Antonio ...

Doctors need fair pay and respect, not lectures about patriotism

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 26, 20240 comments

#Doctors #Uganda #patriotism #interns

I gather that my president gave a civics lesson to 210 medical doctors that have recently been subjected to something called “patriotism and ideological training” at the NRM political indoctrination school at Kyankwanzi. This school has the benign sounding name of “National ...

Who is responsible for the collapse of Kiteezi dump?

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 20, 20240 comments

#Kiteezi #Kampala #Uganda #garbage

In the aftermath of the deadly collapse of the garbage mountain at Kiteezi near Kampala, President Yoweri Museveni asked: “Who allowed people to live near such a potentially hazardous and dangerous heap?” I believe that the president asked this question in good faith. ...

Government should change attitude towards medical doctors

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaAugust 5, 20240 comments

#Doctors #Uganda #Makerere #Mulago #Interns

Last week’s video recordings of some Uganda Police officers verbally and physically abusing Ugandan doctors caused great distress to many of us. The victims were fresh graduates from the famous Makerere University Medical School. Their crime? Peaceful assembly at the medical ...

Ruto should complete Zakayo's story

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 16, 20240 comments

#Ruto #Zakayo #Zacchaeus #Kenya #Uganda #Kangire

Photo: Children in rural Uganda; are they citizens too? ***************** Kenyans call their current president Zakayo, after Zacchaeus, the height-challenged tax collector at Jericho two thousand years ago, who was reportedly very wealthy. President William Samoei Ruto’s ...

Doctors D’Arbela and Owor, our unsung heroes turn ninety

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 8, 20240 comments

#DArbela #Owor #Mulago #Makerere #Uganda #Kampala

Photo: Mulago Hospital and Makerere Medical School campus as it was when Dr. Paul G. M. D’Arbela and Dr. Raphael Owor were new graduates. (Unknown photographer) ****************** Uganda has a very long list of distinguished and honourable men and women in ...

Kenya: a warning sign for those with eyes and ears

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 1, 20240 comments

#Kenya #Ruto #Uganda #Museveni

Photo: Kenya Parliament Buildings, Nairobi (built in 1954). After years of chaos in the land, the people that captured power in Uganda in 1986 had the excellent opportunity, space and time to discharge the generally accepted responsibilities of a government, namely, (1) human ...

Private healthcare unaffordable, but free healthcare not free.

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 23, 20241 comments

#Healthcare #Uganda

When one of my close relatives became critically ill in Kampala last week, he was taken to a neighbourhood clinic where preliminary tests revealed the most likely cause. His family took him to Najjera Hospital in Kiwatule, where Dr. Patson Ndyakira Makobore promptly evaluated ...