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Kampala on fire! - from the archives

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 21, 20200 comments

Here is a letter I wrote to my Kampala Friend  4 years ago:    10 MAY 2016 The Monitor (Kampala)   OPINION   By Muniini K. Mulera Dear Tingasiga,   Quick! Stop reading now. Put the paper down. Look out the window. There is a huge fire burning in the ...

NRM Salections, not elections, and the arrogance of power

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 8, 20200 comments

 First things first. Uganda’s National Resistance Movement has completed its decades-long metamorphosis into a National Resistance Market (NRM). The ruler’s subjects have votes for sale. Candidates present themselves for a pretend election. Loaded with plenty of cash, ...

Transformative leadership needs upright citizens

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 11, 20200 comments

There is understandable cynicism among the educated elite about party politics in Uganda.  Many people, having long lost confidence in President Yoweri K. Museveni and his regime, desire change of government and direction. However, they dismiss the political opposition as ...

Long search for Crispus Mundua, my high school friend and classmate

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 20, 20201 comments

On Tuesday June 23 this year, I wrote a brief note to my friend Harold Acemah in Arua, to ask for a favour. Could he, please, find my high school classmate who might be retired in Arua or somewhere in West Nile?    I shared my classmate’s approximate age, our years ...

Museveni playing parliament with world class footballer’s finesse

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 18, 20200 comments

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

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, ...

Banyakigyezi (ICOB) to launch COVID-19 response fund

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 30, 20200 comments

  The new Coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, is an invisible, democratic and non-sectarian disabler and killer. It has, so far, picked out princes and paupers, doctors and doormen, managers and mailmen,  prime ministers and prostitutes, the young and restless, the ...

COVID-19 UGANDA: knowledge is power, patriotism now

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 26, 20200 comments

COVID-19:  1. As of today, there is no effective treatment for this virus. Greedy people will try to sell you cures etc. Please remember the lies that were merchandised in the early years of HIV/AIDS - including Nnalongo's "anointed soil" in Masaka; the steroids by self-styled ...

Random thoughts about fear in Uganda ahead of 2021

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 9, 20200 comments

 Sunny morning in Toronto, albeit the chill of late Winter discourages a much-desired stroll along the shores of Lake Ontario, the smallest of the five Great Lakes of North America. We content ourselves with bright rays of sunshine streaming into our house. It is not the real ...

Time to ordain female bishops in the Church of Uganda

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 2, 20200 comments

 We give glory to God for Dr. Stephen Samuel Kaziimba Mugalu, the new Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, and for the former archbishop, Stanley Ntagali, whom we hope to see continuing his work of evangelism.    Archbishop Kaziimba’s to-do-list must be a very ...

Ten Point Program of Uganda's National Resistance Movement (NRM) - 1984

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 24, 20200 comments

Ten-Point Programme of NRM First published in 1984 by NRM Publications The National Resistance Council of the National Resistance Movement, together with the High Command and Senior Officers of the National Resistance Army (NRA) under the chairmanship of President Yoweri Museveni, ...

Benoni Biraaro: epitome of a great army general ​

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 18, 20200 comments

In the days gone by, the great poets of Ankole would have already composed ebyevugo (heroic recitations) in praise of Buta bwa Biraaro bya Kagina. Not because of his exploits in the heroic struggle in the jungles of Luwero or his military valor in the post-1986 combat zones inside ...

Rosa Kanakubona Kamujanduzi and the triumph of prayerful patience

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 3, 20201 comments

On the day of her birth in Igara, Ankole in 1916, the odds that a little girl named Rosa Kanakubona would live into the next century were very low.  Available data show that a female’s life expectancy at birth in Canada and the United States of America in 1916 was 60 years ...

Fire engulfs Trinity Bus from Rwanda to Kampala

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 10, 20200 comments

I have just been informed moments ago by an eyewitness that a TRINITY bus from Rwanda to Kampala has caught fire somewhere between Masaka and Mpigi. The person who sent me this video said that the fire extinguisher did not work. Praise God everyone seems to have got off the bus and ...

Museveni’s attention to road safety might make a difference

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 28, 20200 comments

Photo: Risk-taking passengers on Kitante Road, Kampala ignore basic rules of physics. Photo by Muniini K. Mulera, January 2020) ****************** As expected, the road carnage in Uganda continued last week, with five people killed when their over-speeding taxi lost control after ...

Nicole Ahuumuza Rubondo: a life cut short on East Africa’s worst killer roads

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 20, 20200 comments

 The horror of very premature and sudden death struck a young girl this  past weekend. Nicole Ahuumuza Rubondo, the daughter of Ernest and Alice Rubondo, was killed in a motor accident on Saturday near Fort Portal, Toro. She was only 16 and had been looking forward to her ...

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