Muniini K. Mulera

Besigye/Amuriat victory sets FDC on a clearer path

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaNovember 29, 20170 comments

Mr. Mugisha Muntu After a gruelling but free competition for its top position, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has elected Patrick Oboi Amuriat as its president. I congratulate Mr. Amuriat and wish him great success and God’s blessings in his pursuit of his clearly stated ...

Makerere Medical School Class of 1977: triumph despite adversity

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaNovember 3, 20170 comments

When members of the Makerere Medical School Class of 1977 gather in Kampala during the weekend of November 10-12 for a greatly anticipated reunion, it will be the first time that the majority will have seen each other in 40 years. That is a very long time, of course, ...

Deadly combination of human folly and greed

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaOctober 24, 20170 comments

Human folly. Human greed. Combine the two and you have a human tragedy that is as predictable as death. Yes, you read me right. Death is easy to predict. Nobody has ever survived life, that uniformly fatal condition that the fool takes for granted. How we live with hate ...

2017 military invasion of Parliament worse than the 1966 edition

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaOctober 17, 20170 comments

The playwright or Hollywood scriptwriter has plenty of material to produce a great drama, even a thriller, out of the military invasion of the Ugandan Parliament on April 15, 1966 and on September 27 this year. As usual, the movie goers, like newspaper readers, are bound to ...

Kadaga’s political suicide may not be as fatal as Kategaya’s

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaOctober 3, 20170 comments

Rebecca Kadaga, the Speaker of the Uganda Parliament, who is said to have had thoughts of becoming president of Uganda, committed political suicide last week. By doing so, she reminded me of Eriya Tukahiirwa Kategaya who shredded his political legacy by jettisoning a core principle ...

Kisiizi Hospital post-floods update - By Dr. Ian Spillman, Medical Superintendent, Kisiizi

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaSeptember 29, 20170 comments

Dr. Ian Spillman and his team are working very hard to restore Kisiizi Hospital to a safe place for patients, staff and visitors. It is a huge task but they will succeed - with your help. Please click on the following link to view a Power Point update by Dr. Spillman: Kisiizi ...

Kisiizi Hospital in Uganda urgently needs your help

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaSeptember 29, 20170 comments

Dear friends, Kisiizi Hospital, one of the best managed community general hospitals in rural East Africa, has been devastated by floods. I am reaching out to you as a man born and raised less than 20 kilometers from that hospital, in Kigezi region of Uganda, and on behalf ...

In Defense of Yoweri Museveni

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaSeptember 26, 20170 comments

We have seen this movie before. Multiple episodes since 1962. Different actors. Same producers. Same script. Just a variation on a theme. The movie: Uganda Against Itself. The actors: various rulers and their courtiers. The latest episode – The Age Limit - released in 2017, ...

Kisiizi Hospital tragedy a wake-up call for all of us

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaSeptember 20, 20170 comments

Mparo farms after the floods - Photo by Ezra Sebahire, Sept. 17, 2017 In recent days, the springs of the great deep have burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens have been opened all over Uganda. Landslides and floods have exacted painful disruption on hundreds ...

From Kisiizi, Kigyezi to Keystone,Florida: Disaster preparedness is national security

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaSeptember 12, 20170 comments

The Atlantic Ocean is angry. Hurricane Harvey, a devastating tropical cyclone, has left Houston and other Southern Texas communities disabled by floods. Seventy people are dead. $180 billion in damage. Then Hurricane Irma. An even more savage tropical cyclone that has swept ...

Message to Yoweri Museveni

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaSeptember 1, 20170 comments

My dear president Who art in Entebbe Hear this young man In next door Kenya Accept the verdict of Court Finding against him. Hear him say Beautiful words of peace To his supporters And to all his people. Yes, brother Yoweri It is really possible To ...

The Doctor who would like to be Jennifer Musisi’s driver

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaAugust 28, 20170 comments

Dr. Silvia Awor, an obstetrician and gynaecologist at Gulu University, followed an academic track at Class A institutions. High school at Mt. Saint Mary’s Namagunga; Medical school at Makerere University; and Postgraduate fellowship in obstetrics and gynaecology at McMaster University, ...

Charade behind lifting Uganda's presidential age limit

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaAugust 21, 20170 comments

Ugandan President Yoweri K. Museveni, who will be 77 years old at the time of the next elections in 2021, wants Article 102(b) of the Constitution amended to give him legal cover for his plan to continue to rule his realm. His public claim of disinterest in the matter is a ...

Banyakigyezi meeting in USA about poverty alleviation, not partisan politics

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaAugust 1, 20170 comments

A Munyakigyezi boy in January 2017. Non-partisan Where two or three Banyakigezi gather in the name of their region, questions are raised in some quarters. What are the sons and daughters of the mountains up to? What is their political agenda? On whose side are they? This ...

State of ICOB in 2017:Confident, Focused, Revitalized

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaJuly 30, 20170 comments

My fellow Banyakigezi, It is an honour to report to you that as we celebrate the fourteenth anniversary of the birth of the International Community of Banyakigezi (ICOB), our organization is more determined than ever to accomplish our core objectives. These objectives, established ...

No contradiction in being political but non-partisan

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaJuly 25, 20170 comments

Can a group or organization be politically active but non-partisan? Is it possible for people who support different political parties to engage in healthy, nonpartisan political discussions? Is it possible to ban partisan content from social media discussion groups while promoting ...