Muniini K. Mulera

Nalongo Alice Nannyunga Muleto: a worker with great love and faith

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaJanuary 16, 20180 comments

Dignity. Honour. Reverence. Thanksgiving. These are some of the words that capture the occasion at Saint Paul’s Cathedral, Kako, Masaka this past Saturday, January 13, when we celebrated the life of Nalongo Alice Nannyunga Muleto. She died on her birthday, December 29, ...

Memories of a beautiful Equator on Kampala-Masaka Highway

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaDecember 27, 20170 comments

In my youth, one of the highlights of a journey along the Kampala-Kabaare Highway was a stop at The Equator. Located 70 km southwest of Kampala, the Equator crossing point was a venerable spot surrounded by verdant bush and forest and a silence that was only broken by ...

ICOB-Uganda Chapter Convention in Kisoro will be a perfect ending to the year

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaDecember 22, 20170 comments

ICOB Uganda Chapter Convention 2017 Kisoro, Bufumbira Starts: December 27, 2017 @ 6:00 pm Ends: December 29, 2017 @ 12:00 midnight Place: Kisoro Town, Kisoro District, Uganda I am very excited about this year’s Convention of ICOB-Uganda Chapter which will take place in Kisoro ...

May Ugandan MPs and clergy find the courage of the Three Wise Men

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaDecember 18, 20170 comments

Ruling politicians in undemocratic countries love to tell other people to avoid political comment. Yoweri K. Museveni, the Ugandan ruler, has made it a specialty, forever warning cultural and religious leaders to stick to their stuff which, according to him, does not include ...

Worrisome political trends in Africa’s Great Lakes Region

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaDecember 12, 20170 comments

The state of politics in our great lakes region continues to show a worrisome trend. As Kenya celebrates 54 years of independence today, the legitimacy of its government is questioned and challenged by opposition party leaders and members. The results of the elections that returned ...

Mugisha Muntu and the search for clean politics

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaDecember 5, 20170 comments

When Mugisha Muntu, the former president of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), called a press conference last week, there was wild speculation and expectation that he was going to announce the formation of a new political party. Having worked themselves up to believe their ...

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 ...