Muniini K. Mulera

Sunset: Gen. Elly Tumwine safe and free

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 30, 20220 comments

Gen. Elly Tumwine was human. Neither saint nor villain, the son of Kazigirye na Ruhondeire of Burunga, Kazo, Nkore walked a journey whose story is yet to be told, one that must not be reduced to errors he made in his final years or peppered over with deification as though he ...

Peter Ekodeu: Uganda’s first African English news reader

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 4, 20220 comments

#Ekodeu #Uganda #Broadcasting #Service

Peter William Ekodeu would have turned 88 this year. Like many who played significant roles in independent Uganda’s early history, Ekodeu is largely forgotten by the country that he helped shape and served with honour. Born on October 21, 1934, in Soroti, Teso to Elizabeth ...

Corruption in Uganda: a marriage of the public’s need and officialdom’s greed

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 21, 20220 comments

#Corrruption #Uganda #kitu #kidogo #Museveni #nokofio #kutonyora #egunjechiokomuhomwe #kula #bribe #Nsibambi #Mazrui

Corruption. Inexhaustible subject of conversation and scholarly publications. The heart of darkness that engulfs humanity. The fall of man, described in the Judeo-Christian scripture, was an act of corruption that turned on a fire that still burns hot in every corner of Planet Earth. ...

Mother-baby death in Mparo and our national priorities

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 13, 20221 comments

#Musaasizi #Musasizi #Mparo #Maternal #mortality #Uganda

Diana & Xavier Musaasizi in happier days. (Photo courtesy of Xavier Musaasizi) A healthy 30-year-old woman was admitted to Mparo Health Centre in Rukiga District on Monday June 6 to deliver her second child. Artificial induction of labour was started that night. ...

Waragi, presidential gifts of cars, and the illusion of democracy

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 6, 20220 comments

#Democracy #Uganda #bribery #Bishop #Kigezi #Church

At the end of a drama-free political campaign and an election last week, Douglas Robert Ford Jr, the incumbent premier of Ontario, Canada, was re-elected with an increased majority in the provincial parliament. In his gracious victory speech, Ford invited his supporters ...

On peaceful resistance and why I speak the truth to Museveni

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 9, 20220 comments

#Uganda #Museveni #peaceful #resistance #civil #disobedience #defiance

An online newspaper published an article about me last Tuesday, in which the author made false allegations that suggested deliberate disinformation or loss of the struggle with the English language. He was reacting to my column of Tuesday May 3 titled “Tibuhaburwa dynasty ...

Tibuhaburwa Dynasty still stoppable

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 3, 20220 comments

#Uganda #Museveni #Tibuhaburwa #Muhoozi #Kainerugaba

The imposition of the Tibuhaburwa Dynasty is now full steam ahead. General Yoweri Museveni Tibuhaburwa’s contempt for the electoral regulations and military codes of the land will not be the last laws he sets aside in pursuit of his dynastic agenda. Obviously, in societies where ...

Tibuhaburwa Dynasty begins

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 25, 20220 comments

#Muhoozi #Kainerugaba #Museveni #Uganda #Rwanda #Rwabugiri #Ssali

The weekend-long, multi-venue festival, dubbed a birthday party for Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, was not a celebration of an event that happened 48 years ago. It was okwanjura (formal introduction) of the crown prince and heir to the Ugandan throne. With that kwanjura, President Yoweri ...

Christian revival is Uganda’s only hope for redemption

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 19, 20220 comments

#Corruption #Uganda #Christian #Revival #Bisamunyu

My friend Edward Nobel Bisamunyu, who died two months ago, was on my mind this Easter weekend. An astute observer of humanity and the world around him, Eddie hated hypocrisy. His letters, both private and public, were hard hitting commentaries on the double standards he encountered ...

No, Oulanyah was not poisoned

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 29, 20220 comments

#Oulanyah #Lokori #Uganda #Mulago #poisoning #Opiyo #Oloya

Jacob L’Okori Oulanyah died of a devastating natural disease. He was not poisoned. How do I know? Dr. Opiyo Oloya said so. When Opiyo Oloya speaks, I listen. When he tells me something, I know it is true. When he knows the truth, he speaks with confidence. When ...

Honour Oulanyah by addressing why he died in a distant land

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 22, 20220 comments

#Oulanyah #Lokori #Uganda #Mulago

The premature death of Jacob L’okori Oulanyah, Uganda’s speaker of parliament, a few days shy of turning 57, has dampened my spirit. Another human being, a fellow citizen, silenced by ruthless death, reminding us of our mortality. Oulanyah’s status in ...

Gen. Jeje Odongo’s undiplomatic moment

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 21, 20220 comments

#Jeje #Odongo #Uganda #Ursula #von #der #Leyen #Macron #EU #AU

Gen. Abubaker Jeje Odongo, Uganda’s minister of foreign affairs, has made international headlines that our country does not need. His undiplomatic behaviour at the Sixth European Union-African Union Summit Meeting in Brussels, Belgium on February 17-18, was a self-inflicted ...

Is Museveni’s life more important than that of a peasant farmer?

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 14, 20220 comments

#Museveni #Oulanyah #Uganda #Mulago

Uganda Parliament Speaker Jacob L’Okori Oulanyah’s reported evacuation to Seattle, USA for medical treatment has triggered a predictable backlash. The reported payment of $500,000 to Uganda Airlines to fly him to America has been the focus of the angry reaction from a ...

Do not be duped by patronage appointments

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 8, 20220 comments

#Patronage #meritocracy #Uganda #Museveni #Besigye #Mateke

One of the great myths that have taken hold in Uganda is that high profile government appointments benefit the communities of the appointees’ origins. People react to the appointment of an ethnic kinsman with joy and declarations that God has remembered them. Religious ...

Mutebile was a worthy successor to Kigyezi’s selfless leaders

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 1, 20220 comments

#Mutebile #Tumusiime #Ruhakana #Rugunda #Kabale #Kabaare #Kigezi #Kigyezi #Uganda

Photo: (Front left) Lawrence Kiondo, Kigyezi District Education Officer; John Bikangaga, Rutakirwa Engage ya Kigyezi (second right); Rev. Abraham Zaaribugire (with clerical collar), Ishmael Bamwangiraki, Headmaster (centre, sunglasses); and other leaders at Karukaata ...

Tumusiime Mutebile was the real deal

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 24, 20220 comments

#Mutebile #Tumusiime #Ruhakana #Rugunda #Kabale #Kabaare #Kigezi #Kigyezi #Uganda

His name was Emmanuel Kirenga Baryabota Tumusiime Mutebile. Some called him The Governor. Others called him Professor. And others called him Doctor. I called him Tumusiime. And he always answered to that name, one I called him when I became pulled into his orbit in 1965 or 1966. Kabaare, ...