Muniini K. Mulera

My cousin’s preventable death and the need to rethink national priorities

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 1, 20200 comments

#Tibareijukire #Kahondo #hypertension #stroke #Uganda

My paternal cousin was buried in Kahondo ka Byamarembo this past Saturday, the day of her death from a devastating stroke. Her name was Tibareijukire ba Kakitaahi kya Butamanya bwa Nyakashaija ka Ruhuuma rwa Mugasha wa Byamarembo. Born in 1941 to Kyakwera and Kakitaahi, ...

Kenyatta, Kumar and the Nytil security guard

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 25, 20201 comments

#Kenyatta #Kumar #Muyomba #Nytil #COVID19 #in #Uganda

The Saturday Monitor brought news of Mr. George Muyomba, a security guard at Nyanza Textile Industries Limited (Nytil) in Jinja, who was fired because he did his job. According to the story, on May 6 Muyomba denied Mr. Vinay Kumar access to the Nytil premises because ...

Museveni playing parliament with world class footballer’s finesse

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 18, 20200 comments

#Museveni #Uganda #parliament #Kadaga #corruption

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 ...

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: A Journey through East Africa by Elspeth Huxley (1948)

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 14, 20200 comments

#Elspeth #Huxley #Sorcerers #Apprentice #Colonial #East #Africa #Kenya #Uganda #Tanganyika #Zanzibar

Elspeth Huxley (1907-1997), perhaps best known for The Flame Trees of Thika, authored more than 40 books, among them this first-rate travel journal that beautifully paints an image of a colonial East Africa at a crossroads. Between February and June of 1947, Huxley, a long-term ...

Prevent destructive floods with good stewardship of God’s Earth

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 11, 20200 comments

#Landslides #Floods #Environment #Uganda #East #Africa #Lake #Victoria #Nalubaale #Kampala

My heart goes out to those whose lives and possessions have been disrupted by the swollen rivers and lakes of East Africa. Special condolences to those whose relatives have perished in the floods. Coming in the midst of the new Coronavirus pandemic, the pain of disruption is magnified ...

Is Kadaga pursuing a kamikaze strategy with predictable results?

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 4, 20200 comments

#Uganda #Museveni #Kadaga #Parliament #Mbabazi

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, ...

US$2.6 million loot by Ugandan MPs is grand political corruption

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 27, 20200 comments

#Uganda #Parliament #Corruption #COVID19 #Kadaga

In a Low Income Country, twenty million shillings (US$5,250) is a very large amount of money. This is the latest loot that nearly each Ugandan MP has grabbed from the public kitty. With the exception of a handful with a healthy conscience, all the legislators have been united in this ...

COVID-19: Remember the children - By Dr. Sabrina Bakeera-Kitaka*

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 30, 20200 comments

#COVID #19 #Sabrina #Kitaka #Uganda #Children

March 30, 2020 The total cases of Covid-19 globally is 697,244 and the total number of deaths is 33,257.The disease started in the Hubei Province of Wuhan in China but has torn through the entire world, with more than 200 countries and territories having seen at least ...

COVID-19 UGANDA: knowledge is power, patriotism now

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 26, 20200 comments

#Coronavirus #COVID19 #Uganda #Museveni

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 ...

Coronavirus spread versus urban famine: a president's dilemma

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 26, 20200 comments

#Coronavirus #COVID19 #Uganda #Museveni

Fellow Ugandans, I completely understand the mental struggle that many people have with the idea of locking down, even shutting down, our country. Trust me, I am not one who is blind to the realities of our socio-economically challenged country, and the struggles of Mundua, ...

Is Africa prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic?

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 23, 20200 comments

#Coronavirus #COVID19 #Uganda #Aceng #Moriku #ICU #Health #care

Many virus infections have found great partnership with commercial air travel. A sneeze and a sniffle (what President Yoweri Museveni calls “sneezing in”) in China are quickly felt in far off lands. Since the first reported case of COVID-19 on our continent ...

Random thoughts about fear in Uganda ahead of 2021

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 9, 20200 comments

#Uganda #Tumukunde #fear #Museveni #Mukula

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

#Bishops #Church #of #Uganda #Kaziimba #Paul

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

#NRM #Ten #Point #Program #Uganda #Museveni

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, ...

Mugisha Muntu's challenge to Museveni about the army

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 24, 20200 comments

#Mugisha #Muntu #Alliance #for #National #ransformation #Alliance #ANT #Uganda #Biraaro #Museveni #Ten #Point #Programme

Mugisha Muntu, National Coordinator, Alliance for National Transformation ****************** Many of the public tributes and reflections at the recent memorial and burial services for Benoni Buta Biraaro, a retired senior officer of the Uganda People’s Defence ...

Benoni Biraaro: epitome of a great army general

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 18, 20200 comments

#Biraaro #Uganda #UPDF #Museveni

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 ...