Opinion

1Uganda, since the colonial days, has grappled helplessly with a barbaric and ferocious vice of ethnic and religious sectarianism, often shoved down our spines by selfish and evidently incompetent leaders, mostly in the political arena. Our history, shaped by the deep-seated mischiefs stemming from sectarian tendencies, serves as a vital lesson. It reminds us to learn from our past and to move beyond these harmful and anti-people flaws. The divide-and-rule strategy employed by the British colonial administration was significantly reinforced by...

The National Unity Platform (NUP) party President, Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, has predictably continued to exhibit political immaturity and ideological deficiency in all his political activities in the country and abroad. Ugandans have waited for Bobi Wine to tell them what he would do for them if given a chance to be president, but it has turned into a tall order. Bobi Wine, instead of marketing his manifesto like other politicians do, has, for all his political life, done nothing...

The former Leader of opposition in Parliament and the Nyendo-Mukungwe Member of Parliament Mathias Mpuuga recently launched the Democratic Alliance, a coalition aimed at uniting the opposition parties in Uganda against President Yoweri Museveni and the National Resistance Movement (NRM). While officiating at the Launch, Mpuuga narrated that the Democratic Alliance will soon turn into a political party that will front candidates including a presidential aspirant in the 2021 elections. While it is Mpuuga’s right to form a political party or...

 The opposition in Uganda has lately turned into a group of comedians preaching change but with no alternative proposals since almost all the opposition parties and their leaders have exhibited the highest level of mediocrity and lack of skills to lead a country. Over time, Ugandans have always wondered why these opposition politicians keep singing “Museveni Must go” but they don’t tell us what happens after he goes. The entire change activism looks more like personal issues than a public...

Life is rife with ironies, some so plain they demand reflection. One such irony lies in the economic struggles of different groups within Uganda, particularly the contrast between rural subsistence farmers and urban salaried workers. The government, through the Parish Development Model (PDM), has made it a mission to uplift farmers from mere subsistence into the money economy. The mantra is clear: stop working solely for ekida kyonka—toiling merely to feed the stomach—and transition to a more productive life that...

Lately, there has been too much talk by the opposition politicians belittling President Museveni and the National Resistance Movement (NRM). These opposition politicians spread malicious, baseless propaganda aimed at tarnishing the image of the president and watering down his achievements towards the development of this country. The propaganda has, however, not diverted the president from his core mission of transforming Ugandans socio-economically. He has continued to promote and work in line with the NRM core principles of democracy, patriotism, socio-economic...