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Daily Monitor
Thursday June 03 2021
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This column is for Ugandans. Relatives, friends and in-laws please read the super smart Karoli Ssemogerere on the next page, or move on to the magazine. Family members, close the door, pull chairs, and sit down; we need to talk.
I want us to, even momentarily, forget the things that make us different: tribe, political party, level of education, income status, et cetera; let’s for just a moment, be just Ugandans, regardless of who born us.
So, as you all know, some people tried to kill Gen Katumba Wamala on Tuesday. He survived with injuries, but his daughter and driver did not make it. Is it not time to ask if lessons have been learnt?
Daily Monitor
Saturday April 24 2021
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Despite the reluctance of the old guard within the NRM to give way, younger members of the party are pushing hard for change within their party and government in general, and the NRM has big decisions to make.
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Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda last week got out of his customary shell to make an attention-grabbing statement, looking straight into the camera and declaring that he is not about to retire from politics.
The amiable politician, who many refer to as Ndugu, Kiswahili for ‘comrade’, was unassuming in his statement made at Parliament on April 13, taking a moment to focus on himself as he outlined his mission in politics.
Daily Monitor
Saturday February 13 2021
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Mr Asuman Bisiika says: If it were left to me, I would call for a review of UPDF representation in Parliament.
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Once again, we arrogate myself the right to write about the UPDF; this, in spite of accusations that I always poke our blunt noses in the wrong place. And we come with the question: What criteria should the UPDF use to select or nominate and elect its 10 Members of Parliament?
In 2016, I wrote in these very pages an article titled: ‘Why the UPDF should have Maj Gen Muhoozi as an MP.’ I proposed that Maj Gen Muhoozi Keinerugaba (now a Lieutenant General) should be a Member of Parliament. The following were my arguments: