Business leader. Global citizen. Africa experience.Failure's not an option.Fascinated by space science&exploration.Environment fanatic. Politics. Social equity.
This guy
@HEBobiwine
has gained the mastery, diction and grandiloquence of political speech. Just listened to the last half of the speech. The punchlines got almost every guest on their feet. You got to give it to him
If you've moved in Kampala you can't miss the ubiquitous smile of this elderly man 'Haji Butambala' with a great sales attitude vending excellent mugs of every shape,size,colour. Opted to trade not beg. Best sales attitude!First saw him 2012.Bought afew recently. Deserves support
This happened at one of Kampala's top residential areas,
#Munyonyo
. This kick is similar to another attack on a civilian at Wandegeya near Public Service. This crime is getting too common in Kampala. No one is safe.
Ugandan chain
@cafejavas_ug
has opened its fourth outlet in Nairobi. This Kilimani one is in my hood. CJ chain so far has outlets at Village Market, Koinange Street, Karen&Kilimani. Plans to open 5 more are afoot given the diversity, size and economy of Kenya Market
@rkabushenga
You may not like what he stands for. But give it to him. This
@AMufumbiro
chap is sharp, bold, articulate and focused.
@ZambaaliBulasio
this is the kind of panelist that boost
#NBSBarometer
'Poverty is made in bed. You cannot sleep as if you are competing with the dead and expect to make it in the world of the living'. Sacrifice some sleep. Have a productive new week.
Just learning from usually reliable source that Rwanda's president
@PaulKagame
has offered to bail out the Uganda basketball team expenses. The team are among this years tournament favourites. Powerful statement there after the team was neglected by its own.
There's tendency for Uganda businesses to forget their core business&opt to exploit their paying customers.
#LugogoMall
@LugogoMall
it doesn't make sense to charge a car after 15mins.Your anchor customers are banks,super markets,salons,restaurants etc where you can't take 15mins!
It's funny how dismissive Uganda leadership's lately.This
@NUP_Ug
party headed by someone
@HEBobiwine
some thought unworthy burst on the scene in a year became majority opposition,built major headquarters&today it unveils a Leaderdhip School whilst many haveb't left the blocks.🤷🏽♂️
The opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) party has launched its leadership school in Kamwokya, a Kampala suburb. Different classes about leadership are already underway at the newly opened The National Unity Platform School of Leadership.
#MonitorUpdates
🎥
@sserugopeter8
Ugandans
@chigamony
deserves our collective praise for his act of humility. Not ridicule. We all occasionally err. Forgiveness is a virtue.This is what builds a sustainable nation we all aspire. Welldone CJ Owiny Dollo for an act of valour.
@BugandaOfficial
@cpmayiga
@JudiciaryUG
As Kenya honours late Mwai Kibaki, let's be reminded of some basic facts that distinguish Kenya. 1) All last three presidents have lived in Kenya. 2) Retired and nursed in Kenya 3) All have died and buried in Kenya with full national honours with pomp and dignity. None exiled
In the spirit of "do it yourself", this 1.5 km road graded yesterday is my contribution to community stakeholders in former Mukono-Buikwe for posterity in 2023. Mobility is a problem during the rainy season. But a 2020 effort to plant trees along this road was not well embraced.
Just watched news on a Uganda channel. Listed to
@HEBobiwine
's wife Barbie on platform. Punchy, amiable, cross cutting with brilliant barbs. A big force in the making! She is going to be a formidable political force in the not too distant future. Watch.
The words of the CJ Owiny Dollo bordering on hate speech generalising and demonising a whole community should be condemned roundly by all people of Uganda. Diversionary. A holder of that office should rise above pettiness!
@JudiciaryUG
@cpmayiga
@Parliament_Ug
@BugandaOfficial
Had tea with some colleagues in Kampala at a Java opposite Lugogo where a noisy music jig is taking place. 1)Kids of senior officials cruising in driving official government cars in non official hours- one for Defence. 2) Army doing police work. Abuse Uganda has become blind to.
Is it just me that thinks
@ntvuganda
assembles some of the most informed and knowleageable subject matter analysts on its news programs? Rarely the same faces, but unassuming and deeply incisive.
Just listened to News Hour on
@BBCWorld
@BBCAfrica
. The headline from Uganda was not
#NAMSummitUg2024
but ....... banana planting in potholes and house arrest of Opposition leaders setting a lengthy chat on underlying issues and call by a minister for citizens to be "happy".
Ordinary avocado? These fruits are from a tree near Entebbe I planted from a seed from Nakasero Market in 2014/5. Neighbours pick sacks for sale during fruiting. At the weekend I got two buckets for distribution. These are my carry on luggage. Fruits of labor! Uganda is fertile.
Do you recall the famous Nile English Course books by Mr. JB Bugembe? He directed over 50 books&UK's Oxford Primary English Course. I was pleased to meet him in person; retired but hardly looks 96! He was Principle inspector of Schools and an EAC examination council member then.
Just watched
@HEBobiwine
show he staged online. It wasn't just a show. It was a STATEMENT with powerful subtle. messages. You got to give it to him -Excellent story teller. If he can match online command with ground mobilisation he is a force you can't wish away.
Kenya president
@WilliamsRuto
and Rwanda's
@PaulKagame
made impressive speeches at the 2022
#UNGA
in
#NewYork
. Tanzania's
@SuluhuSamia
makes her maiden address today as the first female leader of Tanzania. These 3 are trail blazing the global diplomatic corridors. Not absentees!
There's no doubt
#coffee
is Uganda's strategic crop. It's production's expanding after a setback. Economists, help me understand why this USD $20mn value addition park was put in Kajara first and not the historic traditional coffee producing areas of Bugisu and Buganda?
This
@kizzabesigye1
battletank -Landcruiser 100series- should in future be booked a spot in Uganda's political museum.Its been a consistent icon of struggle against all manner of evil and skulduggery. It's defined political resistance,resilience&metamorphosed into symbol of hope
Apparently, this is one of the bedrooms of late Zaire, now DR Congo leader Mobutu Sese Seko in Guadolite. Rulers, be humble. Power is transient. No one owns life and time.
We seem to live in different worlds. With the well documented torture
@KakwenzaRukira
was subjected to, court feels he doesn't need specialised treatment. But a national carrier will fly out another bureaucrat at tax payer expense for treatment. Strange times to be alive.
Kakwenza Rukirabashaija's request to obtain his passport to travel for medical treatment has been denied because according to court, there is no urgent need for medical attention as shown from the reviewed medical form.
#NTVNews
Just met UHURU KENYATTA convoy along UHURU HighWay returning from Embakasi by Jomo KENYATTA International Airport. Such an amiable easy free guy;in front seat of V8Landcruiser elbow out of window(Kusowola in Luganda) as he looked up to at progress of the Westlands-JKIA aerial Hwy
#Obote
Prime Minister (1962-66) and Uganda president (1966/71;1980/85).Onceupon a time,Uganda presidents,their families were treated in Uganda hospitals.Their children,grand children attended public schools like Nakasero,Kitante etc with diplomatic corps kids. How times change
Whoever is tormenting our first son to perform such odious duties involving public engagement and speaking is doing him a huge injustice! This borders on "child abuse".
This is a Mango farm in Egypt, the largest exporters of Mangoes in Africa. Egypt beats big players like Kenya by far. We need policy’s across various sectors to make our agriculture competitive. We must take charge of our destiny to solve our problems especially smallholders.
With Dr.
@kizzabesigye1
and loving wife
@Winnie_Byanyima
a naturally gifted story teller there is never a dull moment. What a 'helluva'weekend we had! May you have countless blessings always.
In fighting corruption and impunity, Singapore taught us that success is assured when you start with the big fish. Not the small fish. Interprete this as you wish.
Who in their rightful mind does this to a hapless unarmed woman?Pepper sprayed for belonging to a side loathed by
@NRMOnline
's
@KagutaMuseveni
?
@PoliceUg
if this's what your professional standards training is about you've gone rogue.Primitive criminality
@AKasingye
@FredEnanga1
Unlike the post independence to 80s era, affluent Uganda parents in govt&corporate top dogs,take their kids to topflight schools in Kenya&overseas for prep school.These Kenya buses were at Lugogo yesterday to take St.Andrew's Turi kids back after halfterm.Fees?$7000-11000 à term.
Finally the benefits of having clear skies in Nairobi. Mount Kenya was visible from most places this morning -Riverside Drive, Lavington, Westlands, Kilimani. I believe many others too.
The double standards/double speak by UPDF and sister security agencies dent its credibility. This is a performing artise in military combat, guarded by
@MODVA_UPDF
soldier. Yet several opposition youth are languishing in military courts for wearing berets.
@UPDFSPOKESMAN
A bitter truth.
#Uganda
is badly divided down the middle. The sooner this reality is admitted and confronted putting pretence aside the better at finding lasting solutions.
At the traffic lights crossroads of Jinja and Yusuf Lule roads at Kitgum House, a passenger in a commuter threw rubbish out of a rear right window. The lights were red. I stepped out of the car, picked it up and 'donated' it back on her lap! Hope she picked lesson.
@nemaug
The youth have accessed Gov of Kenya domain and disabled GoK payments system. No payments for any services can be made. Development partners like IMF, World Bank etc must be receiving interesting correspondence from
#RejectFinanceBill2024
Listening to Internal Affairs minister caution
@PoliceUg
against brutalising opposition leaders
@kizzabesigye1
@HEBobiwine
and frustrating their mobilisation tours,if genuine,it could be
@otafiire_k
is the last moderate
@NRMOnline
historical left amidst a new breed of extremists.
If you've used Kampala's Northern Bypass at this spot of Kyebando drift, you may recognise this unsightly structure perched atop a clear wetland. The hilly mounds with grass is the work of 7 years of backfilling with trucks of soil as hapless
@nemaug
looked on like us.
@nemaugED
After all the pregnant expectations from the second
@KagutaMuseveni
address few days apart, it's come down to a whimper. Zero solutions to pressing national issues.
A must watch clip by every Ugandan featuring
@sejudav
to understand the cyclical power and privileges wave whenever power shifts. Lesson to the excited keyboard warriors (bots).
@FGoloobaMutebi
Spare a moment to reflect on the gargantuan task a next Uganda President will face: mismanaged environment as forests,wetlands doled to cronies,restoring TRUST in electoral process,uniting a balkanised state,bloated cabinet&parliament, corruption,functional institutions,costly SH
Call them
#COVID19
tree project. Planted them between March-June 2020. Majority exceed my 6.2ft height and well established. Embarked on eucalyptus in another block for diversification. Some struggling but ok. Hope to spend time talking to these trees as I take a work break soon
After Satan you have got to fear Uganda Politicians! The diversion from addressing chronic negligence of national health infrasture (including schools) is now being looked at with narrow ethnic lenses. The divide and rule benefits one man. Sad!
Hooded for entire 73 days, returning Kyotera abductees too traumatized to narrate ordeal. Hood would only be removed when in the bathroom. When it came to washing clothes, the detainees would undress & stay naked until when they brought back the clothes
Sad to learn one of the most efficient agencies in Uganda
#FaceTechnologies
who've expeditiously provided driving permits is in its last 4months as it hands over the service to GoU. A new player fronted by a shadowy group set to take over. A "Presidential Directive" involved!
The contradictions of some stooges that speak for NRM is baffling. In one breath the opposition party NUP is said to be one of "hooligans" and inconsequential. In the next, the NRM is doing its best to sweet talk these 'hooligans' to join NRM! Which village is missing its fool?
Entitled public servants in Uganda are always in a mad rush squeazing between single laned roads with loud sirens, always rushing off to endless emergencies.
@updf_
@UPDFspokespersn
contain this madness.
@PoliceUg
These are the hard working heroes of Uganda. No matter the harsh and ambivalent environment they toil toil on. Not even the morning rain stands in their way.
On a popular Kenyan FM station yesterday presenters made Uganda and
@KagutaMuseveni
the butt of jokes. Apparently as Kenya gets its 5th President M7 is a constant welcoming&seeing off others. They said he saw off CW de Klerk welcomed Mandela, Mbeki, Zuma&
@CyrilRamaphosa
in SA
My sister
@MargaretMuhanga
under your tutelage you showed me around as a university intern at Industrial Area the media industry ropes as a cub reporter. Boarded taxis together at Jinja Road stage to get stories. Admired your professionalism. Time flies but I hope you're OK.
"The country cannot be run like a pig sty, we must have structures and nobody has been kidnapped or abducted, that's a lie, people are being arrested." - MP Margaret Muhanga.
#NTVNews
The level of disrespect
@KagutaMuseveni
has for Ugandans is unprecedented. At home and away, he refers to them as "fools". It is such a contrast with leaders like
@SuluhuSamia
and company who proudly link their work with service to their nationals.
An enterprising Kenyan traveled, lived in the United States. Returned with a pregnant idea to invest in a unique market niche of affordable high end student hostels in Kenya under
#Qwetu
brand
@QwetuLiving
. Today his dream has seen the birth of 8 iconic hostels in Nairobi.
Struggling to understand logic of firms, organisations "donating" millions to
#COVID
-19 national response in front of Television cameras complete with presidential mention then concurrently lay off employees, send them on unpaid leave, quarter, ⅛ pay etc. Charity starts at home
#Humanity
The owner of this car is from Denmark. He didn't start his car for a month until this dove hatched its eggs. He said : "As long as she chose my car to build her nest, I'll match her spirit."
Humanity is not a religion but a rank that some humans attain.
This is how Ugandans sit "comfortably" saying they sleep and eat peacefully as some social engineers and media divert them to discuss minor issues in opposition parties glaringly avoiding to discuss the major issue of a political dynasty and kingdom in formation. Naivity!
Setting: Nateete, Kampala, Uganda. An entire business's flooded.Wheat stock of Family Loaf's damaged because of the atrocious infrastructure and bad physical planning.This is how private sector business die when
@GovUganda
agencies abdicate their obligations.
@PSF_Uganda
@UNRA_UG
One of the newly imported
@PoliceUg
antiriot trucks was crashed into a trench by a reckless driver causing a temporary interruption to the rush evening traffic yesterday along the Nakawa-Naguru road. Comments by the passers by and motorists were crustaceous.
Nothing breaks the heart seeing these youth at
#EntebbeAirport
daily bein "exported" in droves as modern day slaves to foreign countries aware of dangers that lurk. A chat with them indicates majority haven't been out of their home districts nor on a plane. Better to die trying!
This upscale restaurant,
#AnkoleGrill
, is expanding boundaries of fine dining with its elegance. Began with Kilimani branch.With a name corrupted from one of Uganda's big regions, this Kitsuru branch's a magnet for high-end browsing clientelle in Nairobi,especially UN& diplomats.
For some weeks, we've been seeing the story of this enterprising man making apparels. It's reported he is in cell essentially for political crime one of which's making outfits for
@HEBobiwine
.
@PoliceUg
How will Uganda youth be productive if hounded like this? Stop the politics.
Last night, a joint intelligence led sting operation was mounted that led to the arrest of this man,Emuron Lawrence, a ring leader of the theft of valuables from our car at Lugogo Mall on Sunday Jan 7th, 2024. There're lots of moving parts!Thank you Sam Omalla,
@Mukulaa
@PoliceUg
We have had a car break in at Forest Mall Lugogo. Precious documents, bags, appareils and electronic appliance. Cpt
@Mukulaa
@ArrowSecurity
I understand this site is now under Arrow Security. Theft occured within mètres of the guards and a camera overhead. Ps assist.
@PoliceUg
This is the state of road infrastructure in
#Jinja
. This road leads to Jinja Airfield, National Defence College Kimaka, many tourist attractions along R. Nile at Bujagali,sports facilities eg bungee jumping&top hotels.Why can't
@GovUganda
@TourismBoardUg
do things right for once?
Watching wailing relatives of detained
@NUP_Ug
supporters in Uganda jails for more than a year in military courts is heart brwqkimg for a country that is supposed to be democratic. Could this explain the public bitterness that's paralysed the nation into incensitive behaviour?