Solomon Serwanjja
@SolomonSerwanjj
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| ED @AfricanIIJ | Investigative Journalist | 2019 @BBCWorld Komla Dumor Award | PhD Student | [email protected] |
Kampala, Uganda
Joined October 2012
On 31st July, I will be leaving @nbstv. It has been such an honour to serve for the last 6 years. Thank you @KKariisa and the entire @nextmediaug family for the support. I will now focus on my new role as the Executive Director @AfricanIIJ, the home of investigative journalism
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Today, I have graduated with a Masters Degree in Journalism and Communication from @Makerere University. I am grateful to God. Congrats to everyone who made it this year.
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I am excited to share that I have been admitted at @UCUniversity for a PHD in Journalism, Media and Communication. I am looking forward this journey of learning, unlearning and relearning.
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This nonsense needs to stop. It just needs to stop. Stop provoking us.
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Today is our wedding anniversary. Happy 6th @VivianSerwanjja. Thank you for taking good care of me for the last 13 years of my life. Till death do us part.
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I am happy to tell you about the launch of the G-Cafe and Lounge. If you are in Gayaza and the surrounding areas, come and we give you a VIP treatment with our special dishes. We are located behind the Oil Libya fuel station along the Gayaza-Nakwero road. Come support our hustle.
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Happy 5th anniversary @VivianSerwanjja. You are a definition of true love to me for the last 12 years. God bless you immensely.
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Can we do a frame-by-frame analysis of the CCTV footage at CPS? Second by Second.
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We have spent 6 months digging into the ghost health centers of Ntungamo district. There are over 20 health centers which do not exist on the ground but there are people paid on gov’t payroll since 2014. We now know who is responsible. #GhostsofNtungamo, 20th/07/2023 @AfricanIIJ
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FINALLY! Ugandans to get visa on arrival in South Africa. This is great news.
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Prophet Elvis Mbonye claims he had a revelation that the Coronavirus pandemic was going to hit the world. I put him on the spot on these claims. Don't miss my series with the Zoe Fellowship leader starting Tuesday 28th April.
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To the woman who has loved me for the last 10 years, given me beautiful babies and still counting, taken bullets for me, went to the police cells for me, accommodated my weakness and changed them into strengths, I celebrate you @VivianSerwanjja this #Valentines day. THANK YOU
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It was an emotional night of honour for me as i received the @BBCWorld Komla Dumor Award 2019. I am grateful.
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Enough is Enough. Let us look in to the death of Emmanuel Tegu, a Makerere University Student allegedly killed by LDUs. #JusticeforTegu
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Am I missing something? Do we have new number plates now? Someone help me understand what is going on.
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Happy 4th wedding anniversary and 11 years together mukyala Serwanjja @VivianSerwanjja. Up until today I can't believe you are mine. May be that is the reason I cried on our wedding day. Every day I thank God for you. Thank you for loving me and keeping me in line.
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President @KagutaMuseveni appoints a presidential advisor on indigenous cattle with a salary of 15m. Wawooo. Just wawoooo. Your excellency, this is unacceptable.
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I can’t wrap my mind around the fact that we are spending about UGX. 2.4BN on 2 cars for both the speaker and deputy speaker of @Parliament_Ug . Simply put, This is obscene and immoral.
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I am grateful.
"It's time for us African journalists, to use the African voice, to tell the African story.". Uganda's @SolomonSerwanjj tells us what it means to win the @BBCWorld News Komla Dumor award.
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I was in Kamuli filming at one of the schools. It hit me that over 80% of the children did not have shoes. I felt concerned and I promised myself that I had to do something. I am now asking you to donate shoes to these feet. I will inform you about the collection centers soonest.
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Oulanyah burial to cost Sh. 2.5b… Are you kidding me? 😳
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There is a silent genocide in Eastern DRC. The world should get concerned.
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Tomorrow, I host Ugandan novelist @KakwenzaRukira to share his story with the world on how he was tortured and the impact this has had on his life. Join my #TwitterSpaces tomorrow from 5pm to 7pm. Together,we can #EndTortureInUganda
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My forever bride. I still get butterflies when I see you. Happy 9th anniversary Queen @VivianSerwanjja. To many more years of friendship and love. Till death do us part.
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Today @VivianSerwanjja and I celebrate this princess. Amani Tyra Serwanjja makes 10 years. Happy birthday Ty. To many more fruitful years ahead.
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The @BBCAfrica #bbcafricaeye Investigative story #stealingfromthesick has won the Association of International Broadcasters @AIBnews award 2019 (Investigative reporting category) at a dinner in London. The awards celebrate excellence in Journalism globally. Congrats to the team
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Dear tweeps I need help here. My daughter came to me for help naye kiganye. Qn. If 4 men took 5 days to paint a building, how many days will 10 men take to paint the same building.
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The arrest of human rights lawyer @nickopiyo speaks to a shrinking civic space in 🇺🇬. Nicholas is a lawyer and if summoned by security agencies, he would have presented himself. His arrest comes off cases of human rights abuses committed by the same forces. #FreeNicholasOpiyo
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These two pictures are screaming. Do a pixel by pixel analysis. Tell me what do you see?
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What is the problem with the president’s left hand. He is struggling to flip the pages with one hand.
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Breaking: @NUP_Ug President @HEBobiwine sustains injury after a scuffle with police officers in Kiira Bulindo. We can not clearly establish if it is a gun shot or a teargas canister shot. Developing story.
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A protest on the streets of Kampala against the EU parliamentary resolution on Uganda's #EACOP by students who may not even understand why the project is contested. The interesting thing is that they had a police lead car to clear the streets. Me: 😉
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Kitalo nyo ekya Jaja wange 😭💔. You have fought to the very end. Rest In Peace Jaja Cate.
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Today I make my debut as guest anchor for the @BBCWorld Focus on Africa news program. See you at 17:30 GMT as we look at the big stories across the continent.
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I think that @FDCOfficial1's @SemujjuNganda would have been a great addition to the list of heads of @Parliament_Ug committees. He is intellectually mature, has experience in the house and he is outspoken. He would do well on the public accounts committee in my view.
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People power leader @HEBobiwine says the elections were rigged. Wine says he won the 2021 elections, adding he will lead efforts to bring down @KagutaMuseveni in just one year using non violent means. Wine says he will use all legal means to but non commital on going to court.
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These are young energetic Ugandans at Entebbe Int’l airport going out to get jobs mostly in the UAE. If the future is Africa and yet we are exporting our labor force, then is Africa the future?
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I was looking back on yesterday, I found this photo of me and you on our wedding day. Oh how we were young and bright. I remember I shed a tear on this day. It is now 8 yrs and you haven’t changed a bit. 15 yrs together and still counting. Happy anniversary QUEEN @VivianSerwanjja
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Uganda was among the 34 countries that abstained in the vote against Russia attack on Ukraine. Uganda’s silence on the invasion is screaming. Sometimes you have to stand up to be counted either for or against.
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Journalist @AndrewMwenda registers as a member of the National Unity Platform, vows to take on @HEBobiwine in the party primaries. He has called for a party presidential debate. @nbstv
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Just in: President @KagutaMuseveni is demanding for accountability for the 37Bn disbursed to @coffeeinvestug @nelsontugumeo for supporting the coffee value chain. Minister @DrMusenero has been directed to present a technical & financial report. @rkabushenga here is the latest.
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A moment of silence for the mothers we lost. If your mama is still living, please treat mama right. Happy #MothersDay to all mothers.
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I am so happy to see @JoelSsenyonyi my friend and former colleague after a while. He joins us for the media round table today. Join me for the show. Good morning
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Finance Minister Amos Lugolobi used some of the iron sheets to roof an animal shed at his farm in Kayunga, the @newvisionwire reports
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Every member of parliament is to get 300m up from 200m to buy a car. @URAuganda has to look for 165Bn to cater for the 527 Mps. This is money that Uganda needs to construct 5 regional cancer centers of excellence to de-congest the Cancer Institute. Could we have done better?
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Ugandan gov’t targets to achieve full transition to electric mobility for all public transport vehicles by 2030. This is according to the electric master plan. Is this even possible? What are your thoughts ?
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Join the conversation this evening at 6pm -8pm on my x space with @edthnaka ‘ @AAgather , @YusufSerunkuma @SpireJim , @GodwinTOKO . Join here .
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I am glad to announce that our investigation "Stealing from the sick" that dives deep into the theft of government medicines in some of Uganda's health facilities premiers on Monday 17th June on @BBCAfrica @nbstv. We shall also stream it online, Facebook and trail it on twitter.
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The use of brutal and excessive force by Uganda's security forces can not be tolerated any more. NO! What happened at @MakerereU as police and military beat up students reminds me of what they did months ago. Not even animals deserve this treatment. lest we forget.
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If you have clean hands, throw the first stone. and everyone walked away. Then Jesus said, neither will I judge you. Go and sin no more. If you know, you know. I don't think it was called for the church to shame its own.
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I have learnt that a CEO is a sales person with a big tittle. … Your number one JD is resource mobilization. The rest is secondary.
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Free market economy? Can gov’t really intervene? We can just leave it to the market forces. Perhaps a price ceiling could work. Surely we can do something. There must be something we can do.
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Makindye West MP Allan Ssewanyana is critically ill. He is hospitalised at the Murchison Bay hospital in Luzira Prison. He was transferred from Kigo prison where he has been detained since 2021.
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"My wife is running a charity called Helping hands UG. Her co-founder was kidnapped and tortured so badly for 2 days to agree to be a key witness that I am being funded through my wife's NGO." - @HEBobiwine #NBSUpdates @nbstv
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Happy birthday to the woman of my youth @VivianSerwanjja. May God keep you safe for many more years for us to see our grand children. Warm greetings from the Serwanjjas.
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I don't know about you but I know that journalism is about asking questions. It is about looking at every side of the story. We don't joke around, we do investigations. We question everything and we have the right to do so.
Just stop this I know all. we have a right nonsense . let the experts do their work.
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President @KagutaMuseveni says @nbstv is a BAD TV station, calls it a parasite which misrepresents the work of gov't. @sabitijoseph insists that the station is loyal to Ugandans. The president objects, insists he know where the station's loyalty stands. #M7OnGraft
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It was great sharing a moment with celebrated News Anchor @sikenye on the @BBCWorld @BBCAfrica Focus on Africa news program on what winning the Komla Dumor award means to me and my career.
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To love and to hold. Till death do us part. Happy anniversary @VivianSerwanjja. 14 years together and still counting. Thank you so much for making me better everyday. When the cameras, lights and action are done, you have loved me for who I truly am. 🎊👏🎉🥂
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It is humbling that 16 judges on the @ACME_Uganda #ACMEAwards20 panel celebrated my contribution to Uganda's journalism and awarded me with accolades of honor. 3 awards in the night was indeed a celebration. Thank you @nbstv for the opportunity to serve.
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Happy birthday to the Queen herself @VivianSerwanjja. For 10 years I have known you, you age like wine. May God keep you safe for many more years. We love and appreciate you.
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Husbands, when you buy land, do you also add your wife as a co-owner or as a witness?.
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Congrats @KKariisa and the entire @nextmediaug family on this great milestone. I am so proud of you.
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Welcome to @AfricanIIJ, the home of investigative journalism. We are creating spaces for investigative journalists to work on projects that will impact lives, put the powerful to account and speak truth to power.
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The race for Mityana Woman MP race is on. @joycebagala1 will hold the NUP flag taking on NRM flag bearer Judith Nabakooba. Let the drums sound. We shall be here to cover the story with out fear or favor.
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Tonight on @nbstv #NBSInvestigates, I get to the bottom of the 10 billion parliamentary scandal and how parliament passed a supplementary budget of 923 Bn without debate. It premiers on #NbsLiveat9. It is part of a 4 episode series on following the COVID-19 money.
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Breaking: Kenya has with immediate effect banned the importation of maize from Uganda citing high levels of aflatoxin. The Agriculture and Food Authority of Kenya adds, they been monitoring the maize from UG for a while and it is not safe for their consumption. From Milk to Maize
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Today, I was honored to receive the Media Impact Award from @VineAwardsUg. Vine awards celebrate christians who have excelled in different fields. I share this award with all journalists who risk it all to make a difference.
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The king of the mic @mckatsug starts a journey of an edutainment campaign against stigmatising people living with #HIV. I am sure Kat's initiative will go a long way in reaching out to young people. Thank you @Uganetlaw for the support.
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I am excited to be flying in our latest bird, the Airbus A330. Here is a sneak peek. @UG_Airlines crew welcomed me in Luganda. It felt special.
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“Happy birthday daddy.” They all moved towards me carrying cake. They lit up the room with love. Grateful to the Serwanjja pride. Glory to God for the gift of life. 3 more steps to the 4th floor. Thank you 👑 @VivianSerwanjja for EVERYTHING.
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Ashraf Kasirye, a journalist who was shot while covering the 2021 general election hasn't healed years on. No one has been held accountable. In @AfricanIIJ's latest investigation, we reviewed the footage that was filmed that day to expose the shooter.
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Next on the #AIIJHardQuestions. It is deep conversations with the spokesperson of the @mkainerugaba movement @AndrewMwenda, asking those questions that I would have loved to ask the general himself. There are some very intense moments in this episode. Wed. 7th June @AfricanIIJ
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Update: Auditors from the office of the Auditor General and officials from @IGGUganda are in Ntungamo district to re-open the books of account days after the #TheGhostsofNtungamo investigation. MOPS has also Intensified efforts of physical verification of all staff on payroll
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I am so humbled to be among the 2020 100 Most Influential Young Africans. Congrats to @HEBobiwine @eddykenzoficial @kacungira @vanessa_vash and to everyone on this list. We can all do something to change the world
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Chinese Government is offering Scholarship to international students to study at Wuhan University for the 2020 intake
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Thank you mama Nnaabageraka Sylvia Nagginda for my copy. I have received it. In this autobiography is the life of the queen of Buganda unveiled. Book launch is 23rd March.
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We all need to hold the UPDF accountable for @HEBobiwine and Mityana legislator Francis Zaake's health condition. Who tortured them? Can the disciplined UPDF arrest and name those who inflicted pain on the MPs to face justice? Lest we forget. #FreeBobiWine.
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Wacha wewe… Toka toka……… Someone uses these words when he is angry. Who do you have in mind?.
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