/OpEd/Commentary/-/689364/689364/-/bk3620z/-/index.html http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/disgraceful+that+FDC+s+Besigye++to+put+public+safety+at+risk/-/689364/1412034/-/8qej3az/-/index.html Why did Dr Kizza Besigye inform a couple of hundred of his so-called “followers” of his lunch plans? Why did he have a public address system in place? Why did he refuse to comply with the lawful instruction of police? 2012-05-23T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/NRM+continuing+contradictions+about+Ugandan+women+s+rights/-/689364/1410672/-/d40fsv/-/index.html As a former Secretary to the NRM’s Nairobi-based External Committee in 1984 to 1986, it is easy for me to track NRM’s continuing contradictions on women’s based human rights in Uganda. 2012-05-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/-/689364/1409864/-/11q23f6z/-/index.html One maintains lack of term limits as the cause of our problems. Another says term limits are the main cause, while admitting that electoral conduct plays a contributing role. 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/-/689364/1409860/-/11q23faz/-/index.html While concerted efforts and measures have been undertaken at national, regional and international levels to respond to the global financial and economic crisis, many of our countries’ economies are still grappling with its adverse effects. 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/On+the+challenge+to+re+invent/-/689364/1409164/-/hns8sk/-/index.html The ongoing regrettable wrangles within the Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) are not an isolated case or unique in the realm of African politics. Virtually all the once mighty independence political parties in sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing similar challenges and difficulties. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/Curry+colleges+commence+recruiting+British+trainees/-/689364/1409156/-/gi4o5r/-/index.html Everybody knows Britain’s favourite meal is roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. Or maybe fish and chips. Or possibly sausage and mash, bacon and eggs, boiled beef and carrots, tripe and onions or pease pudding and saveloys. The truth is they are all big favourites, but poll after poll has shown that right up there in every top 10 survey is the Indian curry. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/It+s+not+possible+for+the+president+to+solve+every+problem/-/689364/1409154/-/6fkg4k/-/index.html Many Ugandans have watched their Presidents endeavour to solve every political, social, legal and religious conflict that has bedevilled this country from time to time. This phenomenon has increasingly become fashionable since the days of Idi Amin. The Field Marshall attempted to solve academic problems, believed he solved or won the economic war which also meant the expulsion of many Ugandans he disliked for a variety of reasons. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/Why+innovation+is+dying+fast+at+Makerere/-/689364/1409152/-/yfnedf/-/index.html Whether you call it the Ivory Tower or the Cream of the Land, Makerere University should prove its worth by educating students capable of solving both the current and future problems of Uganda and the World at large. Innovation is the mother of creation and Makerere University should create elites that will out-compete and out-innovate all our neighbouring countries. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/The+significance+of+positive+criticism/-/689364/1409170/-/i8wmbj/-/index.html Since 1986 when the Movement government came to power I have observed a spectrum of comments and opinions that have been expressed, concerning the performance and conduct of the government. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/Rich+country++poor+people/-/689364/1409172/-/3ccwxu/-/index.html The only way out of Shabunda is to walk 350 km to Bukavu through the jungle or to fly. Residents do not have the money to fly. Many of them live and die without leaving Shabunda. Goods here can cost up to four times more than elsewhere in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Residents can rarely afford them. In Shabunda, a town in South Kivu, I visited a small NGO-run legal clinic established to facilitate access to justice for rape victims. In the jungle area where various armed groups often target civilians, rape is common. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/Pursuing+Obbo+s+lies+left+the+emperor+clearly+naked/-/689364/1409148/-/4ud68fz/-/index.html President Yoweri Museveni’s scathing outburst against Kenya-based Ugandan journalist Charles Onyango-Obbo published in both New Vision and Daily Monitor on May 7, left the Ugandan leader more exposed than the man he was trying to expose. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/-/689364/1408482/-/11q2utgz/-/index.html I get many questions and comments about the title of this column. Some readers ask why I chose to include the word ‘politics’ in it. Others question whether there is any such thing as ‘common sense’ and suggest that it is really just a clever device that enables a writer, ... 2012-05-18T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/Caeser+Acellam/-/689364/1407900/-/mgbrw1/-/index.html The capture of Acellam affords yet another opportunity for critical reflection on developments in our region, and just how much they are inter-related. It for example, provides an opportunity for reflection on why a just peace between Sudan and South Sudan is so very important, as it is within Sudan itself. It is in fact, an opportunity for reflection on the still evolving story of the Nile Valley. 2012-05-17T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/Uganda+does+not+have+to+emulate+superficial+devt/-/689364/1407898/-/buwjapz/-/index.html Mr Lukwago, after explaining that he doesn’t have to put all his meetings on record, threw a question to the journalist as to why they were not there a day ago when he received the ambassador of Ethiopia. Well, the name of my country, Ethiopia, immediately rekindled a buzz in my head. A piece titled “Why Ethiopia is building highways and dams Uganda can only dream of”, authored by Joachim Buwembo in the Sunday Monitor of November 27, 2011, came to mind. I wondered whether the issue of building highways, dams and skyscrappers by displacing residents with mere pittances and sometimes nothing at all has cropped up in the discussion between the Lord Mayor and our “good ambassador” from Ethiopia. 2012-05-17T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/-/689364/1407302/-/11q3l56z/-/index.html When Rwanda’s First Lady, Jeannette Kagame, visited Uganda last month at the invitation of the Ms Janet Museveni, it was reported that she was here to participate in a community service event, ... 2012-05-16T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/Here+is+how+we+can+attract+this+country+s+youth+to+agriculture/-/689364/1406354/-/ky3yd4z/-/index.html One way of addressing this problem is to come up with strategic interventions to attract the youth to agriculture. The call for the youth to return to rural areas will be meaningful if they are encouraged to be more involved in farming. And to do this, agriculture must be transformed from purely subsistence to commercial farming, where farmers undertake agriculture as a business that can help them earn enough income. 2012-05-15T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/The+valuable+mvule+tree+will+bring+wealth+for+Busoga+region/-/689364/1406358/-/11ie8phz/-/index.html The mvule tree’s history in Uganda is an interesting one. These giant hardwoods that dotted the land were an obvious, valuable resource for the British colonialists. At that time, the tree’s value for the Basoga remained as community gathering spaces under the forgiving shade. They were so important that the Basoga coined a proverb: Emivule n’akasulya kabusoga which means “The mvule is the shade (or roof) of Busoga”. 2012-05-15T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/Mob+action+It+is+likely+we+are+killing+innocent+people+too/-/689364/1405712/-/nnvx87z/-/index.html I am a lucky car ‘robber’… I have lived to tell my story. It was one of those days – probably five years ago - that my car was, shall we say, indisposed? So I borrowed a white Corona from a good friend, ..... 2012-05-14T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/Prof++Senteza+Kajubi+was+a+candle+that+lit+other+candles/-/689364/1404910/-/segqy2z/-/index.html Because I never had a full formal education, I had in my earlier years always dreaded mixing with academicians. I thought, rather stupidly, that a visit to a university would bring me face to face with, say, a nuclear scientist or a professor of mathematics, who would start discussing formulae I could not comprehend. My fears ended when I visited Makerere University in the early 70s and met Prof. Senteza Kajubi, who suddenly passed away May 1, only two days after I and a few others of his friends had enjoyed his company at our usual meeting place in Entebbe. He was buried at his family graveyard in Maya on May 5. 2012-05-13T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/Referendum+provides+the+clearest+way+forward+to+current+impasse/-/689364/1404908/-/ombvyez/-/index.html Public discontent in Uganda is no longer a matter of speculation, but reality, to which several political players have responded differently: Parliament has attempted the legislative channel to block oil contracts and State House budget, censure ministers and the Governor of Bank of Uganda, impeach the President, and now, restore term limits. Yet one year in office, they have nothing to write home about; Activists For Change (A4C) have been walking for over a year to overthrow Museveni, and are still walking; the clergy have sought the pulpit, but may need a miracle as well; Owekitiibwa Muliika and Bishop Nyiringiye are traversing the country, agitating against the status quo; Some opposition parties convey their frustration through press briefings and; Uganda Federal Alliance (UFA) is working on referenda to change the governance system and to restore term limits. 2012-05-13T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/Ugandans+ought+to+wake+up+everyday++not+once+every+five+years/-/689364/1404906/-/inl3kr/-/index.html Ugandans every five years are subjected to an election of their leaders. The build-up to and aftermath of the elections is usually characterised by intense engagement by the public on several issues affecting their daily lives with the politicians seeking to be elected. This usually tends to wane a few months after the election. Ugandans, it could be said, wake up once every five years and thereafter, seem to relapse into slumber. I believe that we should wake up every day to engage on issues that affect us and not wait for the five year trigger event of a national election. 2012-05-13T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/-/689364/1404356/-/11q5ny5z/-/index.html Sure, I said, when my nephew offered me a trout from our local river, a trout for lunch would be really nice. It was only when I saw it – a long, slithery, gutted, glistening, silver, beady-eyed, 1.5 lbs (680 grams) of fleshy fish – that I began to have doubts. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/-/689364/1404342/-/11q5o05z/-/index.html For 23 years, I have been one of those people complaining loudly about corruption. But finally, the struggle is coming to an end. The pain shall soon be no more. Like-minded people should stop worrying about corruption in Uganda because the end is nigh. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/Free+media+vital+for+future+leadership/-/689364/1404346/-/xevpkoz/-/index.html Information is life. People cannot make a living, hold their governments accountable, or educate their children without a healthy supply of free-flowing information. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/Sarkozy+Vs+Hollande++The+two+unlike+poles+who+do+not+attract/-/689364/1404358/-/yi1imz/-/index.html Last Sunday had too many big events for one day starting, of course, with Sunday prayers and for me, at the All Saints Cathedral, Nakasero; followed by two crucial premier league soccer matches. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z