/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/BernardTabaire/-/878688/878688/-/f7dhvq/-/index.html http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/BernardTabaire/As+others+muck+up+politics+some+more++Anywar+breathes+freshness/-/878688/1409142/-/p27f3h/-/index.html Ms Beatrice Anywar. Did she or did she not resign? When we got to hear from the mouth of the Kitgum Woman MP, we learnt that she had stepped aside as shadow minister for energy, oil and mineral resources to allow for investigations into her reported cosiness with President Museveni, and alleged underperformance, or is it non-performance. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/BernardTabaire/Gay+marriage+Obama+sneezes++so+we+should+all+catch+the+bug/-/878688/1404354/-/mlihlwz/-/index.html Same-sex couples should get married if they so wish. So says a certain Barack Obama, the world’s most powerful man. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/BernardTabaire/3+headlines+in+3+papers+in+3+days+deliver+message/-/878688/1400030/-/otd8tv/-/index.html Locals don’t trust district staff on service delivery, a Daily Monitor headline said recently. Three million Ugandans lack toilets, the New Vision reported the next day. 2012-05-05T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/BernardTabaire/-/878688/1395608/-/nyshec/-/index.html Journalists in Uganda are under siege. Not from some shadowy crooks and criminals whose underworld the journalists have exposed, but from their own country’s lawfully constituted security agencies. The Uganda Police Force, particularly, has proved in the last year that it will not only crush street demonstrations, protests and riots, but also rough up reporters covering those activities. 2012-04-28T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/BernardTabaire/-/878688/1386588/-/ny7m8t/-/index.html I only know two racists and by ill luck, I bumped into one of them the other night. Most people think of racists as haters of black and coloured people, but this guy seems to hate everybody: 2012-04-14T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/BernardTabaire/-/878688/1382082/-/ny4q1o/-/index.html The churches will be packed this Easter Sunday, like on all Easter Sundays before. It is a big day for Christians, even ish-ish Christians – the ones who go to church on Christmas Day, Easter Sunday and for baptisms and funerals. 2012-04-07T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/BernardTabaire/-/878688/1377558/-/nxlrl1/-/index.html So a majority of Ugandans think the country is ambling along in the wrong direction, and nearly a half of them think President Museveni’s government can improve things before the 2016 general election. 2012-03-31T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/BernardTabaire/-/878688/1372862/-/nxidd9/-/index.html I have always marvelled at our politicians’ lack of a sense of irony. How MPs can possibly demand transparency in the Executive’s conduct, say in oil matters, and at the same time vote for their own secrecy in the more mundane business of vetting presidential nominees seems to not bother them. Parliament has no business conducting any of its legislative business in camera 2012-03-24T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/BernardTabaire/-/878688/1368286/-/nx0uq4/-/index.html Kony 2012 raced through social media into the stratosphere in record time. The reaction was immediate – using the same social media.Led,roughlyspeaking,by journalist-cum-blogger-cum-social media junkie Rosebell Kagumire, Ugandans, and indeed other Africans, mixed it up. 2012-03-17T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/BernardTabaire/-/878688/1363386/-/nwwewp/-/index.html A few days ago, I poked around the web for what news there was that would interest me about Uganda. Joseph Kony, al Shabaab, homosexuality, forged yellow fever cards. 2012-03-10T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/BernardTabaire/-/878688/1358436/-/nwedaa/-/index.html There is the odd electronic car and some spotty work in HIV/Aids and agriculture. No one, therefore, can accuse Uganda of being a place of hot and sustained scientific and technological research and innovation. 2012-03-03T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/BernardTabaire/-/878688/1334796/-/nv3kpn/-/index.html Is there a dark plot to steal land in Amuru under the guise of growing and processing sugarcane in the district? The answer depends on whether it is Okello Okello or Ogenga Latigo speaking. That there can be strong suspicion over an otherwise straightforward government-backed project speaks to how much Ugandans distrust the present leadership. 2012-02-25T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/BernardTabaire/-/878688/1330226/-/nv0och/-/index.html When the instruments yield scalp after scalp, it need not matter that they are blunt although it should. When corruption and incompetence overrun much of the government, the sense of panic that ensues means initial response will not be measured and thoughtful. 2012-02-18T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/BernardTabaire/-/878688/1324674/-/nuh102/-/index.html Some 13 months ago I sat inside one of the hi-tech seminar rooms at the Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT in Accra listening to an expert on matters extractive: oil, gas, minerals. The guy had worked in government and in industry, holding high-level positions in some of the world’s leading oil and gas companies. He wowed the room, maybe because most of us in there were neither business leaders in the extractive sector nor geoscientists. 2012-02-11T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/BernardTabaire/-/878688/1320098/-/nue42i/-/index.html How the Senegalese, especially those thronging the streets and getting fatally shot at, must be wishing that Mr Abdoulaye Wade would just disappear, preferably six feet under. The man, however, wants a third seven-year term. 2012-02-04T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/BernardTabaire/-/878688/1315446/-/ntv4re/-/index.html President Paul Kagame’s newly frequent visits to Uganda are a good thing. That is as it should have been given the close history between the political establishments in Kampala and Kigali. 2012-01-28T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/BernardTabaire/-/878688/1311396/-/ntsbto/-/index.html The PRI, apparently the “official” party of Mexico, lost power after 70 years and barely survived oblivion. Ditto the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. That one even went with a whole empire – .. 2012-01-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/BernardTabaire/-/878688/1305530/-/nt9lmh/-/index.html Ugandans are on fire. So much so that even Ssabalwanyi, he who is ever cool under fire, is getting rattled. “There is no reason for resorting to strikes when we can discuss these issues amicably,” President Museveni pleaded with striking traders on Thursday, day two of a three-day protest against sky-high interest rates. “I do not want to operate on pressure; I will not accept pressure and confusion. This is your country and the businesses are yours.” 2012-01-14T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/BernardTabaire/-/878688/1301380/-/nt6rwb/-/index.html The year is off the starting blocks with tantalising news: the possibility of President Museveni and chief opposition leader Kizza Besigye meeting to talk stuff. A good possibility indeed, but I am afraid it will remain just that. Either side is filled with too much antipathy and spite for the other. 2012-01-07T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/BernardTabaire/-/878688/1298090/-/nfrp54/-/index.html Life’s cycle continues. And so I must do the right thing and announce my resolutions for 2012. You should too so we can inspire each other. It does not matter whether you will stick to any of the resolutions for more than two weeks into the new year. 2012-01-01T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/BernardTabaire/-/878688/1294864/-/nfp42j/-/index.html Unless you are in the business of selling stuff like fuel or booze or to some extent food, things have slowed down at this point. But 2011 was generally far from slow. 2011-12-24T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/BernardTabaire/-/878688/1291068/-/nfmtth/-/index.html This first year of President Museveni’s fourth term is not even over, but it has produced a lot more drama in officialdom than many years that have gone even for a country of never-ending drama that Uganda is. I would never have guessed it, although I would have wished it, as wananchi went to the polls in February. But here we are with three ministerial stepping asides and one resignation. Four in one year! 2011-12-17T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/BernardTabaire/-/878688/1287136/-/nf5hjx/-/index.html This is a hard one for anyone to wiggle out of, least of all for a minister at a point when Ugandans, finally, are linking corruption and abuse of office in high government places to the absence of decent health centres, schools and urban roads. 2011-12-10T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/BernardTabaire/-/878688/1279690/-/nekgde/-/index.html It is the year we went to the polls. It is also the year that got wasted. The remaining month is not enough to change a thing. The campaign season itself went relatively quietly. That should have warned us. You see in Uganda looks are deceptive many a time. We were promised an interim government a long time ago. 2011-11-26T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/BernardTabaire/-/878688/1275838/-/nehpij/-/index.html In lashing out at corruption, directly or not, Ugandans are saying that the government has done much, no doubt, but that it is incapable of doing anything more that is meaningful. 2011-11-19T21:00:00Z