/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/MuniiniMulera/-/878676/878676/-/ry190bz/-/index.html http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/MuniiniMulera/Museveni+fulfilling+50+year+old+promise/-/878676/1409854/-/10mys8w/-/index.html I recall, as if it was yesterday, the firm promises made to the natives of Mparo, Rukiga County in Kigezi, by two distinguished politicians keen to win the pre-independence elections of April 1962. 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/MuniiniMulera/-/878676/1396302/-/6ac25jz/-/index.html The word revulsion does not capture the feeling, but it comes quite close to describing my reaction to images of last week’s sexual assault on Ingrid Turinawe, the leader of the FDC Women’s League, .... 2012-04-29T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/MuniiniMulera/-/878676/1391526/-/6afh4lz/-/index.html Take the case of the Hon. Yokasi Bwambale, the Bukonjo East MP who ate Shs10 million that was supposed to be used to develop his constituency. Whereas Bwambale, a member of the FDC parliamentary caucus and of the party’s National Executive Committee and National Council, pleaded guilty to the crime nearly one month ago, I have not heard or read a statement by his party leaders demanding his resignation to pave way for a by-election. I am not aware of any reports that he has been asked to resign from his party’s top organs. Yet had he been an NRM leader, the opposition would have shouted themselves hoarse in demanding the immediate censure of the corrupt “big man”. 2012-04-22T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/MuniiniMulera/-/878676/1387048/-/6awxycz/-/index.html The memory remains sharp. I was in Grade Four at Kihanga Boys’ Primary School in Mparo. The adults were giddy with joyful anticipation of Uhuru, the much awaited independence that would usher in a new era of freedom. 2012-04-15T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/MuniiniMulera/-/878676/1382506/-/6b1bqiz/-/index.html I trust you had a very good Easter weekend, full of the usual celebrations and feasting that Ugandans seem to do better than most. 2012-04-08T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/MuniiniMulera/-/878676/1377926/-/6bjaudz/-/index.html The President’s need to entrench and defend himself amid declining popularity, widening economic disparity, escalating corruption and other scandals has propelled him to rely on militarism, State violence, bribery and manipulation as the preferred means of governance. This, in turn, has pushed many citizens to nurture thoughts of violent response and a rejection of peaceful dialogue. Street protests, for example, have become a substitute for sober debate. The State has responded with violence against unarmed citizens. A vicious cycle has been set in motion, creating a political tornado with a potentially dangerous destination. 2012-04-01T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/MuniiniMulera/-/878676/1373418/-/6bm736z/-/index.html The wise trekkers at night who are disoriented by the billowing tropical storms as they meander through endless mountain ranges will avail themselves of the earliest break in the darkness to determine their precise location and a way towards their desired destination. 2012-03-25T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/MuniiniMulera/-/878676/1368750/-/6c56wxz/-/index.html Our joy over CB’s recovery was tempered with the knowledge that he had just been a lucky man. His story could have been different. Furthermore, should we need emergency life-saving surgery ourselves, Kabale Hospital might not do it for us, not because they would not want to but because they lacked the human and material resources that should be at a Regional Referral Hospital. 2012-03-18T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/MuniiniMulera/-/878676/1364164/-/6c83vdz/-/index.html To state what Dr Mugyenyi would have done would be to engage in dishonest speculation. The about-turn behaviours of men and women whom Joshua and I once held in high regard, folks on whose behalf we would have sworn that they would never betray the revolution that we had dreamed about together, preclude any definitive statement about Dr Mugyenyi’s own political journey had death not taken him from us. 2012-03-11T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/MuniiniMulera/-/878676/1359190/-/6cq64az/-/index.html Dear Tingasiga. Mob justice has made the great leap from Uganda’s rough neighborhoods to the august chamber of the country’s Parliament. The swords are drawn. 2012-03-04T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/MuniiniMulera/-/878676/1291700/-/6ti6cdz/-/index.html A great woman was buried on December 18 in Rukungiri, Kigezi. Ms Freda Kakondo Kikira, who died peacefully on the morning of December 15, at the age of 87, was one of the last of a generation many of us remember with well-deserved reverence. 2011-12-18T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/MuniiniMulera/-/878676/1287956/-/6u0hm5z/-/index.html Pray that your next serious illness finds you in a major city like Kampala or Nairobi where you have a choice of upscale private hospitals from which to seek medical attention. 2011-12-11T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/MuniiniMulera/-/878676/1284024/-/6u2rphz/-/index.html One hundred medical interns at Mulago Hospital, Uganda’s largest teaching hospital, have gone on strike. They want to be paid what is due to them. 2011-12-04T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/MuniiniMulera/-/878676/1280322/-/6u5hmuz/-/index.html Dear Tingasiga: “Doctor brain drain costs Africa $2 billion.” This headline, supplied by Reuters News Agency last Thursday, hopefully raised an alarm to the rulers of Africa and to the leaders and other policy makers of developed countries that enjoy the services of expatriate African doctors. 2011-11-27T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/MuniiniMulera/-/878676/1276308/-/6umunqz/-/index.html We celebrate the life that Dani Wadada Nabudere lived and give glory to God who lent him to us for a short time. News of his death two weeks ago triggered thoughts of a man who exemplified intellectual security, outstanding scholarship, prolific writing, clear thinking, unsung bravery in a hostile political milieu, principled politics and practical pan-Africanism. 2011-11-20T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/MuniiniMulera/-/878676/1272630/-/6upkimz/-/index.html Dear Tingasiga: The visitor to Kabale is invariably struck by the industry of the town’s residents. Despite their enormous financial and economic challenges, the people of Kabale and the surrounding communities are more industrious than is often acknowledged by the casual observers. 2011-11-13T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/MuniiniMulera/-/878676/1268588/-/6v7y5pz/-/index.html At the height of military ruthlessness in the 1970s and early 1980s, a chance encounter with a soldier in uniform was enough to induce instant loss of sphincter control. However, within those armies served men of high honour and integrity who shook their heads in deep anguish as they watched the country’s armed forces turned into one of the most ruthless killing machines of the century. 2011-11-07T10:31:32Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/MuniiniMulera/-/878676/1264536/-/6vaqjvz/-/index.html The tourist to Kigezi who seeks the unbeaten path will do no better than take the rugged road from Kabale to Mparo, passing by Kigezi College, Butobere, through the hamlet of Muyumbu, up the aptly named steep hill of Mutagamba (speechless), to the peak that reveals one of the most spectacular vistas on mother Earth. 2011-10-30T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/MuniiniMulera/-/878676/1260450/-/6vdjkfz/-/index.html The doomed man, whom history was destined to lump together with the likes of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Pol Pot, Macias Nguema Biyogo, Jean Bedel Bokassa and Idi Amin Dada, was given his great wish to die as a martyr. Instead of treating Gaddafi humanely and handing him over to the International Criminal Court, the liberators of Libya did exactly what they accused him of – ruthlessness and wanton murder. Instead of hauling him before the entire world for televised interrogation and shame, they turned him into a victim-of sorts that earned the pity of those of us who had nothing but contempt for him. 2011-10-23T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/MuniiniMulera/-/878676/1256600/-/6vuv48z/-/index.html In the ancient nations of the Great Lakes of Africa, kings do not die. They take their cattle home (bataatsya) 2011-10-16T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/MuniiniMulera/-/878676/1252798/-/6vxmd9z/-/index.html The scandal is not that Chogm money was stolen by senior public officials. That was expected. The scandal is not that basic landscaping at Sudhir Ruparelia’s Munyonyo Resort allegedly cost $ 7 million, which entitles it to a place among the seven wonders of the post-modern world. 2011-10-09T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/MuniiniMulera/-/878676/1247152/-/6wgth6z/-/index.html Dear Tingasiga: Wangari Muta Maathai’s spirit soars over Kenya with bemused contempt for the hypocrisy with which her former tormentors and saboteurs mourn her premature passing. 2011-10-03T14:34:48Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/MuniiniMulera/-/878676/1242810/-/6wk5ofz/-/index.html Allegations that President Museveni wants to give away 7,100 hectares of Mabira Forest to a sugar-producer have reached crisis point. It is therefore my patriotic duty to represent the President as his personal lawyer in a case against the merchants of disinformation, which I now bring before the Court of Public Opinion. 2011-09-25T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/MuniiniMulera/-/878676/1238458/-/6x2lorz/-/index.html Col. Muammar Gaddafi, the former ruler of Libya, was a dictator whose delusions of grandeur and indispensability were the primary cause of his disastrous and extremely violent termination of employment. 2011-09-18T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/OpEdColumnists/MuniiniMulera/-/878676/1234700/-/6x5bqqz/-/index.html Dear Tingasiga: Ms Tereza Kabahita Mbire, one of the most successful businesswomen in East Africa, has lately received overdue recognition by her country. 2011-09-12T06:46:25Z