The death of the Principle of separation of powers: When Neo-liberal dictators simply want it their way: I won’t seek MPs’ nod for projects - Museveni

 

I won’t seek MPs’ nod for projects - Museveni

https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/i-won-t-seek-mps-nod-for-projects-museveni-3381308

Thursday April 29 2021

President Museveni has said he will not seek MPs’ approval in the implementation of various government projects, accusing them of delays in passing decisions, which has stalled several projects.

Speaking at the closure of a three-week NRM retreat for new party MPs yesterday, the President said there has been a lot of delays by the 10th Parliament to approve major projects such as  the anti-tick vaccine project.

Dr Saimo-Kahwa led a team of scientists from Makerere University to develop the ticvac-u vaccine.

Following the discovery, Daily monitor in its April 15 publication explained how the team said the commercial production of the vaccine had hit a snag, blaming the delay on the late release of the appropriated funds by Parliament.

Dr Saimo-Kahwa said the commercial manufacturing was scheduled to start last month at the Kampala-based veterinary drugs manufacturer, Alfasan, but this did not happen.

Mr Museveni said  “the delays ...must stop when it comes to approval of decisions.”
“That one (10th Parliament) has been delaying. I am here in two capacities as an elected President of Uganda repeatedly but also as a leader of the resistance movement, I want no more games,” Mr Museveni said.

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“We have the capacity to say no to everybody, and when we say no more, we mean no, so the Kahwa project has been going on. I am begging as if I want people to build my house. I am begging for Kahwa project to make a vaccine which will make your cows stop dying from ticks,” he added.
The President added that he will use his authority to endorse key decisions without having to lobby parliamentary approval.

Mr Crispin Kaheru, an elections’ expert, said lobbying or begging by one arm of government could symbolise inefficiency in work operations.
Efforts to reach Ms Helen Kawesa, the Parliament’s acting director of Communications and Public Affairs, were futile by press time.

Lays out six priorities
Meanwhile, President Museveni has listed six priorities for NRM MPs- elect to tackle in their respective areas.

These include social economic transformation, peace, infrastructure, production based on demand, education and health, and stability.
Mr Museveni urged MPs to end peasantry in their constituents through social economic transformation.

He also encouraged the MPs to educate the public to focus on producing things that are on demand.
“The peasants must disappear, not by killing them.. .The ones there should be the last. We should not have peasants producing other peasants,” the President said.

“You need peace in the country and in order to do that, you must be very firm against the trouble makers. These ones who want to make demonstrations, you should mobilise strongly and logically against them. Those bayaaye  (loosely translated as hooligans) people in Kampala have social economic problems partly because of the negligence of our people in the town who are not attending to them,” Mr Museveni added.

However, the President warned the legislators against engaging in cheap popularity, citing Kayunga Woman MP Idah Nantaba who he accused of misconduct while fighting issues such as land evictions.
He also accused Ms Nantaba of siding with liars.

When American Neo-liberal slave states wallow in Debt : Each Ugandan now owes Shs1.5m as national debt hits Shs65t: Who lends money to Uganda?

 

Who lends money to Uganda?

https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/who-lends-money-to-uganda--3378624

Tuesday April 27 2021

 By Franklin Draku

By Ismail Musa Ladu

After months of brushing off concerns about the growing national debt, Finance minister Matia Kasaija yesterday said government will seek to reschedule payments, on the day this newspaper revealed each Ugandan now owes Shs1.5 million.

 In an interview with Reuters news agency, Mr Kasaija revealed that repayments of the debt, now at $17.96 billion (Shs66 trillion) if domestic debt is included, might have to be renegotiated with major creditors, including China and the World Bank.
 “I will approach them. I will not hesitate to approach them and say,  ‘you guys can we suspend servicing these loans for, say, maybe two years?” Reuters quoted him as saying. 

On Friday, Mr Kasaija also expressed frustration with the high levels of borrowing but claimed he was powerless to stop it. 
“I am not a fan of borrowing,” he said, “but the current situation has made it difficult to survive without borrowing.”
 The current national debt represents 47.2 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product, the measure of all economic output in the economy in a given year, and is close to the 50 per cent level that some experts believe is a borrowing ceiling. 

Last year alone, Uganda borrowed more than Shs15 trillion, the single largest borrowing in a year, owing to the Covid-19 pandemic and reduced tax revenues. Uganda was the first country to benefit from the Heavily-Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative, which offered a number of low-income countries an opportunity to negotiate a reduction of their external debt. 

In 1998, the country received $650m in debt relief from its external creditors following reforms demanded by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). 
In the early 2000s, another $1.3 billion was written off to allow the country to use its resources to reduce poverty. 
However, the debt relief created room for a new borrowing spree, officially for infrastructure investments but many projects have been riddled with corruption or missed deadlines and come in above budget. 

The Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group (CSBAG), an advocacy group, says the rising debt level is becoming unsustainable. 
“We are right to be concerned about our growing debt levels and we should focus on whether we can repay our obligations without unduly hurting our development ambitions and are we borrowing for the right reasons?” it said in a statement. 
“We note that under-absorption of loans has led to an increase in the cost of loans hence leading to low returns on public investments,” the civil society organisations noted. 

 

Each Ugandan now owes Shs1.5m as national debt hits Shs65t

https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/each-ugandan-now-owes-shs1-5m-as-national-debt-hits-shs65t-3376968

Monday April 26 2021

 By Franklin Draku

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Uganda’s total public debt has hit a record Shs65.82 trillion as of December 2020, up from Shs49 trillion in 2019, with a Shs16.82 trillion increment due to increased government borrowing. 

This means that of the estimated 43 million Ugandans, each one owes lenders Shs1.5 million. 
The country’s public debt portfolio is projected to swell in the next financial year, with economists warning that it could surpass the 50 per cent threshold-hence becoming untenable.

Debt held by the public is often expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which measures the capacity of the economy to support such borrowing. This is particularly useful in comparing debt levels over time and among countries of different sizes.

Giving justification for the heavy debt burden, government defended that it borrowed to finance key infrastructural projects such as transport, oil and gas sectors, and to address the negative economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Ministry of Finance officials led by the line minister Matia Kasaija made the communication during a media engagement on the country’s Budget in Kampala on Friday.

Mr Moses Zziwa, the acting commissioner in charge of debt policy and issuance at the Finance ministry, warned that the rise in public debt brings Uganda closer to its threshold, which poses a big risk for the country.

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“In regard to that, the nominal debt to GDP as at December 2020, stood at 47.2 per cent, compared to 38 per cent as of December 2019 and at 42 per cent as of June 2020. So public debt is projected to rise to 51.9 per cent of the GDP in the Financial Year 2021/2022, because government will borrow to finance those key infrastructural projects, especially of transport, oil and gas sectors,” Mr Zziwa said.

Debt-to-GDP ratio is a measure that compares what a country owes (total debt) and what it produces (manufactures or a service). The ratio reliably indicates a country’s ability to pay back its debt. 

A high debt-to-GDP ratio may make it more difficult for a country to pay both internal and external debts and may lead creditors to seek higher interest rates when lending due to the low credit rating of the country that pushes its lending risk high.

The International Monetary Fund set a 50 per cent debt-to-GDP ratio threshold for developing countries but Uganda is inching closer to the 50 per cent mark. Several developing countries including Kenya have over-shot the 50 per cent threshold, however, some of the countries also have increasing domestic revenue mobilisation, which Uganda is struggling to reach.

For Uganda, while tax collections have improved considerably over the years, the tax-to-GDP has not grown correspondingly.
Mr Zziwa said the government financed infrastructure projects such as roads, energy, irrigation, oil and gas projects, which is in line with offering a conducive environment for investments, which in turn will boost the economy.

“A lot of debt has gone into energy, works and water sectors. There are also flagship projects including Karuma Hydro Project, Isimba Dam, Kabaale International airport, expansion of Entebbe International airport and irrigation schemes among others,” he said.

“Secondly, there is need to finance infrastructure such as the Standard Gauge Railway, the East African Crude Oil Pipeline and the oil refinery among others. There is also low revenue upturn resulting from low economic activities as a result of Covid-19 pandemic and so this will require additional borrowing because the domestic revenue is affected,” he said.

The debt is projected to decline thereafter on account of domestic revenue beginning to generate more money as a result of heavy government investment, according to Mr Zziwa.

Figures obtained from the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development’s Budget estimates  indicate that as of December 2020, the total public debt stock stood at $17.96b, (Shs65.82 trillion), indicating an increase from $13.3 b (Shs49 trillion) as of December 2019. 

The figures indicate that external debt from international lenders constituted the biggest share, standing at 64.98 percent, ($11.6b) and domestic debt at 35.02 per cent, which is $6.29 b (Shs22.9t).

Mr Zziwa said most of the external debt is from multilateral and bilateral creditors and commercial banks, which contributed up to $11.67 billion, while domestic debt is mostly from government bonds and treasury bills. 

Mr Kasaija on his part projected a brighter future for the country, arguing that while the public debt has been increasing at an alarming rate, most of the investments for which money was borrowed would soon begin to generate domestic revenue and government will reduce on its borrowings as the domestic revenue increases.

“Even me I don’t like borrowing but in this case, we don’t have any options, but to borrow to finance some of these big projects,” he added.
In 2020, taxes on products declined by 2.6 per cent to Shs8.4 trillion from 9 per cent in 2019 as the economy shrank due to the Covid-19 lockdown. Revenue collections for this FY 2020/2021 were also downgraded from Shs21 trillion to Shs18 trillion.

AG’s report
The latest Auditor General’s (AG) audit report indicates that though Uganda’s GDP has been increasing over the years since 2013/2014, its debt position has also increased. 

“The rate of increase of debt is higher than the rate of increment in the GDP levels, which creates a risk of reaching the unsustainable levels sooner than later,” the report says.

The report says this has begun to translate into higher cost of borrowing, which may deny future generations the opportunity to sustainably borrow.
It also says a review of the loan disbursements revealed that several loans worth Shs1.3 trillion appeared to be performing poorly, with some nearing expiry, while others reached the closing date without fully disbursing.   “Such low levels of performance undermine the attainment of planned development targets and render commitment charges paid in respect of undisbursed funds nugatory,” the audit report indicates. 

“I noted that a total of €2.2 million (Shs9.2b) has so far been paid in respect of three loans as commitment fees for the undisbursed funds,” the report adds. 

Officials at the AG’s office also warned that the trend may continue because government must finance infrastructure projects for the expected oil flow, financing the national development programme in addition to what is anticipated in NRM party manifesto.

What the debt means

Mr Patrick Amuriat Oboi, the Forum for Democratic Change president, called the debt burden “a disaster”.  ‘‘This (the borrowing) has gone beyond unacceptable levels. Our economy is on its way to collapse and at the current rate, we are soon going to be declared highly indebted poor country. We need to stop consumptive expenditure such as creating new administrative units,” he said.

Dr Fred Muhumuza, an economist and a lecturer of Economics at Makerere University, said: ‘‘The country is borrowing more to service the old debt, paid using 20 per cent deductions from the national Budget, and this could curtail service delivery. Borrowing also means all revenues are looking backwards and any little money borrowed means you are entering a debt cycle.” 

Mr Corti Paul Lakuma, a research fellow at the Economic Policy Research Centre Ugandans,  said: “Uganda’s only problem is the indiscipline because many times we don’t use the money we borrow for the purpose it was intended. We should worry about the governance not the threshold because if we use the money correctly, we shall be able to recover and repay the debt.” 

Uganda Debt Network earlier this month said: “Debt servicing continues to take a huge portion of government revenues, however much tax measures we put in place, all the monies collected will go into debt repayment for as long as we don’t streamline our borrowing against development financing.”

 

Beware of Covid PCR Testing and the Relentless “Vaccinate Vaccinate Vaccinate” Campaign: All Ugandan teachers ordered to take Covid-19 jabs

 

Beware of Covid PCR Testing and the Relentless “Vaccinate Vaccinate Vaccinate” Campaign

https://www.globalresearch.ca/beware-pcr-testing-you-may-unknowingly-vaccinated-instead-tested/5742819

By Peter Koenig

 

Global Research, April 16, 2021

 

 

The validity of the PCR test has been questioned for months, if not from the very beginning of the declared covid-19 plandemic, including lately also by WHO. However, this test is still and ever more so being forced upon us. This despite the fact that ever more scientific evidence comes to the fore that the test is absolutely unsuited to determine whether a person is “infected” with the covid-19 virus. According to some scientists there are up to 90% false positives. Besides, a positive in 97% of the cases does not indicate that you will come down with symptoms. Especially young people, and people without any co-morbidities rarely show any symptoms.

On the other hand, there is a relentless drive by western countries, foremost Europe and the US to vaccinate-vaccinate-vaccinate – and this with a substance that is not even qualifying as a vaccine, namely a new type of what’s also called “gene-therapy”, a mRNA-type injection which will affect the human genome and most likely the human ADN. mRNA stands for messenger ribonucleuc acid.

The best-known pharma-manufacturers of these mRNA-type substances, falsely called vaccines, include Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson and Johnson (J & J) and a few other inoculations from the Bill Gates created GAVI Alliance, or the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations, also called the Vaccine Alliance. They are located in Geneva, next door to WHO.

This therapy is untested. No substantial animal trials. In the few animal trials carried out on ferrets and rats, all animals died. Claiming an emergency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recognizes the gravity of the current public health emergency and has granted a so-called Emergency Use Application (EUA) for what effectively is a gene-therapy, not a vaccine. Therefore, further animal trials were skipped and this experimental gene-treatment, the mRNA-type jabs went directly to humans – which are now acting as guinea pigs.

For the tremendous risks and dangers of this therapy, see the recent exclusive interview with Lifesitenews.com (7 April 2021), and testimony of former Pfizer VP and Chief Science Officer, Mike Yeadon, who says “Your government is lying to you in a way that could lead to your death.’ See full interview here. 

It appears that so-called vaccination and testing are in reverse proportions related, i.e. the fewer people volunteer to take the jab, the more governments force these false PCR test on the population. In many countries, Switzerland is a case in point, governments “allow” schools to test school children, including Kindergarten up to four times per month, and businesses may do the same, for the “safety of co-workers” – never mind that most people in many countries still work from their home offices. Not submitting to a test or a highly questionable vaccine, may result in dismissal – losing your job. That’s as gloomy and spooky as it has become, this covid-craze.

Now they have introduced “self-testing kits” sold or distributed by pharmacies. Despite intense propaganda, most of these government bought and subsidized tests remain in pharmacies warehouses, as ever fewer people are willing to submit to this lunacy. On top of it all, you have to report only the positive tests of the self-tests – a further up-wards distortion of the anyway false picture of the so-called “infection rate”. – And nobody seems to ask why. Or if they do, they do it not LOUD ENOUGH.

Of course, the higher the number of covid positives, the higher the willingness to vaccinate, so the propaganda assumes, and if not, the better the justification for more lockdowns, more fear – and again – maybe – more willingness to vaccinate. You see – all actions drive to more fear and eventually “more vaccination”. It is as if countries were given a vaccination quota they have to fulfill, and there seems to be no measure of coercion strong enough to get people to submit to this awful, untested jab.

COVID – Bioethics, Eugenics and “Death Panels”: “A Warning”

Even the US top-doc, Dr. Anthony Fauci, expresses his doubts on the vaccines’ effectiveness. See here.

One may also ask, why does Europe and the US not allow the Russian Sputnik V or one of the internationally rolled-out Chinese vaccines? – Maybe because these vaccines are real vaccines, based on a decades long experience, the traditional method of injecting a weak or dead virus which will react when it comes in contact with a live virus and creates antibodies to create immunity – without affecting your DNA?

It becomes increasingly obvious that there is a special agenda behind this fierce testing and vaccination craze. To top it all off, and to come closer with a reason for it all, a recent report suggests (yet to be confirmed) that according to Johns Hopkins University, You can be vaccinated with a PCR test, even without knowing (11 April 2021). There we go. See here for more details.

So, why is “vaccination” so important? – And especially vaccination with an mRNA-type injection   why? – One reason may be this: as reported by The Daily Mail and RT.

Pentagon scientists reveal a microchip that senses COVID-19 in your body.

The technology was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which operates under the Pentagon. The microchip is sure to spark worries among some about a government agency implanting a microchip in a citizen. And who knows what else the microchip does in your body. Anything coming from DARPA is not as benign as it is made to believe, and is certainly not an attraction or a convincer for people who are anyway not keen on getting covid-jabbed.

In addition, the collateral damage of these untested toxins that go as vaccines, the immediate side effects are already by an order of magnitude higher than those of conventional vaccinations. The Defender (Children’s Health Defense – CHD) lists statistical figures from CDC, that the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) received data that between Dec. 14, 2020 and April 1, 2021, a total of 56,869 adverse events were reported, including 2,342 deaths — an increase of 93 over the previous week — and 7,971 serious injuries, up 245 over the same time period. This is the latest from CDC.

According to CDC, these figures are vastly under-reported.

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In January 2019, the WHO defined the growing number of vaccine critics as one of the ten greatest threats to global health, and since the unprecedented corona vaccination fiasco, the number of vaccine refusers has multiplied. Meanwhile, resistance is emerging even within the conventional medical community. But the masterminds at WHO continue to insist on an unrealistic vaccination rate of at least 70 percent.

Why this tremendous push for vaccination? We know that the covid-19 death rate is comparable to that of a common flu. See Dr. Fauci in peer-reviewed “Navigating the Uncharted”. Listening to Dr. Yeadon, we also know that vaccination is unnecessary, as there are many effective preventive and curing medicines available.

In addition to the immediate side effects, the medium to long-term collateral damage may be much more significant. Dr. Yeadon, Pfizer’s former VP says that two to three years down the road, we may see massive genocide-like deaths from mRNA-type injections. See this.

It is increasingly clear that behind this covid cum vaccination drive, there is a eugenics agenda of gigantic proportions. This has recently also been recognized by the leading German Human Rights lawyer, Dr. Reiner Füllmich, a member of the Corona Investigative Committee, which investigates globally on the prosecution of fraudulent reporting of covid- vaccination, testing and leading to fraudulent “case figures” – and to a massive drive to instill fear in the population. He and his team are launching several Class Action suits in the US and in Canada, and several lawsuits against individuals and institutions in Europe and the US. He calls these coming trials “Nuremberg 2”, after the Nuremberg trials following WWII.

In a recent interview (12 April 2021), Dr. Füllmich said he sees the light at the end of the tunnel. He also said about Corona measures,

“These are the worst crimes against humanity ever committed. The few people who can still think independently, about 10 to 20 percent of the population, they know that the question was never about a virus or human health, but about a massive thinning of the world population, and total control.” – See the full interview here.

Add to the horrendous deadly future for maybe hundreds of millions of people from the vaccines, that more mRNA-type substances will be implanted in people old and young, including children, without them knowing, by repeated testing – and in some countries even forced or coerced repeated testing.

If we go by the words of experienced Dr. Mike Yeadon, former VP Chief Science for Pizer, we might be in for mass-dying – an outright genocide – in a few years.

And this in addition to the collateral social, economic and health damage already perpetuated by false covid-data and government fear-instilling lying, leaving hundreds of millions in misery, despair and abject famine – leading to death.

Is massive depopulation an objective of this corona fraud?

Hence, be aware of even more exposure to the risk by accepting the incessant call for testing-testing and more testing. Be alert and aware and follow the light.

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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he has worked for over 30 years on water and environment around the world. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for online journals and is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and  co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020)

He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization.

 

All teachers ordered to take Covid-19 jabs

https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/all-teachers-ordered-to-take-covid-19-jabs-3378394

 

Tuesday April 27 2021

 By Tonny Abet

Government has issued a directive, asking all teachers to go for the Covid-19 vaccination as a requirement to stop the pandemic spread in schools, amid resistance from the teachers.  

Of the 260,717 teachers in the country, who are eligible for the Covid-19 jabs, only 8,517 (3 per cent) had been vaccinated by April 13, according to government statistics.  

The Ministry of Education has now written to all head teachers and administrators of higher institutions of learning to compel all teachers to go for vaccination as soon as possible to pave way for full reopening of the sector.  

The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education and Sports, Mr Alex Kakooza, in an April 23 letter to all stakeholders in the education sector, said the vaccine hesitancy among teachers could prolong the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic on learners.

“The inclusion of teachers in the priority category for vaccination was and is still intended to mitigate the risk of infection of teachers in the school setting for safe learning. However, we have received reports from the Ministry of Health that there is low uptake of vaccination among teachers,” the letter reads in part.

“This undermines government efforts to ensure safe and sustainable full reopening of education institutions. The purpose of this circular, therefore, is to inform teachers in all education institutions that you are required to take personal responsibility of getting vaccinate...,”  he added.

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The country is struggling with low uptake of the vaccines with hesitancy among some frontline workers. Government recommended the reopening of schools in a staggered manner, with enforcement of mask-wearing and other safeguards in place. Teachers, being part of the frontline workers, were included among the category that is supposed to be vaccinated first. 

The directive comes a week after doctors protested the proposal by some district leaders that every eligible citizen be given the Covid-19 vaccine.
They warned that such enforced immunisation would render the official or government liable to legal suits. The doctors also said mandatory administration of the jab amounts to rights of violation. 

Whereas some countries have made vaccination mandatory, the vaccination exercise in the country is voluntary.
Government has made it clear that the vaccination is voluntary because the serum is new and has only been given emergency approval for use.

Covid-19 vaccination is being done in all sub-counties at health centre IIIs, IVs, district hospitals, regional referral hospitals, and selected private health facilities, according to the Ministry of Health.

“Heads of education institutions are required to mobilise and support all their teaching staff to get vaccinated against Covid-19 as soon as possible. You are advised to contact the management of Covid-19 vaccination services centre nearest to your institutions and make the necessary arrangements to have the teachers vaccinated,” the directive further reads.

A health worker prepares to administer the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine at Mulago Women’s Specialised hospital in March last year. PHOTO/FILE

The PS also asked teachers to adhere to Covid-19 preventive measures such as wearing a facemask, handwashing and social distancing.
Uganda started vaccination in March after receiving 964,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from global sharing initiative –Covax and the Indian government. 

Teachers’ union responds
Commenting on the directive, Mr Filbert Baguma, the general secretary of Uganda National Teachers’ Union, blamed the low uptake on the approach used by the government.

He supported the move to encourage teachers to go for the jabs, but warned the Education ministry and other political leaders against coercing teachers to go for the jabs, saying the exercise is voluntary.

“Vaccination is being carried out in the entire world but the approach used by government is the one which was wrong. The government didn’t consult the stakeholders on where to begin from and now they are in a fire-fighting mode after seeing a low turn up,”  Mr Baguma said.

He said the consent form scared people, especially the area where manufacturers of the vaccine said they would not take responsibility for adverse reactions or even death due to the jab.

Mr Paul Okoko Nyeko, the head teacher of Mutema Primary School in Amuru District, said he has engaged his teachers to take the Covid jab. He said 13 out of 15 teachers at the school are already vaccinated.

Amuru is one of the districts that the head of immunisation programme at the Ministry of Health, Dr Alfred Driwale, singled out earlier over low vaccine uptake.  Of the 3,000 doses of the jabs that had been received, the district had only administered 45 doses by April 13. 

Mr Badru Ndugwa, the executive secretary of Wakiso Secondary Schools Head Teachers’ Association and a member of Uganda Muslim Education Association, said: “I have already taken the jab and I am encouraging teachers to go and get vaccinated.”

Lies of a neo-liberalist :Museveni: Bamugemereire’s report is the Cure of all Land Problems in Uganda

 

Museveni: Bamugemereire’s report is the Cure of all Land Problems in Uganda

https://trumpetnews.co.ug/museveni-bamugemereires-report-is-the-cure-of-all-land-problems-in-uganda/  

 

by Admin Trumpet

 

April 22, 2021

 

 

President Museveni has said that the government will implement the Bamugemereire  land commission Report once it is well studied and approved by the next Cabinet.

Museveni, who was speaking to NRM MPs- Elect in Kyankwanzi yesterday shortly after Justice Bamugemereire ‘s presentation into land matters, said that the new Cabinet will study the report and write a white paper in response to the report.

Thereafter, the report shall be taken back to the public to feed in their views before implementation.

According to Museveni, the report, once implemented, shall cure both current and historical land problems which have existed since the colonial era citing the mailo land  that the british gave to chiefs and their collaborators  in areas of Buganda and Bunyoro.

” I think, this report shall help us to dismantle the old and barbaric laws that for long have hard-pressed our people, please help me to stabilize the situation once and for all,” Museveni asked the new MPs.

The President also decried the increasing land fragmentation that has been a common practice in areas of Kigezi, Rwenzori, Mbale, Busoga among others where people have continuously divided land into tiny pieces.

He blamed some of the NRM leaders who give a deaf ear to the advice of government against this vice.

Museveni says that MPs should continuously educate locals against this practice and instead teach them how to share any available  land with out dividing it.

Justice Bamugemereire in her presentation said the commission has prescribed remedial measures to address the problems afflicting the systems of land administration, management, acquisition, and registration and land dispute resolution in Uganda.

The Commission among other things wants government to addresses the challenge of the perceived subservient position of customary land by ensuring that all land including customary land is registered.

 

“All land in the country should be put on a register after an adjudication process,” Bamugemereire said.

The Commission also recommends the establishment of an institutional framework for administration of customary land within Uganda Land Services Bureau framework.

The Land dispute situation, according to Bamugemereire was found by the commission to be a pandemic, in which mostly the well-to do persons have obtained land through illegal means, bribing their way through all systems of land administration and registration.

Former Buganda minister, Owek Robert Kasule Sebunya, who was part of the 7-member committee asked President Museveni and MPs Elect to rebuke judges who simply issue court orders to court bailiffs to evict people in awkward hours.

 

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Uganda’s Deputy Minister of Lands Ida Nantaba sued by a Dutch Coffee firm for halting the eviction of 43 poor families

 

https://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2012/12/ugandas-deputy-minister-of-lands-ida.html 

Germany Investor Evicts over 400 poor Ugandan families  - Mubende: Evictees struggle to get access to justice and land

http://www.fian.org/cases/cases2/mubende-uganda-coffee-plantation-by-neumann

Stealing The Land Of The Poor Ugandans For The Sake Of Neo-Liberalism: Oxfam And Uganda Land Alliance Face Deregistration Over Exposing Museveni’s Land Grab Schemes

http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2012/05/stealing-land-of-poor-ugandans-for-sake.html

 

How The World Bank Destroys the Local Economy: REPORT UNCOVERS WORLD BANK FUNDED LAND GRAB IN UGANDA

 

 http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2012/07/how-world-bank-destroys-local-economy.html

 

The depravity of Rich Elites in Uganda: Gold in Mubende: 270 families evicted

 

http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-depravity-of-rich-elites-in-uganda.html

 

 

 

Wounds that only the Lord Jesus Christ can heal: God, why us? Andrew Mwenda sister Margaret Muhanga worried as many family members die in few months: Andrew Mwenda’s cousin killed in nasty road accident

God, why us? Andrew Mwenda sister Margaret Muhanga worried as many family members die in few months

https://pearltimes.co.ug/god-why-us-andrew-mwenda-sister-margaret-muhanga-worried-as-many-family-members-die-in-few-months/ 

By

Pearl Times Reporter

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April 25, 2021

 

Margaret Muhanga, the Burahya MP and sister to journalist Andrew Mwenda, has expressed worry over many deaths in their family in a few months.

In just one month, the family lost two youthful members in two separate accidents.

SAD: Another Andrew Mwenda relative killed in road accident in just one month

Other relatives had previously succumbed to Covid19.

Covid19 kills Andrew Mwenda nephew

Now, Muhanga is concerned the deaths are too many in such a short time.

“Sometimes I even fear to post because clearly many people are dying in our family,” she wrote.

“We are either too many or God likes us too much that He is taking us one by one.”

 

Andrew Mwenda’s cousin killed in nasty road accident

https://dailyexpress.co.ug/2021/04/24/andrew-mwendas-cousin-killed-in-nasty-road-accident/ 

April 24, 2021

 

The family of renowned East Africa journalist Andrew Mwenda is engulfed in tears and grief after his cousin perished in a nasty road accident.

Mwenda, the founder of ‘The Independent’ magazine took to social media on Saturday morning to announce that his cousin, Sabastian Noah Rubani has died.

“Last night, my cousin, my son, my best friend, my ally, my confidant, my playmate, my advisor – Sabastia Noah Adyeri Kakiiza Rubani, died in a car accident! In one minute he was full of life and zest. In another, he was gone. The world is yet to produce someone who embodied the best human qualities as he did” Mwenda posted on his social media platforms.

According to Mwenda, Rubani was special, handsome like a Greek god, generous beyond limit, kind beyond description and nice beyond understanding.

 

“He was good natured beyond comprehension. He was smart beyond explanation. He was the coolest kid in Uganda. He was the best friend one could ever dream of having” he added.

Mwenda praised him for everyone who met him loved him adding that being around him was to be around happiness, relaxation, sophistication, greatness.

“He had class and yet acted simple. He was confident yet modest. Why leave us so early?” He eulogised him.

 

 

The death of Andrew Mwenda’s mother leaves us in debt

https://nilepost.co.ug/2019/06/25/the-death-of-andrew-mwendas-mother-leaves-us-in-debt/ 

 Raymond Mujuni June 25, 2019

 

When, on Friday, Andrew Mwenda told me that his mother Muhangazima Constance had passed on, I was overcome by so much sadness. I felt, like Mwenda later tweeted, a deep sense of emptiness.

She was, first before anything, very kind – and very empathetic. She hosted hordes of people in her home and served them all with food and drink till they had their fill. She was a great conversation sport and knowledgeable on a broad range of issues.

The qualities she espoused, today, are a hard find and yet she owned them in whole heartedness and shared them with good cheer and spirit.

Muhangazima Constance is mother to three prominent personalities; Andrew Mwenda – the vocal journalist, Major General Kayanja Muhanga – the commander 2nd Division and Margaret Muhanga, a legislator in parliament. She has 8 other children though the prominence of the three occasionally eclipses the rest.

I have come to find great fraternity in these three; Major General Muhanga has, for example, sacrificed his own military tank to provide security for my crew and I when we landed into an ambush on the deadly South Sudan Nimule highway. Andrew has, on many occasions bore the laborious intellectual dearth of my inquisitiveness and Margaret, who we found great relations now takes calls from me for all manner of information on the running of the state. I’m always thrown into laughter when she hands her phones and cautions me to expect a call from Theresa May for advice on how to handle the messy Brexit.

But such is the humor of Constance’s birth.

The one memory of Muhangazima that I will keep with me however is this one;

On the morning of 16th March 2019, at about 5am, we set off for the hilly plains of Kanyandahi, her matrimonial home. Adyeeri, as her pet name goes, had requested the presence of ‘the clan’ for the weekend. We possibly were 15 or there about. The clan, for easy definition, is a think tank – in truth, we are debaters of everything. So we can be loud and noisy, we can also drag and irritate. Adyeeri, surely, at 84, wasn’t going to have all of this.

I was wrong. She had it. All of it.

The doors to her home were open by 9am when we got there. She was sitted on her balcony taking in the morning sun. Her joy at our sight was unfathomable. She was deeply engrossed in finding out how each of our lives were going. Guys, we were 15!

She served us an early morning ration of katogo and tea with bread to match. She kept a keen eye on everyone that walked through her door and cared for them the same.

Adyeeri, by the works of her hands, had raised a generation of people in Kanyandahi who never stopped trooping to her home to see her. Even in frail health, she kept a very strong presence there.

When we were done arranging the house and fixing, she dazzled us in humor on a medical trip she had recently taken to Germany.

Where many of the old people in my life tend to be corrective, I found Adyeeri to be very sympathetic and understanding, where many of her age group scolded me – mostly about the inability to trace my lineage – Adyeeri was willing to sit with me and help with the tracing.

I discovered, through the trace, a long connection of her clan to my own through marriage and friendship bonds.

That art of listening to understand rather than doubling down on a held set of beliefs is a very unique quality that she passed on to her children and one that, if anyone spent enough time around her, adopted almost with instantaneous ease.

Also, for all the power she wielded, founding mothers’ union groups, running an enterprising farm and taking occasional visits from the President, his brother and ministers and MP’s alike, for having such a powerful set of children in both intellectual, military, civil and political spaces, Adyeeri never closed her doors and ears to anyone that trooped to her Kanyandahi home.

I will particularly miss her for that warmth of embrace her and her home offered.

Rest well Adyeeri, rest easy. 

 

Mwenda loses 3 Relatives to COVID in 3 Weeks

https://trumpetnews.co.ug/mwenda-loses-3-relatives-to-covid-in-3-weeks/ 

by Steven Rwamasyoro

 

November 24, 2020

 

 

Ruth Cox Kugonza Amooti, 62, a prominent figure in Toro Kingdom has Tuesday passed away at Mulago Referral Hospital.

Cox, who was deeply entrenched in Toro Kingdom prompting the subjects to refer to her as princess, was evacuated from Fort Portal with breathing difficulties.

She was admitted to Mulago in Intensive Care (ICU) Unit but doctors couldn’t save her and she breathed her last on Tuesday morning.

Cox was related to Andrew Mwenda’s family and the veteran journalist together with his sister Hon Margret Muhanga took to social media to mourn her untimely passing.

 

The deceased last month shook internet when she introduced a 25 year old groom, Larry Richard Abaala.

“With deepest sorrow I announce the death of my childhood friend Princess Amooti Ruth Kugonza commonly known as aunt Cox. She passed on this morning in Mulago after we evacuated her from Fort Portal with breathing problems. We have been together in everything since time in memory,” Hon Muhanga announced.

Mr Mwenda taking to Twitter saying, Cox is his second relative to die of Coronavirus in two days.

“On Sunday, we lost a cousin, Margaret, to COVID-19. This morning we have just lost yet another cousin, Cox, to Covid. Covid is real and it is lethal. Avoid large social gatherings, socially distance and wear your mask at all times in public and sanitize all the time,” he said.

On November 3, Mwenda’s nephew Chris Ibaale, a popular lawyer in Kampala also succumbed to the disease at Mulago.

Uganda to date has registered 18165 COVID cases, 8675 recoveries and 181 deaths.

The government through Ministry of Health has appealed to the public to remain vigilant, observe social distance, wear a mask and wash hands.

A few Ugandans have fully complied with these SOPs.