We may think we have heard enough of Oulanyah but it’s just the beginning until we say good bye to him. As more people come up to pay their tribute and condolence messages to the late speaker, a top Museveni minister has revealed some thing you need to know.
According to foreign affairs junior minister Okello Oryem who also plies from the greater Northern region, has revealed how the late Speaker was hesitant to reveal to people his sickness.
The Speaker had been in and out of hospital his out of public journey to the UK where he had gone to seek medical attention in June last year and would later return in on July 22 but still looked frail.
According to Anita Among while confirming that the Speaker had been airlifted aboard a Uganda airlines airbus upon recommendation by his doctors in Mulago and Nakasero hospitals even said that they became suspicious after making several calls to her boss but to no avail and they went unanswered for close to three days.
This is a clear indication that the lion of Omollo never wanted to worry his friends and would always seem okay even when he wasn’t. Details about his cause of death remain scanty.
Speaker Oulanyah was hesitant to tell people about his illness -Minister Henry Okello Oryem.
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It was Kilak South MP Gilbert Oulanyah who echoed his call to government and president Museveni in particular to ring fence the position for speakership for parliamentarians from Acholi such that they finish what Oulanyah didn’t do as speaker.
It was later agreed that over 100 legislators coming from the great North which comprises of Lango, West Nile and Acholi Regions had agreed in unison that if CEC doesn’t endorse a candidate from Northern Region for speakership, they won’t participate in the elections set for Friday 25th at Kololo independence grounds.
However, upon reading through the lines the unrealistic demands by the legislators from the combined sub regions, Government Chief Whip Thomas Tayebwa has blasted the group for being selfish and trivializing Oulanyah’s death with unrealistic interests.
According to Tayebwa, the legislators are setting a precedence that if President Museveni is nolongr president, the Westerners will demand that the position of president should be ring fenced for people from Western Uganda of which even before the long serving president in Uganda retires, his own son also commander land forces Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has already been peached to take over his father.
As quoted by journalist Canary Mugume, Tayebwa wonders how other regions never questioned why northern region Acholi in particular had both the speaker and Chief Justice heading two arms of government the legislature and the judiciary.
‘How come I didn’t hear any quarrel from other regions when the heads of two arms of government (Speaker and Chief Justice) were from the same area or even the NRM Secretary General?. I urge colleagues, if your argument is that for someone to be voted they should be from Northern Uganda, go to hell!’- Said Tayebwa
GCW Thomas Tayebwa on Acholi MPs ring fencing the Speaker position for the Acholi sub-region: ‘We can’t set this precedent. If Pres.Museveni is no longer President, the Westerners will demand that the position of President should be ring fenced for people from Western Uganda.’
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Today president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni announced reshuffles among his Residential District Commissioners as well as Residential City Commissioners along side their Deputies. The list released made news but what made huge headlines is Hudu Hussein who has been the RCC for Kampala.
Just like they did when former Kampala Capital City Authority ED Jenifer Musisi was exiting KCCA, Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago and many netizens are cerebrating RCC Hudu Husseins transfer from the sweet Kampala city to the remote district of Yumbe.
The man from Bungokho had all the powers trimmed off him when the list came when he’s been transferred with immediate effect from the city where he has been speaking with authority and energy to Yumbe where he’s voice will rarely feature on prime news.
Huudu who was transferred from Kawempe as Deputy RCC assumed much powers and has implemented many of government’s desires in the city especially sweeping the vendors off the Kampala streets using clandestine methods
However, going by what netizens are writing it seems his controversial ultimatum issued to street preachers to vacate the Kampala roads might have caused him trouble though he later came out and denied issuing such orders to the street preachers.
Huudu Hussein was replaced by a little known Aminah Nanziri Lukanga who will now take on the mantle to manage the city as RCC, it’s very hard to implement government interests without hurting or confronting Kampala dwellers who are always supported by their voal Lord Councilors, Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago alongside other leaders like Members of parliament.
In this article article we bring some of the reactions as netizens celebrated Hudu Husseins transfer to Yumbe District.
Kampala RDC Hudu Hussein had given street preachers 30 days to leave Kampala. 27 days later, he has left Kampala and been sent to Yumbe.#NBSUpdatespic.twitter.com/fZ35OvC3U1
State minister for microfinance Haruna Kasolo Kyeyune has revealed that in the near future, Ugandans who are poor will have to be forced to explain why they’ve remained poor yet Museveni’s government has injected billions in uplifting their financial status.
According to Kasolo, who heads the EMYOGA project country wide which gives out payable loans to organized group of people especially youths in SACCOs says it’s disturbing that some Ugandans remain poor despite several government interventions to curb poverty among it’s citizens.
Many government programs have been started in a struggle to empower Ugandans to be financially stable but many of these haven’t impacted much in people’s interventions, notably of these is the Entandikwa, Bona bagagawale, Zoning, four acre, Youth Livelihood, Women Fund, Operation wealth creation, Emyooga and the recently launched Parish Development Model.
“Getting rich in Uganda is no longer a choice, but compulsory. In the near future, a Ugandan shall have to explain for wallowing in poverty just Ugandans had to explain for not immunizing their children. We tried and it worked out and now is compulsory. You must explain why you’re poor when government has injected billions of money through different interventions”- says Minister Haruna Kasolo Kyeyune
What do you say of the minister’s suggestion? Tell us what you think in the comment section.
Source: Monitor
State minister for micro-finance, Haruna Kasolo, says Ugandans will in the near future have to explain why they remain poor despite government interventions #MonitorUpdatespic.twitter.com/ZBxO9xlMdl
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Former Speaker of Parliament and 2nd Deputy Prime Minister also Minister of East Africa Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga is one of the leaders who have mourned the demise of the speaker of the 11th parliament and Omollo County MP Jacob L’okori Oulanyah.
The news about Oulanyah’s death had been making rounds on social media but this after it has been confirmed by the president that Oulanyah passed on in the US where he’s been receiving treatment following his airlifting early last month.
At this trying moment, I send sincere condolences to the children, the mother and other members of Rt Hon Oulanyah s family as well as friends and relatives The NRM party, the Parliament and the Country have lost a key leader Condolences to HE the President
— Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga (@RebeccaKadagaUG) March 20, 2022
I know one man's meat is another man's prison. Let these MPs we elected allow us mourn Speaker @JacobOulanyah for at least 6 months. In this period of mourning there should be no campaigns for Speakership. Let Deputy Speaker @AnitahAmong lead Parliament in this mourning period.
Then, the Jocob Oulanya we travelled with to Garamba to meet Kony in the Peace talks of March 2007. He told Kony, that there was no Amnesty for him because he had called citizens of other countries, despite Otti having threatened to kill us! Such a brave man he has been.
— Defence Spokesperson (@UPDFspokespersn) March 20, 2022
I've learnt with deep sorrow,the death of Rt.Hon Jacob Oulanyah,Speaker of the 11th @Parliament_Ug. I send my deepest condolences to H.E the President,the family of our friend Oulanyah, Cabinet, Parliament and the whole country. May His Soul Rest in Eternal Peace.
— Vice President Jessica Alupo (@jessica_alupo) March 20, 2022
It's with great sadness that I received the news of the passing of the Speaker @Parliament_Ug, Rt Hon @JacobOulanyah. Deepest condolences to his family, friends, the Parliamentary fraternity, the people of Omoro & @NRMOnline that he served as V/Cman for Northern Uganda. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/hQr1fIul2k
Rest In Peace Rt Hon @JacobOulanyah,my sincere condolences to the family.
Unrelated, SMACK Headteacher stop the witch-hunt against @HEBobiwine's son. Let the boy have an education without "paying for his father's sins".Omukama akubere,akulage ekkubo etuufu,akugyemu obukyayi.
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Graduates attend the 68th graduation ceremony where more than 14 000 students received degrees, at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, on January 19, 2018. (Photo by Michele Sibiloni / AFP)
By Oweyegha-Afunaduula
When one young lecturer, told me in 2019 that he was not happy with education in Uganda because it just emphasizes examinations and certificates, and denies learners their right to think critically, analyze critically, reason critically and write critically, I started to think fast about him and wanted my intellectual wandering to lead me to.
Graduates attend the 68th graduation ceremony where more than 14 000 students received degrees, at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, on January 19, 2018. (Photo by Michele Sibiloni / AFP)
He went on: ” How can we have Professors who cannot display this capacity, but instead glorify academicism and scholarstism, and reward their learners highly who cannot think critically, analyze critically, write critically and reason critically. many of the learner have ended up being imprisoned to disciplinary discourses that limit critically thinking, analyzing, and reasoning beyond the confines of their disciplined knowledge.
I told the young lecturer that Could understand the wisdom in what he was saying. I said, ” we are producing more problems that we are solving in Uganda in particular and Africa in general because the education systems our colonial masters left behind were such that they would not produce people who cold comfortably think, analyze, reason and write critically without fear or favor.
It is this status quo of our education systems that explains why most of their products easily fall victims to academicism and scholasticism that dominated education in Europe in the modern times, with intellectual despised and marginalized at such high profile Universities such as Cambridge and Oxford in England.
They even despised and reduced philosophy, which in the past was all the knowledge there was, to a small inconspicuous department in the university body politic of knowledge production and management. ” You need philosophy to reason well”, I told the young lecturer, and added, ” You need critical thinking, critical analysis, critical reasoning, and critical writing to solve problems rather than create problems”.
The young lecturer looked at me with unblinking eyes and asked me, “What should be done?”
I told him that we need to restructure our education, not only to de-emphasize examinations and disciplines, but to make the production of people who can think, analyze, reason and write critically, as well as solve problems critically and if we do not, we shall continue to have problem-solving of similar challenges applied such that from one situation to another as if differences do not matter. So really we need new Institutions, to produce different people.
I went on, “We need to be the first ones in Africa to establish a center for Critical thinking, critical analysis, critical reasoning, critical writing and critical problem-solving”. This centre will receive all sorts of people, whatever their professional orientation.
It would be the opposite of the Kyankwanzi school of political education, which aims to retune brains to see only the NRM philosophy and political practice as the only real ones suitable for the governance of Uganda.
The Centre we are visualizing would produce people, even if produced elsewhere, who would question everything. The Centre has been established it n Kampala, but under the name “Centre for Critical Thinking and Alternative Analysis” (CCTAA). A programme of training and retraining has been developed, and will soon be unleashed.
For God and My Country
The Writer is a Ugandan Scientist And Environmentalist
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As hope for many graduates to get into the job market shrinks due to the obvious reasons I won’t divulge into. Many are resorting to self-employment and independent production to put their knowledge and skills to use they’ve acquired from the Uganda Industrial Research Institute (UIRI)
In this particular article, we are talking the knowledge of herbal medicines, herbal foods and in particular we focus of Robert Kabakyenga who is one of those turning tables and making heads roll in the industry with his wide range of products.
Robert Kabakyenga tells his story with determination written on his face. He is a Protegee of Prof. Patrick Ogwang and Enoch Ndyabanawe of the ARTAVOL anti-malaria tea. ARTAVOL was incubated at the Uganda Industrial Research Institute before it graduated into an independent company that has continued to penetrate the Ugandan market.
During its incubation period at the Uganda Industrial Research Institute Robert Kabakyenga says he worked under the resourceful guidance of Prof. Patrick Ogwang and Enoch. “During this time, I learned how to make herbal teas and it has made me what I am today,”
He further asserts pointing at the herbal teas he has efficiently been able to produce noting that after his UIRI experience he joined the Uganda Small Scale Industries Association which has since opened doors for him in furthering his knowledge on taxes, quality standards and even taken him to exhibitions outside Uganda where he has sold his products.
Kabakyenga whose products go by the brand name KABSMAN says the Uganda Industrial Research Institute is very instrumental in supporting product development and analysis, however he credits his progress to joining business associations like USSIA.
To his name he has a beetroot tea for boosting immunity and Lemon grass tea. As he continues to grow his product range Kabakyenga Robert has set his goals towards certifying his products and ensuring quality.
President Tibuhaburwa Museveni told the country that prices in Uganda were rising because of the Russia-Ukraine armed conflict (war), but prices had been rising since the onslaught of the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Retail Shop- COURTSEY PHOTO
May be we can separate the effects of the two on prices, but explaining why prices are rising is not as important as government intervening to ensure life for the majority of Ugandans continues to be livable during the skyrocketing of prices.
But how should government intervene? May be if Uganda were a welfare State?
Government had the opportunity to demonstrate that it can effectively respond to declining human welfare during Covid 19 Pandemic, but it cared for the rich instead. They are the ones that accessed the huge financial outlay that became available because of the pandemic.
Let me ask:
Has government considered that its wayward taxation, increasingly multiple taxation, of everything conceivable, in bad times, is the single most factor contributing to the high rise prices?
Has government considered taking action against businessmen who hoard commodities to push prices up?
Has government considered that the entry of politicians, more often than not greedy and selfish, into commercial business, has greatly contributed to the high rocketing prices of commodities?
Has government considered that the mushrooming of a group of people called middlemen (this includes women) has also contributed to the skyrocketing of prices of commodities? In one sentence: Greed and selfishness are responsible for the high-rocketing prices in Uganda.
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The fallacy in the COVID vaccine was in the lie that it was free of coercion while people were pushed to get the vaccine or get sacked or be denied access to public places. Under duress some people gave in.
In Uganda we have heard the Minister of Health Jane Ruth Aceng edging towards compulsory vaccination. In Western Uganda Kabarole, Kyegegwa and Kasese Districts people were pushed to get vaccinated on road check points, football matches and even at churches. Perfect way laying.
The Member of Parliament Rukungiri Municipality Elias Rutahigwa’s argument in the august house for all children to be vaccinated regardless of their parents’ consent ought to be looked into deeply or we risk increasing the risk for children with underlying conditions.
Besides given the trial basis of the vaccine which science has proved also causes clotting and heart problems in some people; perhaps parents decision is required. The Member of Parliament’s argument delves on unvaccinated children infecting vaccinated children yet it’s is evident that vaccinated people also infect others and can still acquire COVID.
While Ugandans are battling an economic strangle and most are moving without masks with God protecting them perhaps. The Uganda Parliament and Leadership is at it again making decisions that affect everyone without putting into consideration how people feel about such decisions. The aching question remains too, why does Uganda leadership not do thorough research before preying on Ugandan citizens.
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MoH Officials Addressing The Media at Uganda Media Centre
MoH Officials Addressing The Media at Uganda Media Centre
In the news this afternoon, the ministry of health has confirmed strange that has caused flue and cough among school going children for the past three weeks.
Initially the ministry of health stated the flue and cough are not a result of Covid-19 but while addressing the nation at the Uganda Media Centre, the ministry of education and ministry of health have confirmed that there’s a wave of Influenza A and B in Uganda’s schools.
According to experts, influenza A and B has some covid-19 like symptoms like fever, cough, headache, flu, joint pain but it’s treatable. This development comes at the backdrop of Ministry of Health’s announcement that the country survived the 3rd wave of Covid-19 but experts have warned of a fourth wave.
Dr. @MorikuJoyce the Minister of State for @Educ_SportsUg (Primary Education) in the company of officials from the @MinofHealthUG is addressing a press conference on the outbreak of flu and cough in schools.
