Over 370 students have today graduated during the 5^th Africa Renewal University graduation ceremony in different professions that are offered at the Evergreen university freedom square.

The ceremony has seen off professionals at different academic levels; Masters, Degree, diploma and certificate in different professions like Theology and other Christian related courses and also in humanities and Business-like Social Works and Social administration, Business Administration, Child Development, Information Technology and several others.

Rev. Kasirivu Peter The Chancellor AFRU Shares Words Of Wisdom During The Graduation Ceremony

Speaking at the event, Africa Renewal University Chancellor Rev. Peter Kasirivu, who is also the Senior Pastor of Gaba Community Church gave paramount advice to the graduates. In his commencement speech to the 5th congregation of graduates, he advised them to cease every opportunity that came their way.

“Dream big, because there is so much need around us, so much opportunity. For its only dreamers who see these opportunities, our God and our nation are longing for us to have such dreams’-Kasirivu advised

The ceremony was covered in great elation as the different graduands’ names were being read. This year’s graduation saw 13 first class graduates.

Mr. Lenny the National Director; Compassion Uganda, who also graced the ceremony as the Guest of Honour, encouraged the graduates to sow more and more even after harvest in their different professions, he further went ahead and challenged them saying in his commencement speech,

“You are going to be weighed by all kinds of people, but its my prayer that, you won’t be found wanting”-said Lenny

The Vice Chancellor and Administrative Staff of AFRU celebrate

The University has just months back, on the 25^th of January this year received its charter status while marking 16 years of existence and has since grown from a 30- student bible college to now a fully fledged University with over 1000 students.

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New Charity Organization Launched In Mbale City

Linda Njoroge

April 25, 2023

A new charity organization has today been launched in Mbale City aimed at improving the standards of living for City dwellers and of people in the surrounding areas.

The organization launched is Taufiq Charity Relief Centre, a Muslim based charity aiming at spreading the word of Allah, promote good and quality health, education, access to clean water, women empowerment among other related social issues.

Taufiq Charity Relief Centre is currently involved in building mosques, drilling boreholes and spring wells, organizing health camps among other programs that have greatly impacted the lives in the communities where it has presence.

Speaking at the launch which happened at the organization offices in Nakaloke Town Council, Northern Division Mbale City, Issa Sono the Director of the organizations says they aim at reaching out to as many people as they can regardless of their religion but as long as they’re in need of help.

“Our main aim is to serve humanity in need and it’s exactly what we want to do, many Children, many women, many youths and other vulnerable groups want to improve their lives but without where to start from. So as Taufiq Charity Relief Centre, we shall reach out to those as of when our funding grows”- said Issa Sono

The organization also enrolled out their website which well wishers can access to donate to them in their bid to reach out to those in need. https://taufiqcharity.org/

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Karamoja Livestock Practitioners Gain Training Skills In Applying Emergency Guidelines

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April 25, 2023

Livestock sector practitioners from government and non governmental organizations in Karamoja, have spent a week internalizing the livestock emergency guidelines and the skill of training other actors in this sector. The training was organized by LEGS and the Karamoja Resilience Support Unit Activity Tufts University in Soroti District.

The Livestock Emergency Guidelines are a set of international guidelines and standards used for assessment, design, implementation and evaluation of livestock interventions for people affected by humanitarian crisis such as droughts, disease outbreaks and conflict.

The trainees had both theory and practical engagements uses the Livestock Emergency Guidelines Handbook. This has readied them to train other actors in the livestock sector and will contribute to disaster risk management relating to livestock in the Karamoja sub region

OWEYEGHA-AFUNADUULA: Uganda Today And Tomorrow

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April 24, 2023

By Oweyegha-Afunaduula

“Uganda from now on will be determined by the relations between Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Museveni, Nobert Mao, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Paulo Kagame, Ian Kagame, Poverty and Ethnicity”.

This was a topic I posted on my Facebook page early this morning, and which wanted my facebook friends, all Ugandans and all East Africans interested in national and regional affairs to reflect, and active public intellectuals in Rwanda, Uganda and the rest of East Africa to begin thinking about, articulate and clarify on as best as they can.

The theme is not a myth but an evolving reality, which every right thinking Rwandese, Ugandan and East African should reflect on today, tomorrow and beyond. How we relate to one another, in our countries and in East Africa, and most likely, in the Great Lakes Regional environment, socially, economically and politically will be influenced by the personalities mentioned in the theme.

In the last Chapter of my book, “Political and Leadership History of Uganda: From British Colonial Era to Movement Era”, which is in Press, I predict that three people will dominate the politics of Uganda: Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Museveni, Muhoozi Kainerugaba and Nobert Mao.

Today, Muhoozi Kainerugaba conducts himself as de facto President While President Tibuhaburwa Museveni more or less cheers him on, and Mao is more or less his Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, and has even escorted him to a Visit to Rwanda.

In a way General Muhoozi Kainerugaba is like a Crown Prince, just like a Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. While he retains his links with the Uganda People’s Defense Forces, he has declined himself with the political party of his father, the National Resistance Movement Organisation (NRMO).

If he were Kiiza-Besigye he would have been committed to prison many times and accused of sabotage, or even high treason. But Muhoozi Kainerugaba is the President’s son; the only publicly known son of the President.

While Opposition politicians continue to be chained, Muhoozi Kainerugaba has over recent months continued to pronounce himself on issues such as the corruption of Ministers and to traverse the country like a President on a campaign trail just as his father does a parallel traversal.

The two seem to have agreed that between now and 2023, Uganda concentrates it’s collective mind on their political activities and promises, not development, transformation and progress of the country.

The two are repeating most of the promises that President Museveni has made for almost 40 years he has been in power.

Those listening to the two are the same ones who have listened to President Museveni all the time since 1986, but numerous young people, who now dominate our population in terms of numbers are also listening. they have presented Team Museveni and Team Muhoozi Kainerugaba, all connected to State House.

The latter is being sold as Alternative Generator, meaning that if President Museveni leaves power should remain in the family of the President and his kin and kith. Meanwhile the chained Opposition looks on helplessly and play their politics as if they are really competing for power with the two.

Meanwhile poverty and ethnicity mushroom in Uganda. One small ethnic group to which the President and Muhoozi Kainerugaba – has it all: money, power, opportunities and future. Apparently, the group historically and politically has its roots in the political Chao of the 1950s and the very early 1960s.

It is likely that if President Tibuhaburwa Museveni decided to relinquish power, he would not do so to political parties, which he hates so much because they contradict his power schemes and his designs for Uganda.

He would rather relinquish it to his son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, whom he has provided with security and the greatest thread of freedom to market himself politically while making sure security disables or pounces on the Opposition every time it tries to actively play politics.

Already some Opposition leaders are realigning themselves, either to the Museveni camp or to the Kainerugaba camp. But where is the difference?

If I remember well, I must have mentioned that the politics of Uganda will be interwoven with that of Rwanda, where also the son of President Kagame, Ian Kagame, is more or less a President in waiting.

If Ian Kagame and Muhoozi Kainerugaba effectively capture power in Rwanda and Uganda respectively, then the capture of Uganda will be perpetual. All the rest of politicians, mainstream and Oppositional, will realign themselves to fit in the new equation of power.

And Ugandans now manifest themselves as slaves of the State run by a few closely related families in power or close to power will be complete. Indeed the reported 1,500 billion billionaires in Uganda belong to this group. Most of this wealth has been primitively accumulated through the new imperialism grabbing everything conceivable.

Since the group is mostly located in the kin and kith of the President, it has adequate money to fund its own choices of leaders of Uganda. Currently, they are temporarily divided between President Tibuhaburwa Museveni and Muhoozi Kainerugaba.

So, if wealth does everything, then wealth will produce leaders for Uganda. In the short time it will choose between Tibuhaburwa Museveni and Muhoozi Kainerugaba, just one of them. Uganda is a country of youth.

I will not be surprised if wealth settles for Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who has clashed with General Kahinda Otafiire over his claim that the era of the rule by the elderly is over, and has persistently, continuously and consistently submitted that the era of the youth has come although he is 49. When Obote and Muteesa II rose to power in the immediate post-colonial period, they were in their 30s.

The rest I leave to God or to “Let Nature Take its own Case”.

For God and My Country

The Writer Is a Ugandan Scientist And Environmentalist

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OWEYEGHA-AFUNADUULA: The Politics Of Homosexuality In Uganda

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April 20, 2023

By Oweyegha-Afunaduula

There is no doubt that homosexuality is an issue that assumes numerous dimensions: cultural, ecological, ethical, moral, spiritual, cultural, academic, intellectual, social, economic, political, diplomatic and even environmental.

In much of Africa, homosexuality is an environmental pollution issue in ecological, ethical, moral, spiritual, cultural, academic, intellectual, social, economic and political dimensions.

As the countries in the Euro-American axis push the homosexual agenda in human rights terms, the issue of homosexuality is not only disrupting relations between the West and Africa, but is exposing foreign aid as a fuss. Clearly aid is being used as a tool to push the homosexual agenda in Africa; not in the Middle East, Russia, China and the rest of the Asian countries.

Therefore, if there is any part of the world that will experience the violence of homosexuality in terms of sociality, environmentality, ethics, morality, spirituality, ecology, culture, academics, intellectualism and politics, it is Africa. Unfortunately, this issue, which was a non-issue in Africa until recently, has become a political issue as well.

While I could write, and have in fact written, about the issue from many dimensions, I want in this article to write on The Politics of Homosexuality in Uganda. Politics is where decisions are made that affect nations.

Right now in Uganda decisions have to be made at the highest level about homosexuality simultaneously with other issues such as poverty, corruption, taxation, trade, quality of education, quality of health, quality of agriculture and allocation of funds to these sectors of the economy.

Uganda is a highly religious country with strong cultural bonds, and therefore, most, if not all, the 56 indigenous groups of the country are averse to homosexuality. They are internally anti-homosexuality. However, politically the governors and leaders of the country at the highest level are divided over how to respond to the onslaught of homosexuality, which has taken our institutions by storm and is, therefore, targeting the youthful segment of the population of the country.

We can with confidence say that homosexuality has matured as a highly political matter and could as well become an elective issue in a few years’ time. The deep sea of poverty is fueling the spread of the vice in the country.

Unfortunately, the issue of homosexuality is afloat when public intellectualism is at its lowest ebb, and when there is a deep sea of fear among the few active public intellectuals and public officials.

Few have the guts or courage to pronounce their positions on it. Many fear that if they pronounce themselves on the issue, they will be denied visas to go to Western countries. Others who have been receiving funds from the West to finance their efforts, fear the money taps will run dry..

Therefore, public discussion on the matter is diffuse and not so open. However, last month the Parliament of Uganda stood as one, to legislate a law against homosexuality in the wake of homosexualisation of the country in general our youth in particular.

The lively often emotional debate in Parliament culminated in the now famous Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023. This was publicly received by all the indigenous groups of Uganda as a most desirable tool to stem the vise. The Bill once passed was sent to the President, Tibuhaburwa Museveni, to sign it into law.

The President himself had before the Bill shown his disgust for and despise of homosexuality. He continued to do this after the Bill was passed, and even called upon all African countries to reject the homosexual wave sweeping the country. He had earlier signed another Homosexuality Bill 2014 into law, but

this was challenged in the Courts of Law by crusaders for Homosexuality as an affront against the human rights of the minority. Human rights themselves have become political issues and weapons, which are used to dissuade governments from taking certain actions again citizens or some citizens.

The argument is that homosexuals and lesbians, a minority, have their own human rights, which they should enjoy to the full. In the true spirit of globalization, homosexuality and lesbianism have been politically pushed as human rights, yet they had been in the past cast as human wrongs.

The politics of homosexuality is now so intricate in its penetration of the internal politics of Uganda and other African countries that sovereignty in political decision-making is no longer taken for granted. Forces promoting homosexuality are so politically and financially powerful that it takes a truly fearless and determined political leadership to stick to the national interests rather than bend to please those forces.

These forces include all the Western countries that have legalized and legitimized same sex relationships and even okayed same sex marriages, international human rights organizations, national non-governmental human rights Organisation, some academic institutions, journalists, et cetera.

In Uganda, the political connotations of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill are now expressing themselves in the ping pong stance of President Museveni. He first wanted a debate on whether Homosexuality was by nature or nurture.

Unfortunately, there was no strong and free public intellectual polity to respond to the President’s thought. Debates in Universities, schools and nationally had d been quashed. Then today, 20^th April 2023 he is convening the NRM Caucus of Parliament to discuss aspects of the Bill, if not the whole Bill, as if the Caucus is higher than the Parliament.

Logically, the Caucus would be of much value to parliamentary processes if it met before or during the hatching of the Bill to infeed ideas of the NRM Party into the legislative process leading to the Bill.

There is now great fear in the country that the power of homosexuals and Lesbians worldwide has converged onto the President to disorient him and make him hesitate to sign or not to sign the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023 into law.

The threat of denying Uganda foreign aid is being used as a scarecrow to weaken political decision-making at the highest level of governance so that the powers that be are subordinate to the global Homosexual Movement.

One school of thought is that the Euro-American axis of global power, which allegedly put President Tibuhaburwa Museveni in power is using its vantage relationship to the President is using its advantageous influence on him to ensure he does not sign the Bill into law. However, the President has in the past shown that he can free himself from the past and make his own independent decisions.

The Anti-Homosexuality Bill, as I indicated above, is of broad public interest. Ugandans know a law can be a paper tiger if not implemented. However, a law, if implemented, can be better as tool of regulating behavior than if this task is left to the people to handle.

A people without constraint and restraint can be dangerous. The collective psychology of a people towards what threatens them can change very fast. It requires political action to ensure that the right collective psychology obtains.

The question is: With or without law how will the indigenous communities of Uganda collectively respond to the emerging issues of homosexuality and lesbianism?

So far these issues largely belong to very educated people in our institutions of higher learning and to urban areas. They have not penetrated rural areas in any significant way, although they are concentrated in some schools, particularly those privately owned and funded from outside the country. Political action is needed to mobilize the whole population against the vises of homosexuality and lesbianism.

As I wrote severally elsewhere, these vises are not only anti-God but they are averse to self-perpetuation of the human species, particularly the family institution. The promoters are targeting children and youth who are collectively the agency of reproduction and perpetuation of family genes well in the future.

The Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023 if passed into law would definitely be a blueprint for safeguarding children today and tomorrow, and ensuring that lineages and genealogies do not die out.

and Lesbianism are genocidal. Genes in humans who practice, or are forced to practice, homosexuality and lesbianism are terminated. As I wrote elsewhere, they are like the genes of terminal seeds that cannot be grown twice.

For God and My Country.

The Writer Is a Ugandan Scientist And Environmentalist

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UPDF Recovers Gun In Foiled Cattle Theft In Kotido

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April 20, 2023

By Steven Ariong

Kotido district in Karamoja sub region in the North Eastern Uganda has remained to be one of the most notorious districts where Karamojong rustlers are not ready to give up with killings and rustling animals.

Every day, the rustlers in Kotido district are killing innocent people and fighting with the security forces.

The SMG Reg No. 37858 On Bolt Carrier Recovered By UPDF In Nakapelimoru-PHOTO BY STEVEN ARIONG

This publication has learnt that since the killing of the most wanted commander of rustlers in Kotido last week, the scattered group under which command of the killed commander have continued to intensify their mission despite the presence of heavily armed security forces in Karamoja.

Other districts have become relatively peaceful except Kotido district.

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During the night the Uganda Peoples’ Defense Forces (UPDF) squad operating under 405 Brigade headquarters in Nakapelimoru sub county Kotido district recovered a gun from armed Karamojong warriors.

The recovery of the gun was after a brief fight between the soldiers and rustlers who had attempted to steal livestock from Nakapelimoru community kraal in Kotido District.

Major Isaac Oware the UPDF 3rd division spokesperson says as a result of fire exchange, one Sub machine gun , number 37858 without rounds of ammunition was recovered, one warrior was put out of action and others ran in disarray adding that the rustlers didn’t manage to steal any single animal.

“We are doubling our efforts towards these rustlers and this serves as strong warning and lessons to armed cattle rustlers as joint security forces continue to degrade criminal elements’ capabilities in order to maintain peace and security in the Karamoja Sub region”- Oware warned.

Joseph Lopusnyang a resident of Nakapelimoru trading center said Kotido district has become more insecure compared to the other districts in Karamoja.

Meanwhile Moroto Municipality is also still experiencing killings and house breaking by armed rustlers within the town.

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Karimojongs Suggest Auctioning Assets Of Ministers Implicated In The ‘Mabaati’ Scandal

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April 20, 2023

By Steven Ariong

A section of the Karimojong elders and youth have welcomed the on going prosecution of all ministers implicated in the theft of the Karamoja iron sheets.

However the elders say arresting, prosecuting and remanding the implicated ministers will not have solved the problem adding that government should go a head and auction their assets.

Karimojong Elders At Their Meeting In Nakapelimoru Village-PHOTO BY STEVEN ARIONG

Moses Lokol a resident of Lokopo sub county demands that the assets of all ministers implicated in the theft of Karamoja iron sheets be auctioned on grounds that they got them through dubious deals.

“This the fact that the ministers who took the iron sheets are thieves and they should be treated as thieves not honorables and whatever they have in their possession were got out of stealing”-Lokol suggests

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So far three Museveni ministers who are part of the Mabaati beneficiaries have been arrested of which two of them Dr.Mary Goreti Kitutu of Karamoja affairs spent 8 days in Luzira prisons before she was bailed out.

The second is junior minister for planning minister Amos Lugolobi who’s currently in Prisons, the 3rd minister to be arrested is Ms Agnes Nandutu state minister for Karamoja affairs who has since been committed to the high court and remanded to Luzira prisons until 3rd May.

The ministers and others pending to be arrested are charged with diversion of iron sheets which were meant for vulnerable people of Karamoja.

Mark Apananya one of the elders and a resident of Ngoleriet sub county in Napak district says most of the implicated ministers are likely to be bailed out and the cases die.

“Yes they have been taken to court and prisons but they are coming out freely, even going to work how i wish they are even barred from accessing their offices it would be better”-Apananya suggests

The elders and youth spoke to this website today in different interviews.

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OWEYEGHA-AFUNADUULA: Pinetti Coffee Deal, Anti-Homosexuality Bill And The NRM Caucus In Uganda

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April 20, 2023

By Oweyegha-Afunaduula

President Tibuhaburwa Museveni of Uganda did not need NRM Caucus Meeting to get the Coffee Deal done. In fact he said Pinetti was himself. For the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, he has chosen to call NRM Caucus Meeting before he decides either to or not to sign the Bill into law.

There is no doubt that there is a lot of pressure on the President from within and outside the country not to assent to the Bill. Within the country the anti-Bill lobby is multidimensional and includes clergy, journalists, lawyers, medical doctors, university lecturers, human rights organisations, et cetera.

From outside the country, governments of countries that have endorsed homosexuality to the extent of legalizing and legitimizing same-sex marriages are doing their act too. They are using the threat of economic sanctions on Uganda if the Anti-Homosexuality Bill is signed into law.

They use foreign aid as an Angel to save Uganda from decay and collapse. Yet foreign aid is robbery. More money goes out than comes in. It is the main avenue by which sexual perversion is being proliferated in Africa to destroy the African race. It has captured our security, health, education and agricultural sectors.

When we want to make our policies and choices in governance, foreign aid is used as a rod in the fashion of “If you do that ( take that action) we shall do this ( remove aid)”.

This way it is aid of fear for fear by fear to destroy our future generations and deny us our right to decide what we consider right or wrong. If there is dehumanization, this is worse dehumanization.

If the President of Uganda uses the NRM Caucus to devalue the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, he will confirm that he is ruling Uganda with fear and by fear under coercion. He will have agreed that aid should continue to be the rod to dehumanize us, capture us and include us in the sinister plot against humanity, especially in Africa.

Africa is seen, in the long-term, just as a source of raw materials for the developed countries. Those who want materials do not see people but just materials. They would be happy if there were no constraints to their craze for materials. If they could disorient the conscious of a ruler, well for them.

What Africans need are belief in themselves and unity of purpose to save ourselves from destruction. We should know that we shall be part of the totality of future generations of humanity if we reject schemes designed from outside to erase us from the face of the Earth.

These schemes are real. Homosexuality in postmodern times is a futures threatening scheme as it targets the young far more than it targets the old. If this generation cannot reproduce itself like our past generations reproduced themselves, how can it hope to be represented in the future? If we want to be in the future we must be long-sighted to see what lies ahead.

NRM Caucus should not be just a political caucus but a social caucus committed to the survival of Uganda and Ugandans in the 21st Century and beyond in the face of a global onslaught to popularise, legalize and legitimize wrongs as rights. We should reject evil money.

We are either for God or against God. If we are for God, then we are for survival of Ugandans well in the future.

For God and My Country.

The Writer is a Ugandan Scientist and Environmentalist

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DINU Project, The Failed EU Funded Project In Karamoja

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April 20, 2023

IMG-20230121-WA0025 — John Robert Akiki The LC3 chairperson of Lotisan Standing At Kobebe dam- PHOTO BY STEVEN ARIONG

By Steven Ariong

MOROTO: Driving along Karamoja highways, someone sees series of development projects with signposts bearing European Union funded projects an indicates that EU has been one of the key funders of most of the development projects in Karamoja region.

This publication lists down some of the best funded European Union projects that had slightly helped Karamoja change and the worst recent project that has failed to create impact in th region.

The first project funded by European Union was a five year project called Nothern Uganda Rehabilitation Programe (NUREP) which did a significant change in Karamoja, this project targeted the construction of schools, police posts, peace activities and livelihoods and indeed it helped in scaling down cattle rustling in Karamoja because most warriors were targeted.

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That project ended and EU through consultations with the office of the prime minister designed another five year project called Karamoja livelihood program (KALIP) which was did a greater impact in terms of restocking program, training of farmers field schools, and training Karimojong reformed warriors to become village animals health workers, this helped the Karimojong pastoralists to acquire the knowledge of animals health and they were managing animal diseases from their villages without any guidance from veterinary doctors.

This projects programs are seen on the ground including construction of valley tanks before it also ended.

The EU team again sat with the office of the prime minister and designed another project called Development Initiative for Northern Uganda (DINU) which has been seen to be one of the worst performing EU funded project in Karamoja.

Its should be noted that this five year project is ending next year, but nothing can be see on ground apart from a series of cracked animal market and uncompleted structures across the region.

According to the paper work seen by this publication, this project released about Shs20bn for the construction of community access roads in Amudat, Abim, Nakapiripirit and Moroto but most of these roads have remained incomplete while others have been washed away due to poor workmanship as a result of poor supervision from the projects engineers.

Joseph Nangiro one of the Anticorruption monitors in Nabilatuk district says much as government is taken up by the iron sheets investigations but there was also need to constitute a committee to investigate the abuse of EU funds in Karamoja.

“I don’t know whether the European union team are aware about this, because we have not seen anything done by DINU project in Karamoja,”Nangiro noted

Betty Chegem another Anticorruption monitor in Lorengedwat sub county in Nabilatuk district says there could be good work on paper but zero on the ground. According to Ms Chegem if anyone tours projects funded by European Union under DINU project, you will not be impressed.

“Go right now to Alakas border post where DINU constructed a police post at Shs700m and see how cracked it’s even before its handed over to police”-Chegem says

Several attempts to get a comment from Isaha Kitimbo the communications officer in DINU were futile as he could not pick up our repeated calls.

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ODEKE BAZEL: A fight For Generations

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April 18, 2023

By Odeke Bazel

Whereas the Israelites got the antiphon for their petition, “the fathers ate the sour grapes and the children’s teeth are set on edge”. Our quest to have corruption abdicated in Uganda debris to be a fight for generations

Notably, corruption has been a long-standing issue in Uganda, with the country ranking poorly in global corruption indices. Despite efforts to tackle the problem, corruption remains pervasive in various sectors of the Ugandan society, including public, private, politics and law enforcement, count all.

In distinction to the findings of the Inspectorate of Government (IG) and Governance Transparency Institute (GTI) last year, it was estimated that, money lost to corruption per year is at 9.144 trillion shillings, Country men and women, we are talking about an estimate! With now Ministries involved in blatantly, it’s superficially more than an estimate.

Unfortunately, the leadership seems to kowtow with the vice, “corruption isn’t bad if someone uses the money to open a five star hotel”. What a comic State we have been cooked to! No wonder corruption issues come to outshine corruption issues, whether they’re brought to book and given maximum diagnosis and treatment it deserves is another issue, after all, it’s a drunkard to help a drunkard home.

Earlier this year, Uganda airlines was on limelight for mismanagement of funds. COSASE was very pivotal in establishing and ascertaining the cause-effect relationship. Of course, being a public matter, much was expected in terms of faces, signatures and office orders. As of now, whether the issue was settled duly or not is another matter, that’s how we have patronized corruption.

Not far, as usual, forty days of enjoyment seemed to had expired for NSSF grand milkers, they were the next in the calendar. With hybrid rate of unemployment, this (NSSF scandal) was largely an issue of Clergy and Nobles(beneficiaries).

As of riffraff who strive for a meal, medication, slave themselves in and out of the country and sleep with empty stomach, that wasn’t an issue. Why? As unemployed person, NSSF for what? This shows the decadence our society is faced with

With, NSSF scandal poured fridge water, Karamoja siphon, what has come to be refered to as “Karamoja iron sheets scandal” had no time to waste but take over the center stage. One would ask why this(Karamoja saga) has taken much time on stage, your guess is as good as mine!

Can we assume that, the addition of 11.63 billion shillings to IG’s budget ( 53-79billion) in this current financial year 2022/2023 is beginning to pay? Can we now trust that soon we shall be uprooting and burning the roots of corruption in Uganda? Or it’s a misnomer? I leave that to you

With, several Ministers, Government officials and MPs accused of sharing out iron sheets that were meant for the vulnerable people of Karamoja, it really shows how worse we have reached as a country.

As some Ministers continue to refute the approach on how the matter is being handled (want it private), it figuratively shows that corruption is not an issue of now but a fight for generations.

To be held accountable or not, remains an issue of luck! Corruption isn’t ending with us because it’s us and it’s within us. As a Ugandan(tax payer), I know something else is loading to outshine this (Karamoja saga), it’s more less to say, the downfall of one corruption scandal leads to the rise of another

The questions do remain: Will the criminals face their on repercussions as Israelites were told? Will we have sanity ever again in this country? Will corruption land it’s end? How will it happen? It’s fate to tell.

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