When Ugandans woke up on the morning of November 26, 2016, all they heard, read and saw in the news were dead bodies, a burnt palace, and video clips of the Rwenzururu King, His Highness, Charles Mumbere arrested and dragged into custody like an ordinary chicken thief. Subsequent imagery coming out of the fiasco – […]

By David Martin Aliker Sunday, November 20th, 2016 marked a week since Akena Watmon, a child rights specialist was brutally murdered in cold blood. The President of the Democratic Party Hon. Norbert Mao opined an article, Individual responsibility for individual crime in the Daily Monitor. In his last sentence he mentions, “If the case is […]

Kenneth Akena Watmon was buried in Kitgum on Wednesday last week. The burial marked his final journey on earth at the young age of 33. The man who allegedly pulled the trigger that let out a bullet(s) which cut Akena’s life is a Mathew Kanyamunyu, a businessman. The cause of the shooting was reportedly a […]

Unthinkable as it seemed at the beginning of the American presidential campaigns, Donald John Trump is the president- elect of the powerful United States of America. Only days before voting, President Obama derided Trump as a man who could not be trusted with his own Twitter account. At the time media reports had emerged that […]

The ban on Comprehensive Sex Education in Uganda’s schools needs challenging. That Uganda has a Ministry of Ethics and Integrity that is entirely engrossed with sexual morality but does not support sexual health education in school is shameful. Sexual Health needs to be framed and presented as a human rights to health in line with […]

The Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago must be applauded for turning down an invitation to meet with Mr. Museveni over the fate of Kampala’s evictions. The “Muloodi” was right. In reiterating that the whole purpose of meeting Mr. Museveni was to devise plans to implement the agenda of ousting opposition from Kampala, Muloodi interpreted it right. […]

The reading from Hon. Nobert Mao in the Daily Monitor of November 16, 2016 left me wanting more. The debate on Hon. Betty Nambooze’s proposed bill to regulate alcohol business in Uganda is one that needs courage and sober recollection. It is unfortunate that the proposed bill has already cultivated bad blood between ”School Teacher” […]

The swashbuckling village boy, unfazed by the glamour and glitz of the city is on rampage. Sword in hand, the villager’s crass mannerisms is leaving polished elites from Budo and Gayaza cringed. ‘‘Hey, what do you think you are doing? That is not how to hold a wine glass,’’ horrified Budo and Gayaza kids yell […]

I previously questioned the endemic nature of the problems that is steadily driving our health service delivery system to crumble. The editorial of the Daily Monitor on October 5, 2016 remarked on the Health Ministry’s plan to close nearly 7000 Health Centre IIs in the country. The commentary cited the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, […]

  The state of health care services in Uganda has literally collapsed. At least, from the experiences of Ugandans who are confronted by its failures. The bad state of the healthcare is only symptomatic, something that the public has consensus over. Painfully, nobody seems able to do anything about it. There is a pattern to […]