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Oil companies operating in Uganda, Tullow in particular, must appreciate the need to secure the `Social License’

On Friday Feb. 3, the media was awash with news of signing of new Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs) between Tullow oil and the govern [ … ]

 

Reflections on the last presidential poll

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Compromise is not always the solution. Ask the mother in the Bible story who was in a child ownership dispute with another

Andrew Mwenda titled his piece in The Independent of February 2, 2012, “Reflecting on last presidential elections”. A close reading of his article leads one to the conclusion t [ … ]

 

Mwenda wrong on UMEME subsidies

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The government has absconded from its responsibilities and is hiding behind liberalisation that can ruin a country

Iread some of your articles with interest and they can be very informative. However I have come to the realisation that many of your claims are based more on theory than on the practicalities that would lead to the development of a country like Uganda. I agree for example with all you are saying in the article but are your solutions practical or would they only apply to an economics class at the university.

 

Uganda and her rumour mailers and millers

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Our parliament needs to exercise a high level of legislative maturity and depth that stand above the ordinary mind

A man from a community, locally perceived as a very ignorant society in western Uganda,once saw a speeding car, with a bicycle wheel popping out of the boot. Literally, the boot had be [ … ]

 

Mailo akenda is Mengo’s emblem of self-deception

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The claim for the 9,000 Square Miles of land, or ‘Mailo Akenda’, supposedly owed to Buganda Kingdom by the Uganda state will endure as the starkest symbol of the idleness and indolence of key sections of Uganda’s political class, more so the self-perpetuating oligarchy at Mengo and its retainers.

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