COLUMNISTS

By Andrew M. Mwenda Trying to overcome a deficient professional class through education and by cultivating a performance-based society Last week, New Vision reported that Rwanda is recruiting teachers from Uganda to teach in its schools. Many Ugandans may have seen this as an opportunity to get a well paying …

By Andrew M. Mwenda His move is a masterstroke that eclipses political differences and diverts public attention from real issues to imaginary problems Recently, Ndorwa East Member of Parliament, David Bahati, re-tabled the kill-all-gays Bill before parliament. After his presentation, where he claimed to be the moral vanguard of our …

By Peter Nyanzi Extravagance, high expenditure eroding workers’ savings As the NSSF top bosses sing high praises about their financial statements for 2011, financial experts have started punching holes in it. In a statement issued last week, NSSF managing director Richard Byarugaba said for the first time in 10 years, …

By Johannes Jütting Fostering societies in which people feel protected, trust one another, and efforts are rewarded is the key to realising its members’ dreams In the twentieth century, the American dream of a middle-class life inspired the world. Now, in the twenty-first, we are moving at high speed toward …

By Emmanuel Keith Kisaameh Government should not be tempted to throw money  at a problem and think of it as a solution Unemployment is without doubt a leading development challenge in Uganda, engulfing people from all age brackets and making the fight against it noble. With the recent Makerere University …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Parliamentary intervention in government contracts has been consistently counterproductive because MPs do not look at all sides (…continued from last week) I argued in this column last week that parliamentary intervention stopping the signing of oil contracts is likely to make a bad situation worse. First, …

By Mwambutsya Ndebesa Why the Banyakole say ogwakijungu gwita  otagireyo,  meaning the white colonial master only punishes those who do not show up Uganda has some of the best designed policies in Africa but some of the worst implementation record on the continent. Whether it is agricultural, fiscal, decentralisation, health, …

By Peter Nyanzi What moral authority will this Parliament have to demand that other departments handle public funds thriftily? Twenty six years ago when President Yoweri Museveni’s National Resistance Movement government captured power, they won acclaim for condemning the profligacy of the previous regimes, which had made those in power …

By Andrew M. Mwenda We should be suspicious of parliamentary interventions in lucrative government contracts because they often make a bad situation worse Recently, President Yoweri Museveni ordered government of Uganda officials to sign oil Production Sharing Agreements with companies. This was in spite of a resolution by parliament stopping …

By Andrew M. Mwenda After charging Agaba and Komakech with murder, will KCCA be able to bite again? The near unanimous public condemnation of former KCCA director of planning, George Agaba and his bodyguard, Santos Komakech has caused them to be charged with murder before investigation. Their crime was video …