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In an interview with the Daily Monitor newspaper of 26th August, Bobi Wine attempts to lay out his policy agenda on a wide-ranging spectrum of issues. Reading responses, you see a political youngling trying to straddle to the starting line…

Opposition parties all over the world are seen as alternative governments in waiting, in Uganda, the reality is that the opposition is government to wait. The provenance of any political party lies in espoused ideology of its founders with…

How many coffee commentators have read the Coffee Bill? Listening to the myriad of commentaries in the media, it is clear, a bulk of these coffee “expert commentators” have not read the Bill or if they did, they picked nothing out of the…

The human resource development index indicates that Busoga region is not doing well on the poverty scale. Several attempts to mitigate this atrocious situation have been done by both the local and central governments, mostly through…

The dawn of former army commander Maj Gen (Rtd) Mugisha Muntu’s Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) is a breath of fresh air in the ever-teetering opposition politics in Uganda. Opposition politics has been defined by an intrusive…

Being in political the Opposition is a daunting task when space is so skewed in favour of the incumbent both in popularity and the resource envelope at his disposal. Politics is about subduing the adversary through well-crafted…

“Chemical” is a colloquial term that has been domesticated in our local body politic to manifest an act of mudslinging, disparaging or maligning an opponent. It has become so sophisticated that groups of media activists have been formed for…

It is a battle of wits for economists on either side of the divide to explain the debt situation in a way that is neither alarmist nor dismissive of the bulging debt portfolio. The debt stock which combines both domestic and external debts…

The unending saga of ownership of Qualicel building has exposed the sanctimony that stinks of double standards or outright compromise of the laid down dictum governing structural developments in the city. The physical planning department of…

During the “good old days” of the Uganda People's Congress (UPC), the stalwarts would go around chanting UPC everywhere, UPC everybody to make it look like there was nobody espousing a varying political demur. However, reality dawned on…