While Uganda borrows heavily to build atomic energy and prepare for imaginary wars, its civil servants go hungry
The national budget has become just a ritual, indicating upward allocations of money, but in reality, increasingly financial discipline is not reflected in performance and achievement of what it is allocated to do. The cost of government business is supersonically rising while the gains by the country are plummeting supersonically
Galileo Galilei did not have a science degree yet he shaped how the world runs; what’s the craving for degrees in Africa for?
Apart from Galileo Galilei who did so much for the scientific and technological revolution before he had a degree, there are many others who did. I hope when I mention some it will arouse your curiosity and help you change your mind about who is a good and efficient scientist is. Possibly you will stop judging a scientist using the grade of his or her degree as the yardstick and even start asking: what went wrong with the human mind.
Trouble with Uganda: It’s riddled with unprincipled politics, mind poverty, stupidity and foolish leadership
You cannot expect a healthy population if you are not investing adequately in health services and health human resources. You cannot expect peace and security in the long-term if you have invested in military hardware and violence at the expense of social development. Social security and peace should be paramount.
Reintegrating knowledge and truth: Science, religion and politics are not diametrically opposed
All these ideas and practices penetrate each other, are interdependent and interconnected with God at their centre. We are acting the ignorant when we deliberately, persistently, consistently, continually and perennially extricate God from them.
Uganda’s roads sector: It’s a classical case of ‘Tragedy of the Commons’ and ‘Holy Grail’
With regard to the roads sector in Uganda, the resources are basically the trillions of shillings invested in it by both government and external donors. To many people, the trillions have not resulted in the improvement of roads in Uganda. The trillions of shillings seem to be sinking into a bottomless pit. With very low levels of accountability and transparency in the allocation of contracts and use of the funds, the tragedy of the Commons in Uganda is a spirally evolving phenomenon in the 21st century.
Governance by deception: Does grubby Museveni have to cling to discredited top-down economic model to rule Uganda?
Everything is deception. The sale of public assets by the NRM/A was deception. It was stated the aim was to enhance efficiency but instead they ended up in the hands of government functionaries and their fronts, usually Indians.
So inefficient is Uganda government that the president has the luxury to decide when you can die on Kampala-Jinja Road
It is the president who decides whether or not Jinja-Kampala Road, which has become a principal killer road, to be or not be made passable.
Uganda urgently needs pragmatic economics as Museveni’s idea of wealth creation is a fleeting daydream
Unfortunately, this is turning Uganda into a potentially and actually security and peace poor or deficient country well into the future. One consequence, yet to rear its head, will be destruction of what we now call islands of development, transformation and progress.
Betting intellectual power for academic capital: A walk in shadows of Uganda’s lost generation under Museveni
Ultimately, employment of the education enterprise is based on technical know-how, not professionalism. People who are employed on the basis of technical knowhow are constrained by lack of necessary skills. They have no capacity to implement anything professionally.
Failed state: Irony of Uganda being $12 trillion rich in gold but proud to export slave labour to Middle East
In any case behind every problem is the problem of leadership and, by extension, governance. The decisions the leaders and governors take or do not take, the choices in governance that the governors prefer to apply in governing a country and its resources (human and non-human); how they govern ecological-environmental systems on which all other systems depend for their structures, functionalities and futurities; and the administrative styles and practices
