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UPDATE: Former Foreign Affairs Minister and Orungo County MP, Gen. (Rtd) Jeje Odongo, has given Shs4 million to the family of 15-year-old Suzan Adongo, who was knocked and killed by a vehicle in his convoy in Soroti City.
📖 For more details, read the full story in The New Vision e-paper: epapers.visiongroup.co.ug
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Daniel, Allan Omara retweeted
Your answer is here uncle Amos, I know you’ve done your job well to market Uganda, but we’re our own problem as a country.
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Come on. You cannot seriously believe that the vehicle's safety system is the problem. It is not, and it never will be. The mere possibility that a driver might suffer a heart attack cannot be used as justification for disabling a safety feature designed to save lives. You also cannot bring in the factor that the driver and pedestrian can see each other and both know what is going to happen. It may be a culture in Uganda but not everywhere. Even in Uganda, not everyone does it.
Pedestrian Automatic Emergency Braking (PAEB), also referred to as Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) with Pedestrian Detection, exists for one reason: to protect pedestrians, who are the most vulnerable road users. These systems are specifically engineered to intervene when a collision is imminent and the driver fails to react in time. Turning them off defeats the very purpose for which they were designed.
I do not know where the vehicle was purchased. If it was bought from an authorised franchise holder and was intended for the Ugandan market, it should have come with a user manual. That manual should clearly explain how the PAEB system operates, including the circumstances under which it activates, its limitations, and the approximate distances at which warnings or braking interventions occur. As a responsible vehicle owner, that is the information you should be seeking so that you can understand the system and drive safely.
If, however, the vehicle was imported through a used-car dealer and the manual is in Japanese or the language of the market for which the vehicle was originally manufactured, then the sensible course of action is still not to switch the system off. Instead, spend some time researching how the technology works. There is a wealth of information available online that can help you understand its capabilities and limitations.
The solution to not understanding a safety system is not to disable it. Just educate yourself about it. Modern vehicle safety technologies have been developed through decades of research, engineering, and real-world crash data to save lives. Before considering switching off a system designed to prevent a pedestrian fatality, make the effort to understand how it works and how to operate the vehicle safely with it enabled. That is the responsible approach.
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Black people will never be respected until they actually build communities, towns, and cities that are successful. As long as black people continue to whine about the past and demand handouts from white people, there will never be respect and it wouldn’t be deserved.
Respect comes from power and leverage. The black elites want an endless well of pity they can use to extract resources from.
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BAMUTAKUDDE AT NIGHT!
Look at our village tonight! The first 12 solar lights are ON!
From darkness to light — streets are bright, families are safe, businesses are open.
Thank you Genevat Solutions (Rubaga) for this partnership.
12 done. 38 more to go for full coverage!
#BamutakuddeModelVillage #LetThereBeLight
LET THERE BE LIGHT IN BAMUTAKUDDE!
Today we switched on the first 12 solar street lights in Bamutakudde Model Village!
We have partnered with Genevat Solutions (Ruaga) who gave us the lights at HALF PRICE and gave us a full year to pay — true partnership for community development!
Our dream is 50 lights to cover every street and home. We have started with 12.
Bamutakudde is no longer in the dark! We are looking for partners in actualizing this dream. Come join us on the lighting our homes and streets.
#BamutakuddeModelVillage #SolarLights #LetThereBeLight #CommunityTransformation #AkaaloAmatendo
Daniel, Allan Omara retweeted
I have read the first chapters of Gen. Saleh and Prof. Ogenga Otunnu's "Consociational Democracy Agreement." It rightly names the central question: how to end political exclusion along ethnic and tribal lines. Then it ducks the answer.
The NRM is presented as the cure, never the cause. Our history is told from the colonial "divide and rule" through Amin and Obote, and the NRM arrives in 1986 as "a sustained, if incomplete, effort" to fix it. Forty years on, sectarianism is more pronounced than ever. The NRM has multiplied the problem and now presents itself as the solution.
The elephant in the room is left out. Under "What Remains Unresolved" the paper lists the Electoral Commission, money in elections, Buganda's land, youth unemployment and education. There is not one word on the dominance of one ethnic group in strategic positions in the army, intelligence, civil service, parastatals, oil and all public spaces. That is the main sectarian cleavage of our time. A paper on sectarianism that cannot name it, co-authored by a man at the top of that patronage system, cannot be credible.
The paper says "let me be clear and honest about what the NRM period has achieved," but is silent on Obote I's achievements. It even finds room to praise Gen. Saleh's own land mediation in Kapeeka as "a model." Honesty that applies only to one side is not honesty.
The paper gets the history right: Amin's expulsion of the Asians was "a calculated appeal to genuine economic grievances" and "broadly popular." Today's populist war on corruption plays the same game. As the paper itself warns, "using sectarian cleavages for short-term political gain destroys the long-term conditions for national unity."
"When legitimacy is ethnic rather than institutional, no institution can function." Correct. That describes Uganda today, where loyalty to tribe and patron outranks loyalty to the State and the Constitution.
The irony: the paper condemns NRM–DP and NRM–UPC deals as "backroom deals between elites… negotiated in private, without the knowledge or consent of party members." So how was this document developed? It reads as the work of two men, asking all of us to accept it as the prescription for our problems.
National unity cannot be built on a history that absolves the regime holding the pen.
More tomorrow...
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Uganda has one core weakness.
We are strongly and fundamentally divided in our union.
And that is why causes can not win.
#Just_Saying.
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How much taxpayer money has been diverted to this white elephant of a DEI Pharma Properties?
Who are the ultimate beneficiaries, and who should be held accountable?
What are the first, second, and third-degree impacts on taxpayers?
Which politicians, especially parliamentarians, strongly advocated for its financing and refinancing? Can we assess their lifestyles to determine whether they benefited financially from solicitation or other means?
Will justice be served, and will the swindled funds be recovered for the treasury?
Dei Pharma Properties Put Up For Auction Despite Shs723bn Government Investment ugmirror.com/index.php/2026/…
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Welcome to the best part of life, @andrewkabuura - the 4th floor
Here is some quick advice. Call it your 10 point program for the 4th Floor.
1. The body is getting worn out. You’re going to want to lead a healthy life. Take those afternoon naps, eat those vegetables & drink lots of water.
2. You can no longer party two nights in a row. Everytime you hang out past midnight, cancel your programs for the next 24 hours for recovery.
3. Some of your nieces & nephews will refer to you as ‘old’. Wear it like a badge of honour - you’ve earned it.
4. Start planning for your NSSF mid-term benefits because anytime you’ll be able to access it. It’s almost time.
5. You’re going to find more peace in boring & mundane activities like chilling with kids, staying home, shopping for onions, waiting for avocado to ripen & following news stories on TV.
6. You’ll now find more joy attending “grown people” events like the #4thFloor happening on 5th December at @Taleslounge_kla Infact, get your tickets here NOW! qkt.io/4thFloorExprnce
7. It is now perfectly okay to leave any event, gathering, meeting or get-together by saying “My back is hurting, I need to go lay down.”
8. Twenty & Thirty year old men will now look up to you for guidance, inspiration & motivation. Support, teach, mentor & train young men to be hardworking & responsible.
9. Brace yourself for a life of being in the minority because statistically speaking, if you’re in a room of 5 Ugandan men, you’re the oldest or 2nd oldest.
10. You’ve reached the golden age of 40 having ticked most of the boxes every man wants to tick in this life. Smile & celebrate because you’re a lucky man.
Daniel, Allan Omara retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: Fans have voted Cristiano Ronaldo’s free-kick against Spain at the 2018 World Cup as the greatest free-kick in World Cup history. 🇵🇹🐐
Amen to this!!!
And when we are able to transform potential into productivity, the cost of doing so is alarmingly high.
When you drill down to establish what exactly drives the cost of transformation so high, you will find bribery and solicitation as a major component, mostly in Uganda when it comes to export-ready by-products.
AFRICA is not poor in resources, talent or opportunity. Our greatest challenge is transforming potential into productivity. We must industrialise, add value to our resources, empower entrepreneurs, develop practical skills and expand intra African trade. Political independence was the beginning; economic independence must be our enduring legacy….we must transform our continent into a prosperous one…
#Panafricanism
#AU
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The MTN UG Momo Card is a very profitable business for the company, especially among unsuspecting subscribers who don’t pay close attention to their expenses.
@DenisDukeUG, the MTN UG e-Mastercard is not a suitable product for any customer who signs up to use it.
Understandably, the total cost incurred during a transaction includes the following:
1. Mastercard annual fees
2. Third-party API fees charged to the client per transaction.
3. MTN UG FX fees for making the product available on your MM wallet profile. The worst!!!🙆♂️
4. MTN UG card application fees.
Banks don’t need a third-party API, so that cost is eliminated. Their card fees aren’t high because debit cards aren’t their primary product; their focus is credit, actual loans and credit cards. Debit cards help keep customers out of banking halls and reduce the likelihood that they’ll switch banks because their funds are accessible in near-real time.
For MTN and other service providers that issue Visa or Mastercard cards, this has become one of their core revenue sources.
Anti chaps working in this space for MTN UG are given monthly and quarterly revenue targets. So someone thought of integrating card transactions (which is good) but didn’t bother to check whether the fees were predatory toward users. The good thing is that users can choose whether to keep using the MTN-Mastercard for e-commerce transactions kubanga they are so expensive!!
Card issuers across traditional financial institutions offer a much better product-to-cost service to the market, any day.
Never paid attention until today.
So @mtnug Uganda just charged me a whopping 54959 in fees for using their Momo card to pay for an online service 😳😳😳😳😳😂😂😂😂🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻
You people, is it because the economy is tough that’s why we are being squeezed everywhere? Oba I’m over reacting?
Looks like it’s time for me to go back to the banks. 🙆♂️🙆♂️🙆♂️🙆♂️🙆♂️ While their Momo card offers conveniency, the cost is way too high for a small business owner.
I make about 5 to 6 of these transactions every month and it’s only today that I’ve paid attention. Woow. Just Woow.
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The planting of evidence is becoming commonplace. What is our country coming to?
As citizens and nationals of Uganda, our last frontier for sanity is now the Judiciary, provided it remains impartial and upholds the fairness of the law.
If the state entraps its citizens, and perhaps colludes with external parties to subdue Ugandans, we have reached a point where anything can happen.
This is a total regression!
The country’s lack of involvement in quelling the Somali conflict has apparently triggered an implosion within Uganda. Many nationals are worried for their safety against the same organs that are meant to protect them from external and internal insurgencies.
We call on officials across the different arms of government to stop these acts and focus on protecting Ugandans with a strong sense of respect and self-respect.
Guns were planted in Elwelu’s home – wife
Patricia Apolot, the wife of retired Lt Gen Peter Elwelu, has denied claims by security authorities that guns and ammunition were recovered from their home in Soroti during a security operation, alleging instead that soldiers planted the weapons.
“It was about 7:30 pm when a fleet of cars arrived at our home. When they came in, they were polite at first, but as the conversation went on, they didn’t get what they wanted. Because they asked to speak to Afande, I told them it had been over two weeks since he went for prayers and had not yet returned, and I had not heard from him, because normally, when he goes for prayers, he wants to be isolated. They said I was joking,” Apolot narrated.
She said the operatives questioned why her husband had remained silent, arguing that he was a government official and should therefore not be keeping quiet.
“I was like, since when has silence become a problem in this country? Someone being silent, does it mean he is doing something bad?” she said.
Apolot said the security personnel subsequently accused her of being coached by her husband and questioned some young men at the home about their relationship with him. She added that other soldiers searched the compound, looking for evidence that could implicate Elwelu.
observer.ug/news/guns-were-p…
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“Uganda cannot achieve sustainable prosperity through consumption, imports and taxation alone. We must build a strong, competitive private sector anchored in manufacturing, agriculture, value addition, affordable finance and exports. Entrepreneurs are not merely wealth creators; they are nation builders.”