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@bodanomics9341 This is a sobering reminder that without a real rethink - one that restores substance, integrity, and accountability to the centre of our politics—Uganda will keep paying a steep price for these “politricks.”

Once Again, It Is The Season Of ‘Politricks’ And Silliness Every five years, we are subjected to a charade called ‘elections’. It is charade in which incumbent and prospective leaders come to us the ‘muntu wawansi’ (common man) to ask for our vote(s) for each of the over a million elective posts in Uganda up for grabs. According to available records, in 1996, when Uganda had its first direct elections under the no-party system, there were just 900 elective positions. The exponential growth in the number of elective positions shall be a story for another day probably, but today the focus is on the absurdity that accompanies this process of choosing political leaders, all the way from the Presidency to the lowliest. It is still early days as some of the political parties are still conducting primaries to choose representatives for the national competition, but we have already witnessed so much absurdity, ‘politricks’ and silliness. And we can still expect more or worse before the dust finally settles. We have witnessed violence and murder within and without groups, bribery, rigging, forgeries of eligibility (read academic) documents and outright misrepresentation to the gullible electorate. The process of elections is now effectively gutter politics, in which principles have no place. How did we convince ourselves that this is the ‘best’ way to govern and lead a country? This type of elective ‘democracy’ does not seem to be helping us build a national consensus or resolve our national questions. An election in which intellect and development ideas (read ideology) play no role cannot be a constructive process. Rather, it is an attritional pantomime in which even so-called winners are losers in a sense. It reminds one of the saying that “if you roll in the mud with pigs, you will inevitably get dirty too”. One can only hazard guesses at how we got here. First, politics has now become more of an apparent pathway to riches rather than a service avenue. Consider that an MP’s emoluments average about Ugx. 60 million (about US $ 16,000) a month. That is about Ugx. 720 million (US $ 200,000) a year plus a one-off car grant of Ugx. 200 million (about US $ 55,000) every five-year cycle. It gets better if you can be elevated to one of Parliament’s administrative positions, such as Speaker and Deputy Speaker, Leader of Opposition, Chair of a Statutory Committee or Commissioner. That comes with more charges on the consolidated fund, plus body guards and convoys, not counting per diem. We have seen the opulence on display and can recall the Late Hon. Kato Lubwama’s (RIP) plea to also ‘let him eat’ (the voters heard his plea)! But this does not stop there. The gravy train runs all the way from the topmost office in the land to the lowest of the lowest administrative units that are a charge on the public purse. Second, is that because of a deeply entrenched patronage system, political office has become an avenue for protecting the largesse garnered from corruption. We have had arguments that it is okay to steal so long as the money is invested in the economy or shared with the electorate! That is why some of those on the gravy train (men and women who sounded rational yesterday) have been supporting or defending some of the most egregious positions of the executive. It is better to play safe than to become a victim of the ‘revolution’. Third, and perhaps most disappointing is the lacuna created by the demise of intellectualism in politics. The ghettoization of our politics has created an environment in which ideas do not count. Violence carries the day, a sense in which might is right. Those who are powerful and have the means of violence can do what they wish unchallenged, even when their actions are unjustifiable! There is absolutely no more contestation of ideas. In its place, we have a radical theory of justice, whereby fairness is defined as the interest of the stronger. In such a situation, most of those who would lead have taken cover, and those who cannot, have taken center stage or the moral high ground. This then will be our lot up to and deep into the middle of 2026. The consequences of such a polity are myriad. They include an excessive fiscal burden for purposes of policing, diversion of scarce resources to the political process and scant attention to the country’s economic and social agenda. I don’t really know how we got here, but I am sure that this current state of affairs is unsustainable and is certainly not delivering the most optimal outcomes for our country. Maybe we need to think again. If you can read and understand this, then must appreciate that the fallacy of one man one vote cannot produce the most desirable outcomes where you have a poor/uniformed and unsophisticated electorate. [Image Rights: Uganda Broadcasting Company]

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Years have passed....but they're still the same. What are their names in your language?

Here we go again! I am going to be speaking at the #AFIIA2025 conference. I will be speaking about governance and tone at the top. Governance is about #Ubuntu. I will also unequivocally state that 'the fish rots from the head'. 'Building bridges and inspiring change'.

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@RupareliaSudhi Please @RupareliaSudhi stop fooling people anymore. Money isn't an end in itself. If it was it was going to save your son but it miserably failed. The rich also cry. After all the whole world knows how you got that money so just shut up.

@JackieAkampwera One rule for motorists, nonexistent rules for bodas...

Yesterday I was stuck in Mulago for 2hours. Only to be given a ticket at Yusuf Rule for violating traffic lights. I sheepishly followed the cars in front of me thinking we were being guided by the traffic officers not the lights since everywhere I passed it wasn’t traffic lights controlling traffic but the officers.

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@bodanomics9341 "One can only take so much!". This applied like decades ago. It's the new normal.

Of Broken Windows and the Gangs of Kampala I keep on coming back to this topic of broken windows and Kampala. Not only because I live in here, but also, I also have skin in the game. It matters to me (and should to all of us) how Kampala is run. And if there is one thing we must all agree upon, it is that Kampala is so messed up, it has become a hell hole. Apart from becoming a hell hole, it is also slowly turning back to becoming a crime citadel on account of the contrastedly dire economic circumstances of some of its occupants. During the dry season, the city is dusty and hot. There is a shortage of shade and nearly all the green areas have disappeared. The only standing green area is the golf course. The only reason it is still there is because its users have voice and can defend their turf. Otherwise it would also, by now, have become part of the testimony of the idiocy of groups. In the rainy season, it gets worse. Blocked drains, muddy roads and even drowning for those who leave in the swampy areas commonly occupied by the poor. Indeed, Kampala’s lingo has evolved to include the sarcastic idiom that ‘water is life, if you don’t live in Bwaise’! The extreme lack of planning has led to a slumming crisis. Nearly every other ‘road’ leads to nowhere and is called a ‘close’. Kampala must be the capital of ‘closes’. The roads are also narrow and mostly unpaved. To all this add the cacophony of buzz from two wheeled vehicles popularly known as boda boda’s and the screaming sirens of the politicians and big shots who will break all the traffic rules willy-nilly. Because there is no observance of rules and civil behaviour, each of us is trying to best the others, either by driving on the pavement or forming a second queue. If you leave a space between yourself and the next car, somebody will quickly occupy it, taking you for the ‘fool’ you are. There are a zillion ungenteel ways to describe Kampala today, but in summary, it is a broken city, driven by the normalization of deviance and idiotic groupthink. In management science, groupthink occurs when one cannot go against the attitude/ideas of a group because they are so strong and to go against the apparent group consensus would result in negative reactions from the group. Because the city is broken, it has attracted a new wave of organized crime. Two weeks ago, a friend was attacked while walking by the American Ambassador’s residence in Kololo. She was beaten up and her phone snatched. She wasn’t taking it lying down and mobilized a hunt for the thugs. Her findings were more than shocking. The phone was traced to a shop downtown. The ‘technician who was trying to erase its memory was apprehended and he sung like a lark. The thugs operated in gangs and had accomplices in high places. They were already known to the police and were always in and out of prison for various sorts and degrees of crime. When they were apprehended, their friends in high places tried to convince the victim to take a new phone and forget the matter! But one can also look at the problem of Kampala from the view point of the poor. When they try to do eke out a living selling all manner of odd bits, they are picked up by KCCA, not because of the byelaws that are well known, but rather for political expediency - like trying to put lipstick on a pig. The vendors have no clear places in which to ply their trade as competing politicians make contradictory edicts about what can and shouldn’t happen in the town. Being arrested can mean a year or even more in prison without being tried! Just as I am writing this, several people were arrested today for walking on the few remaining patches of grass planted by the authorities. But there are hardly any reserved pedestrian walkways. Cars and boda bodas also use the pavements! One chap whose social media post went viral narrates how he found himself caught up in this vicious web of trying to eke out a living and being arrested every now and then. Eventually he turned to crime, and he seems to be doing ‘better’ in his new-found trade. This is the Kampala in which we all live. The rich, the poor, the honest and the sly. We seem to make up the rules as we go by. One day we are planting palms for visiting dignitaries, the next day we are cutting down the trees and rewriting the rules of engagement. It is a madhouse, a Babel of confusion and divine madness. One can only take so much! [Image: Daily Monitor]

@bodanomics9341 Heavy laden. Well put.

Minding Our Yesterday or Our Future? If you follow the Freakonomics Radio Podcast by Stephen J. Dubner you have probably come across one session where he engages his children on the issue of whether they would care for him in his old age. The ensuing discussion and references to many other parent child dyads leads to the idealistic conclusion that the true role of every generation is to bring forth and nurture the next generation in the interest of human perpetuity. For the uninitiated, the thesis behind Freakonomics is to try and explain how incentives, information asymmetry, and other economic theories impact culture in ways beyond economics, including why people cheat and why names are important. Unfortunately, as the authors do point out, statistical data does not always explain how people behave. Which brings me closer home. A friend of mine was scrolling through the news yesterday morning when she came across an article stating that the Ik MP was not happy because the boy whose education he sponsored was standing for his elective post next year! She wondered why the MP was not happy that he had created a legacy through this young man. It just didn’t make sense to my friend! What was wrong with this man? My friend felt that probably, she was too idealistic and had lost it because, according to her, even God in all His might, honoured people who worked towards being like Him. He reveled in them actually, to the point that he had told Satan to do whatever he wanted to do to Job as long as Job remained alive (sic)! In contrast, this Honourable was complaining about someone who looked up to him as a role model to the point that the latter wanted his exact life! That the MP should have been encouraging everyone who voted for him to vote for the young man to replace him. The MP’s job (no pun intended) would have been to mentor the young man, be his political advisor whether or not the young man appointed him to such a position, and make sure the young man carried on the MP’s plans! That was the right way to create a legacy! As in the Freakonomics Podcast, after ten years of being in Parliament, any forward-looking person would be thinking outside the box and be open to new ideas. That such an ‘Honourable’ person would be working to groom the next generation. The belief that the old could not learn from the young was slowly but steadily becoming obsolete. I am sorry but in my beaten view, my friend was being too idealistic. In the real world, as behavioural economics has shown us time and time again, we human beings are boundedly rational. This means we have limited cognitive abilities/resources and are influenced by psychological factors and biases when making decisions. Therefore, as human beings, we cannot always process all available information or make perfectly logical choices. In most cases, we will make decisions on the basis of self-interest which is a function of our biases, emotions, and heuristics (mental shortcuts). A few examples will drive this point home. We are all (loftily) concerned about environmental degradation and climate change. At the same time, we are also concerned about economic growth and personal benefit which, in the long term runs counter intuitive to sustainable resource management. Thus, when our lofty ideals of preventing environmental degradation come into contact with our immediate gratification of exploiting delicate ecosystems, the latter trumps the former. That is the true nature of human beings. Short term goals will always vanquish long term goals. It is therefore difficult, I told my friend, to blame the MP for disowning the ‘monster’ he had created. There were examples galore to learn from. One can also use institutional behavior to understand why long-term objectives fail while short term goals win. For example, Parliaments themselves have a short life span (five years) and will seek to maximize their benefits in that lifespan. That is why the first order of business at the beginning of any Parliament is emoluments and vehicles! CEO’s of companies whose compensation depends on profitability will, likewise, forgo (discretionary) expenditure for maintenance of assets in order to report higher profits and therefore earn bigger bonuses. Barring egalitarianism, we are all driven by short term wins (yesterday or today) rather than the greater good (future). I just hope my friend will forgive me for my cynicism. It is the nature of the beast. [Image Rights: Love Uganda Foundation]