Guma.Ghash
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Guma.Ghash
@ggumaig
Digipreneur & Nationalist.

BREAKING🚨: Public reacts as Balimwezo rejects ‘old fashioned’ Lord Mayor’s chair’. The ornate wooden chair, featuring deep burgundy tufted leather and intricate carvings was previously used by former Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago for 15 years, as well as several predecessors. Barely two days after being sworn in as the Kampala Lord Mayor, Eng. Ronald Nsubuga Balimwezo is already facing backlash for declining to use the ceremonial Lord Mayor’s chair that has been in service for nearly 50 years. The decision, announced shortly after his swearing-in on May 20, 2026, prompted criticism from citizens and commentators, who accused him of superstition, disrespect for tradition, and unnecessary extravagance. Balimwezo cited the chair’s age as his reason for rejection. The ornate wooden chair, featuring deep burgundy tufted leather and intricate carvings including the inscription “VIS UNITA FORTIOR,” was previously used by former Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago for 15 years, as well as several predecessors. The Lord Mayor reportedly requested that the Kampala Capital City Authority procure a new chair for him.





















Habibi, if I were in charge of govt, I’d disband the vanity fair called @KiiraMotors, get in touch with the company producing these simple tractors from China, and redirect the funds from Kiira EV, and all funds from PDM into mass-producing these. Then sell them to Ugandan farmers at a very affordable price - cheaper than a boda - to make them available, & affordable to as many farmers as possible. For an agricultural nation already earning billions of dollars from coffee exports, these things, in hands of hundreds of tens or hundreds of thousands of our farmers would see our exports skyrocket within a decade. If done well, Ugandans would make a lot of money in exports, and many more people would see reason to get into Agriculture - where we have a competitive advantage in the region. A whole department at @Makerere’s CEDAT would be dedicated to studying them. Every malfunction would be studied for months to improve them, and we’d invest in making their production ever cheaper. We’d even study different agricultural products and how to make them best adapted to their production. Rice, Matooke, cotton, sugar cane etc. We’d also improve them based on terrain, one model would be great for the hills of Kapchorwa, another for the dry areas of Karamoja, another for the cold hills of Kabale. With time, we’d be exporting these to Kenya, Tanzania, DRC etc and earning extra billions in Forex in addition to agricultural exports. In twenty or so years, we’d have the money, expertise, and technical knowledge to make bigger tractors, even the kind adapted for making our roads, and building serious projects in Uganda. Who knows, maybe we can then get to a point of making electric buses from Scratch in 50 years when we can ably compete with Isuzu, Scania, and others. After all, every single car company started very small - something Kiira EV wants us to believe it will not do, then compete even when almost all Auditor General reports show it is nothing but a thorn on the side of taxpayers. A big, white elephant.






Muganga Urges Museveni to Adopt ‘One Laptop Per Child’ Policy to Drive $500bn GDP Vision #NilePostNews nilepost.co.ug/education/3295…














