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I can't begin to tell how this is such an astounding achievement for all of mankind!

@amronaldo @moses_yk @MoWT_Uganda @Educ_SportsUg But you @MoWT_Uganda issue the licenses, no? I sincerely hope your criteria measures up. That said, as principal safety officer, have you thought about how safe unmarked roads are? If not, try driving to mbarara at night! Fix the simple things first, stuff in your docket

@kakyamadr @moses_yk @MoWT_Uganda @Educ_SportsUg So we want unskilled people to transport passengers on Boda-Bodas or is that boda boda riding doesn’t need any skills?

When Liverpool drew 2–2 with West Ham on April 27, 2024, Mo Salah warned, “There is going to be fire today if I speak.” Not long after, Klopp resigned, Slot arrived, and Liverpool went on to win the Premier League with Salah breaking records and setting new ones. His point was simple: sometimes the truth is so explosive that silence is the only safe option. So let me borrow his words. We are losing thousands of people every year to Boda-Boda crashes. Thousands. Families shattered, hospitals overwhelmed, a national crisis hiding in plain sight. And yet—somehow—we are still encouraging this chaos. We are still normalizing it. We are still calling it “employment.” It hasn’t escaped my attention that even the President has framed Boda-Bodas as job opportunities. As if a nation should accept mass casualties as a labour policy. As if survival on the road is a matter of luck, not governance. If I speak, there will be fire. But I will speak any way. Personally, I have come to believe that some leaders are receiving very poor advice. In this particular matter, a technocrat involved the Minister to indirectly endorse Boda Boda (electric or petrol) despite the fact that he knows the effect of Boda crashes and this should never have happened. My intention has never been to cast the Ministry or the government in a negative light; however, some of these decisions are so baffling that they leave many of us genuinely dumbfounded.

@amronaldo @Muliyamoi Really? Till the land? As opposed to ride today and start earning today? Till the land??? The level of disconnect here is laughable. The rarefied circles in which you move are clearly far removed from our every day hustles. Bino bireke, respectfully

@Muliyamoi Do you believe the money they use to buy the bodaz can’t be used for another form of venture to earn an income?. Some sell land to buy Boda Boda and some die a few months after and the families are left in abject poverty. Why not till the land?

@amronaldo @moses_yk @MoWT_Uganda You raise fair points. However, we are talking about generally unskilled people here. They won't be easily absorbed in the various projects if they lack the requisite skills. Perhaps you should invite ministry of education @Educ_SportsUg to weigh in

Where, exactly, did I ever say that the entire Boda Boda industry should be banned? My point has always been that there are more sustainable and dignified ways of creating employment. What government should focus on is addressing the structural issues that undermine local participation in the economy. For example: • Stop the practice where Chinese contractors bring in entire workforces from abroad for government‑funded projects, instead of employing Ugandans and building local capacity. • Stop allowing foreign—particularly Indian—business interests to dominate and suffocate Ugandans in retail trade, including shops and supermarkets, where local entrepreneurs should be protected and empowered. The issue is not banning industries; it is ensuring fairness, opportunity, and meaningful participation for Ugandans in their own economy.

@amronaldo 1) how many people get their livelihood from bodas? 2) how much is the average monthly income? 3) are their alternative occupations that can absorb all these people at the same/similar income? The question is; how can it be made safer?

@TheLaurenChen This is as simple a view as I've come across in a while, and I don't mean to offend. Read about the CFA, read about the conflict in DRC, etc. then you will know that colonialism never ended. Better still, visit. @TheMutaD help me out here.

People often say that the developing world is poor because the Western world colonized them and stole their resources. The truth, however, is that over the past century, the developing world has, for the most part, shown that they are completely incapable of harnessing their own resources. They are not poor because we stole from them. They are poor because they do not know how to run and administer their own countries, resources be damned. Take Venezuela. The world's largest oil reserves mean nothing if you have a corrupt communist as your leader. People will actually be starving and trying to eat zoo animals while you sit on trillions of dollars in resources! Africa is another example. Europeans left behind farmland, trains, roads, and mines in Africa. What happened to it all? It's not that all of a sudden, the Africans started running things like anti-colonialist activists had envisioned at the time. No, no. All the infrastructure fell into disrepair and/or was stripped down and looted. They were literally handed fully functioning, completed supply chains for resource extraction, and basically unlimited wealth, but they couldn't manage the simple upkeep. Now, the defense for Africa might be that "The Europeans didn't teach the Africans how to manage any of this! It's not the Africans' fault they couldn't run it independently! They were never trained!" But my brother in Christ, the Europeans DID try to train locals for management! Obviously it would have been easier to have at least some locals in administration, rather than having to import an ENTIRE workforce, but efforts to find African talent were largely unsuccessful. Don't believe me? Just look at the different outcomes in Hong Kong and Singapore when compared to Africa. In East Asia, Europeans often did work with locals in administrative and management capacities. When colonialism ended, Hong Kong and Singapore were able to manage themselves. Not the case with Africa. Now, none of this is to say that colonialism is good. People have the right to self-rule and seld-determination. However, the idea that colonialism and resources extraction are responsible for the developing world's ongoing poverty? That is quite simply a crock of shit.

@wekesa_amos Looks great. But the choice of chairs......they give the whole place hospital vibes and are our of sync with the colonial architecture. He should hire a good interior decorator.

Mount Elgon hotel Told you my friend Rashid Kiyimba of Brovad sands( ssese islands) bought Mount Elgon hotel and he is renovating it. Looks great so far.

🏥Ladies and gentlemen we have another first @MulagoReferral 🔥 Dr Ssekitooleko Badru @taata_imran led the radical laparoscopic prostatectomy! 🔥 For context this procedure is hundreds of times more technically harder than kidney transplant! 👏 👏 👏 @MinofHealthUG @Ug_kidneyf

I'll say it in less diplomatic language than you: Bobi Wine is a foreign-backed dumbass with a completely empty head and zero political potency beyond the ability to noisily and rhetorically posture as Museveni's "opposition." If I were Ugandan and I had to choose between the ruling foreign-backed client strongman and a younger, foreign-backed puppet opposition challenger, I'd choose the former because at least Museveni is old and doesn't have long left, so his last few years will give Ugandans a window to develop the actual political awareness (not their sloganeering soundbite stuff) needed to find a genuine alternative. If Bobi Wine mistakenly gets into power, he will be Museveni in 1986 - a young, foreign-backed upstart with little understanding of his place in the world, who leverages his foreign backing to hold on to power without having any real ideas or plans for what he wants to do with power - because his entire plan was to seize it from The Other Guy. Step 1: Defeat the Dictator Step 2: ?? Step 3: Uganda transforms into Shenzhen Like Museveni, due to his painfully obvious lack of animating ideology or philosophy, he will make a few semi-decent noises for a couple of years, and then his intellectual bankruptcy will take over his entire government, which will devolve into petty squabbling, use of state power to settle private scores, witch hunting of political enemies, and conversion of the state into a reward program for loyalists and praise-singers And every step of the way, he will throw parades and congratulate and praise himself everyday for the amazing feat of having triumphed over His Predecessor The Terrible Dictator, even as Uganda continues to be an extractive, $1,000 per capita GDP colonial economy that doesn't create wealth for Ugandans or improve their lives in any meaningful way - exactly like Museveni. If Ugandans are ready to oust the status quo, they shouldn't waste it on a younger carbon copy of the status quo. It would be such a tragedy to go out and risk death by Museveni in an electoral or popular revolution only to end up bringing in a millennial Museveni. They should identify a real alternative first. Someone who has a real ideology (not amorphous nonsense like "fighting corruption/ending repression"); someone who doesn't have the long arms of NED/KAS/FCDO controlling him; and someone who understands industrialisation, infrastructure and education as the only national priorities for an African post-colonial state (not "press freedom" and "gay rights"). But if understanding and identifying such leadership is too hard for Ugandans, and it's much easier to queue up behind a moron who became popular for being a singer, hoping that he will somehow lead the wholesale economic and political decolonisation that Uganda needs to stop being poor, then my commiserations. Your future looks like Nigeria.

We extend our heartfelt gratitude to Property Services Ltd for their generous donation of 10 new wheelchairs to the Orthopaedic Society of Uganda. Your continued support helps us restore mobility and transform lives. #OSU #Gratitude #RestoringMobility

@TotalEnergies the station at the mpigi junction has horrendous lavatories! Their standards fall way short of the bare minimum. And I'm trying my best to be polite

He shall be dearly missed @NadaAndersen

🔥 Arthur has done it! Congratulations 🎉

The Orthopaedic Society is Honored to announce Dr. Rose Byanyima, ED of Mulago NRH, as Guest Speaker for the 5th Dr. Rodney Belcher Memorial Lecture! 31st Oct 2025 Protea Hotel, Entebbe #OSUConference2025 #OrthopaedicsUganda

⏰ 8 days to go! 🚨 Don't miss the 17th Annual OSU Scientific Conference! Join us for 2 days of orthopaedic excellence, learning & networking. Register now & be part of the action! #OSUConference #OrthoExcellence

The uniform isn’t just fabric. It’s a daily oath to protect strangers as family. Uganda sleeps because her sons and daughters choose duty over comfort.We see you. We honor you. Their duty starts where our comfort begins.Every salute hides stories of missed birthdays, sleepless nights, and unspoken courage. To every officer in uniform, thank you for standing guard when the rest of us simply stand by. 🇺🇬 We thank you. 🙏🏾🇺🇬 @MODVA_UPDF @PoliceUg @UgandaPrisons

Huge thanks to our amazing team, sponsors, and partners for making #OSU10thAnnualSurgicalCamp a great success at Masaka Regional Referral Hospital! Your support has brought hope and healing to many. We're grateful for your collaboration!

We wrapped up our impactful surgical camp in Masaka Regional Referral Hospital. Grateful for our team, the patients and the opportunity to serve #orthopaedicsurgicalcamp #impactful

Day 4 Highlights! 🌟 Reflecting on yesterday's incredible moments at the Orthopaedic Surgical Camp. From complex surgeries to heartfelt moments, every second mattered. #OrthopaedicSurgicalCamp #OSU #MasakaRRH

@OrthoSocietyUg @PennyKagina @SsekabanjaTimot @Kumiorthopod @JonathanSsebug2 @DrLubegaRobert @MugaruraRodney @nyombi_kenneth @MinofHealthUG @DerickKayondo And it's a wrap! Now on to @corsuhospital walk. Thank you very much the people of Masaka Hospital @MinofHealthUG fo having us. It was great working with you!