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Khiyan King

@lexitcounty

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Kampala, Uganda Katılım Mart 2022
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Village Guluva
Village Guluva@VillageGuluva·
Your strict dad at work with his colleagues. 😫😫🤭🤭😅😅
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ISHMAEL.
ISHMAEL.@Ishmaelthehost·
First day as a Muganda lntern at URA and you realize all the Computers are set in Runyankore.😂
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Ronald Amanyire
Ronald Amanyire@amronaldo·
I read the article attached and realised how desperate we have become as a country that we extol any slight hint of anti-corruptions incidents. We have misdiagnosed the problem. These are my views. Hope I did not leave anything out. THE 12 FORMS OF CORRUPTION IN UGANDA 1. Procurement Capture (The Mother Corruption) This is the epicenter of Uganda’s corruption. - Inflated quantities - Ghost variations - Fake “emergency procurements” - Collusion between ministries, contractors, and consultants - Pre‑arranged bidding - Kickbacks disguised as “mobilisation fees” This is where billions disappear, not millions. 2. Policy Manipulation & Regulatory Capture Corruption that rewrites rules to benefit private actors. - Policies drafted to favour specific companies - Regulations weakened to allow unsafe or substandard work - Licensing frameworks designed to create monopolies - Standards lowered to accommodate politically connected suppliers This is corruption hidden inside law and policy. 3. Budgetary Corruption (Appropriation Distortion) Where corruption begins before money is even released. - Inflated budget lines - Misclassified expenditures - “Development projects” created solely to siphon funds - Supplementary budgets engineered for extraction This is corruption at the Parliament–Ministry interface. 4. Contractual Corruption (Contract Engineering) The corruption that happens after a contract is awarded. - Contract amendments - Time extensions - Cost escalations - Scope changes - Claims engineered to drain the Treasury This is the corruption that that can be defined by the Busega–Mpigi Road scandal. 5. Administrative Corruption (Appointments & Promotions) Corruption embedded in who gets power. - Selling positions - Appointing loyalists instead of competent officers - Promotions based on patronage - Deployment of officers to “lucrative stations” This is corruption that manufactures future corruption. 6. Asset Corruption (Land, Equipment, Vehicles) The corruption that hides in state assets. - Inflated land acquisition - Ghost equipment purchases - Overpriced vehicles - Leasing public land to private actors at giveaway rates This is corruption that transfers public wealth into private hands. 7. Operational Corruption (Day‑to‑Day Theft) The corruption people see most often, but it is the least financially damaging. - Bribes for services - Kickbacks for signatures - “Facilitation” for approvals - Small‑scale extortion This is the Mukene, not the sharks. 8. Payroll & Ghost Worker Corruption The corruption that bleeds ministries quietly. - Ghost workers - Ghost teachers - Ghost health workers - Inflated payrolls - Double salaries This is corruption that never makes headlines but drains billions cumulatively. 9. Local Government Corruption The corruption politicians love to “fight” because it is safe. - Missing funds - Poor accountability - Inflated district projects - Weak supervision But this is not where the country is being looted. This is Mukene fishing. 10. Political Patronage Corruption Corruption used to maintain power. - Rewarding loyalists with contracts - Allocating jobs to political supporters - Using public funds for political mobilisation - Shielding politically connected actors from prosecution This is corruption that protects corruption. 11. Social & Cultural Corruption (Normalised Corruption) Corruption that has become socially acceptable. - “Appreciation” culture - Expectation of facilitation - Viewing public office as a wealth‑accumulation opportunity - Fear of reporting corruption This is corruption that lives in the national psyche. 12. Institutional Corruption (Systemic Failure) The corruption that exists even when no one is stealing money. - Weak enforcement - Selective justice - Non‑functional oversight bodies - Investigations without consequences - Agencies designed to fail This is corruption that makes all other corruption possible.
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Simon Kaggwa Njala
Simon Kaggwa Njala@SimonKaggwaNjal·
MPs are outraged after getting only shs300m car package. They’re demanding for an extra shs15m.
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James
James@MrJamesKe·
Your children learn more from how you treat your spouse than from any advice you give them.
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Dear God
Dear God@TheRich_Gospel·
5 SHORT PRAYERS TO SAY BEFORE BEDTIME: 1. God, thank You for today. 2. Please watch over my family. 3. Forgive me for messing up. 4. Help me sleep in peace. 5. Stay with me, Jesus... please.
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Red Pepper Uganda
Red Pepper Uganda@RedPepperUG·
BUSEGA EXPRESSWAY PROBE! Kagina Records Statement... MP Kuteesa, Chinese Contractors & Top Engineers in IGG Crosshairs as Hunt for Shs2tn Road Scandal Masterminds Intensifies Details here 👇 share.google/CCOQ3WPpZDPegc…
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ESAU
ESAU@Esau_Matsiko·
Does Kololo SS have a Twitter account? I honestly want to hear from them why they gave their boys white trousers.
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Kakwenza Rukirabashaija
Kakwenza Rukirabashaija@KakwenzaRukira·
Dear Mr. Odrek Rwabwogo, I have listened to your recent interviews with genuine monkey-amusement. This is now the second time you have emerged from the presidential kraal to explain that Uganda is in trouble. Thank you for the update. Everything you have said has already been said. Dr. Kizza Besigye was saying it when some people in your household still believed Museveni would retire voluntarily. We repeated it. Journalists repeated it. Academics repeated it. I repeated it in books. The reward was prison, torture, exile and criminal charges. You repeat the same things and people organise television interviews as though Moses has just descended from Mount Sinai carrying fresh tablets. I remember meeting you shortly after I came out of prison in January 2022. You asked to see me. With my consent, you inspected the wounds from mutilation on my back, buttocks, thighs and right arm. You even told me that you had been sent by your boss, who, through one of Uganda's more successful procurement exercises, also became your father-in-law--Museveni. Recently Timothy Kalyegira revealed that you visited him in prison too. That made me wonder whether you have appointed yourself Inspector General of Political Prisoners. Every time your brother-in-law's government manufactures another inmate, there you are, conducting prison tourism like lice or bedbugs. Your recent concern for Uganda is curious. It seems to bloom whenever there is family frost around the fireplace. One begins to suspect that you are not opposing impunity. You are scavenging on it. There is a quarrel at home, then suddenly Uganda acquires another patriot. You are a Presidential Advisor. Your father-in-law runs the country. Your brother-in-law behaves as though he inherited it from Queen Victoria. Why are you addressing us? We are the wrong audience.Take your complaints to family dinner. If dinner fails, take them to your wife, Bishop Patience Rwabwogo. She once told the world that she saw Jesus with her naked owl eyes. Excellent. We have a direct line to heaven sitting in your own sitting room. Why waste time with Youtube and Twitter? Draft a memorandum. Hand it to the Bishop. Let her forward it to Jesus. If He agrees that Uganda is collapsing, perhaps He can whisper it into your father-in-law's ear during the next prayer breakfast. If that also fails, ask Him to schedule a meeting with your brother-in-law. I understand miracles are still performed. The rest of us exhausted earthly channels years ago. We wrote books. We filed cases. We organised rallies. We gave interviews. We petitioned Parliament. We spoke to diplomats. We reported torture. The state responded with handcuffs, basements and exile. You had something we never had. You possessed unlimited access to the source of the problem. Imagine living next to a burning house for twenty years, refusing to tell the owner that it is on fire, then running to the trading centre to announce that there is smoke. That is your political awakening. Forgive us if we do not clap. Ugandans are not interested in hearing recycled opposition speeches from a man who still has a family seat at the high table. We know the script. We wrote parts of it. We bled for it. Some died for it. You are arriving after the credits have started rolling. Kindly carry your sermons back to the Kaguta family. Sincerely, Rukirabachwezi
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The safe and unsafe pregnancy actions you should know
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Kenneth Shaaka 沙克
Kenneth Shaaka 沙克@shaaka777·
The math is brutal, even without Al, LNG export growth (+20) perfectly matches maximum production growth (+20). Al demand is purely additive & pushes the system into deficit.
Patrick OShaughnessy@patrick_oshag

"The fuel everyone thinks is abundant is not." Matthew's letter shows storage capacity grew 7% since 2010 while demand grew 54%, with another 39% coming by 2030. He forecasts an unprecedented gas shortage starting in 2028, and explains why the market won't see it coming: "Natural gas is well supplied today, '26 and '27, and the result is that nobody is investing in gas. EQT is shutting in natural gas right now because they think it'll be more valuable later. The things that we can see real time to figure out if the market is onto this tightness — no one's onto it. It's perpetuating this view that most Americans have, which is there's plenty of natural gas, because for 15 years it's all we've been told. There's a complacency that's developed, and we think that complacency is gonna take us right up to the point where it's too late. Gas has lulled everybody to sleep. In '28, the curve is flat because people believe the gas is abundant. That's despite all these AI compute announcements. We start to draw meaningfully in the middle of '28 on the gas system like we've never drawn before. By 2029, we drop below all known historical storage evidence. Prices have gone to $6 or $8 or $10, but those have been transitory. What we're talking about are structural drivers of demand against a known possible production of gas, and they don't match up. The deficit gets really convex and unbounded."

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Khiyan King@lexitcounty·
@Kk_Hamis @Esau_Matsiko However much I cleaned by seat, the cream trouser still got dirty. Had to do 1 term and move to a school with a more dull iniform. 😆
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Kayongo Khamis
Kayongo Khamis@Kk_Hamis·
@Esau_Matsiko We used to put on cream trousers at Kisubi high school but man 😂😂😂🙌🙌🙌🙌
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Ogutu Daudi
Ogutu Daudi@iamogutudaudi·
Muyingo charges 3M per child in fees but wants to tell you that you can run a school on 20000 per year per child. 😂😂😂😂
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Andrew Kyamagero
Andrew Kyamagero@kyamageroandrew·
I once called someone I genuinely believed was a man of honour. "Call me tomorrow," he said. Tomorrow became unanswered calls. Then ignored messages. That was enough. Since then, I've stopped judging people by titles, status, or appearance. Some of the most dependable people in my life have been those society stereotypes ba Rastas, men with tattoos, ordinary workers, the so-called underdogs. 🤏They answered. 🤏They showed up. 🤏They kept their word. Honour isn't how important you look. It's whether people can trust what comes out of your mouth. If you can't keep your word, your reputation is just branding.
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Nada Andersen
Nada Andersen@NadaAndersen·
Can the 7 surviving historicals: Gen. Yoweri Museveni, Gen. Salim Saleh (Caleb Akandwanaho), Lt. Gen. Ivan Koreta, Maj. Gen. Kahinda Otafiire, Brig. Julius Chihandae, Col. Fred Mwesigye, and President Paul Kagame, please meet for a scorecard review of the past 40 years. It would be nice to hear from them if this is the Uganda they envisaged in 1986. #JustSaying
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Solomon Kampala
Solomon Kampala@kampala_solomon·
Uganda is full of brilliant young people. I met many of them when I was studying at Saint Mary’s College Kisubi (SMACK). At SMACK we were taught to be God fearing, to have integrity, to be responsible, to accept diversity, and to have the determination and courage to take on the challenges of life. But to make it in Uganda today, you need one of three things: the right family, the favor of government officials, or a plane ticket out. In a New Uganda, my old boys at SMACK will not have to choose between their talent and their integrity. There will be room for both. I know this and they know it too. Duc In Altum.
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Gentle🧩Dion•
Gentle🧩Dion•@diongentle_·
She come do sleepover. Boys just dey eat anything 😂
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