Joe Bosley

COMRADE ALEX WAISWA'S LETTER FROM LUZIRA UPPER PRISON Deputy Spokesperson, Alex Waiswa Mufumbiro was denied the opportunity to take care of his wife while she was very sick. He now entreats the Chief Justice as the head of the judiciary to make it possible for him to pay his final respects to her and give her a decent send-off. Hopefully, they will listen!

The offense for which Waiswa is jailed is bailable. Somewhere in the universe sits a Judicial officer who denied a chance to Waiswa to nurse his sick wife without any sound legal principle. Sad!

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Kids 😂😂😂😂🙌🏻. You better watch to the end.

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DECEPTIVE PROPOSED AGE LIMIT ON USED MOTOR VEHICLES FY 2026/27 There is proposal in @Parliament_Ug to slash the age limit on imported used cars from 15 years to 13 years. And, as usual, they’re waving the “emissions” flag because they know it’s an easy sell to the public. But once you dig into the details, the whole thing starts to smell like something else entirely (REVENUE). Let’s stop pretending this is about the environment. Where the deception starts: ⏩Japan doesn’t impose age limits on cars for its own citizens. They don’t tell buyers, “By the way, this car expires in 13 years.” So why do we pretend that this is the global standard of managing emissions? ⏩Where is the evidence? When the age limit was cut to 15 years in 2018, did emissions drop? Did air quality improve? Did anyone even measure? Or are we just recycling the same unproven idea every few years? ⏩“Environmental Levy” is a convenient cash cow. Government collects it, but NEMA @nemaug, the agency responsible for the environment, doesn’t see a shilling (apart from the formal allocation per FY). ⏩If emissions were truly the concern, we would test vehicles before importation. The levy would depend on the result. The equipment is cheap, portable, and widely used elsewhere. But testing doesn’t generate the same easy target revenue as blanket levies. ⏩The levy should be tied to actual emission levels, publicly standardised UNBS @UNBSug . But transparency is the last thing anyone seems interested in. The myth of the “clean” brand-new car There’s this lazy assumption that brand-new cars are automatically clean, safe, and compliant. Except reality disagrees and I agree with reality: ⏩ Some “brand-new” imports from China, South Korea, Malaysia, etc., arrive with defects because Uganda doesn’t enforce standards on them. We do not have a standard for motor vehicles manufactured here or abroad. We go by what we get. China supplied Uganda road construction equipment and it did not even last two years. ⏩Government (the biggest buyer of new vehicles) imports cars with Euro 4 engines. ⏩Euro 4 was Europe’s standard in the year 2000. Europe is now on Euro 6. So while government lectures citizens about “old cars,” it’s buying vehicles with 26-year-old engine technology. ⏩ Industry experts point to the real culprit: **high sulphur fuel**. High sulphur = more sulphur dioxide = PM2.5 pollution + acid rain. But instead of fixing fuel quality, we blame the age of cars. ⏩ UNBS assumes new cars don’t need PiVOC. Yet I’ve been in “brand-new” cars in Brazil and South Africa that came with missing seatbelts. So what exactly are we trusting here? So what’s the logic? Because right now, it looks less like environmental policy and more like a revenue scheme dressed up as climate / emission concerns. If the goal were genuinely clean air, we’d fix fuel quality, enforce standards on all vehicles, and test emissions scientifically instead of punishing people for buying affordable cars.

Dubai Car Imports = Problems (Most times) If you're buying a Dubai import, don't get carried away by the shine. I did. Look at this 2021 Hilux in the pictures It looked perfect... until it became a nightmare. I learnt the hard way. @benmwine see my lessons

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This week, the U.S. voted against a call for reparations for descendants of the international slave trade between the 15th and 19th centuries. Let’s talk about it. (1/7)

Also, the @JudiciaryUG needs to live by what they preach. You cannot be fostering reconciliation and Alternative Dispute Resolution, vehemently selling it to the members of the public and yet there has failed to be an intentional and meaningful reconciliation of a cross-institutional dispute between the two most important organs that oversee the Rule of Law and Administration of Justice in the country. Why is Mr. Ssemakade still in exile over an issue that can be resolved through ADR that the Judiciary is very much advocating for? Why are the Law Society concerns to the Judiciary not being addressed either through the Courts or ADR? How can the public have confidence in the vehement calls for ADR if the two institutions at the centre of dispute resolution cannot resolve a cross-institutional dispute through ADR? Still, we should all be ashamed. We are Learned people, not politicians!

Anthony Elanga, £55m. 43 games, 3 goals, 1 assist. His only goals have came in ties they’ve lost 5-1 & 8-3. Yet to score a Premier League goal this season. The same one-trick winger everyone saw at United. Jacob Ramsey, £40m. — Newcastle finally got their dream #10 after years of moaning about it... who has delivered a spectacular 3 G/A in 35 appearances. 4 G/A if you count the wonderful pass to Raphinha to cement their biggest European defeat in history. Yoane Wissa, £55m. 21 games, 3 goals, 1 assist. 29-year-old panic buy with a contract ticking down at Brentford, so naturally Newcastle paid £55m when he was out of contract this summer.. Now stuck behind Will Osula in the pecking order & liking Sunderland players posts after doing the double on Newcastle. *Nick Woltemade - £75m. 44 games, 10 goals, 3 assists. The new "star striker" who arrived as the shiny Isak replacement... who now is being played as an #8 and hasn’t scored a league goal since December. Malick Thiaw, £35m. In fairness, more of a goal threat than Wissa & Elanga combined. Started well but part of the defence who has conceded the most goals of any side in Europe’s Top 5 league’s in 2026. Newcastle spent £250m on these five alone last summer, an absolutely pathetic transfer & they’re back playing the PSR deflection tactics on their own supporters to distract from the absolute failure of Eddie Howe & the Sportswashing project. You have had more than enough money, you just spent it horrendously. Victim mentality.

4 court losses. Same unlawful practice. URA’s customs valuation problem is systemic, not accidental. Arbitrary customs assessments are an invisible tax on Ugandan commerce. This impunity must stop! @URAuganda

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🚨 CORRUPTION!!! I do not do short posts to avoid being misunderstood. So ... long post. Sometimes I find myself torn between laughing and getting angry. Laughing — because some actions are so predictable. Angry — because we continue fooling the public with the same old tricks. The playbook has not changed since the year 2000 when I joined the service, alongside colleagues who now hold higher ranks. Some even joined more than a decade after me, they have been positioned to be of higher ranks than all the colleagues I joined with, simply because they accept the unwritten “rules” of blind loyalty and a redefined version of integrity. Now we have the case of Richard Kalema, allegedly “arrested” for posing as Ministry staff in Motor Vehicle Registration. Whether he acted alone or as part of a wider racket, one fact is unavoidable: such schemes require a contact point inside the Ministry. Otherwise, we are being told that he somehow had independent access to Ministry systems. If that is the case, who is the Ministry staff enabling him? Can that person also be arrested? And how many more exist? Before UGX 30 billion meant for road safety was diverted to Motor Vehicle Registration, I warned the architects of that decision. My caution was simple: MVR is a massive responsibility, and the Ministry lacked the institutional capacity to manage it as it grapples with Road Carnage. That warning was not guesswork — it was based on digging through the archives and understanding the historical logic. In Uganda’s history, the Ministry of Works and Transport had never directly managed motor vehicle registration. The risk of revenue loss was too high. Before URA, the function sat with the Ministry of Finance’s Customs Department, where a Chief Licensing Officer — designated by MoWT in consultation with Internal Affairs or Police — ensured a balance between revenue protection and regulatory oversight. What we are seeing today, including the Kalema incident, is the predictable outcome of weak institutional capacity. When the diverted funds arrived, sons, daughters, relatives, and friends of officials in MoWT and MoFPED were added to the project in an attempt to “boost capacity.” But institutions are not built by simply adding people. They are built through sustained experience, systems discipline, and collective memory — none of which can be fast‑tracked through patronage. I am also aware that the PSST, Ramathan Ggoobi, wrote to the PS of MoWT reminding him of the President’s directive: no parallel systems for motor vehicle registration, fleet management, or related functions should be acquired. Yet, as I noted publicly in January, there appears to be a system operated by MoWT that contradicts this directive. Kalema is a tiny tip of an iceberglike scandals within @MoWT_Uganda. It is the cumulative result of ignoring institutional history, weakening capacity, and prioritizing blind loyalty over competence. I hope the new IGG @IGGUganda picks interest in this matter. I will be a key witness, which might come with the risk of implicating myself. #CorruptionExposed

Time flies 😅

Clock ticking down. Scores level. Defenders to beat. Step forward, Will Osula 👏👏👏

Supermarkets should do regular wheel alignment on these trolleys. You push it towards Milk side, it takes you to beer section.

These things will soon be the biggest nuisance on Ugandan roads. They think like boda bodas, occupy the space of a car and move at the pace of a wheelbarrow.