Pius Ogena

@BunkzND Naye lwaki 😂😂😂

They left spinning the ball for Ugandan and South Sundanese teams 💀

@OGWALTK @Kwezi_Tabaro 😂😂😂

@Kwezi_Tabaro I know were to find him 😂😂😂😂😂 Falcoa once picked me from my room to go and rob a coffin from Kubiri so we can use it to demonstrate cause a student had been reported dead during a strike. this guy was something else we were arrested and guys in the cell feared us

On Falcao, Makerere's Teargas "Inventor" Nearly a decade ago now, NTV news ran a story about a Makerere University student Samuel Mugarura who had "invented" a new brand of teargas. According to the news story Samuel was a student at the department of Chemistry--a claim the department denied in the same broadcast. Police too were involved, warning this budding innovator about the risks of this "innovation". I had left Makerere a year earlier, but knew the student from his activism at Lumumba Hall and his Biotechnology program building which abutted our own Zoology department. Around campus he went by the moniker "Falcao"--after the famous Colombian footballer Radamel Falcao, who had joined Manchester United a few seasons earlier. To many of us Falcao was perhaps more widely known for mischief, a penchant for rowdiness, and was certainly not a Victor Frankenstein. So why did NTV news insist he was a Chemistry student? Days, or perhaps weeks, passed before the young scientist Falcao appeared in the news. The then IGP Kale Kayihura had read about his exploits and summoned him--and from that followed a call from State House. Things took a turn. Now Makerere University Chemistry professors were claiming Falcao as one of their own. Out of the window were their earlier statements of caution to the media that the fellow was a struggling student who would benefit from spending more time focused on his studies than doing pyrotechnics on TV! Suddenly, this unlikely Victor Frankenstein was holding meetings with the heads of URSB, NEC-UPDF, among other government entities. In 2017, he received UGX 400M to help him standardize his teargas product. "He says that the money was channeled to his account through the council for science and technology," reported the online publication Matooke Republic. The last I read he was appearing before a parliamentary committee on Science and Innovation in 2021 to seek 18 million dollars (about 66 billion shillings) funding to establish a tear gas "factory" in Uganda. To date, I am not aware of any teargas manufacturing plant, or what became of Falcao. *** This story is illustrative of how, untethered from scrutiny, "science" and "innovation" can become a vehicle for arbitrary (and most times wasteful) allocation of public resources. In his recent diatribe against Andrew Mwenda, the President seems to suggest that public investments in such schemes dressed as "innovation" or "value addition" should be guided by something closer to faith than evidence. The President invokes the spirit of John 20:29--that those who believe without seeing proof are truly blessed. Such thinking, applied to public funding of innovations, is a path to disaster. Science and Technology is more valuable to society not when it is protected from well-meaning public scrutiny, but when it is open to accountability. In its current state, the funding of innovations appears uncoordinated, arbitrary and raises serious questions about the judgment of those who decide what ideas should or should not be funded. Is there a peer-review process--or its equivalent--that informs such decisions? It should be okay to ask such questions. Photo: Falcao in an NTV news screen grab, September 2016.

@PSsemango I'm injured

@piusogena Did you retire from rugby

Best ov luck Champs, do your thing👊🏾👊🏾

@SamaEmme @UgandaRugby 🤣🤣🤣

Let's see if @UgandaRugby will post this like it does for Pirates players.

@ArindaWright @simon_makumbi Point

Any body who led to the breaking of the Hippos team... you're an. ....... to the sport. #ADMIN

Lazima😂

@ArindaWright So sad, May his soul rest in eternal peace🙏🏾🙏🏾

@piusogena Yes bro

Whaat😳

I spoke to Obi on Monday, we spoke about the 2013 bufalloes team and how we need to catch up as former players, we agreed to watch the Bufalloes Vs Kobs game together and boom without a warning you have left us. at what point is government held accountable for the bad roads 🥹🥹

Is it possible to beat someone into relegation? This Hippos team needs to be punished for giving us false hope.

The paver attacks in Kampala have to stop. Men in our communities, let’s step up organize 25+ strong men and work with your LC1 for registered night patrols. Report, deter, protect together. There’s safety in numbers, and strength in doing it right. 1/2

CONGRA CONGRA 🥳🍾👊🏾

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Great to see @UgandaRugby opening these positions for Athlete Representation to align with the NSA. This is progress! Players have been pushing for this. Let's ensure the meeting leads to real power for the Athletes’ Commission, elected by players and focused on welfare! 🙏🏾🤗

Happy birthday captain che👊🏾

@BunkzND I knw😂😂😂

@piusogena Dey play 😂😂😂🔥

Off a Scrum or lineout: - 9 to 10 - 10 to 12 - 10 doing an early switch with 12 - 12 back to 10 - Then 10 to 13 who's running straight the whole time. - 13 scores. Pirates could shock you my guy. Let's be sharp tomorrow 🙏🕯️

@IanMunyani 🤣🤣🤣

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I bumped into A female Boda Boda Rider in Kampala Working at Night 🇺🇬 😇. Ladies out there would you do this if you were in her shoe??