Xavier Ejoyi

@MarkSsali @Comrade_Otoa @JKabuleta @mnamanya @USPAmedia @DailyMonitor @933kfm Fare the well Allan. You represented a rare breed of Uganda's sports journalists, analysts with a commitment to excellence.

Dear friends, our beloved Allan Ssekamatte has passed on at Kiruddu Hospital. So long my brother, may God take charge.

The number of students and staff from that 🦒 university that I meet and that send me messages thanking me for finally bringing their issues to light are so many and it reflects how many are suffering quietly under the suffocation of an institution that thinks it can use its powers of political connection and money to get away with injustices towards its clients. 📌I will be using this image to raise more issues about the GIRAFFE as they come.

No human deserves this kind of humiliation just because of a Chinese piece of metal, whoever is responsible for the protocol cars, kindly tell your hooligans that no human life is worth that scrap metal just because they scratched it. @Parliament_Ug @StateHouseUg

The worst thing I ever did was buy my multi-million-pound house in Britain. For years, I followed the advice not to buy my own home because it’s a liability. Instead, I used to buy income-producing properties and use that income to rent my own place to live in. But then I reached a point where I had millions in the bank. I thought I’d reached a point where that advice was great for people starting out - but for me, it was time to buy. I had four kids, and I wanted stability, so I bought a house. And honestly, it turned out to be one of the worst decisions I’ve ever made. The biggest reason is how quickly I outgrow it. Since then, my life and business have rapidly expanded. At the time, I thought the £3M house I bought was a proper forever home. But within a year and a half, everything changed. I had another child, my income grew, my standards shifted, and suddenly that “forever home” started to feel small. When you consider stamp duty, and the cost of tying up so much capital in one location. Let me know - would you ever sink £3M into a property if you had the cash? Or would you rent forever?

Congratulations to the Morocco legal team - truly the greatest strikers in African football history. Who needs a world-class frontline when you have a committee that can score three goals from a mahogany desk two months after the final whistle?

A Number We Should Not Read Lightly Yesterday, I came across a headline that has stayed with me: “Panic as 4,800 NGOs collapse.” I did not read it lightly. This sector has been my home. I entered it as a first-year law student, volunteering at @FIDA_Uganda. It was there that my legal training found purpose. Over the years, the people in this space have become more than colleagues, they have become community, mentors, friends… family. And so when the sector bleeds, I feel it. At a CSO symposium in 2025, it was shared that Uganda had approximately 7,000 registered non-profit organizations. If the numbers reported are accurate, and over 4,000 have shut down, then we are not simply witnessing a statistic. We are witnessing a significant contraction of civic life. And I wonder if we are pausing long enough to take this in. Do we see what sits behind that number? Do we see: •The services that are interrupted or lost altogether? •The communities that must now navigate without support? •The jobs and livelihoods quietly disappearing? •The ideas and efforts that will never fully take shape? Every organization that closes does not disappear in isolation. It takes people, purpose, and possibility with it. Non-profits are often spoken about only in terms of funding. But they are also part of the economy. They employ. They procure. They train. They respond where others cannot. Their absence will be felt, whether immediately, or slowly, over time. I say this with full awareness that the sector is not perfect. There are organizations that must do better. There are questions of accountability and compliance that cannot be ignored. But even with these realities, a contraction of this scale should give all of us pause. For those of us who care about governance, development, and the future of our societies, this moment invites reflection: •What kind of civic space are we building, or constraining? •What balance do we strike between regulation and enablement? •What happens when citizen-led organizing begins to shrink? Before we rush to solutions, we must first sit with the reality: This is not just about organizations. It is about people. It is about possibility. It is about the kind of society we are becoming. #CivicSpace #NonprofitSector

With among others, Ssempala, @WinnieKiiza, @GeorgeMusisi4, Paul Waswa, @KakuruTumusiime, Drabo Lillian @MichaelAboneka outside the Constitutional Court on 8/5/2025 challenging the null void Computer Misuse Act that Parliament passed without following the relevant Constitutional provisions. Thanks to everyone who made this battle for freedom worth fighting in this arena.

@newvisionwire @ccgea1 Timely debate. AI is a game changer in many professions. Significant adjustments will be required to remain relevant in trade.

Law firms once relied on typing pools — and technology wiped them out, says Advocate Robert Kirunda. Speaking at the Judicial Service Conversations, Kirunda argues that AI will now automate parts of legal thinking, shifting a lawyer’s value to deep thinking and empathy — the human element. If AI can research, draft, and analyse, what will make a lawyer stand out? Judgment? Strategy? Ethics? The ability to truly understand a client? Is AI a threat to the legal profession — or a reset that will produce better lawyers? Share your thoughts? 👇 #VisionUpdates #AIandLaw #FutureOfWork

@USEmbassyUganda Birth tourism🙆‍♂️😳 Konka Ugandans!

We will deny your visa if we believe your primary purpose of travel is to give birth in the United States to get U.S. citizenship for your child. This is not permitted.

@Pamankunda @PoliceUg Why are you apologizing for the @PoliceUg whose role is to keep law & order, ensuring safety of life and property. Being a victim of the same crime in the same place, I am disappointed that you'd convenient blame society!

Right infront of former Electoral Commission on Jinja Road, in the mini-jam, the side mirror was taken-split second. This is not a @PoliceUg problem. It's us. Society. From the boda-rider that was waiting, to the shop owner at kiseka market stocking up on stolen items.

Son of Zambia's ex-President Lungu ordered to surrender 79 cars, petrol station and 'luxury' flats bbc.in/4tu9NjU

WATCH: Lugbara Prime Minister Mr. Ismail Tuku has called on the government to find @NUP_Ug 's Dr. @zedriga, dead or alive, to ease fears and anxiety over her disappearance. #NTVNews #UGElections2026 📹 Clement Aluma

Message to the Chairperson and Members of the Uganda Electoral Commission @UgandaEC Justice Byabakama, On 17th January 2026, you orally declared the final results of the 2026 Uganda Presidential Elections. Article 61(d) of the Constitution of Uganda requires the Electoral Commission to ascertain, publish and declare in writing under its seal the results of the elections. Announcements made through public media do not satisfy this Constitutional requirement. This requirement must be read together with Article 1 of the Constitution, which vests sovereignty in the people of Uganda and mandates that all authority be exercised in their name and for their benefit. I have checked the official Electoral Commission website ec.or.ug and the uppc.go.ug/uganda-gazette which publishes the Uganda Gazette and have not found any publication of the 2026 Presidential Election results. As the body entrusted with the responsibility and which conducted these elections, the Electoral Commission is required to provide the people of Uganda with clear answers to the following questions: 1. How did the Electoral Commission ensure there was no ballot stuffing and multiple voting in light of the nationwide failure of the biometric machines? 2. What steps has the Electoral Commission taken to address videos online showing its officials, members of security forces, and other civillians ticking multiple ballots and/or stuffing multiple ballots at different polling stations or at other venues? 3. How did the Electoral Commission ascertain the results of the Presidential Elections within 48 hours in the absence of duly signed and transmitted Declaration of Results (DR) Forms from each polling station? 4. How were the Presidential Election results transmitted to the National Tallying Centre during the nationwide internet shutdown, and what verifiable audit trail exists to demonstrate the integrity, chain of custody, and authenticity of those results? 5. Has the Electoral Commission published the 2026 Uganda Presidential Election results for each polling station? 6. If so, where has the Electoral Commission published these results and when was that publication made? 7. If the publication of these results has not been made, why has the Electoral Commission not complied with this clear mandatory Constitutional requirement, 10 days after your announcement? Such a publication would also enable Ugandan citizens who wish to access these results, to do so. 8. What steps is the Electoral Commission taking to recover the 69 million United States Dollars of taxpayers’ money expended on non-functioning biometric machines, including any civil recovery actions against suppliers and Electoral Commission officials involved in the procurement, approval and testing of this equipment prior to their dispatch to the respective polling stations? I am asking these questions as a citizen of Uganda and taking into account that the Electoral Commission bears a positive and continuing duty under our Constitution to conduct elections that are not only free and fair but which are also transparent and verifiable through the results declared. Where access to information has been restricted as was the case with the nationwide internet shutdown, the obligation to provide verifiable quantitative and qualitative data rests squarely with the Electoral Commission as the declaring authority. Transparency in such circumstances is not discretionary. It is a constitutional obligation. The burden to prove compliance with its constitutional obligations rests with the Electoral Commission and not with the candidates who contested in the elections, the Ugandans who voted, those who opted not to vote, or those who were rendered unable to vote. Elections belong to the people, not to those who administer them. FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY Justice Dr. Esther Kitimbo Kisaakye. Former Justice of the Supreme Court of Uganda. January 27, 2026 cc: The People Of Uganda

Some time back I asked this question about the ‘lost wallet’ as a test on honesty in our society (though it would be hard to tell the honesty of the opinions). This week, it happened to me while in Belgium, and I thought it would be good to share this with our people here. I lost my wallet while getting out of a taxi. It had my IDs, visa card, driving permit, and 600 euro (about 2.5m). I suspected it either dropped in the taxi or on the street where I was dropped. Reaching out to the taxi driver later, she said she couldn’t find it in the car. I knew it was gone, but I was encouraged to report to police, and my hosts also reported to the ‘Lost and Found’ police office. All the Belgians I told seemed sure that I would find the documents, and ‘probably’ the money - that it would be very unusual for one not to report such to police, even if they (a few) took the money. Long story short, two days later, police texted my hosts informing them that they had found my wallet. Someone had picked and reported it there. I got it back, with all the money - including more 40 euro that I hadn’t reported because I wasn’t sure of it. Police didn’t ask for anything from me either. How can we build such a culture in Uganda?

You haven’t experienced enough of the dark side of capitalism until you deal with publishers. From journals that get free articles from authors plus free reviewing labour, only to sell the products for years (with the author also having to pay for access); to publishers that won’t give authors even a mere half of the profit from selling their intellectual labour (if they give them anything at all). That’s how some authors end up choosing to forget about their own books. Many writers, especially the academic, are primarily driven by the passion to write, and are often happy enough having their work out there. It is this innocent drive that the capitalistic publication industry abuses and exploits. And today that many academics are on pressure to publish, more predators have positioned themselves in the industry to take advantage and get free products to sell - with a little editorial input and branding. The advertisement of the articles or books will also often be freely done by the author, since they wish for their work to be visible. Little wonder that many writers without another source of income will often die poor and indebted, even authors of ‘best sellers’. It is also no surprise that, with all its downsides, many authors are resorting to self-publishing and vending their own books at events. If you are writing a book to make money, think twice. If you asked me, for instance, the money I’ve made from my five books published through presses in the last 10 years, it cannot even buy two local cows 😀! The only satisfaction is in seeing people reading them and hearing that they are selling. Nevertheless, I would still urge Ugandans to write more and more. So much around here passes like wind, with no record left for future reference.

VIDEO: Parliament is ordinarily run by not more than 50 MPs, the rest are just watching and enjoying the debates. - Hon Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda #NBSLiveAt9 #NBSUpdates #UgVotes2026