By eriasa mukiibi sserunjogi Besigye unleashes powerful strategy, Museveni reacts On April 7, over 200 leaders of opposition parties gathered at Fairway Hotel in Kampala to launch a boycott of public transport in protest against escalating prices of fuel, food, and other commodities. According to Uganda Bureau of Statistics figures, …
Read More »How banks can support business growth
By Andrew M. Mwenda A great business can close in infancy, not because it is loss making but because it cannot get credit to overcome its initial cash flow constraints. Here is the performance of Uganda’s banks in 2010: Out of the 22 registered banks, 14 made profits, two broke …
Read More »Banks rolling in profits
By teresa nannozi & mubatsi asinja habati Crane Bank tops the pack Commercial banks are making profits that would make any CEO envious. Crane Bank’s 2010 annual statement, published recently, announced phenomenal growth in profits, deposits, lending, assets, paid-up capital and loan repayments among others. According to Crane Bank’s audited …
Read More »The challenge Africa’s reformers face
By Andrew M. Mwenda An African leader who fights corruption will face resistance from powerful vested interests using democracy to subvert his reforms Next month, Rwanda commemorates 17 years since the genocide. Most of its citizens look back at what they have achieved with both pride and humility. The society …
Read More »silent injustice
By bob kasango Judge Katutsi’s ruling on Jamwa sends mixed signals In a world that prefers applause to justice, there is loud applause whenever justice is sacrificed on the altar of public appeasement. The rite takes place on the streets. Every time a “criminal” falls victim of the law, society …
Read More »Madonna, Bono, Clooney cannot save Africa, only Africans can
We need to take responsibility for ourselves, to empower our people. External assistance is okay. But we need to begin with our own solutions. And so it was that on my flight from Amsterdam to Dubai I stumbled upon a documentary on poverty in Malawi by singer Madonna. Like most …
Read More »Museveni, Kabaka on collision path again?
By eriasa mukiibi sserunjogi The President has vowed to eat anybody opposing him like a samosa or cake As the dust over the Feb. 18 general elections settles, Buganda kingdom officials, politicians, and pundits are mulling over how President Yoweri Museveni’s side and that of Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi will …
Read More »The problem and solution for Libya
By Andrew .M. Mwenda Foreign intervention should not seek to win the war for Libyans. It should give them the tools to do so themselves. As street protests across the Arab world are forcing governments in that region to reform their authoritarian ways, the ones in Libya have degenerated into …
Read More »Kampala’s Lord Mayor Lukwago
By eriasa mukiibi sserunjogi He comes to a downgraded office with a common man’s agenda. Will it work? I have not beaten only Sematimba, I have won against President Museveni and the entire state machinery.” That was the declaration of a triumphant Erias Lukwago, moments after Kampala District Returning Officer, …
Read More »FDC needs to change or it will die
By Andrew M. Mwenda Thus like many millenarian cults, many people supporting Besigye believed in their own self-righteousness and assumed everyone shared their outrage Last week, opposition leader Kizza Besigye, claimed to have won the February presidential election. He claimed that by the time his own party’s tally centre was …
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