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By theresa nannozi 2011/12 budget disappoints Ugandans who wanted tax cuts, salary increase The 2011/12 budget came as a disappointment for the majority of Ugandans who had expected and hoped for tax cuts on fuel, especially petrol and diesel. While the removal of taxes on kerosene (Shs 200 per litre) …

By The Independent Team Uganda Peoples Congress party leader, Dr Olara Otunnu, speaks to The Independent about the Walk-to-Work protests and the opposition’s next move. You have been an advocate of peaceful struggle. What is the overall strategic objective of these demonstrations? When we started these public protests we did …

By Andrew M. Mwenda While it is political choices that have fostered poor service delivery, it is reconfiguration of the civil service that will make service delivery possible Finally, President Yoweri Museveni has ended the anxiety that was eating up the ruling classes – politicians, business persons, civil servants, prelates, …

  By msgr. lawrence kanyike Leaders who pursue their self-interest cannot be martyrs even when persecuted The most valuable gift we all have is life and the entirety of our existence is centered on the preservation of this gift and without it existence is impossible. It is a general belief …

By Haggai Matsiko Martyrs Day, June 3, this year comes about one month after opposition leader, Rtd Col. Dr Kizza Besigye was on April 28 subjected to one of the most brutal arrests by ruthless security forces. The closeness of the events has got some people comparing Besigye’s ordeal to …

By eriasa mukiibi sserunjogi Forget service delivery, it’s all about politics President Yoweri Museveni’s strategy in naming his new cabinet appears to have been based on an old management principle; the law of the vital few. Under this principle, only 20 percent of those involved really matter for 80 percent …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati Passing Kings Bill was biggest blunder A new parliament has been ushered in at a time when the August House has become largely a rubber stamp of the executive. The Independent’s Mubatsi Asinja Habati spoke to retired Supreme Court Judge and a renowned constitutional scholar, Justice …

By Achola Rosario   Will the Ugandan Judiciary remain independent if the proposed constitutional amendment that denies bail to treason suspects, economic saboteurs, terrorists and defilers is passed into law? “First of all you must remove presumption of innocence, before you remove the right to bail. So they will have …

By Charles Onyango-Obbo It takes Museveni more men to stop Besigye from walking, than it took US President Obama to kill terror mastermind Osama bin Laden. After the recent violence-riddled weeks in Uganda as the government cracked down on the opposition-led “walk-to-wolk” protests, and crowned it by an unnerving savage …

By Arthur Larok Today it’s more profitable to ride a boda-boda or run a small restaurant in town than engage in agricultural productivity in fertile rural Uganda. Very early on May 10 morning as I travelled from Kampala to my home district of Gulu for a meeting with the Institute …