Tag Archives: Okello Lucima

By Okello Lucima No matter where the boundary markers fall, the population still have the rights to live on their land What is happening to the Acholi community in Apaa, Amuru District, is nothing but blatant, brutal ethnic cleansing, orchestrated by the state. Unless and until the border between Adjumani …

By Okello Lucima Access, equality, and equity must underline post-secondary education funding The government intention to kick-start students’ loan schemes has drawn both applause and skepticisms. This promise has for a long time been on the NRM policy shelf and basket of empty pledges, the government had to do something …

By Okello Lucima Critics miss the remarkableness of the US directive on Uganda’s 2011 election that Otunnu wrenched from Congress Yoga Adhola’s ‘Otunnu is an empty suit’, (The Independent, Oct.5), made many wild claims. His central thesis and assertions that Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) party President Olara Otunnu’s Harvard and …

By Aloysious Kasoma Opposition party Uganda People’s Congress has described the late John Odit as a patriot who served his country whole heartedly. Okello Lucima the party spokesperson said that Odit was a man who dedicated himself to serve his country and the people and was highly respected by his …

By Okello Lucima I have been wondering what in military parlance and war tradition, it would mean for a private to single-handedly slay a general on the battlefield. Would one be promoted from private to, say, Captain; Major; Lieutenant Colonel or Brigadier? Surely, those who understand military customs and practices …