In 2023, Ministry of health bought and supplied a pharmaceutical fridge to Gulu regional referral hospital.
But, the fridge has never been Used.
Reason: It doesn't fit inside the medical laboratory
I used to work for a company where commercial sales were lagging dramatically. The product was good but somewhat complicated. Targets were missed. I talked about the situation to a friend that can literally sell anything and who has built massive sales team:
"Your product is too cheap. Increase your price"
It was the first time someone told us to go up, not down...
"How much commission do you give to your sales team?"
I can't recall probably UGX 5 to 10k per unit ($2-3). It was a $50-$100 product depending of the models...
"Increase your price if you have to and give them 50k or 100k ($15 to $30). Chop their fixed salary, cut their facilitation and bump up the comission."
I was quiet
"You see for commission based sales to work, people need to genuinely feel like "they can easily get rich" from selling your product"
Imagine your guy in Jinja selling your product. That's probably how he's thinking:
"So you mean if I go out there and sell 2 products per day, I get 100k. If I sell 2 per day from Monday to Saturday for a month, I can get UGX 2.6m (700$). Then they start dreaming ("wow if I sell 4 or 10 or 40 I am loaded"), that's what you want. What dreams does he have if his commission can't beat the salary of the askari down the road?"
Too often I see companies give sales staff a fixed salary and a per diem (which they eat) and low commission as if the bosses don't want them to be "too rich". Why should they even work hard at this point? Eat the per diem and chill...
"Structure your sales incentives so your sales team feel they can easily get rich from this"
Bingo
18 ambulances 🚑 worth Ugx 5,062,009,076 were supposed to go to Moroto referral hospital from @MinofHealthUG
The hospital received only 3 ambulances
Meaning, someone at MOH ate 15 ambulances meant for people from the 9 districts of Karamoja sub-region which the hospital serves.
Bank Of Uganda executives are given 20year loans at 0–3% interest rates, same people then advise you to borrow from commercial banks at interest rates b'tn 17%-30% to invest/start businesses and after, compete with them in the market!
Remember to slap a motivational speaker
Equal Opportunities Commission spends Ugx 2,500,000,000 annually to rent office space at Kingdom Kampala (about Ugx 200,000,000 per month).
Reason; the commission can't find Ugx 1,000,000,000 to renovate it's gov't-owned premises in Bugolobi.
Uganda zaabu...😭😭
Guys going for Rwenzori Marathon that are interested in carpooling, @safarishareapp has something for you.
Offer rides or reserve a slot here;
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Payments is such a network. We can tell when a payments company in our vicinity is under a fraud attack. Our systems can sense fraud based on volumes. We always inform the concerned companies.
The concubine of a Ugandan government official
“The other day, this man asked me if he could have my 75-year-old mother in the village added on the government payroll in his ministry! Mbu instead of asking me for money, she simply walks to a nearby ATM or bank building!” she said shaking her head in disbelief, then cheekily added, “… I must have been so sweet that night. But can you imagine the offer!”
“...every time you see people going without medicines in hospitals or you see those ramshackle schools on TV, just know there is a sweet girl somewhere driving medicine on Kampala’s streets,” she joked and then guffawed.
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1. Who manages the building after handover?
2. Who appoints and oversees the manager?
3. How are service charges calculated?
4. How is the reserve fund protected and audited?
5. Does the master insurance include political violence, terrorism, natural disasters, and public liability?
6. What rights do owners have if costs escalate or management underperforms?
Katumba is a decaying grandeur. Like Liverpool Football Club, it thrives on nostalgia (we used to be good in the 90s), not the vigor of the moment. Sometimes, you’ve got to know when to call time on your public service. Hanging on too long merely exposes your weakness, rather than illuminate your strength.
LETTER: It is time to stop using Uganda Police pick-ups as ambulances.
We are failing citizens not just at the point of impact, but during the critical minutes that follow https://t.co/Sb8780ukoE #MonitorUpdates
Calling route charts a road‑safety initiative is one of the most illogical claims I have encountered in my professional experience. Their only purpose is to simulate a timetabled bus service. That’s it. They have nothing and I mean nothing to do with road safety.
Most buses in Uganda have dysfunctional speedometers. So how exactly is a driver supposed to know their speed? By consulting a route chart? This is not road‑safety management; it is administrative fiction dressed in suits, ties and police uniform.
And as I have said repeatedly:
An expired driving permit does not compromise road safety. A driver does not suddenly forget how to drive because the permit expired. It is illegal to drive without one, yes but that illegality exists primarily for revenue enforcement, not crash prevention.
What we are seeing is the implementation of irrelevant interventions because certain individuals at @MoWT_Uganda want to continue siphoning road‑safety funds, and Uganda Traffic Police @PoliceUg are simply being complicit.
Then comes the claim that route charts “manage fatigue.”
How?
On many routes, return journeys are allowed** for distances up to 300 km. A driver who goes to that destination and drives back is already approaching 500–600 km on their way back, of continuous duty. That is textbook fatigue. And when they finally reach Kampala, they enter traffic congestion, arrive late, sleep late, and must wake up early for the next shift. Where exactly is the fatigue management? On paper only to chase the "golden" paper.
You do not discourage speeding using route charts.
You discourage speeding using reliable, calibrated, mobile speed cameras. That's what was used during Fika Salama and that's why it worked. NOT ROUTE CHARTS.
Uganda is the only country that keeps inventing interventions that no other country implements, and then pretends those responsible pretend to be “working” because people are wearing suits and police uniforms.
I saw someone on X claiming that all buses were to be inspected, I wonder how many passed or failed. Most of these buses do not even have no standard seat belts, appropriate glass windows, and like I have said functional speedometers. These are basic visible failure of the tests without tackling some complex pneumatic braking systems and I know the motor vehicle inspection being provided is substandard.
PLEASE STOP TREATING UGANDAN LIVES WITH SUCH CALLOUS DISREGARD.
Always interesting seeing Wanaichi/omuntu wawansi and how deeply they are invested in Uganda's current affairs.
Watch this Mzee breaking down how the Judiciary is actually aiding the ongoing illegal arrests& detentions in the country.
One of the worst things about this dictatorship is it’s a wasted dictatorship. You can’t mention anything the absolute power has done for the advancement of the country. To top it off, they have emasculated the citizens to absolute docility that we now leave in fear of opposing injustices. We speak in hushed tones. We are now entering a phase in geopolitics that will lead to the next wave of violent extraction of resources by foreign powers and they won’t find a better gift than the already mentally defeated natives and citizens. That’s the true legacy of the wastemen.
Does @UNBSug check the fog and headlights being imported into the country? These things are blinding even from a kilometer away. @M_Kananura and his traffic police should interest themselves in this matter
Friends, this is how Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) built a fake treason case against @kizzabesigye1, @EriasLukwago_ & other Ugandans. With phone calls, gossip and money.
A foreigner (@artfulgypzy) rings Uganda’s military intelligence and calls himself “Orlando.” And the spy chiefs don’t ask, “Is there a plot?” They say: keep him talking. Keep him going.
And who is this man? An American. A former British soldier. A mercenary for hire — once caught teaching police how to torture. Not a patriot. A contractor. And Uganda’s own intelligence is paying him.
So what does the paid man do? Everything. He books the flights. He hands over the dollars. He arranges the fake training. He hides the camera, and he records.
Every meeting they now call treason — he set it up, he funded it, he filmed it.
The plot they are prosecuting is the plot they paid for!
And the officers who will testify? Not one was in the room. Otto took a phone call. Kandiho gave the order to keep the American talking. Birungi inherited a file. And the handler, Atwine — he never even spoke to Orlando! He got it from a middleman, Moses Baraza, who called Orlando his friend after they met online.
So, look at the ladder. Besigye — never there. Orlando — the paid foreigner who was. Moses — repeating Orlando. Atwine — repeating Moses. The generals — reciting the file. Not one honest eyewitness among them. It is gossip in military uniform.
And their story cannot even stand. They swear Besigye was in Geneva on the 24th of January. But on the 23rd he was live on Sanyuka TV in Kasangati! And on the 25th he stood in a Kampala courtroom! Unless the man can fly across the world and back in a night — their story is a lie.
The one man who was truly there — the paid foreigner who wrote the script and played the lead — walks free. And Ugandans face trial for their lives, on his word alone.
They commissioned the story. They paid an American to perform it. They passed it up a ladder of middlemen until it wore a general’s stars. And in that witness box, the most they can say is: “somebody told me.”
That is not justice. That is theatre — and they want a nation to sit quietly and clap.
I am in Kagadi and geez, this small town has better road network than your capital city. Well-labeled lanes and all.
I am told the prominent individuals in the area are @RobinahNabbanja and @MatiaK5
How come no one talks about Award Kazimba, the Ugandan Muay Thai and MMA star known as "The African Venom"?
He is currently one of Uganda's highest-ranked fighters on the global stage.