Denis Asaba

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[Denis Asaba @DenisKwanza]

@mkiboneka Kano kanzise!! It took me a minute to remember!! 😂

[Denis Asaba @DenisKwanza]

@SilverKayondo 😹😹 naye Silver

[Karamagi Andrew @karamagi_andrew]

Gives me no pleasure to say this to an elder, but you are telling outright, barefaced lies.

1.That UPDF tribunal was created to enforce discipline within the ranks of the military; just like a school disciplinary committee for students. It’s not a court. It’s a tribunal (exclusively for active duty soldiers).

2.Our Penal Code Act and other relevant legislation provide for a range of crimes, including illegal possession, the threat of, or actual use of weapons by civilians (e.g., aggravated robbery, murder etc). You therefore cannot amend the criminal justice system by writing a letter full of your personal, unfounded opinions and wishes.

https://t.co/X5M9G64Laf appeals can lie from the military court to civilian courts. There’s no direct channel for appeal. Why? Because the courts martial are not part of the hierarchy of the Courts of Judicature in Uganda.

4.A military tribunal has no jurisdiction over criminal or civil matters; this is expressly conferred upon the High Court by the Constitution, which has original unlimited jurisdiction in all matters. Your letter has the unfortunate implication of disregarding the High Court’s jurisdiction.

https://t.co/bBjsRbU42a cannot subject what is settled by law to a referendum; it is as disingenuous as the other acts of constitucide you’ve committed against the Constitution and the people of Uganda over the years.

[DBwambale @TheMutaD]

*MESSAGE ON UCDA BY DR. EZRA SURUMA*

_Let me hope our President and MPs can read this with understanding and in good faith_

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Good evening Hon. Ahabwe. I agree with you that there are indeed many things we do not understand. My understanding of “Rationalization “ of government agencies is to cut costs.

Yet when we proposed Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) in 1990 we provided a revenue source for it so that it would not need money from the government.

We recommended what we called a “cess”, that is a small service charge of 1 per cent on coffee exports to cater for UCDA’s administrative expenditures. This recommendation was approved by the government so UCDA never needed money from the government.

I think the problem may have come when the cess was increased to 2%. When the cess increased, the UCDA started getting more money which attracted government attention.

This came at a time when coffee production was increasing so much that the cess revenue became big! The ministry of finance decided to take all the cess and UCDA became another agency needing money from government!

This may be the fatal mistake that UCDA made. Instead of lowering the cess now that coffee exports were increasing, they raised it and collected huge amounts of money.

Now government has taken over those revenues and decided to make UCDA another department in the Ministry of agriculture.

This reminds me of privatization.
In 1987, the foreign supporters of privatization recommended that we either dissolve or sell all government banks. They said our banks were unprofitable and insolvent (bankrupt).

I fought to restore Uganda Commercial Bank to profitability until we turned it around and returned it to profitability as it had always been since 1965 when it was created. When we succeeded in making it profitable the neocolonialists said it would now get a better price.

So You can see that I had not understood that the reasons they were giving for dissolving and privatizing our banks were deliberately misleading.

THEY WERE NOT TELLING US THE TRUTH OF THEIR INTENTIONS.

In the case of UCDA clearly the problem is not cost because with the huge growth in coffee exports a cess of even 0.25% of exports would cover its requirements for supervision of the quality of our coffee exports; promoting coffee research and promoting increased production.

In all the countries we visited (Costa Rica, Columbia, Madagascar) to learn about the best coffee export practices, they all had an autonomous coffee export institution.

For anyone who has engaged in coffee export in Uganda or knows anything about coffee exports, it is frightening to imagine exporters looking everywhere for absentee bureaucrats often scattered anywhere in a “department” in the ministry of agriculture.

Ask people who tried to get photo sanitary certificates from the ministry of agriculture recently and how they fared.
Ideally one wishes this matter could be put on a referendum so that the population can decide.

The most efficient services come from specialized institutions whose knowledge and expertise takes many decades to learn and achieve.

I can’t Imagine for example, making Mulago hospital a department in the ministry of health or Makerere a department in the ministry of education!

The low quality of service delivery in many government departments deserve improvement not additional work.

Throwing away institutions like paper towels is so very difficult to understand. As you say, it is truly a conundrum.
Oh Uganda, may God uphold thee
We lay our future in thy hand.

*Dr. Ezra Suruma*

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[Ofwono Opondo P'Odel @OfwonoOpondo]

My brother, that could be a legitimate strategy at a specific stage or during a phase of a struggle possibly to avoid its leadership being infiltrated or compromised. Therefore, you shouldn't be as surprised as you seem to be 😎

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

TOM CRUISE explains how they shot the real HALO jump scene in MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT.

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

@DailyMonitor @pwatchug Are we allowed to apologise to the world for the dull-headedness of our fellow country men and women? Forgive us. Forgive 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🙇🏾‍♂️🙇🏾‍♂️🙇🏾‍♂️

[Evelyn Namara @enamara]

This thread 🧵 right here!

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Become a master observer of others.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

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I want a ticket to anywhere
Maybe we make a deal
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Any place is better
Starting from zero, got nothing to lose
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—Tracy Chapman 2024

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”

[Dr Busingye Kabumba @bkabumba]

My column in this week’s @observerug

I articulate what I refer to as ‘the right to bad governance’ (the important right of a free people to thoroughly mismanage themselves), and identify some caveats and limitations to this otherwise broad right.

https://t.co/85HZVmW8WX

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

Incredible interview footage from 1968, SIDNEY POITIER rips into journalists after only being asked questions surrounding race.

[Stephen S. Musoke - Homo sapiens aedifex Xennial @ssmusoke]

EOD

[Dr Busingye Kabumba @bkabumba]

My column in this week’s @observerug

I consider the ‘Balaalo’ issue - as but only the most recent manifestation of the problematic premise of the Uganda project.

https://t.co/0ohXc5opDd

[Agather Atuhaire @AAgather]

“…the President does not have the right to reject a resignation by a judge…There are no ifs, buts, or howevers attached to that provision… or at worst the extreme tragedy of the President deliberately undermining the provisions to which he has sworn to abide.” @OlokaOnyango

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