Gyez Collins

Software Analyst and Designer 📝💻 ||Concerned Patriotic Ugandan👌 || Can't rest till its what I want ⏰|| Hero of My own story 💪

[Buregyeya Apollo, PhD @ApolloBuregyeya]

The Nile Bridge doesn't wake up every morning and decide to remain standing. It is persuaded, every day, by engineering.

Most people admire the towers, the cables and the skyline. Few notice the small weather station, the GPS receiver, the dummy cable or the load cells quietly working behind the scenes. Yet these are among the most important components on the bridge.

As the sun heats the steel, the stay cables expand. As the evening cools them, they contract. The bridge moves exactly as it was designed to move. The engineering challenge is not preventing that movement, but ensuring it remains within the limits predicted during design.

The dummy cable experiences the same thermal conditions as the actual stay cables. Its response is communicated to the bridge's automated monitoring and tension-control system, which uses information from the load cells to compensate for temperature-induced changes and maintain the intended structural behaviour of the cable system. While many of us are still complaining about the weather, the bridge is already adapting to it.

Perhaps our biggest misunderstanding about infrastructure is that once a bridge is commissioned, it somehow graduates into self-employment. It doesn't. A bridge has no retirement plan. It requires inspections, intelligent monitoring systems, specialised maintenance vehicles, trained engineers and dedicated facilities that keep all those systems operating reliably.

I am currently supervising the construction of the maintenance garage that will house the specialised vehicles responsible for maintaining this remarkable national asset. It is one of the many quiet investments that make it possible for a bridge like this to continue serving the country safely for decades.

We often celebrate the day a bridge is opened, but engineers quietly celebrate every ordinary day that it continues to perform exactly as intended. That is the difference between building infrastructure and stewarding infrastructure. Concrete and steel obey the laws of physics every day of the year; they do not pause because a project has been commissioned.

Perhaps that is also one of the differences between developing countries and developed ones. The former often admire iconic projects. The latter build equally robust systems for maintaining them. In the end, infrastructure is not measured by the brilliance of its inauguration, but by the discipline with which it is preserved for the generations that follow.

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@MichaelJaQson @nahxJewel @FrankGashumba and the VC should read this

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@JustineNameere @NinyeTabz Hon. Minister, the "shaving point" seems to have struck a nerve. But as the line minister, kindly focus on addressing the growing concern of job sales at District Service Commissions. Charity begins at home, the fight against corruption should start at the district level.

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@elonmusk Sir ,how far with the licence in Uganda? Kits are not on the market yet @KagutaMuseveni @UCC_Official

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@FERDINANDIUS @Symonagaba @Arsenal @HisenseUg @HisenseGlobal @TCL_USA these are small things

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@AnitahAmong @ObothOboth @Thomas_Tayebwa Former Rt Hon Speaker ,I second you for the ministry of ICT and national guidance .....you love being on social media . Same as your friend ,Mamito

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@SimonKaggwaNjal @KKariisa @jjkariisa Let me first check my dictionary for the meaning of consignment ... especially on the quantification of items

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@Sudhirntv @BarbaraNyamwiza @ntvuganda We no longer have time for TV . Kindly share the link

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@faith_nabushawo A quick one before you dose off, our Musawo…
Are you still with the ISO guy?
And how was the lawyer’s “se*ual strength”? 😄
Because clearly he’s still leading — imagine having to rush back early morning after kukyaara just to beg for some more. 🤣

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@kisyangafc @nshera_fc will be served with lunch

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@odongo_daniel @DaudiKabanda In short A Dr, Dr

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@mkainerugaba So far 10 . May I be the 11th general? I can be the kigezi representative. Ready to share my CV🙈

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@DuncanAbigaba As we await your appointment to deputise @kasujja at the media centre @UgandaMediaCent

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@NinyeTabz @PoliceUg The documentary!!!... hahahaha. I don't think the Ug Police are after him. #HeadlumpDamage

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@KKariisa @DMugumisa That's how an appointment is secured through the right smartphone in the right hands. Dear Bruce , kindly use the remaining 6 days to prove to the CEO ,that you are worth what you think you are !

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@DMugumisa get me Bruce on 7th Jan. 2026.

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@ElonMuskNews47 A.Yes

[Starlink @Starlink]

Starlink enables unprecedented in-flight connectivity 🛰️✈️

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@Rainmaker1973 Calm

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@CharlesTwiine The late Kirumira talked about it and you kept quiet !!! Now that they are after you ?