Jasper .T. Jacob😎

|| Ugandan 🇺🇬 | Civil Engineer 🏗️ |Exploring sustainable cities, culture & creativity 🌍 | Growth. Grit. Global vision.

[National Building Review Board @NBRBug]

𝐈𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐁𝐔𝐈𝐋𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐐𝐔𝐀𝐊𝐄?

Join Dr. Morris Oleng, a Specialist Engineer in Catastrophe Risk Modelling, & @rkabushenga in our weekly X-Spaces, 08:00 PM as they unpack whether our buildings are ready to withstand it.

[Allan Tumuhimbise @allanktumu]

My first car was a Subaru Legacy B Sport.

Same engineers, same pool that bought us the MacBooks. We just kept it running. 5 of us, 4M each every month. Whoever's turn it was that month drove off in a car.

I still remember all five of us going together to the car bonds in Nakawa and Kireka to buy that month's car. Every trip was a moment of excitement. I could not wait for mine.

Laptops first. Then cars. Same five names every time, no contracts, no interest.

[Sparrow II @IsaacSparrowJr]

You seem not to know Ugandans properly!

[Racheal @Rachealkyy]

And someone wants you to wait for 3 years

[Kyadi Boy @kyadi26]

Guys the limit is 4 😂🤝
Nile special just like the name is a special beer but once you exceed those 4 you get into another dimension my God💀

[Albert | KatruGuma @albertKatruGuma]

“We are all ONE bad decision away from needing a trial, the mistake most of us make is assuming it must be your bad decision”

[SSEKIDDE GIDEON @GideonSsekidde]

UPDF National Referral Hospital has a 275-bed capacity, designed to serve military personnel, veterans, and the public.

The hospital includes modern, state-of-the-art medical equipment, featuring a dedicated organ transplant unit for heart, kidney, lung, bone marrow, and liver transplants.

It is designed to be a high-end, self-sustaining, private, not-for-profit facility with modern amenities. Great thanks to the CDF of Uganda, Gen @mkainerugaba

#GoldenPosts
#UPDFHospital #HealthcareExcellence #OrganTransplantCenter
@DaudiKabanda

[Ramadhan Kimbugwe @RamaTED19]

@Kera_legendary Reminds me of this.

[Isaac Ssemakadde @IsaacSsemakadde]

Forty-two (42) Justices in the Court of Appeal/Constitutional Court of Uganda & Supreme Court of Uganda spent 25 years examining whether the trial of civilians in military courts is unconstitutional.

A student of law is required to take 45 minutes to resolve the same question.

[Joellah Anshemeza @Joellah_Kagina]

#JazzWithJajja: Highlights from @Kasuku256’s question on Government & the Digital Space.
✅ There is a concern that government has not sufficiently engaged or understood the digital space, despite constant talk about “digital transformation.”
✅ Digital platforms (YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, etc.) connect farmers, manufacturers, and markets, even for those not directly farming.
✅ Participants need technocrats and policymakers to come closer, engage, and understand how digital tools work in practice.
✅ Appreciation for private efforts (e.g., @Nyinancweende’s engagements) but a call for institutional government involvement.

President @KagutaMuseveni Responses:

On Uganda’s Digital Infrastructure Development
✔️ Initially, Uganda depended on satellite communication, which relied on line-of-sight physics.
✔️ Satellite internet was extremely expensive, costing many dollars per unit of data.
✔️ A major effort was made to replace satellite dependence with fiber-optic infrastructure.
✔️ Uganda actively followed the routing of undersea cables:
1️⃣ From Asia through Aden → Red Sea → Europe
2️⃣ From Cape Town through the Atlantic

📌 A gap between Aden and South Africa was later bridged by:
1️⃣ Undersea cables to Mombasa and Dar es Salaam
2️⃣ Underground fiber from those points into Uganda
✔️ This infrastructure dramatically reduced internet costs compared to satellite.

On Government Role in Internet Backbone Ownership:
📌 Core infrastructure such as: Electricity, Railways, Internet backbone must be owned by government, not private companies. The purpose is not profit, but to facilitate business and economic activity. Private telecom companies previously attempted to manipulate or control backbone infrastructure.

On the Cost of Internet & Taxation Issues:
✅ Infrastructure is now in place and extended across much of the country.
✅ There may still be tax-related or policy issues keeping internet costs higher than expected.
✅ A commitment was made to investigate why costs are not even lower.
✅ Stakeholders are encouraged to share information on cost drivers.

On Regulation, Discipline & Platform Closures;
📌 Some digital platforms were previously closed to enforce discipline, not to suppress technology.
📌 The closures were a response to abuse, insults, and unfair behavior.
📌 If platforms operate fairly & responsibly, there is no problem with reopening them.
📌 Tax compliance remains a non-negotiable requirement.

On Emerging Technologies: Starlink & Satellite Reconsidered;
✅ Discussions are ongoing with Elon Musk regarding Starlink satellite internet.
✅ Although Uganda moved away from satellites due to cost, Starlink claims: Satellite internet can now be cheaper and more efficient, especially effective for last-mile connectivity (direct to the customer)

Government is studying the feasibility:
✔️ If satellite proves cheaper than fiber, it will be allowed.
✔️ The goal is affordability and wider access, not ideology.

📌 📌 Note;
✅ Awareness of digital transformation and infrastructure planning began many years ago, long before current discussions.
✅ The foundation for digital connectivity was deliberately planned & implemented.
✅ What remains is policy fine-tuning, cost reduction, and deeper engagement with users and innovators.

[Abdu Dilshan Wasike @WasikeAbdu]

It’s tomorrow or never for my guy, @Kasuku256 😅

Luseke Pro Max to State House 🏠

Kasuku, l want to know, will you introduce yourself to the President as “Ssemanegene” 😂

Sebbo, @NellyKapo, temukuba musajja wange ekikono... 😒

[Abdu Dilshan Wasike @WasikeAbdu]

Musajja wange @Kasuku256 agudde mubintu...

Years back he said “When l get a chance to meet President Museveni, musabirawo 300M enkalu”

Blad, Kuku, ndeete ekutiya oba akadeeya?? 😅

[Maama Kigezi🥔🌦🌾 @Atusasiire01]

I asked this man to help me come with ginger and lemon but he has brought Uganda Waragi😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[UK used boyfriend @kaks_lamar]

For the First time we need to Create a campaign to bring Baron Edgar back to his feet. No shortcuts just bare dimes sent to a number of his choice. Being a creative is a very expensive task. Equipment is expensive AF. I believe we can come together and lessen his burden.

[Useful Idiot @ZeeroBrain]

Did the Supervisor have an issue with it?

[Mengo Hospital @mengo_hospital]

It starts small: a headache here, a cough there, and before long you are your own doctor.
But self-prescription can do more harm than good as Dr. Jesca shares with us

#Mengocares #MengoHospital #HealthTip #PatientSafety #OPD

[Dr. Sserunjogi Emma @DrSerunjogiEmma]

What has happened today in Kampala can summarise leadership in Uganda.
1. No leader, not even KCCA or lord mayor or government has commanded a water pump to clear the floods and salvage the situation.

2. Police turned to make sure people accept losses without demonstrating to show their frustration. It wasn't there to help those affected.

3. Everything constructed has guidelines to make sure the public is safe, even roads, when constructing they first divert water not flooding nearby gardens and houses but someone defends Nakivubo channel,the main drainage being constructed without such provisions.

I'm not an engineer but I also well know that when drafting plans to construct where water used to pass, you need to know how you're going to channel it before blocking it, so if the engineers are qualified then they just hate this country because they would know this.

What I love about things like this, they make us realize that all of us will taste the bitterness of poor governance!!!

[THE ÁĹĹÀŃ ĆÓÚÑŤÝ 🇺🇬 @AllanSseky]

Someone said mbu German spare parts are stronger than Japan mbu era shock ya german car can do 4 years.....leero mwe, you're comparing German cars ezitagenda Nakawuka obaa salaama road to toyota cars

look around at most funerals ombulire how many German cars go there?? ba Bulooka bajja bakozesa ensobi maani

[Buregyeya Apollo, PhD @ApolloBuregyeya]

Agard, what these pictures show is not “people dumped trash.” They show drainage systems that were never engineered to handle the real load case: stormwater plus silt plus plastic plus occasional sewage. The failure chain is simple. Inlets without baskets clog, the hydraulic grade line rises, flow overtops the kerb, the road becomes the major carrier, and the litter you see is the symptom of a system that has already failed.

A functional Kampala street drain does five things. It captures flow with depressed kerb inlets or grates sized and spaced for the actual rainfall intensities. It pre-treats with inlet baskets and silt traps so solids do not enter the pipes. It conveys with self-cleansing velocities and adequate fall. It provides a safe major-system route so extreme events do not put foul water on the carriageway. And it is maintained to a schedule with KPIs for sweeping and desilting.

If your design relies on the road to “filter” trash, the design is wrong. If your maintenance plan waits for a flood to discover a blockage, the maintenance plan is wrong. Engineers fix both.

I want to make this my last response to your comments until I see critical thinking patterns that show you reason and argue like an engineer, not a politician.