Ma'amun Mulangwa

Technical Architect -Network Architecture/Governance - Infra Transformation Strategist / DC Private/Public Cloud | Proud Muslim - Politics Junkie - Chelsea Fan

[Ma'amun Mulangwa @Keito_iK]

Today is 20 years since I passed my first IT exam. As Technologies evolve - It’s been a continuous journey of learning / acquiring skills to build the infrastructure that runs digital and internet services everywhere - anywhere!
Never boring - Alhamdulillah 🙏🙏

[Richard @ricwe123]

Now it is official.

"In relation to Israels military operations in Gaza, we conclude that Israeli authorities are responsible for war crimes. Including extermination, murder, using starvation as a method of war, forcible transfer"

(UN Human Rights Council)

[Andrew Kyamagero @kyamageroandrew]

Brother, learn to restrain yourself. These platforms carry your future bosses, business partners, clients and destiny changers. Some belong to that very Kingdom. Mocking what people deeply honour, especially their King, can quietly close doors you may never know were open. Not every thought deserves publication. Wisdom also knows when to be silent. Restrain yourself, brother.

Akuume.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

The Vikings have spoken! Iceland's FM, Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir, blasts Netanyahu in her address to the UNGA:

“We have heard the words ‘moral cowards’ from this podium. To me, moral cowards are those leaders of the world who refuse to sit down and negotiate just and lasting peace. Those leaders who deny access to humanitarian aid for people in desperate need are moral cowards, and those leaders of the world who repeatedly go against and disrespect international law.”

[Godber Tumushabe @GodberTumushabe]

It’s cowards who fear words. Uganda junta police you can be an embarrassment.

[Alex Ponton @ponton_alex]

Here is your next plan now that the national cleaning day is done. This showroom represents 9 months of hard work by Mama Zaabu and her team.

The goal was to roll out a space that would be at the same level as the showrooms we saw in Paris, Dubai and Shanghai.

Ugandan products deserve nothing less!

When they say BUBU it also means rolling out space that we can all be proud off!

[St Nabirah 📿 @Underwraps1334]

Two great men,two Ugandan football fans,(Express fc and Sc Villa ) making fun of each other

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

Atomic and nuclear bombs are in the hands of the Israeli regime, but the inspectors are requested to come to Iran.

Israel has murdered savagely over 70,000 innocents in Gaza, but Iran, while behind the table of negotiation, was bombed.

Israel has the bombs, has weapons of mass destruction, is not a member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, during her shameful life has not allowed a single inspection, but they are rewarded by all the means necessary for them to be able to bomb any capital in the region at will.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Turkish President Erdogan to the United Nations:

“Today, Gaza is not only the world's largest graveyard for children. It is also the place with the highest rate of child amputations in the world.

Gaza has become the most inhumane and shameful concentration camp of our time.”

Erdogan then called on every country to increase the pressure on Israel to end the genocide.

#ErdoganTheVoiceofJustice

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

Great news everyone!!
We've got immigration down to basically nothing, just like you wanted. Now the NHS only needs 55,000 nurses. Over to you, Britain. No more relying on immigrants to do it!!

the jobs are RIGHT THERE. Go on then. We'll wait. 🇬🇧

Waiting.....

[Dr. Strange The Sage @Submission2T]

“Sharia Law” and America — this attorney lady nails it with accuracy.

[Hashim Wasswa Mulangwa @Hashim11]

This is powerfully stated — “People want perfect victims” . A rogue state can unleash all manner of violence open a people and when they resist, then the “civilized world” is shocked that violence begets violence.

What’s even more impressive is Hassan Pike calmly debates this issue despite the ignorant and biased questioning.

[Abd alhade alani @abdalhadealani]

This Syrian old man hid his private library in his home in the city of Damascus since the end of 2011 before escaping to Kuwait out of fear of the Assad regime, where the mere presence of a banned book could lead you to Assad's gulag and death under torture.

Today, the uncle returned to his library and completely removed the wall behind which he had hidden it, revealing valuable books that the Assad regime prohibited possessing and circulating.

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

It's hard not to be utterly enraged by this.

They stood by while Israel slaughtered more than 20,000 innocent Palestinian children.

They did more than stand by. They were a part of it. They supported the genocide materially and diplomatically, defending it at every step.

They, like all of us, saw constant footage of kids blown to pieces, decapitated, shot in the head.

They saw Hind Rajab, killed in a merciless barrage of Israeli bullets.

They saw Reem Nabhan, "soul of my soul" to her smitten grandfather Khaled.

They saw five-year-old Saly Abu Maamar, her tiny body wrapped in a shroud and cradled by her aunt.

They saw 17-day-old al-Amira Aisham, known to her already devoted family as "Princess Aisha".

They saw Nour Abu al-Qumssan, who lay dead under the rubble as her desperate father Abu al-Qumssan called out her name over and over again.

And it didn't stop them.

The gall. The utter gall.

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Jesus. This horror is never ending.

[Elly Karuhanga, @EllyKaruhanga]

LET TOORO CHOOSE PEACE.
Tooro has lost a King. A mother has lost her son, a sister her brother, and a Royal Family one of its own. Yet, even before the tears have dried, disagreement over succession threatens to divide one of Uganda’s oldest and most beautiful cultural institutions.

I do not write to determine who is right or wrong, nor do I presume to tell the Batooro who their King should be. I write as an elder, a lawyer, a friend of the Royal Family and, perhaps importantly in this particular debate, as the person who moved the motion for the constitutional recognition of traditional and cultural leaders during the making of the 1995 Constitution.

I believed then, as I believe today, that Uganda must modernise without becoming culturally rootless. Our kingdoms preserve our languages, customs, histories and identities, and these things matter because a people must know where they came from if they are to know confidently where they are going.

Nor is this merely a Batooro affair. My daughter is married to a Mutooro and I have a grandchild who is Mutooro, as families across Uganda are joined across regions, cultures and kingdoms by marriage and friendship. When one Ugandan cultural family hurts, the pain does not stop at the boundaries of a kingdom.

We have always admired the Batooro for their beautiful culture, their gentle language, their courtesy, humility and softness of manner. At this difficult hour, I appeal to them not to lose those qualities, but to make the very gentleness for which they are known the instrument through which this disagreement is resolved.

History should make all of us humble about disputes of succession because there is nothing uniquely Batooro about them. Rwanda knew Rucunshu, Britain endured disputed crowns and civil wars, and our own history in Ankole tells us just how far a disagreement over a throne can travel once pride, faction and power take command.

The quarrel after Omugabe Ntare V’s death in 1895 should teach us something. There was no agreed successor, and while many chiefs and powerful figures looked to Prince Igumira, a famous warrior with a large following, others rallied around the young Kahaya, whose cause was championed by Nuwa Mbaguta and eventually secured with British support. The struggle did not end there: it would contribute to the subduing of Igara and, in time, to the death of my own grandfather, a reminder that succession quarrels can travel far beyond the palace and leave wounds in families and communities for generations.

I learnt another lesson about kingdoms much more recently and much more personally. In 1993, I was among the Banyankore who supported the restoration of the Kingdom of Ankole and, relying on our understanding of the law at the time, we crowned Prince John Barigye as Omugabe. Government declared our actions null and void, and I personally engaged President Museveni on the matter, but to no avail.

I did not agree with Government then, but experience teaches us that wishing Government away does not make Government disappear. Cultural institutions exist within a Republic, within a Constitution and within a wider political and legal order, and any durable settlement in Tooro must therefore involve respectful engagement with the central Government rather than treating it as an outsider to the problem. Government should not choose the King, but neither can a realistic search for peace pretend that Government has no role to play.

There are moments in human affairs when disagreement is real, deep and even bitter. I remember my years in Parliament, the fierce battles we fought and some of the terrible things we said about one another across the political divide. Yet time did something that anger could not: many of us who once confronted each other bitterly came to know one another better, and friendships were formed across those old battle lines which endure to this day.

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

The biggest hypocritical irony in all this is how Mwenda is the loudest critic against imposing a leader on people (Tooro), while at the same time being a facilitator of a brutal usurpation and abuse of power at a national scale. So, is it about what is right or what he wants?

[Calvin Armstrong Rwomiire Akiiki @toorokingdompm]

A MESSAGE OF GRATITUDE, REFLECTION AND HEALING

People of Tooro, friends of Tooro, and all those who stood with us,

As we come to the end of one of the most painful chapters in the recent history of our Kingdom, I wish, on behalf of the Tooro Kingdom administration and on my own behalf, to express our profound gratitude to everyone who stood with us and supported the final journey and dignified send-off of our beloved King, His Majesty Omukama Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV.

Our responsibility during these difficult days was clear: whatever else was happening around us, we had to see this journey through with the dignity, respect and honour befitting our King. We had to put aside our differences, manage our grief and work together to ensure that His Majesty was laid to rest in a manner worthy of the Crown he carried and the people he served.

In a special way, I wish to recognise and thank Prince Jonathan Bala, His Majesty’s Principal Private Secretary, for his loyalty, dedication and service to our King. Throughout this extraordinarily difficult period, his commitment to His Majesty remained steadfast. He carried an enormous personal and official responsibility, often under very difficult circumstances, and continued to serve with dedication until the very end. He deserves our sincere acknowledgement and gratitude.

I thank His Excellency the President, General Muhoozi, the Royal Family, the Government of Uganda, religious and cultural leaders, the organising committees, the media, our Kingdom leadership, clans and Masaza, volunteers, businesses and partners, the people of Tooro, Ugandans across the country, the diaspora and friends from beyond our borders. Whether you contributed your time, resources, professional expertise, food, transport, prayers, presence or simply stood with us in solidarity, you became part of His Majesty’s final journey. We are deeply grateful.

We recognise that everything may not have been done perfectly. This was an unprecedented moment for our generation. We were mourning our King while simultaneously carrying the enormous responsibility of organising his final journey. Emotions were understandably high, decisions sometimes had to be made under extraordinary pressure, and grief affected us all in different ways.

Where we fell short of expectations, where communication could have been better, or where anyone felt disappointed by our actions or omissions, I offer my sincere apologies. These shortcomings should never be mistaken for a lack of respect or commitment. We were a people grieving an immense loss while doing everything within our ability to honour our King.

Now that we have laid His Majesty to rest, another journey begins.

This must be a period of learning, refocusing, rebuilding and healing.

We must learn from what these difficult weeks revealed about our institutions and ourselves. We must strengthen what worked, honestly address what did not, rebuild trust where it has been strained and allow ourselves, individually and collectively, the space to heal.

There will be difficult conversations ahead. There will be institutional questions that require wisdom and clarity. There may be different opinions about the way forward. But our differences must never become greater than the Kingdom we all belong to.

This is not the time for winners and losers. It is the time for responsible leadership, humility and reconciliation.

His Majesty’s passing should remind us that positions are temporary, but Tooro remains. Personal ambitions pass, disagreements pass and generations pass, but the responsibility of preserving this Kingdom for those who come after us endures.

Our guiding principle in the days ahead must therefore remain simple:

Tooro comes first.

Above personalities. Above positions. Above disagreements. Above individual interests.

May we find the wisdom to learn, the humility to reconcile, the courage to rebuild and the strength to move forward together.

@ObukamaBwaTooro

[Joel Ssenyonyi @JoelSsenyonyi]

In 2006, I was a journalist with UBC-TV. We were removed from the 15 acres of prime land at Nakasero belonging to UBC, which was then given out to private developers to construct a hotel to host CHOGM delegates in 2007.

That same year, Shimon demonstration school and teachers’ college was also demolished to pave way for a CHOGM hotel on the 15 acre piece of land.
CHOGM came and went, but the said hotels were not in place for the mentioned purpose, and controversy surrounded the land for years.

In 2011, Gov’t forcefully evicted over 1750 families from the Naguru-Nakawa housing estate to make room for a “modern satellite city” project on the 162 acres. That “development” doesn’t exist to-date.

These, and many more controversial land give-aways come to mind when we hear of plans to give away the city square for another “development”.
City square is one of the very few green spaces left in the city, so to learn that it is to be replaced with a private business structure is bizarre!

[David @Zero_4]

So two crypto-billionaires have now given a political party over £100m in donations but they definitely don’t want anything in return. Not a thing. Nope

[Vinnie @VinnieKhurana]

If Channel 4 is successful in bringing down both Reform UK and Tommy Robinson, we're going to have to ask some very difficult questions about the BBC, and why its news team failed to use its resources to investigate, scrutinise and challenge the far right, in the way Channel 4 has.