Omunyanga wa Lwagula

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[Wilfred Businge @MrBusinge]

The tyranny of numbers:
Reason gave way to numbers.
The law gave way to numbers.
Common sense gave way to numbers. The truth gave way to numbers.
Shame gave way to numbers. Conscience gave way to numbers.

This is the sad reality of Uganda.

[Felix Kitaka @TheMutambuze]

My son, making money is easy. It is making money while carrying a family that breaks a man.

A youth can afford to plant his entire harvest because he only has his own stomach to manage. He can bury his money in the soil and wait for time to multiply it.

But a man with many mouths to feed is forced to throw his seeds straight into the boiling pot. He cannot afford to invest for tomorrow because his family is starving today.

Use your youth. It is the only time in your life when you are allowed to plant a seed without someone demanding to eat it first.

Be blessed.

[Ronald Amanyire @amronaldo]

Let me repeat this clearly and again. The moment you step out of your house, your office, or your market stall, you enter a road network filled with variables you cannot control. In that environment, your safety depends entirely on the state’s ability to manage those variables. This is precisely why the global road safety framework is built on the Safe Systems approach which is an approach that requires government to control and coordinate every element of the system, not blame individuals for outcomes they cannot influence.

The Safe Systems Approach starts from one non‑negotiable principle: Human beings will make mistakes which means the system must be designed so those mistakes do not become fatal.

Uganda’s bus crashes happen because the system allows predictable human errors to escalate into mass‑casualty events

1. System Design Control: the real root cause

Uganda’s highways are narrow, undivided, and lack forgiving features. This means:

⏩️No median barriers → a single overtaking mistake becomes a head‑on collision.

⏩️No shoulder recovery space → buses veer off the road and roll over.

⏩️No speed‑calming infrastructure → buses travel at 100–120 km/h on roads designed for 60–80 km/h.

⏩️No protected overtaking zones → drivers must guess when it is safe.

In Safe Systems logic, this is the primary failure.
Drivers are operating in an environment where one mistake = mass death.

2. Safe Vehicles: buses are not engineered for crash survival. Ugandan buses often lack:

⏩️Electronic stability control
⏩️Rollover protection
⏩️Seatbelts
⏩️Crash‑worthy structures

A Safe System assumes crashes will happen so vehicles must absorb energy and protect occupants. Uganda’s fleet does not.

3. Safe Road Users: predictable human behaviour, not “bad drivers”. Careless overtaking and speeding dominate crash statistics because:

⏩️Drivers are pressured by owners to arrive faster.
⏩️Night travel is incentivised by business models.
⏩️Enforcement is sporadic and easily bypassed.

Safe Systems treats this as normal human behaviour under pressure, not moral failure. The system must anticipate it and neutralise its consequences.

4. Post‑Crash Response: deaths occur because rescue is slow. Many bus crashes become fatal because:

⏩️Ambulances arrive late or not at all.
⏩️Victims are transported in pickups or taxis.
⏩️Trauma care capacity is limited.

Safe Systems requires rapid, professional post‑crash care to prevent survivable injuries from becoming deaths.

Synthesis: What actually causes bus crashes in Uganda?

Under Safe Systems, the cause is not drivers. The cause is a system that guarantees driver mistakes will lead to fatalities.

Uganda’s bus crashes are the predictable outcome of:

⏩️High‑speed buses
⏩️On narrow, unforgiving roads
⏩️With weak enforcement
⏩️In poorly crash‑worthy vehicles
⏩️At night
⏩️With slow emergency response

This is why the same crash patterns repeat every time, year after year without anyone taking full responsibility. FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY.

[Martha Karua @MarthaKarua]

Saddest thing I have seen. My prayers are with @EriasLukwago and all sincerely hope his plea will be heard @JudiciaryUG @ug_lawsociety @ymahmoudali @AUC_PAPS @ACHPR @UNHumanRights @UN_HRC @antonioguterres

[FLA Henrique @flahenriquebr]

Fizeram um compilado de 4 minutos mostrando os lances em que a Argentina foi favorecida contra o Egito.

Simplesmente um escândalo mundial. Quanta sujeira envolvida. 🤢

[GABIRO MTU NECESSARY @mtunecessary]

Someone tell Atandi that we have kept this video safely is a safe box that will be opened in 399 days.

We will book that appointment that you want us to book in 399 days.

We will not bother you sir, in fact we really regret making you a leader.

[David Lewis Rubongoya @DavidLRubongoya]

But do people who occupy big offices in Uganda today learn anything from such happenings or they wait to learn from their own experience? When you see what is happening to Gen. Birungi, you can't help but think about how many people were abducted, tortured and held incommunicado by CMI under his tenure. And yet today, he finds himself trapped under the same criminality and injustice. Imagine spending nearly one full year in detention without being produced before court!!! Justifiably, his lawyers will soon file numerous applications relating to the abuse of his rights - the same rights he denied many others at the height of his power. Good people, FIGHT FOR THE RULE OF LAW. It is in our collective interest.

[Dr. Bireete Sarah @SarahBireete]

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How did we get here

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

BREAKING: FIFA President Gianni Infantino has released a statement regarding the decision to suspend Folarin Balogun's red card 🚨

[Usual Suspect 🎩 @Jude_Mugabi]

The day of Among's downfall I'll throw an open bar

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: President Trump called the head of FIFA days before the suspension of Folarin Balogun, the U.S.’s top goal scorer in the World Cup, was reversed. https://t.co/bMp27wl79X

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🇺🇸 Folarin Balogun will be eligible to face Belgium, after FIFA opted to hand him a suspended one-game ban under Article 27.

The red card stands, but he’s free to play — as @MelissaMOrtiz reported.

[Ndung'u Wainaina @NdunguWainaina]

High Court Judge Rueben Nyakundi has ruled that the Catholic Church can not hide behind celibacy vows to disinherit a child sired by a priest out there

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

In February 2007, Andrew Mwenda @AndrewMwenda resigned from Monitor and KFM due to editorial interference with free journalism, including freedom to criticise Mr Museveni and his family. Here are some excerpts from his awesome resignation letter:

[Wilfred Businge @MrBusinge]

Ofwono Opondo proudly states that he was directly involved in the 2013 closure of Monitor Publications over its publication of the Gen Sejusa “Muhoozi project” letter.

He also takes pride in the fact that Charles Onyango-Obbo and Daniel Kalinaki were effectively forced into exile in Nairobi, that certain Monitor columns were discontinued, and that Andrew Mwenda was abducted and driven around Kampala, all because they dared to question the regime.

The impunity. The arrogance. The shamelessness. The audacity. The brazenness.

[The Touchmine | 𝐓 @TouchmineX]

🚨 Infantino said he suffered for Argentina today:

FIFA President Gianni Infantino confirmed that he suffered tonight while following the Argentina match. 🇦🇷

But he quickly realized what he had said, so he backpedaled and added that he is neutral. 🙅🏻‍♂️

Why isn't he sacked immediately? 🤔

[Barugahara Balaam Ateenyi. @BalaamBarugahar]

Very disrespectful madam Justice to the appointing authority . We have proper communication channels !

[Tabz @NinyeTabz]

As I was leaving Luzira prison to check on our illegally jailed colleagues, I bumped into Igara East MP @MichealMawanda1 the Architect of the 164Bn cooperatives Heist at the entrance of where he should be confined!

I did the moral duty to deliver the message to the end consumer!

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

September 1995:
Hon. Miria Matembe, among other outstanding women, celebrating the new Constitution, whose drafting she had been part of, including a strong Bill of Rights in Chapter 4.
Now, at 73 years, she has to helplessly plead like a child in tears before a young magistrate, for things as basic as respecting her right to health and fair hearing! Spending the night in jail with her raw disregarded pain, I can’t imagine what is running through her mind as she flashes back!

[Omunyanga wa Lwagula @OLwagula]

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