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[Ronald Amanyire @amronaldo]

REST IN HEAVENLY PEACE LITTLE ANGELS. SAY HI TO MY SON.

As God is my witness, I do not go out of my way to look for weaknesses in government. But the story in today’s New Vision about the road crash that killed anywhere between 25 and 30 primary‑school children seemed to imply that the responsible MDAs mounted a coordinated, unified response. In reality, no such unified response occurred.

What we saw instead were isolated, uncoordinated appearances by individual ministers:

- Hon. Muyingo, the Acting Minister of Education and Sports, announced a ban on school trips while standing at King David School.

- Hon. Kasule Lumumba, the Minister of ICT, issued a government statement at the Uganda Media Centre.

- Hon. Maganda, the Minister of State for Transport, later read a very brief statement.

- Hon. Engola, the Minister of Disaster Preparedness, did not address the disaster at all.

These were parallel statements, not a coordinated national response. And they all shared one thing in common: they were budget‑neutral. Not a single MDA proposed immediate funding for emergency support, nor did any propose future investment in substantive road‑safety measures.

Yet this was a tragedy that demanded the highest level of government coordination. A unified response should have included a single multi‑agency meeting starting by 8:00am and ending by 11:00am and then Hon. Minister of ICT would give a true unified response from government. The meeting should at the very least had representation from:

- Ministry of Works and Transport
- Uganda Police
- Ministry of Health
- Ministry of Education
- Office of the Prime Minister

This is standard practice in countries with mature road‑safety systems. It ensures verified casualty numbers, coordinated messaging, technical investigation, and immediate support to families.

Instead, the nation was left with contradictory statements and symbolic measures. Painting school buses a single colour was proposed, a measure with zero impact on road‑safety outcomes. The Director of Traffic then contradicted this by noting that most school buses are hired PSV buses and cannot be painted as school buses. Hon. Muyingo’s ban on school trips was a temporary emotional measure, not a solution to the underlying causes of road crashes involving school children.

Meanwhile, the country was in shock. The grief felt was equivalent to national mourning. Parents were in incomprehensible agony. A unified government response should have included:

- Counselling services at the school
- Free transport for parents who needed to travel to hospitals or mortuaries
- A central information desk for verified updates
- A technical investigation team deployed within hours
- A joint press briefing with consistent information
None of this happened.

OVER Twenty‑five children died in a single crash. The nation deserved a coordinated, compassionate, technically competent response. What it received instead was fragmentation, contradiction, and cosmetic measures that require no investment and deliver no safety improvement.

[Daniel Regha @DanielRegha]

Visa fees should be after visas have been approved, or at least refund the payment upon rejection.

It's only right. If you don't want someone in your country, DON'T TAKE THEIR MONEY.

[TANNYA! @Omutorane]

You just need like 100-200 to feel a heavy pinch then the rest will fall in line!

[TANNYA! @Omutorane]

Wondering....
Why don't @PoliceUg apprehend boda riders on the road?
The only apprehension I've seen is on permits & other docs, which is occasional.
But with all the recklessness, something needs to be done!!! especially at junctions!
The situation is out of hand...

[TANNYA! @Omutorane]

@CanalBoxUG have y'all taken a hiatus or sumn???
Buffering Internet all week, which is totally off today...
Call center contact not going through, no responses on social media...
What's not happening?

[Amos Wekesa @wekesa_amos]

A MUST READ

SOUTH AFRICAN VISAS / TRADE

Thank you guys for sharing my post yesterday, it went to the highest office in South Africa. Got many phone calls!

MODJADJI MAHLANGU returned last evening from South Africa and went to office at 3am today morning to start working on peoples applications.

MODJADJI MAHLANGU last issued a visa on 25th of March 2026 yet Ugandan apply for visas daily. Paying for accommodations, tickets and visa fees that is never refunded.

SHE HAD LOCKED PEOPLES PASSPORTS IN HER OFFICE.

That money is earned by South African businesses hence their economy becomes bigger. The visa money is what keeps these foreign embassies operating here if you don’t know.

BUT THATS NOT A LASTING SOLUTION.

South Africa has more than 78 businesses in Uganda taking away about 1bn dollars annually from our already struggling economy.

The last I read Uganda only earned about usd 48m( DO YOU GUYS GET THE COMMON SENSE?) from South Africa. We earn less than 5% of what they earn from us.

HOW?

Their business people wake up in the morning and decide they are heading to Uganda for business and get a visa from the airport on arrival.

They on the other hand block Ugandan business people from accessing opportunities in South Africa, claiming Ugandan won’t leave their country.

The amount of money earned by the few Ugandans in South Africa can’t be compared to the amount of money South Africa earns from Uganda.

If the one billion dollars taken out of our economy annually stayed in Uganda, those few Ugandans there would have opportunities here.

The alternative is make it easy for our business people to access opportunities in South Africa so we also earn there and bring opportunities back to Uganda.

The 1bn dollars taken or earned here by South Africans strengthens their job market, cripples our job market as Uganda reason a small number want to remain in South Africa.

They simply following the opportunities that have left Uganda for South Africa through the 1bn dollars annually? Are we together?

The internal challenge for common citizens like me and you reading is that ‘ our leaders have green and red passports’ they care less and don’t know the above economics( both opposition and government leaders have those passports).

This week or this month, Uganda borrowed usd 450m from world bank and that will be earned by South African countries and Ugandans will be paying the loans.

The South African owned banks here will keep the money, they telcos will earn bit of it, insurance will also want, South African contractors etc.

Business interests for countries and individuals are fought for, you don’t sit back and think the world wishes you well, you will be silly to think so.

The above thought should apply to all other embassies!

Enough said!

[Ronald Amanyire @amronaldo]

Around 2015, when the World Bank was encouraging the Ministry to establish a Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (MATA) as part of the broader BRT agenda, I attended a World Bank workshop in Addis Ababa with a colleague who has since left the Ministry. One statement from the facilitators has stayed with me ever since: “You cannot engineer yourself out of traffic congestion.”

He explained that building more roads, widening highways, or constructing flyovers cannot, on their own, solve congestion. Congestion is not simply a road‑capacity problem. It is fundamentally a behavioural, economic, land‑use, and road‑management problem. Engineering interventions treat the symptoms, not the underlying causes.

He highlighted several issues that illustrate this point:

Induced or Latent Demand: Whenever road capacity is increased, more people choose to drive because the road initially feels faster. Over time, the new lanes fill up and congestion returns. This pattern is well‑documented globally. He gave the example of Seoul, South Korea — a city I had visited in 2007 and seen the phenomenon firsthand.

Kampala’s Radial Network: Kampala’s road network funnels traffic from Entebbe, Masaka, Jinja, Hoima, and Gayaza into a very small CBD core. Even with flyovers, all these streams still converge at the same point. A flyover may remove conflict at one junction, but it does not reduce the volume entering the city.

Land‑use Patterns: Most jobs, services, and government offices are concentrated in the CBD. This creates strong tidal flows: everyone enters the city in the morning and leaves in the evening. Flyovers cannot change the distribution of demand. Kampala continues to grow inward rather than outward, intensifying pressure on the same limited space.

The Geometry Problem: In dense cities, the real bottleneck is rarely the roads themselves. It is the intersections, off‑ramps, and city streets. You can build a 12‑lane highway/road but if all those vehicles must eventually exit onto a 2‑lane urban road with traffic lights, you have simply created a faster way to reach a stationary queue.

Weak Last‑mile Connectivity: Even when trunk roads are improved, the feeder roads in suburbs such as Ntinda, Najjera, Kisaasi, Makindye, Nansana, and Kireka remain narrow, unpaved, or poorly managed. Congestion simply shifts from the improved section to the next choke point.

Other Systemic Factors: Land‑use planning, enforcement, public transport quality, roadside activity, and general road management all influence congestion. Without addressing these, engineering solutions alone cannot deliver lasting relief.
Summary

The lesson from that workshop from the Kampala’s live in or work in is clear: you cannot build your way out of congestion. Sustainable mobility requires a combination of engineering, planning, enforcement, behavioural change, and institutional reform.

ADDING LANES TO FIX TRAFFIC CONGESTATION IS AKIN TO LOOSENING YOUR BELT TO CURE OBESITY. IT ADRESSES THE SYMPTOM (TIGHTNESS) WITHOUT FIXING THE CAUSE.

[Arvind Datta @datta_arvind]

Worth reading the experience of a traveller who was stranded at Dubai Airport.

[Jacob Juma @WhatEHappened]

She is not suicidal, her car's breaks are working, she knows how to swim, she is loved by her family.

Bayer, we are watching you.

[Amos Wekesa @wekesa_amos]

Moses - Elephant Plains lodge story

Towards the end of the Covid challenge, I was one evening driving from Muyenga going towards Kabalagala, I see a young man who was walking same direction very excited to see me.

We were in traffic jam, I lowered my window a bit and said hello. Bwana Amos, my name is moses and I follow you on Facebook, I enjoy reading your stories. I also studied tourism in Jinja reason i knew about you.

I asked him to jump into the car so we can chat further which he did and I asked him what he did a living at the time. He said he was a driver in some company around industrial area.

As we chatted further, he told me he for long drove trucks from Mombasa to Kigali and decided to find something in Kampala to be near his family. To me, he looked young to have driven trucks.

How God would have it, we had bought a brand new water heater and which needed a driver who knows trucks very well. I told him, I don’t do the hiring at office but I tipped him about the opportunity.

The next day I told those in charge about a young man I met the previous day who told me about his experiences with trucks. They decided to give him a chance, he was taken for an interview which he did so well.

Today he doesn’t only drive our water truck but does game drives, picks clients from kasese airstrip , does transfers to Kibale etc when there is need.

In the picture he had dropped me at kasese airstrip to catch a flight back to Entebbe. There is power in some conversations with strangers.

[Shimon Aine @ShimonAine]

Beautiful Janice Nkajja summarizes a 700 pages Annual Audit report by The office of the Auditor General to the Parliament in a 3 minutes video 🎉🌹.

[Araali 🦉 @joelanthony23]

It's time to admit that we need public mass transportation for the city. But it woukd mean people that set up car wash bays, petrol stations, car bonds & other services to profit will have to lose or redirect investment.

I'll give you a few guesses if they'll let that happen.

[Asanwa.sol @Chizitere_xyz]

I watched a guy on the bus today. 6:45 AM in the morning while jogging, His eyes looked heavy, like he was carrying the weight of an entire lineage on his shoulders. But immediately he sat down, he brought out his phone and started scrolling TikTok.
​As a Biomedical Engineer, I wanted to snatch that phone from his hand.
​See, let me tell you the bitter truth nobody wants to hear.

Most of you are not lazy or "unlucky." You are chemically sabotaging your own destiny before you even brush your teeth.
​The first 60 minutes of your day is a war zone. Your brain is begging for direction. It runs on dopamine, that’s the fuel for your motivation. But what do you do?
​You wake up. Your eyes haven't even adjusted to the darkness of your room, and gbam, you pick up your phone.
​You check WhatsApp to see who ignored you. You check X to see who is fighting. You check Instagram to see your mates buying cars you can't afford yet.

​You think you are just "waking up," but scientifically? You are flooding your brain with cheap, unearned dopamine. You are frying your reward system. By 8 AM, your brain is already tired. It has consumed "content" but produced nothing.
​And let me speak to the men for a second.
​I write about men a lot because I see what you go through. The pressure is much. You wake up and the first thought is Rent, School fees, the woman you want to impress.
​It is terrifying.
​So, you grab your phone to escape. The phone is your pacifier. It numbs the panic of the morning. But that comfort is a lie.
​When you start your day with cheap dopamine, actual work feels like torture. You have programmed your neurochemistry to be a consumer, not a king.
​You are training your brain to be weak in a world that eats weak men for breakfast.
​Here is the hard truth (and you can drag me if you like):
Your morning mood doesn’t determine how your day goes. It determines your capacity to suffer for your success.
​If you can’t survive the first hour of the day without a screen, how do you want to survive the economy?
​Protect your first hour.
Don't touch that phone.
Stare at the ceiling. Pray. Do pushups. Go for a morning jug or walk.
Let your brain starve for a bit so it learns to hunt for the hard things.
​Stop feeding your destiny to the algorithm.

[goma @soigomaa]

The man who wrote "How to Save Your Marriage" in the U.S. shot his wife and posted the photo online.
Dale Carnegie, author of "How to Win Friends and Influence People," died completely alone. Benjamin Spock, who shaped modern parenting and sold millions of books, had sons who tried to place him in a nursing home. Maria Montessori, the world's most celebrated educator, gave her own son to foster care to raise other people's children. A Korean author behind the bestseller "How to Be Happy" took her own life after years of depression. The pattern is disturbing: the people selling life answers often couldn't save themselves. Coaches. Gurus.
Influencers. They package clarity, confidence, and control while privately unraveling. Teaching wisdom doesn't equal living it - and sometimes, the louder the advice, the deeper the chaos behind it. Self-help isn't proof of mastery. It's often proof of searching.

[TANNYA! @Omutorane]

@CanalBoxUG Hello!
Having crappy internet in Naalya since Monday...
What could be the issue?
Could we get a solution ASAP?

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has pushed back against critics who say he's held onto power for too long. The 81-year-old spoke to @YousraElbagir about why he's seeking five more years in office. The election campaign has been marred by mass arrests of opposition supporters.

[TANNYA! @Omutorane]

@SafeBoda please vet your riders thoroughly!!! They have become a bunch of thieves masquerading with our deliveries!

Even with Insured Plus!?!!
Which goes to show the impunity- how they just don't care/ have no consequences! Please do something!!

I need my package delivered!

[Rwakakamba Morrison @Rwakakamba]

There is no 10 fold strategy of expanding Uganda’s GDP from USD 50 billion to USD 500 billion by 2040 without ELECTRICITY. To achieve the 10-fold economic growth strategy, Uganda requires 52 Gigawatts of electricity by 2040. We now have 2 Gigawatts of electricity. And this is just installed capability. People at Energy Ministry and People at Finance Ministry shouldn’t go for Christmas. There is so much work ahead.

[Joseph Beyanga Joe Walker @Akeda4]

Bandali Rise, Luthuli Avenue, Wagwan😳

When you hear about lifestyle exploits and money spinning escapades from this enclave, you can’t imagine patrons swimming in a flooded Luthuli Avenue in a dry season and crawling on a broken Bandali Rise.

Are you too happy to demand better?

The amount of money spent in one night can fix all these roads to world class standards!

Why is @KCCAUG serving you a mess? Or is it what you ordered?

Safe Roads Save Lives