Paul Baite

[Alan Kasujja @kasujja]

Been taking all sorts of calls from journos asking me to comment on what’s happened in Toro since King Oyo died.

I’ve repeatedly said I don’t feel qualified to.

That I’m watching and learning.

That things are fluid.

Discombobulating even.

And no the goalkeeper story is very last week.

Almost forgotten..

Oh yes. We moved on to a journalist who’s known by two names in two different countries..

Who’s married to someone who’s not from a clan in Toro.

Andrew said it’s a requirement.

Oh yes. There’s a Will. But an older Will by the grandfather of the King who just passed away is being quoted…

And King Oyo’s cousins - whose father is married to King Oyo’s mother’s younger sister have openly disagreed with their father who by the way is Oyo’s uncle..

And like their Aunt- Oyo’s mum- The Queen Mother- who’s their mother’s sister- they say King Oyo had a son who’s mother Andrew and others want to know..

Jackson or Jacob. Others are quoting Shakespeare’s what’s in a name.

No DNA. The King isn’t supposed cut.

And the late King Oyo’s sister and his aunt- his father’s sister- and others have gone to court because their relative - a cousin- has been named king yet King Oyo has a son. So King Oyo’s will must be done.

Raymond says it’s all good.

This kavuyo isn’t unusual.

Also, the polarisation is so wide and confusing that I don’t know where to turn.

Sigh.

May King Oyo find rest and eternal peace.

Sitting on that throne seems to have been an extreme sport.

Not easy at all.

These things will self correct.

Or

I’ll wait for Mzee to speak.

He’s seen it all- like he told me in a 2013 interview.

In the meantime, we are set to cover the King final journey.

God Bless Toro. God Bless Uganda.

[Ronald Amanyire @amronaldo]

I will start with my own journey. In early June 2020, my relationship with one of my bosses soured. I chose to fight back, which led to certain political maneuvers against me including attempts of Political Pressure by Hon. Odur of Erute County and Hon. Okupa of Kasilo County (they were consistently facilitated for this) to have me interdicted. They failed completely because, despite the immense political pressure, there was absolutely no evidence against me.

I also remember about 10 years back, when the President publicly announced the firing of the Ministry of Health's Head of Procurement (I think his name was Mugisha). While he was 'fired' in theory by the President, the strict realities of the Public Service Standing Orders meant he couldn't actually be dismissed; instead, he was simply transferred to a ministry with far less scrutiny.

So here is why Political Leaders should not involve themselves corruption fight in front of media cameras.

1. Political Posturing replaces Real Investigations

Suspending or dismissing suspects on camera is designed for optics, not justice. It creates the illusion of action while avoiding the hard work of:

⏩️Evidence collection
⏩️Forensic audits
⏩️Prosecutorial follow‑through

2. Presumption of Guilt Contaminates the Investigation.

A public suspension is like presuming a guilty verdict instead of innocent until proven guilty, before investigators have even done their work. Which

⏩️Biases witnesses
⏩️Pressures investigators to confirm the political narrative
⏩️Undermines due process
⏩️Makes the final case legally vulnerable

3. The actions of Hon. Balaam and Hon. Nameere do not Confront the Sharks in Government.

In your argument you drop in a line of the purported UGX 9 Trillion a year lost to corruption. It is misleading. According to the budget release of Q1 FY 2026/2027 Local Governments were allocated UGX 428.7 Billion which is 3.5% of that budget released. For all of them 146 Districts. What impact can that have on reducing that UGX 9 Trillion lost to corruption per year

4. Due Process Violations give Suspects Legal Escape Routes

Due process is the backbone of any legitimate criminal prosecution. Without it, the justice system becomes arbitrary, biased, and vulnerable to wrongful convictions. Public Suspensions or Arrests by Politicians violate:

⏩️Employment and Labour Laws
⏩️Administrative Procedure
⏩️Disciplinary Rules

Suspects may later and will most likely argue:

⏩️Unlawful Suspension
⏩️Political Interference
⏩️Procedural Unfairness

In most cases the courts will agree and the cases collapse.

Politicians will then blame the courts, even though they contaminated the case.

5. Parallel Processes Weaken Formal Anti‑Corruption Bodies

Arrests and Interdiction by Political Actors bypass:
⏩️IGG
⏩️CID
⏩️DPP
⏩️Auditor General
⏩️FIA

Politicians create ad‑hoc “task forces” and media‑driven directives that undermine professional investigators. Institutions lose authority; politics takes over. The result might be:

⏩️No single agency owns the case.
⏩️No single agency finishes the case.

In summary, politicians compromise the anti‑corruption fight by:

⏩️Turning Investigations into Theatrics
⏩️Prejudicing Cases
⏩️Shielding Real Networks
⏩️Contaminating Evidence
⏩️Weakening Investigators
⏩️Creating Legal Loopholes
⏩️Duplicating Processes
⏩️Fragmenting Mandates

Which leads to No convictions. No deterrence. No accountability.

Real Anti‑Corruption Fight requires:

⏩️One empowered, Insulated Lead Agency
⏩️Quiet, Evidence‑driven Investigations
⏩️Zero Political Interference
⏩️Coordinated Enforcement
⏩️Protected Investigators

Today I have seen you compare this to the corruption fight within @MODVA_UPDF. The actions taken by CDF to fight corruption were never with the media watching.

I AM NOT SAYING THE PEOPLE ARRESTED SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ARRESTED. LIKE I SAID SOMEWHERE ELSE HON. BALAAM AND HIS DEPUTY SHOULD HAVE COMPLETED THEIR TOUR, COME TO THEIR OFFICES AND THEN SEND WRITTEN INSTRUCTION TO POLICE TO ARREST THE OFFICERS.

[Paul Baite @PaulBaite]

Why? @BBC Why is the pro-burkina faso government labelled anti-western because it doesn't agree with france's anti-burkinabe moves in burkina faso but France is not labeled anti-african? @UgandaMediaCent

Burkina Faso severs diplomatic ties with France https://t.co/tdz2WtvYxC

[Alfred ‘The Great’ II @d_black_messiah]

Let me educate you slowly, so nothing is lost in translation.

You said Europe was rich before colonisation. Rich by what standard? The same Europe that was crawling through the Dark Ages? Illiterate, plague-ridden, eating off dirt floors, while Timbuktu was running a university that enrolled 25,000 students?

Let’s talk about what “rich” means.

While Europe was in intellectual darkness, the Moors (Africans and Arabs from North Africa), crossed into Iberia in 711 AD and civilised them. They brought algebra, astronomy, medicine, architecture, philosophy. The University of Al-Qarawiyyin in Morocco, founded in 859 AD, is the oldest continuously operating university on earth. Not Oxford, not Cambridge, but Africa!

When European scholars wanted to learn, they went to Cordoba, a city the Moors built, where the library held 400,000 volumes at a time when the largest library in Christian Europe had maybe 400 books.

Four hundred books!

The Greeks you love to quote, Pythagoras, Thales, Solon, Plato, all travelled to Egypt to study. Herodotus documented it, Diodorus Siculus documented it, even Aristotle acknowledged it. The mystery schools of Egypt were the intellectual foundation of what Europe later called “Western civilisation.” Greece didn’t invent wisdom, they imported it from us.

And before any of that,

Mali Empire, Songhai Empire, Great Zimbabwe, Kush, Axum, Carthage, the Kingdom of Benin, whose bronze casting in the 13th century was so precise that when Europeans first saw the Benin Bronzes, they refused to believe Africans made them. They invented a mythical lost civilisation to explain it. Because the alternative, that we were brilliant, broke their entire narrative.

Now here is what your argument conveniently omits.

When Europe arrived, they didn’t meet savages. They met civilisations. So they did what colonisers do, they destroyed the evidence.

The Great Library of Mali in Timbuktu, Sankore University, housed between 700,000 and 1 million manuscripts covering mathematics, astronomy, medicine, law, and theology. French colonial forces and subsequent chaos burned, looted, and scattered what centuries had built. Scholars are still recovering manuscripts from the sand.

The Benin Bronzes (3,000 to 5,000 masterworks) were seized by British forces in the Punitive Expedition of 1897. Stolen, carted to London, sold to museums across Europe. Some are only now being returned, 130 years later, after the world shamed them enough.

The Alexandria Library? Burned.

Carthage? Rome didn’t just defeat it. They salted the earth, they wanted no memory of it.

The Museum of Cairo, Nubian sites, burial monuments… looted systematically, catalogued in European museums, repackaged as their discovery of our heritage.

And Timbuktu’s Ahmad Baba Institute, one of the greatest repositories of African intellectual heritage, the jihadists who attacked it in 2012 were themselves downstream of the chaos that colonial border-drawing and resource extraction created.

This is not clout chasing , this is accounting.

A man burns your house down, takes your furniture, and then mocks you for being homeless. That is not a victimhood mindset.

You want us to “fix our shithole countries”? We are. But let’s be honest about who broke them. The Berlin Conference of 1884, where Europeans sat in a room and divided a continent they did not own, splitting ethnic groups, merging enemies, designing dysfunction… that was not ancient history. The grandparents of people alive today were born into that world.

[CBS News @CBSNews]

One month into the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the total number of confirmed cases surged to 800 between Monday and Tuesday - about 300 more cases than the week prior.

Meanwhile, across the border, Uganda is in proactive protection mode, with no new cases for the past 11 days. Ugandan health officials tell CBS News they are happy with their response and results. Uganda has had 19 confirmed Ebola cases with two deaths - all traced back to the Congo. Official border crossings have been shut.

CBS News' @RamyInocencio landed there and was immediately asked to fill out a health declaration for Ebola that asked about bats, funerals and fevers. Here's what it looked like.

[Dr.Arshad Afzal @DrArshadAfzal1]

The war was won.

Then it was won again.

Then it was won so completely that emergency meetings were required to discuss why the victory keeps getting more expensive.

The threat was eliminated.

Then the eliminated threat reappeared.

Then the reappeared threat required additional strikes to eliminate the elimination problem.

The shipping lane was secure.

Then fleets were deployed to secure the security that was already secure.

The deterrence worked.

Then more deterrence was needed to deter the consequences of successful deterrence.

The taxpayers paid.

The contractors celebrated.

The experts updated their PowerPoints.

The headlines declared triumph.

Reality requested a recount.

Meanwhile the rest of the world watches this geopolitical theatre and wonders how every "final solution" somehow requires a sequel.

Perhaps the greatest military innovation of the modern age is not the missile, the drone, or the stealth bomber.

It is the ability to declare victory, hold a press conference, and then spend the next decade explaining why victory requires another operation.

Dr. Arshad Afzal™

Professor (Retired)

Former Faculty Member, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, KSA

https://t.co/d10mdlHWtN

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[Dr. Christon A.K Rweshakyira @Dr_Chris_Twine]

As a Senior Consultant, the reason I haven't raised my voice is simple:
When the interns are gone, I will gladly show up at 5AM, clerk 80 patients, draw the blood, and run the night calls myself.
I am superhuman. Obviously.

As a Senior Nursing Officer, the reason I am silent is obvious:
I have no problem running three wards alone, fixing lines, tracking vitals, delivering babies, doing the paperwork.
I don't need hands. I have dedication.

As a Policymaker, the reason I haven't spoken is elegant:
The interns are a budget problem I solved by terming the students.
My children are not doing internship in Uganda, after all.

As a Patient, the reason I haven't complained is clear:
Even if the doctor cutting me open has worked 36 hours without food, just cut me open and take the baby out.
Hunger sharpens the hands. Everyone knows this.

As a Citizen, the reason I am unbothered is rational:
None of my children is a medic.
I have my pastor.
The system runs on miracles. Always has.

This policy is brilliant.
Let's all stay quiet and watch the magic happen.

[Professor Awesome @rsnokes]

It's hard for me to explain to those outside #Uganda just how irritated the Ugandans are to be lumped in with DRC for the #Ebola epidemic. As of this writing, there have been hundreds of deaths and over 1000 cases in Congo, whereas Uganda has had only 9 cases -- three Congolese, four medical workers who treated them, one driver who drove them, and one other known contact. Only one person has died in Uganda, a Congolese.

So when WHO and Al Jazeera talks about the Ebola epidemic in "Congo and Uganda," it's like saying because there are wildfires in California, you should cancel a trip to the Grand Canyon because some Californians lit a campfire there. Yes, it is possible it *could* spread and you have to be vigilant, but these two situations are nowhere near the same magnitude.

As of this writing, the only Ugandan death has been the tourism industry.

[Andrew Kyamagero @kyamageroandrew]

Let us be careful in reporting @AJEnglish ,@AJENews . A regional Ebola figure is not a Ugandan death certificate.

To say “DRC and Uganda have reported 263 cases and 43 deaths” without separating where the deaths occurred is not reporting. It is statistical fog dressed as public health communication.

Uganda must not be casually placed inside another country’s mortality column.

If there are deaths in Uganda, name the district, cite the Ministry of Health, and give the exact number.

If the deaths are largely or entirely elsewhere, say so with discipline.

In matters of public health, careless language can travel faster than disease.

Facts save lives. Sensationalism spreads panic.

[The Fútbol Zone | FZ @TheFutbolZoneX]

🚨 Mesut Özil Slams Referee After Arsenal's Controversial Champions League Final Defeat

🗣️: "I have watched football for many years, and I understand that referees can make mistakes. Nobody expects perfection. But tonight, it genuinely felt like Arsenal were fighting against more than just PSG.

The incident involving Madueke was a clear penalty for me. In any other game, anywhere else on the pitch, that contact is given as a foul immediately. I struggle to understand how the referee saw it and decided there was nothing there. Even more surprising was the lack of intervention. Moments like that can completely change a final.

What frustrated me most was the consistency. Every important decision seemed to go against Arsenal. Small fouls were given one way but not the other. Challenges that deserved bookings were ignored. Every 50-50 call appeared to favour PSG. As a player, that is incredibly difficult because you begin to feel that no matter what you do, the decisions are not going your way.

A Champions League final should be decided by the players, the coaches and the football itself, not by controversial refereeing decisions. Arsenal may not have played their best game, but they still deserved a fair opportunity to compete. When such a clear penalty is not awarded, people are always going to ask questions.

I feel sorry for the players because they worked all season to reach this stage. You can accept losing when the better team wins fairly, but it is much harder to accept when major decisions leave a cloud over the result. For me, Arsenal deserved that penalty on Madueke, and they deserved much better from the officials tonight."

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@magattew Exactly. The West should stop treating Africa like it desperately needs their help. This is patronizing nonsense.

Frankly, my observation is that the average happiness in a village in Africa is higher than the average happiness in Beverly Hills!

[Akello Sheila @AkelloAkelle]

Hello Grace, I am Akello, an Acholi cultural guide proudly representing Acholi identity and culture. The look I am wearing is inspired by traditional Acholi ancestral wear rather than Karamoja

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

HOLY CRAP Trump actually accomplished a miracle. Here is what he got out of Iran:

- Reduce its stockpile of enriched uranium by about 98%

- Limit uranium enrichment to 3.67% purity (far below weapons-grade)

- Cut the number of installed centrifuges by roughly two-thirds

- Only enrich uranium at one declared site (Natanz)

- Stop enrichment activities at Fordow and convert it into a research facility

- Redesign the Arak heavy-water reactor so it could not easily produce weapons-grade plutonium

- Ship out or dilute excess enriched uranium
Allow extensive inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Permit continuous monitoring of nuclear facilities and supply chains

- Accept “snap” inspections under expanded monitoring rules

- Avoid building new heavy-water reactors for years

- Stay within strict limits on uranium stockpile size and centrifuge development for set periods ranging from 10–25 years

Ooops, sorry!

That was the JCPOA that Obama signed with Iran, only to have him tear it up, kill 140 kids, get hundreds of Americans injured, 13 killed, and gas prices to surge 50%.

[Andrew Mwanguhya @TheLoveDre]

Think of any incendiary term, and it would probably describe Lindsey Graham.

Now he’s acting disturbed by the outcome of a war he loudly helped cheer on and escalate. Ridiculous.

[Adonia Ayebare @adoniaayebare]

@FoxNews He did not treat Ebola patients in Uganda, it was in Democratic Republic of Congo. There are no cases of Ebola to treat in Uganda, correct this Please. @kasujja @DianaAtwine

[Ministry of Health- Uganda @MinofHealthUG]

Regarding #Uganda, the Ministry of Health has not been engaged on the establishment of the treatment centres referred to here, and we are therefore not aware of where they may have been set up within the country.

We continue to affirm that Uganda has so far registered only two imported Ebola cases: one fatality and one patient currently responding well to treatment under close medical care. There are no local infections and the country remains safe.
@StateHouseUg @JaneRuth_Aceng @DianaAtwine @USEmbassyUganda
#MOHatWork | #FightEbolaUG26

[Mathias Ssemanda @MathiasSsemanda]

It’s surprising how WHO Director, Tedros himself is vocally declaring Ebola presence in Uganda where no single case has been reported but he hasn’t hyped the presence of Hantavirus in USA even when FIFA World Cup is weeks away.

[Paul Baite @PaulBaite]

@mnamanya #MurifeDontRun

[Paul Baite @PaulBaite]

@mnamanya Every action has a reaction. They put up with your jibes for 22 years. Surely you can put up with their gloating for 1 year. #MurifeDontRun