Pius Wamala

Environmental Sustainability | Green growth advocate.

[Prof. V Baryamureeba @baryamureeba]

your Excellency @KagutaMuseveni
you like statistics. So did the bishops and the officials at the ministry of health tell you that Uganda is amomg the countries with the worst doctor patient ratio?
Currently the doctor to patient ratio in Uganda is approximately 1:25,000. Compare this with for example the USA where the doctor to patient ratio is approximately 1:280. On the other hand the world average is approximately 1:500. The world average hides inequalities like the case of Uganda and other least developed countries. So before we talk about attendance of doctors in public health facilities, we need to know that we don't have enough to begin with. Most government health facilities are run by nurses.

So what this means is that Uganda needs to train more medical doctors. The national planning authority should advise on this with actual planned figures inline with vision 2040. It is useless to talk of attaining lower middle income or upper middle income when the quality of healthcare is poor.

So we don't have a choice but to invest in training medical doctors and other health professionals.

Our @ParliamentUG needs to rise up and address the challenge of medical interns otherwise they will prove to everybody that they are useless and we can do without a parliament.

[Pius Wamala @PiusWamala1]

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[Keith McCullough @KeithMcCullough]

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[Pius Wamala @PiusWamala1]

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[Julius Mucunguzi @j_mucunguzi]

I walked into Diamond Trust Bank on Kampala Road at 4.09pm, generated a PRN, paid the fees for renewal of my driving licence, took a boda and got at the @GovUganda Driving Licence office at Railways Grounds at 4.16pm, and after going through a series of swift processes, biometric data and photo capture, walked out of the place with a new driving permit at 4.31pm- a record 20 minutes to complete the entire process. And I did not ask for any special help from anyone--each officer was simply doing their work professionally to each person in the line, with no special or preferential treatment of anybody.
We don't have to benchmark from very far away when it comes to Government agencies that are efficient at what they do & service delivery. USPC is right before us

[Godfrey KUTEESA!! @GODFREY_Kutesa]

To know that you’ve grown up and you’re going to be wealthy, normalize these things:

-It’s okay to drive the same car 🚘 for 10 yrs plus. Wealthy people don’t change cars anyhow . I learnt this from. @wekesa_amos. He’s the same Land Cruiser for over 14 yrs.

- Stop giving money to anyone who asks for it urgently. Also don’t give them the exact amount. If they ask for 50k , skip a day and give 20k.

- Normalize eating at home. Stop ordering foods nga ate Olina emikono egifumba. Home cooked meals will always be the best.

- Keep your phone until it actually needs replacing. Stop chasing new iPhone models yet you’re still struggling with rent.

- It’s not a crime to buy something “used”. Buy it if makes a sense. The Landrover I drive all over this continent I bought it used. Am the 4th holder but it still a performer.

Qtn: Which of these 5 do you already do, and which one hurts to read? 😅

Share with me and let’s learn together.

#MondayHonesty

[SoofsLab @StaySoof]

The Norwegian fans may be rowing home on the baggage carousel... 🚣🇳🇴😂
But what a World Cup you gave us. You brought color, passion, smiles and unforgettable moments wherever you went. ❤️
And your team... thank you for the football and the memories. It was a joy to watch. Safe travels, Vikings! 🇳🇴👏
#Norway #WorldCup2026 #Vikings #Football #Respect ❤️

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️NEW: Thierry Henry on Germany 2:1 win against Ivory Coast:

“Football can be cruel, but today it was downright robbery. Ivory Coast didn’t lose because Germany were better; they lost because football doesn’t reward dominance, it rewards moments. And when that moment arrived, Adingra treated it like a hot potato. At this level, you cannot miss chances that simple. The goal was staring at him, begging to be touched, and somehow he found a way to turn gold into dust.

For most of the game, Ivory Coast had Germany chasing shadows. They controlled the rhythm, won the battles, dictated the tempo. Germany looked like passengers on a bus Ivory Coast were driving. Kessié should probably be leaving this match with two goals and the headlines, not with regrets and a defeat.

But this is where elite football separates itself. While Ivory Coast were wasting opportunities, Julian Nagelsmann was playing chess. Every substitution shifted the board. Every decision changed the momentum. Undav was magnificent, a problem Ivory Coast never solved. In fact, I was asking myself one question for 75 minutes: why is Havertz still on the pitch? The moment Nagelsmann changed things, Germany came alive.

That’s the difference. One team controlled the game, the other controlled the outcome. Ivory Coast wrote the story, Germany wrote the ending.

And football only remembers the ending.”

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Elon Musk did not become a different person when he landed in America.

In South Africa, he may still have been brilliant, restless, and ambitious, but the environment would not have given him the same room to build SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and everything else.

Talent matters. The country you build in decides how much of that talent can become real.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire. This needs to be a wake up call.

[Football Talk @FootballTalkHQ]

🗣️ Kate Abdo: "Tonight, I am joined by:

🐐 Thierry Henry.

🐐 Jamie Carragher.

And Micah Richards, who is working his 5th Champions League final as a pundit, equalling the number of UCL matches he played in his career."

Henry's reaction: 😭

[Dr. Paddy Kinyera @PBKinyera]

I watched this show and I think @AndrewMwenda should call Paul Mwesigwa and ask if he listened to his advice. This was really good information for Paul, and it is not even a year since taking over. Maybe he didn’t take Mwenda serious!

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital.

Cette phrase change tout.

L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ?

Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible.

Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur.

Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé.

Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire.

L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants.

Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution.

Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain.

Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée.

Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien.

La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose.

Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins.

Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires.

La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

[Wilfred Businge @MrBusinge]

Dr Michael Atingi-Ego, the Governor Bank of Uganda, delves into the economic consequences of the proposed Protection of Sovereignty Bill before parliament.

Listen to 8 minutes of pure wisdom.

[Parliament Watch @pwatchug]

That is the ugly position the government has put us into. There is a big, big problem, ... “What we are doing today, is what should have been done by government.” said Katuntu.

Katuntu stated that from the moment the Governor started his submission, he was grappling with many questions in his mind as to what is going on in Uganda because the scrutiny of the Bill by Parliament should have been done by the Executive through consulting relevant stakeholders so Government agencies don’t come before Parliament to oppose the same bill.

“What we are doing today, is what should have been done by government. Talking to the central bank, talking to FIA, talking to Makerere University, talking to banks, talking to literally people who should be the stakeholder. But from all of them as they have appeared here, they seem to be so confused about who actually brought this sort of legislation here. That is the ugly position the government has put us into. There is a big, big problem,” said Katuntu.

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[David Soita Masinde. @davimasinde]

𝘛𝘩𝘦 "𝘉𝘪𝘨 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘴" 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘭. 𝘜𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘗𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤. 𝘕𝘰𝘸, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘹𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘯𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 "𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘴' 𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥," 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱.

​There is a well-deserved, poetic justice in watching Ugandan MPs "bang their big heads" against the Sovereignty Bill like fools. For years, the Executive and Parliament operated a smooth, high-speed pipeline for controversial laws. From the Coffee Bill to the UPDF Amendment, the formula was simple: Skip the public, ignore the experts, "facilitate" the MPs, and pass the law before anyone could read it.

​But the Sovereignty Bill has broken the machine.

​MP Abdu Katuntu is fuming because, for the first time, the Executive didn't do the prep work. They didn't talk to the Bank of Uganda. They didn't talk to the FIA. They didn't talk to the Universities. They simply dropped a "confusing" piece of legislation on the floor and walked away, leaving only Yusuf Nsibambi, with his half-chewed pseudo-intellectualism, to defend it from the tail end.

​Here is why Ugandans should be celebrating this "ugly position":

⛔ 👉 ​𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒖𝒃𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒎𝒑: When the Executive stops "greasing the wheels" with pre-consultation, the friction becomes visible. The MPs look like fools because they are being forced to justify the unjustifiable without the usual political cover.

⛔👉 ​𝑰𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑯𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒐𝒔: For the first time, we see state agencies like the FIA and BOU openly opposing the government. This "confusion" is actually a rare moment of transparency. The myth of the monolithic, all-knowing state is dead.

⛔👉 ​𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒑: Historically, MPs ignored the "aspirations of the people" because the Executive gave them a safety net. That net is gone. The Executive has effectively thrown the MPs under the bus, forcing them to face angry stakeholders like Makerere and the banks.

As a matter of fact, the "Consultation Subsidy" evaporated today when the Bank of Uganda Governor made his submission. The Executive is no longer willing to protect Parliament from the consequences of bad lawmaking, and it will embarrass them alone.

Seeing the "Big Heads" struggle to explain a bill that even their own agencies hate isn't just "ugly"; it’s the most honest legislative session Uganda has had in a decade.

​The mask is off. The facilitators are quiet. And for once, the MPs are as confused as the people they represent. Enjoy the show.

[Bank of Uganda @BOU_Official]

"Chairman, a country without reserves is not sovereign. The potential of this Bill to destabilize Uganda’s balance of payments is our primary concern as a central bank. For example, last financial year the overall balance of payment surplus was USD 1.5 billion. That’s how we were able to increase our reserve coverage by USD 1.5 billion. Today as we speak our reserves are close to USD 6 billion. Why? Because these inflows have been coming in. The moment you tamper with these inflows here, we risk running down our reserves, and that is economic disaster for a country.” Governor Atingi-Ego on the Protection of Sovereignty Bill 2026 in an appearance before Parliament today.

[The New Vision @newvisionwire]

Ugandans spend 33.5% of their income on rent — Report

Findings revealed that the average monthly rent is around sh233,500, which takes up about 33.5% of a household’s income. “This is higher than the recommended level of 30%, by the United Nations Habitat, meaning that rent is generally unaffordable for many households,” Betty Namazzi, the EOC’s senior monitoring and evaluation officer, said while presenting the findings.

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#VisionUpdates

[ChimpReports @ChimpReports]

World Bank to Finance Uganda SGR Project - #Featured
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[Blackish Press @blackishpress]

Taraji P. Henson says that after the Oscars night in 2008—for which she had been nominated—had passed, her phone stopped ringing; there were no invitations for roles or anything, and then Tyler Perry called, offering her the lead role in the film ‘I Can Do Bad All by Myself’

“I remember when I got nominated for the Oscar, you know, the Oscar run is crazy. The phone is ringing. You got to be here. You got to be there. And then the day after the Oscars, the phone stops ringing. It's weird because it's like your nervous system is shocked because you're so used to going in and all of a sudden, nothing. And all the best invitations and all the things. Gone. No phone calls. You know who called me? This man right here [Tyler Perry]. For a leading role, not supporting. A leading role. People started asking me on my team, ‘why are you going to do a Tyler Perry movie?,’ No one called to offer me a number one position in the film. He did. And then told me what to ask for. Gave me a quote when I didn't have a quote.

And so to this day, I don't care how big I get. I don't care how many awards I win. Whenever he calls, I'm there.”

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