RICH K. OBAZ

[RICH K. OBAZ @RB_Rich2001]

@kasujja I miss the one liner Press Releases?!

[RICH K. OBAZ @RB_Rich2001]

@FERDINANDIUS @JackieAkampwera @kandihoarthur05 what Would Jesus DO???!!!

[RICH K. OBAZ @RB_Rich2001]

@ArcSadam God is good. Glad you were courageous. You are your family's heroe...

[RICH K. OBAZ @RB_Rich2001]

@Fechulo https://t.co/x4JmvNWfm6

[RICH K. OBAZ @RB_Rich2001]

@SimonKaggwaNjal @ug_lawsociety Okole ki?!

[RICH K. OBAZ @RB_Rich2001]

@UGLawyer The bandits....

[RICH K. OBAZ @RB_Rich2001]

@DenisDukeUG There is a future, the moment is just but transient. It is here and gone tomorrow. In Christ, the future and present find their manifestation. He is, was and is to come. Hallelujah!

[Dr. Bireete Sarah @SarahBireete]

JK akoze atya? 😊😊

Mr. President, we are tired…

A dysfunctional state will affect everyone #BakozeBatya

[Isaac Ssemakadde @IsaacSsemakadde]

REBELS: We are not neutral. #NoApology

[Cde. Noel T. Kalunda @NoelTK2015]

Let’s celebrate our national pride, as we add life to our days!
“I don't run to add days to my life, I run to add life to my days.”Ronald Ro
⁦@roadstriders23⁩ ⁦@gutsybunch⁩ ⁦⁦@surehikers2022⁩ ⁦@FastnFurious40⁩ @paceathletesc1 ⁦⁦@mutungomadbus⁩

[Uganda Law Society @ug_lawsociety]

INVITATION: The Radical New Bar Governing Council invites everyone to a consultative meeting with @nyulaw Prof. @SRjudgeslawyers under the following details;
Date: Wed 11 February 2026
Time: 2:00 PM (EAT)
Agenda: Virtual consultation on judicial appointment processes in African jurisdictions
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Minutes (2:00PM - 3:30PM EAT)

Link: https://t.co/qTyBpSfZo1
Meeting ID: 950 1414 8375
Passcode: 296248

#BangTheTable #BackOnTrack #RNBVision2060

[David Dack @DavidDack]

A lot of people run… but still hesitate to call themselves real runners.

And yeah, I’ve done that too.

I’m not a real runner, I just jog.

I’ve said that sentence more times than I want to admit. Sometimes I say it like it’s nothing. Like I’m just… explaining myself.

Which is weird when you actually stop and think about it.

If you lace up your shoes and go running… you’re running. That’s the whole job. There’s no fake version of putting one foot in front of the other and calling it a run.

But somehow we made it feel like you have to earn the word. Like there’s a checklist.

A certain pace.

A race medal.

A distance that sounds impressive.

Consistency without breaks.

A body that looks like a runner body.

And if you don’t tick enough of those… you kind of downgrade yourself. Not even out loud. Just inside.
That’s where it gets messy.

Because most of this gatekeeping doesn’t even come from other people. It comes from in your own head.

Miss a few weeks because life got busy? Then you come back and it’s like… you’re not allowed to claim it anymore.

Run slow?

Walk some hills?

Skip races because you’re tired, or injured, or just not there mentally?

Just a jogger.

I’ve heard runners say it like a confession. I’ve said it like a disclaimer.

And as a coach, I keep coming back to the same thing.

A real runner isn’t defined by pace, distance, or race results. It’s defined by choosing to run when life allows it. That’s it. That’s the line.

Some runners race.
Some train quietly.
Some are coming back from injury.
Some are just starting.
Some are rebuilding confidence one slow run at a time.

None of that makes anyone less real.

So I’m curious, and I want the honest version, not the clean version.

What made you finally feel like a runner?

Or do you still catch yourself saying, I’m not a real runner… I just ___???
#running

[Nyanjura Doreen Omutatina @DoreenNyanjura]

I hardly receive emails these days, even the phone calls have reduced, the invitations have dimmed.
#politicalreality: The emails were not being sent to Nyanjura, the phone calls were not being made to Nyanjura, the invitations were not for Nyanjura . They were emails, phone calls and invitations to the position that I am exiting in May!

NGOs that organize leadership sessions for those that emerge victorious after elections need to start putting more emphasis on training sessions for those that don’t emerge victorious. Society loves walking and moving along side winners, no matter how they won!

Very few people care about “losers” that are largely nursing wounds of defeat, they have debts and the future seems bleak.

I think our self appointed ambassadors that went to State House were looking for solace, unfortunately for them, they went to a wrong person and to a wrong place.

[RICH K. OBAZ @RB_Rich2001]

@SpireJim Yes

[Benon M. Gowa @BenonGowa]

It's an instructive ruling on:-

1. The adjudication framework for appeals from a Registrar's ruling to a Judge of the High Court;

2. Joinder of parties in civil proceedings; and

3. Joinder of causes of action in the same suit through amendment to the pleadings.

[RICH K. OBAZ @RB_Rich2001]

@nextradio_ug Amos Wekesa

[RICH K. OBAZ @RB_Rich2001]

@Rosethechosen Has he written an autobiography? Is there a biography of him?

[Rose Uwamahoro 🇺🇬 @Rosethechosen]

Today we profile Justice James Munange Ogoola.
Born as an only child on 15th August 1945 at Lumino, Busia. He attended Nabumali high school (O level) and Kings college Budi(A level). He graduated from Dar es salaam University with a Bachelor of law and obtained a master's degree from Columbia University in 1974. He also has a diploma in legal practice from LDC obtained in 1997.
Career:
• Ogoola worked as a state Attorney (legislative drafting) then senior Parliamentary draftsman in the department of first Parliamentary counsel at the Uganda Justice Ministry and the chambers of the Attorney General.
• He worked as a legal officer in the privy council office, at the Federal Department of Justice in ottawa, Canada.
• He was the first African to be appointed legal advisor at the International Monetary Fund in 1974 at IMF headquarters in Washington DC btn 1974 and 1978
• He worked as a legal officer at the IMF in Paris France from 1978 to 1980.
• As the legal officer responsible for African and middle east operations at the IMF headquarters in Washington DC from 1981 to 1988 and from 1991 till 1997.
He retired from IMF after 23 years of service.
He returned to Uganda and obtained a certification to the courts of Judicature in Uganda.
• Head of the commercial court in Uganda from 1999 until 2004.
• Member of the Judicial panel on National Referendum 2000
• In 2004 he was appointed Principal Judge, high court of Uganda replacing Justice Herbert Ntabgoba (RIP), a position he held until 2010.
• He represented the East African judiciary at the ministerial negotiations and drafting of the proposed East African Treaty with particular emphasis on the establishment of the East African Court of Justice.
He retired in 2010, and he was appointed chairperson of the Judicial reform committee of South Sudan in 2022.

Justice Ogoola has a knack for waxing poetic at the smallest opportunity. When he was asked to speak on the Rule of Law in Uganda, on the Rule of Law day, he divided the country's Judicial life into five ages.
1. The Rule of guile and intrigue. uganda under sir Kabaka Edward Muteesa, the storming of the kabaka's palace in 1966 and the seizure of power by then prime minister Milton Obote) he tagged Obote's regime as the rule of guile and intrigue
2. The Rule of chaos and anarchy.
Idi amins presidency was characterized by murder and dispatch, he knew not, cared not and gave no damn about the rule of law. Therefore tagging his regime as the rule of chaos and anarchy.
3. The Rule of tension.
He says the fourth,fifth and sixth presidents were all remarkable . He presented Binaisa as the one who was not allowed to appoint,deploy or reshuffle his caninet ministers, when he tried to do so he faced the rough end of the boot. Hence not the rule of law but the rule of puppet strings, not the age of reason, but the one of tension.
4. The Rule of kifuba
Following the controversial election of 1980,a "rag tag army of bandits" ran to the bush only to return to the city five years later wielding  the victorious  gun of war- with  which  they captured  power from  a duo  of largely  illiterate  army generals, who had themselves grabbed that same power a few months  before  from  the coup – prone  presidency of Dr. Milton  Obote. In all this, Justice Ogoola says, the lexicon of the day, the vocabulary of the age was military might, gun power and crude force. This, the ‘rule of kifuba not the rule of law.

[RICH K. OBAZ @RB_Rich2001]

@roxie_ug What loss are you bemoaning?!

[Patrick Oyulu @patrickoyulu]

TO FIX THAT RAT, PARLIAMENT MAY NEED A MARSHALL PLAN.

In 2008, when UB40 lit up Lugogo Stadium and belted out “There’s a rat in mi kitchen, what am I gonna do?”, the answer was obvious: fix that rat. The crowd went wild. So did two young men dancing like tomorrow had been cancelled -yours truly and Marshall Godfrey Alenyo Jr. It was reggae, rebellion, and rhythm. But as fate would have it, that song was less nostalgia and more prophecy.

Fast-forward to 2026. Marshall has spotted another rat -this time not in a kitchen, but in the mechanics of representation, debate, and delivery. He fixed one in Jonam County and emerged victorious as MP. Now he has his sights on a bigger one: the quality and conduct of debate in the 12th Parliament of Uganda. And yes, he intends to fix that rat too—by vying for Deputy Speaker of Parliament as an Independent.

This is not bravado. This is biography.

I have watched Marshall speak in rooms where the air thickens and people lean forward instinctively. You know the look -hand to mouth, head tilted, eyes locked in. It’s the look of people watching thought assemble itself in real time. A piano could fall outside and no one would flinch. That’s eloquence with authority.

From @Ngo_College1902 -where he was the default MC -to @Makerere as Guild Minister, to international platforms like the 2012 UK–Uganda Convention at the Troxy in East London, Marshall has done what great speakers do: make complex ideas feel inevitable. That day, a senior immigration officer calmly walked Ugandans through dual citizenship and the National ID rollout. The crowd was stunned. The speaker was Marshall Alenyo. Also in attendance was first lady @JanetMuseveni and speaker @RebeccaKadagaUG .

Add to that a career as a retired senior immigration officer, a Masters of Law in International Human Rights and Public Policy from University College Cork, and the instincts of a lawyer trained in evidence, equity, and rule of law. Yes, he is also famously known as The Legend MC -because leadership, like emceeing, is about reading the room, setting the tone, and knowing when to be firm.

Marshall is not naïve about the task ahead. He respects the eloquence of the incumbent Deputy Speaker, Hon. @Thomas_Tayebwa. But history shows that #Parliament thrives when it renews itself. Marshall often recalls the Constituent Assembly days -Wapakhabulo, Adoko Nekyon, Okullo Epak, Noble Mayombo -debates that rose above party and tribe, anchored in nationalism and pan-African purpose.

That spirit, he argues, needs revival.

So yes, this is a big rat. And yes, it will take a #MarshallPlan to fix it. Members in -the yet to be sworn in, 12th @Parliament_Ug may want to listen closely -because something is about to hit the floor.

His name is Marshall Godfrey Alenyo Jr, MP Elect #Jonam #Uganda @DailyMonitor @newvisionwire @nbstv @ntvuganda @UGIndependent