"We praise heroes everyday but there are those that we forget to praise: the women of this world.”- Lucky Dube. On this heroes day, my mind goes to these and and all women who are going through untold pain, fighting for a better Uganda. You’re my heroines. #GodBlessTheWoman
Pier Morgans 🗣️" The idea that Chelsea, after spending over £1 billion, are trying to take the moral high ground over us is equally absurd"
The way Olivia responded to him actually put him back in his place 😭💀💀
Incase she has plans of a wedding
I want to perform for free . Please tag her or anyone that can connect me to her . I want to be part of this vibe on her wedding day
Now that you’re all looking at my timeline for updates, let me use this chance to ask you kindly to retweet this shoe until it reaches the person in whose foot it fits!
FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!
1 Billion shillings in Shipping fees!
First, let's establish the numbers.
A basic Rolls-Royce Cullinan costs roughly $350,000 to $500,000 new. At current exchange rates that is approximately UGX 1.3 billion to 1.85 billion for the car itself.
Shipping from the UK to Mombasa or Dar es Salaam, then clearing and transporting to Kampala, plus Uganda Revenue Authority import duties which can hit 100% to 150% of the vehicle's customs value, means the total landed cost in Kampala could easily be UGX 3 billion to 5 billion or more depending on the model.
So if shipping and clearing alone is UGX 1 billion, you are probably looking at a car whose total cost to her driveway is somewhere between UGX 3 billion and 6 billion.
So, how rich do you need to be?
A sensible wealthy person does not spend more than 5% to 10% of their net worth on a depreciating luxury asset. Which means to comfortably absorb a UGX 1 billion shipping bill without flinching, you are probably sitting on a net worth of at least UGX 20 billion to 50 billion, roughly $5 million to $13 million.
In our Ugandan context that puts you in an extraordinarily thin layer of the population. We are talking about people whose wealth is not in salary but in land, large business empires, real estate portfolios, or government-adjacent accumulation, which in Uganda's current environment is a telling detail in itself.
To put it in painful perspective, UGX 1 billion in shipping fees alone is:
More than 50 years of income for an average Ugandan civil servant.
Enough to build and equip a decent rural health centre
Enough to pay school fees for hundreds of children through university
As you also prepare your declaration forms from all the polling stations of Masaka City. Justice Teko has already been guided on how to deal with that case.