On 5th June 2026, my young brother, tribesman and teammate @GongodyoSidney at @piratesrugbyUG was murdered. Not killed in an accident or lost to illness but MURDERED by a mob in a cowardly, senseless, extra-judicial attack. I am furious and deeply, deeply disappointed in my fellow Ugandans.
Let us be clear about what happened. A group of goons and hooligans took it upon themselves to end an innocent human life with complete impunity. Do NOT call it mob justice, as calling it justice is to justify it! There is NO justice in what they did. No one, absolutely NO ONE, has the power or the right to take the life of another. LIFE is SACRED. What happened to Sydney was an act of TERRORISM.
Sydney was a young man with a promising future ahead of him. He had sights on one day Captaining his mighty club and the Nation. He was also a father to a young son whom he hoped to raise but all of that was stolen from him in the most brutal and senseless way. This was not just an attack on Sydney Gongodyo the individual, it was and still is an attack on Rugby, an attack on SPORT and every single one of us in this fraternity.
To his young family, I am so sorry. The pain you carry is one no family should ever have to bear. The loss of Sydney leaves an indelible mark, a wound that words cannot heal. He did not deserve this. He deserved to live, to play, to lead and become everything he was destined to be.
I therefore call upon @Educ_SportsUg@NCSUganda1@UgandaRugby and the entire Sports fraternity of Uganda to stand up and DEMAND JUSTICE for Sydney Gongodyo. This was an illegal killing carried out with the kind of impunity this Government came into Power to END so we cannot be SILENT.
Extra-judicial killings like this one do not just take a life, they take us back as a Country to some of our darkest times in history. Every Ugandan must take this personally because a mob has no criteria, so it could have been any of us and it can still be any of us.
The murderers must be identified, paraded publicly and have their case heard in an open mobile court, the same way Justice was delivered for the innocent Children who were brutally murdered by a one Okello Christopher Onyum in Ggaba. Let such elements be an example. Let it be known across Uganda that Acts of Terror disguised as Mob Action SHALL NOT BE TOLERATED. NOT NOW, NOT EVER!
This is not only about Sydney, this is for every Ugandan who has ever suffered at the hands of a mob, every family torn apart by extra-judicial violence and every life cut short before its TIME. We owe it to all of them to make sure Sydney's death is not in vain.
@KagutaMuseveni@JanetMuseveni@mkainerugaba@norbertmao@OgwangOgwang@KamuntuProf@MercyLakiskis
JUSTICE FOR SYDNEY GONGODYO!!โค๏ธ๐ดโโ ๏ธ
#JusticeForSydney #Justice4Gongodyo #BlackPirates #UgandaRugby #EndMobattacks #Uganda
Absolutely unfortunate!
@PoliceUg@mkituuma this incident should NOT be buried with Sydney!
We need all the perpetrators brought to book!
I salute the rugby fraternity and well-wishers. Letโs keep pushing until justice is seen to be served!
@UgandaRugby
Dear @Uber,
Do you know this guy?
Is he one of your riders?
Heโs wanted here in Uganda for participating in mob justice that led to the killing of a celebrated national rugby star.
If you do, kindly hand him over to @PoliceUg#JusticeForGongodyo
If you took part in, recorded, cheered on and/or are an accomplice to this mob action, I advise you to turn yourself in at the Kira road police station and volunteer all the information you have ๐๐ฝ
Let us be honest: the issue is not that medical interns are too many.
It is not that Uganda has no money.
It is that medical interns are not being treated as a priority.
Consider the choices being made:
โข Parliament keeps growing.
Parliamentโs budget reportedly doubled to about ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ญ. ๐ฎ ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐น๐น๐ถ๐ผ๐ป. The money going to 529 MPs rose from about ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฏ in 2020/21 to ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฐ.๐ฐ๐ฏ in 2026/27, an increase of about ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฐ.๐ฐ๐ฏ.
What direct return does this give the common Ugandan in a crowded hospital?
โข Two offices alone tell the story.
The Speaker and Deputy Speaker offices had about ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ณ.๐ญ๐ฏ combined in 2020/21. In 2026/27, they stand at about ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ฑ๐ฌ.๐ฎ๐ฏ , an increase of about ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ฐ๐ฏ.๐ญ๐ฏ for only two offices.
That increase alone can pay ๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฌ interns ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐บ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ต ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฎ ๐ณ๐๐น๐น ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ, with money left.
โข Questionable spending continues.
In 2025/26, selected Speakerโs office lines reportedly included ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ฎ.๐ฐ๐ฏ for foreign travel, ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฒ๐บ for fuel, ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ฐ.๐ด๐ฏ for incapacity, death benefits and funeral expenses, and ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ฑ.๐ฎ๐ฏ for donations. Total: about ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ญ๐ฐ.๐ฎ๐ฏ. What lasting public health return does this produce compared with doctors on wards?
โข RDC structures are being funded.
Uganda reportedly has 146 RDCs, 170 Deputy RDCs and 432 Assistant RDCs, total 748 officials. Their proposed salary enhancement requires an extra ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ฎ๐ต.๐ฌ๐ณ๐ต๐ฏ every year.
Add the reported ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ฏ for LC I to LC V political leader facilitation, and that is about ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ฑ๐ต๐ฏ. In what way does this benefit the common Ugandan?
โข Donations are funded.
State House donations reportedly consumed ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฏ over seven financial years. In 2023/24 alone, donations were budgeted at ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ญ๐ด.๐ญ๐ฏ, but actual spending reached ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ด๐ฌ.๐ญ๐ด๐ฏ. If tens and hundreds of billions can be found for donations, how does ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ to ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฏ for over 2,000 medical interns become impossible?
โข Health was not protected with the same urgency.
The Ministry of Health vote fell from about ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ญ. ๐ฒ๐ต๐ฏ ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐น๐น๐ถ๐ผ๐ป in FY2023/24 to about ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ญ. ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฐ ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐น๐น๐ถ๐ผ๐ป in FY2024/25, a reduction of about ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฏ. Even the 2025/26 estimate of ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ญ.๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฐ ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐น๐น๐ถ๐ผ๐ป remains below the 2023/24 level. Yet health is the sector that directly touches mothers in labour, accident victims, children with malaria, emergency patients and families in public hospitals.
Now compare:
โข 2,000 interns ร Shs1m ร 12 months = ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ per year
โข 2,500 interns ร Shs1m ร 12 months = ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ฏ per year
โข 3,000 interns ร Shs1m ร 12 months = ๐ฆ๐ต๐ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฏ per year
Even using the Ministry of Healthโs own gross figure of Shs15.6m per intern per year, the reported 2,706 eligible interns would require about Shs42.2b. That is still small compared with what is being found for political comfort and administrative expansion.
That money is not a handout.
โจ It avails doctors on wards.
โจ It keeps emergency units covered.
โจ It supports maternity care.
โจ It fills staffing gaps in regional referrals.
โจ It protects patients.
So let us stop pretending.
This is not a numbers problem.
This is not a money problem.
It is a priority problem.
Medical interns are doctors under apprenticeship, not free labour!
#InternsNotSlaves
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The burden of heart disease in Uganda is steadily rising, with specialists warning that lifestyle-related conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes stroke and heart attacks are increasingly affecting younger populations.
@MugenyiHenry_#NBSLiveAt9#NBSUpdates
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.
The Government of Uganda notes with concern inaccurate reports on Ebola. Current facts show only 8 confirmed cases with all contacts identified, listed and under active follow-up. I urge all media and citizens to rely only on official @MinofHealthUG updates. @UgandaMediaCent