Acholi

Realistic Optimist 🙅‍♂ Future FCCA | @redbullracing @NBA | Learner.. | Contrary to Popular Opinion.

[Ojok @OjokOkot_]

Gulu City has come a long way from where it once was. Those of us who were born and raised here are fortunate to witness this remarkable transformation. However, it is time to move beyond measuring progress solely through infrastructure, important as it is, and invest just as intentionally in people and their capacity. After all, what good are donor-funded roads if we do not have the skilled local workforce to maintain them? Sustainable development is not just about building infrastructure. It is about building people who can sustain and grow it.

📸 Credit:@UgandaMediaCent

[Acholi @__Odele]

@SpireJim @DrHilaryOkello They will discuss what the chief tells them to discuss

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

The Parliament of Ghana is currently discussing Artificial Intelligence (AI). And Parliament of Uganda …

[Wilfred Businge @MrBusinge]

Miria Matembe dared Muhoozi to raid her home and abduct her and see what her angels will do to him. She said her home is not fenced. Muhoozi, typical of his almighty character has unleashed the military to abduct her.

[CNN @CNN]

China has clinched the top spot on a list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, overtaking the United States for the first time since 2017 with a model powered by homegrown chips. https://t.co/Zwp7luM4iu

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

Dr Kizza Besigye, 21 years ago
~ July 11, 2005

[Acholi @__Odele]

@nickopiyo @nilepostnews 😂😂😂😂

[Tabz @NinyeTabz]

Let’s not be diverted. PLU is targeting on how leader of opposition can be removed from office which is not provided for in the law. (Legal minds can guide)

After passing the law, PLU will get an opposition legislator to move a censure motion against the Hon Joel Ssenyonyi!

[Joel Ssenyonyi @JoelSsenyonyi]

Eventually, we got onto another ferry which set off. Mid-way the journey on the lake, its operators got instructions to reverse and return to Bukakata landing site where we came from. Apparently, the ferries will not move to Kalangala for as long as I’m on board.

All other travelers have been stuck since morning, including those on board and the many others who have been waiting outside. I’ve now decided to disembark to stop the impasse, so that the ferries can transport the stranded travelers.
Very sad state of affairs!

[The Observer @observerug]

In @observerug

🔹Why the state fears lawyers Karua, Lukwago? Besigye was reportedly promised guaranteed bail if he were to drop the duo as his lawyers

🔹Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba: Ugandans gripped by fear of arrest

🔹How $9.7 million debt threatens Uganda’s local oil dream. Over 60 Ugandan subcontractors that helped construct the Tilenga Engineering, Procurement
and Construction (EPC) camp yet to get paid

🔹Besigye’s defence team under siege. Jailed, blocked, yet the trial goes on

🔹Old medicines offer new hope for cancer patients

🔹Yes, Women love money; men love sex. So meet halfway

🔹Ugandan businesses persevere through Ebola threat

[Nicholas Opiyo (Pronouns He/Him) @nickopiyo]

If, or should I say when, the current status quo changes in Uganda, we’ll have to live with its proponents.

Besides the very few members of the ruling elite who can flee the country, the vast majority of its supporters have nowhere else to go. Uganda is our only home. They, and their families, will be here.

It therefore behooves the supporters of the current establishment to take a long-term view, and to educate themselves, that patriotism is not a forced love of the country, but our ability to accommodate each other in our diversity - knowing that power is transient, a revolving door - and that our collective security lies in our abilities to accommodate each other.

Today’s Muhoozi’s are tomorrow’s Malyamungus (Amin’s dreaded henchman), today’s Birungis (now Otto -the (in)famous CMI) are tomorrow’s Rwakasis or Buturus (Obote’s vicious enforcers).

As Martin Luther King Jr. said, we must learn to live together as brothers (and sisters) or perish as fools.

[Mwami lu @lulanzeashirafu]

“I will not preside over a country where a Ugandan is killed and the authorities do not know who has killed him”

Y.K Museveni President addresses Security Officers. 1989.

[BENSON ONGOM @BenOngomTweets]

Gulu, Uganda!

📸 - @UgandaMediaCent

[Winnie Kiiza @WinnieKiiza]

I’m glad that Hon. @masabakarim declined to be bullied. This style of presiding over the House MUST stop. Parliament should not function as a rubber stamp. “Honourable” is not merely a title, it is a standard of conduct that must be upheld when presiding over the House. @ObothOboth

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Niger pulls out of International Criminal Court after calling it neo-colonialist https://t.co/dIgJWyfEsU

[Tabz @NinyeTabz]

THANK YOU UGANDA FOR STANDING WITH ME!
Five days of hell but you still stood for the truth, for freedom, for justice and for a better country!

Thank you my President @HEBobiwine and everyone that put together every piece of effort and prayer to realize my freedom!

Thank you!

[𝐎𝐥𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐏𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 @OTPipers]

🚨(🔴) 𝙊𝙁𝙁𝙄𝘾𝙄𝘼𝙇: Wayne Rooney will join the Manchester United coaching staff ahead of the 2026/27 season.

[@LaurenWhitwell]

[Daily Monitor @DailyMonitor]

.@otafiire_k ends wetland amnesty, orders arrest of corrupt officials

"If you are not a fish, a frog, a hippo, and a crocodile, what are you doing in the wetland?"
https://t.co/c82x6vPKJe

#MonitorUpdates

[Acholi @__Odele]

@YouTube what’s wrong with YouTube Premium?

[The Observer @observerug]

Lawyers: Uganda’s judiciary now treating Constitution like a museum piece

Ssekanjako argued that many judicial officers now begin with the seriousness of the offence rather than the constitutional right to liberty, reversing principles that have guided criminal justice for decades.

“The Constitution was not written to become a museum piece. Its provisions must continue to grow and respond to the demands of every generation. Human dignity evolves with society, and constitutional interpretation must evolve with it. If courts become hesitant to defend liberty, then the rights guaranteed on paper risk becoming promises that citizens cannot meaningfully enjoy,” he argued.

He cited former principal judge James Ogoola’s landmark interim bail ruling in Besigye’s 2005 case as one of the strongest judicial affirmations of liberty ever delivered in Uganda.

“Justice Ogoola made it very clear that it is the responsibility of the court to justify why an accused person should remain in custody,” Ssekanjako said.

“The duty is not on the accused to convince the court that they deserve freedom. The duty lies with the court to explain why liberty should continue to be taken away. That understanding places constitutional rights where they belong, at the centre of criminal justice.”

https://t.co/pCczShCgl6