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[Riri🇺🇬 @AndyRitah]

This is how I'm surviving in Uganda. I take breaks from this app because this is where I get updates on whatever is going on in this country. 2-3 day breaks have helped me retain my sanity and calm my soul.

[I M A N @TweetsbyIman]

If you don’t take breaks from Uganda’s politics plus whatever is happening in the country it can drive you mad but if you go completely silent, your conscience doesn’t let you rest either.

[Arinaitwe Rugyendo, PhD🇺🇬 @RugyendoQuotes]

Uganda Govt owes medical interns UGX 23bn. Yet by July,l 2026, UGX 189bn will go to MPs' cars & UGX 120bn to ministers' cars. Some political class doesn't use public hospitals; so they don't feel this crisis. My ailing auntie in Kyemamba does. #PayMedicalInterns #InternsNotSlaves

[Riri🇺🇬 @AndyRitah]

@LemodeMorgan Good thing I'm not religious so heaven & hell don't exist in my world 🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭

[Riri🇺🇬 @AndyRitah]

Born Again churches in residential areas are a pandemic.

[Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) @KCCAUG]

Talk to us and our teams will swing into action!

#ForALivableCity

[Dr. Sserunjogi Emma @DrSerunjogiEmma]

Thanks to all non medical institutions, tweeps and activists for joining the medical interns' plea.

It's the Uganda we believe in, where we all feel each others pain, even when it benefits you or doesn't.

There's a silver lining after all.🙏🙏🙏

[Beewol @beewol]

Regime change.

[Serena Williams @serenawilliams]

I changed my mind.

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

Throwback from 2021
#PayMedicalInterns

[Daily Monitor @DailyMonitor]

"In the negative Monitor (@DailyMonitor) newspaper, there is an article by an individual known as Gawaya Tegulle who is always writing mendaciously and maliciously, saying that Uganda has been wandering in the desert for 40 years like the children of Israel. Those who are wandering in the desert are partly among those who listen to those liars. If you listen to the liars, you'll wander in the desert. It is true that many leaders do not amplify this message of how people can get out of poverty. However, those who do have changed their lives,"- President @KagutaMuseveni during #SONAUG26.
Here's @gawayategulle's full article:
👉https://t.co/m50t4iekXO
#MonitorUpdates

[Dr. Christon A.K Rweshakyira @Dr_Chris_Twine]

As a Senior Consultant, the reason I haven't raised my voice is simple:
When the interns are gone, I will gladly show up at 5AM, clerk 80 patients, draw the blood, and run the night calls myself.
I am superhuman. Obviously.

As a Senior Nursing Officer, the reason I am silent is obvious:
I have no problem running three wards alone, fixing lines, tracking vitals, delivering babies, doing the paperwork.
I don't need hands. I have dedication.

As a Policymaker, the reason I haven't spoken is elegant:
The interns are a budget problem I solved by terming the students.
My children are not doing internship in Uganda, after all.

As a Patient, the reason I haven't complained is clear:
Even if the doctor cutting me open has worked 36 hours without food, just cut me open and take the baby out.
Hunger sharpens the hands. Everyone knows this.

As a Citizen, the reason I am unbothered is rational:
None of my children is a medic.
I have my pastor.
The system runs on miracles. Always has.

This policy is brilliant.
Let's all stay quiet and watch the magic happen.

[Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda @SsemujjuIN]

As a journalist, I have had to listen to boring Museveni speeches for 13 years, and as an MP for 15 years and because I am invited on TVs and radios, this burden is not about to go away. Immagine this afternoon he is wondering why Ugandans go for kyeyo in Dubai which Amin gave food during his reign. According to the 2024 population census, 20 million of the 46 million Ugandans are food insecure, 5.6 million homes still sleeping in one room house, 28 million people using firewood as main source of energy and 14 million people about 31% of the population don’t have two sets of clothes. The economy he has built for 41 years cannot employ 1.7 million people with degrees, diplomas and certificates!

[Riri🇺🇬 @AndyRitah]

He's so tone deaf🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[NTV UGANDA @ntvuganda]

People go to work in Dubai, but what are you going to do there, in a desert? You leave paradise here and go to work in those places. It is poor leadership and ignorance from people who are not rooted. I am rooted here. -@KagutaMuseveni, President of Uganda
#NTVNews
#SONA26

[Joel Roy Mucunguzi @M_____i_JR]

They’re arresting protesters for very mild statements about regime sycophants but this fella just threatens terrorism and no one bats an eyelid!

We’re such an interesting bunch!

[NUP Podcast @NupPodcast]

Did you know that despite his popularity in the Democratic Party, Zohran Mamdani can never run for President of the United States? Neither could the legendary Henry Kissinger, one of the most influential figures in American foreign policy.
The reason is simple: neither was a natural-born citizen of the United States.
In other words, countries place restrictions on who can occupy certain high offices, not because they dislike immigrants or dual nationals, but because they consider those offices uniquely tied to questions of sovereignty, allegiance, and national security.
Most arguments being advanced in defence of Prof. Muganga's nomination miss this critical point, albeit deliberately, and choose to ride the tribal horse. They know (or ought to know) very well that this is not merely a political debate. It is a legal question, and one grounded in constitutional principles that Uganda deliberately adopted after extensive national reflection. (Read CA debates).
Indeed, Uganda’s constitution provides for dual citizenship (but have you wondered why it took almost 20 years to realise it?). Article 15 permits Ugandans to retain citizenship of another country. However, Article 15(7) specifically empowers Parliament to prescribe offices that can’t be held by dual citizens. Parliament subsequently did exactly that, listing among the restricted offices the President, Vice President, Prime Minister, and Cabinet Ministers.
Certain positions at the apex of state power require undivided legal allegiance to the country. This is not unique to Uganda. Many countries impose restrictions in one form or another. Imagine having a minister who swore an oath of allegiance to a different/another country. What happens when the time to stand by that oath comes?
Those attempting to turn this into a tribal contest are avoiding the real issue. The question before us is not whether Prof. Muganga is accomplished, intelligent, or capable. It is whether he met the constitutional and statutory requirements for appointment to the office for which he had been nominated.
And lastly, what NUP is saying to Prof Muganga and others who were illegally passed today is that it’s not enough to write a letter stating that you renounce a certain country’s citizenship, the process has to be complete, there has to be evidence of acknowledgment or grant of renunciation from that country, the same way you don’t write a letter asking for citizenship and automatically become a citizen of country, there has to be evidence that you have been granted that citizenship.

[Zong Feng @mark_keron]

A Canadian passport is worth maybe $80k/year in job opportunities.

One ministerial signature on a forest concession, a lake lease, or a convention centre land deal is worth generational wealth.

These guys don't serve the public ,they ARE the public tender.

You know that minister who signed off on the convention centre land grab? Go check his net worth before and after. (Michael Jackson numbers).

The man moonwalked straight into a new tax bracket.

"Commitment to public service" is just the press release.

The real currency is access , to forests, lakes, minerals, and land that belongs to 40 million people but signs with one pen.

The fastest millionaires on earth aren't in Silicon Valley.
They're in Cabinet of 3rd worlds

[Riri🇺🇬 @AndyRitah]

@ZeeroBrain 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭

[Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda @SsemujjuIN]

Three nominees; Shartis Kutesa Musherure, Adonia Ayebare and Calvin Echodu with duo citizenship were approved by Parliament on the ground that they have commenced process to renounce other citizenships. What will stop Parliament in future from approving a nominee who files documents to prove, he/she has registered to sit senior six. The three should have been thrown out together with Prof. Lawrence Muganga.

[Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda @SsemujjuIN]

The school size 82 ministers Museveni cabinet has been approved. However, Janet Kataha Museveni’s approval has been deffered. Speaker told appointments committe, her office says she will appear in person at an appropriate time. She had wanted to be vetted on zoom. I have read here some comments to the effect that I’m obsessed with Museveni. How can I not be? In just this cabinet, he has appointed blood relatives. His wife, Janet Museveni, his niece Desire Muhooza who is Saleh’s daughter, his son’s sister in-law Shartsi Kutesa Musherure who is also a niece to Kataha, Henry Tumukunde who marries Janet Kataha’s cousin[Tumukunde’s son also marries Museveni’s other daughter) Jim Muhwezi who marries Janet Museveni’s cousin, Bright Rwamirama, who is also a relative. His son Muhoozi Kainerugaba is the CDF who is now appointing Parliamentary Speaker and deputy, his brother Salim Saleh is like a Co-President. As Ugandans, we must collectively be obsessed with this state of affairs. Maybe then we can gather courage and do something about it

[wes @weskambale]

i still don't understand how the issue of citizenship still plays a lot of people in this country

uganda does not have automatic citizenship by birth, also known as jus soli (birthright citizenship)

jus soli means that anyone born within the territory of a country automatically becomes a citizen of that country

this is the model used by the united states

in the us, whether the parents are visitors, students, tourists, conference attendees, or simply transitin' through the country, a child born on us soil generally acquires us citizenship at birth under the 14th amendment

this is why your ministers and big people take their wives to the us to give birth, those kiddos come back as us citizens

uganda, however, relies on citizenship by descent also known as jus sanguinis

under the 1995 constitution and the uganda citizenship and immigration control act, citizenship is generally traced through one's parents, grandparents, or ancestry rather than merely the place of birth

a child could be born in kasese today to congolese or south sudanese parents and that kiddo would not automatically be a ugandan citizen simply because they were born in uganda

unless the parents are already ugandan citizens, have acquired citizenship through naturalization or registration, or the child qualifies under another constitutional provision, birth on ugandan soil alone does not confer citizenship

that is why citizenship verification often requires establishin' a family connection to people who belonged to the indigenous communities present within uganda's borders as of february 1, 1926, or provin' citizenship through other constitutional and statutory pathways

simply being born in uganda does not automatically make someone a ugandan citizen

if it did, every child born in uganda to refugees, expatriates, tourists, students, diplomats, or temporary residents would automatically become a citizen

it is also important to note that possessin' a national id does not, by itself, conclusively determine citizenship

the authority to determine, grant, recognize, or revoke citizenship is established under the constitution and citizenship laws

nira's primary mandate is registration and identification

so while a national id is powerful evidence used in daily life for votin', employment, bankin', government services, and public transactions, it is not the final legal authority on citizenship status

that is why we've many instances where individuals possess national ids, vote in elections, apply for government jobs, and conduct official business, yet still face additional scrutiny when applyin' for a passport

a passport is the ultimate legal document that says you're truly a citizen, of course, with an exception where we now sell passports to foreign criminals

namalhaba 👋

[Riri🇺🇬 @AndyRitah]

@ZeeroBrain

[Riri🇺🇬 @AndyRitah]

He's right though.

[Daily Monitor @DailyMonitor]

Uganda Martyrs were traitors, says Mayiga.
Katikkiro Mayiga in an interview with the Monitor, said that the present-day martyrs were traitors #MonitorUpdates https://t.co/PviCcdikeo