Kampala Charlie

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[Kampala Charlie @chakamp52]

Aya bas!!!! Everyone should contribute towards the collective social/ public good. This is great.

[KAA (Kampala Associated Advocates) @KAAdvocates]

TAX LAW ALERT: For all Influencers, digital creators and entertainers: your next gig comes with a tax deduction as Government expands the tax base.
Anyone paying a singer, actor, comedian, influencer or digital creator for a public or filmed appearance must now withhold 6% of the gross payment and remit it to URA.
For resident individuals, the 6% withholding tax is final. The compliance obligation falls on the event organisers, brands, broadcasters. The interesting bit is that the material on the online platforms and the online/ digital content may be the very material/ information that will be the basis and evidence for the tax enforcement.
https://t.co/LhfXMl35ds

[Kampala Charlie @chakamp52]

When passengers get injuries or fatal accidents, such voices will either keep quiet or ask what the Government is doing to regulate the public transport sector. You can't eat an omlette without breaking some eggs. Full speed ahead @MoWT_Uganda

[UBC UGANDA @ubctvuganda]

"This crackdown on taxis has somehow inconvenienced us. Yes, the crackdown is necessary, but what alternative has the government put in place" - Affected Commuters

#UBCNews | https://t.co/NGKUVQ6iXf

[UBC UGANDA @ubctvuganda]

"This crackdown on taxis has somehow inconvenienced us. Yes, the crackdown is necessary, but what alternative has the government put in place" - Affected Commuters

#UBCNews | https://t.co/NGKUVQ6iXf

[Kampala Charlie @chakamp52]

Kampala roads are slowly getting orderly. We want more of theae actions by @MoWT_Uganda @PoliceUg @HonByamukama & Winstone Katushabe.

[Mwami lu @lulanzeashirafu]

Traffic Police is also doubling it's effort of putting it's house in Order just like how Minister Balaam is doing it. The traffic police is now concentrating more on seizing government vehicles which are breaking traffic laws.

Now most of the government institutions are putting their houses in order including the Ministry of works and transport, Ministry of Gender Labour and Social Development, KCCA, etc.
NTV Uganda report.

Kisanja NO more SLEEP and NO more CORRUPTION.

[Kampala Charlie @chakamp52]

@amronaldo first sit this issue out and leave the @MoWT_Uganda people & the @PoliceUg team to cook!!! At least some people are in the arena doing something while you are full of lamentations about every solution to legitimate public safety issues. Chill & give a benefit of doubt

[Ronald Amanyire @amronaldo]

One of the biggest problems in this country is pretending to work when we are not working. And this cuts across every sector. We manufacture drama to appease the public, inflate minor issues into national crises, and then congratulate ourselves for “action” that has no measurable impact.

Posting pictures of extremely dilapidated taxis is a perfect example. Those wrecks represent an extreme minority, not the actual condition of the broader fleet. Turning them into a national spectacle is shallow.

We will make zero progress in any sector if performing work becomes the new normal.

And even the current crackdown raises fundamental questions:

1. What happens after impoundment

If you impound taxis and park them at Police Stations or other yards, what is the next step?
What is the repair pathway?
What is the release protocol?
What is the re‑inspection requirement?
No one is saying.

2. What was actually inspected

What exactly was inspected and found dysfunctional to declare a taxi “dangerous”?
Where is the engineering checklist?
Where is the certified report?
Where is the standard?

Without this, enforcement is guesswork and subjective (one of the main causes of corruption - subjectivity)

3. Are Taxis even the real Killers

How many people in Kampala actually die because of taxis?
Yes, taxis should be cleaner.
Yes, they should be better maintained.
But are they the primary cause of death due to road crashes?
The data does not support that narrative.

4. The real threat is boda bodas by an extremely large margin

While we dramatise taxis, people will continue jumping onto the most dangerous mode of transport in the city (boda bodas) and die in large numbers.
This is the real public health emergency.
This is where the fatalities are.
This is where the chaos is.
This is where the regulatory vacuum is.

5. So what is the main objective?

If the objective is safety, then the current approach is misaligned.
If the objective is optics, then the current approach is perfect.
But Uganda cannot afford optics anymore.
We need engineering, standards, enforcement, and truth but not performance.

We cannot fix transport by pretending.
We cannot fix safety by posing.
We cannot fix public confidence by staging.

Until the country stops rewarding the appearance of work instead of the results of work, every sector, including transport, will remain stuck in the same cycle of noise, drama, and stagnation.

[Ronald Amanyire @amronaldo]

One of the biggest problems in this country is pretending to work when we are not working. And this cuts across every sector. We manufacture drama to appease the public, inflate minor issues into national crises, and then congratulate ourselves for “action” that has no measurable impact.

Posting pictures of extremely dilapidated taxis is a perfect example. Those wrecks represent an extreme minority, not the actual condition of the broader fleet. Turning them into a national spectacle is shallow.

We will make zero progress in any sector if performing work becomes the new normal.

And even the current crackdown raises fundamental questions:

1. What happens after impoundment

If you impound taxis and park them at Police Stations or other yards, what is the next step?
What is the repair pathway?
What is the release protocol?
What is the re‑inspection requirement?
No one is saying.

2. What was actually inspected

What exactly was inspected and found dysfunctional to declare a taxi “dangerous”?
Where is the engineering checklist?
Where is the certified report?
Where is the standard?

Without this, enforcement is guesswork and subjective (one of the main causes of corruption - subjectivity)

3. Are Taxis even the real Killers

How many people in Kampala actually die because of taxis?
Yes, taxis should be cleaner.
Yes, they should be better maintained.
But are they the primary cause of death due to road crashes?
The data does not support that narrative.

4. The real threat is boda bodas by an extremely large margin

While we dramatise taxis, people will continue jumping onto the most dangerous mode of transport in the city (boda bodas) and die in large numbers.
This is the real public health emergency.
This is where the fatalities are.
This is where the chaos is.
This is where the regulatory vacuum is.

5. So what is the main objective?

If the objective is safety, then the current approach is misaligned.
If the objective is optics, then the current approach is perfect.
But Uganda cannot afford optics anymore.
We need engineering, standards, enforcement, and truth but not performance.

We cannot fix transport by pretending.
We cannot fix safety by posing.
We cannot fix public confidence by staging.

Until the country stops rewarding the appearance of work instead of the results of work, every sector, including transport, will remain stuck in the same cycle of noise, drama, and stagnation.

[Kampala Charlie @chakamp52]

Have you factored in the cost and danger to human life and safety. Let the DMCs be removed and the safe cars can then charge a commensurate rate. Things cannot continue like this!!!

[RonaldTumw @RonaldTumw]

@TonyNatif @MoWT_Uganda @HonByamukama Most people hanging taxi owners don't know the cost of maintaining a PSV on the road.
Those guys try their level best, everything is high from fuel to spares later alone taxes.Their is no spare cash to do everything to a customers perfection,it's not an SUV .

[Kampala Charlie @chakamp52]

The absurd state of affairs. The enforcement is definitely welcome and all Ugandans should welcome and support these measures. It is also welcome news for the Car Mechanics🤣🤣🤣

[Anthony Natif @TonyNatif]

This is why the new Minister at @MoWT_Uganda, @HonByamukama is calling for removal of such taxis from our roads.

Our safety is seriously in jeopardy with such contraptions ferrying thousands on a daily basis.

Ban them, bring back EPS, widen the roads, put street lights, enforce traffic rules, introduce the points penalty system and make it even more stringent for public transport companies.

[Anthony Natif @TonyNatif]

This is why the new Minister at @MoWT_Uganda, @HonByamukama is calling for removal of such taxis from our roads.

Our safety is seriously in jeopardy with such contraptions ferrying thousands on a daily basis.

Ban them, bring back EPS, widen the roads, put street lights, enforce traffic rules, introduce the points penalty system and make it even more stringent for public transport companies.

[Kampala Charlie @chakamp52]

@GCICUganda What happened to the Express Fines scheme? There is a lot of impunity on the roads that needs to be checked.

[Kampala Charlie @chakamp52]

Governnent of Uganda has moved in to control the transportation of large groups and learners across the country.

[Beinomugisha Ivan @Beinomugisha_]

Why is everyone saying they should stop the trips? The trips are not the problem, the challenge lies with the traffic officers who allowed that bus to reach that far and the school administrators who allowed pupils to board.

[Kampala Charlie @chakamp52]

@amronaldo I know the Kapchorwa terrain as well. Just don't rush to making assertions based on presumptions and imaginations as you did. I hope that this is not how you used to carry your work at the Ministry...Presumptive analysis and deductions!!!!

[Kampala Charlie @chakamp52]

Only you can somehow turn a tragedy (whose cause you have not ascertained) into a self serving egotistical and selfish narrative. Whatever your issues with your superiors, you can never be bigger than any institution. Let the families mourn in peace without self righteousness.

[Kampala Charlie @chakamp52]

This is someone who was at the scene of the incident...but no. Your story and prejudgment of what happened is the ultimate truth!!! Spare us your superiority complex. You are not the main cast in every story.

[Ronald Amanyire @amronaldo]

You’re commenting on a post about matters you clearly don’t understand. Road crashes in Uganda follow known patterns, the same way global crash patterns are well‑documented. I know the Kapchorwa terrain; you probably don’t. And after 26 years in this department, I know precisely where the system is broken. If my posts were driven by ego, the facts I present would have been challenged long ago.

[Kampala Charlie @chakamp52]

@qataharraymond What is the meaning?

[Kampala Charlie @chakamp52]

The definition of "within budget" is where the real challenge lies in.

[Mujuni Raymond @qataharraymond]

Kampala's housing supply consistently outpaces demand and yet the people looking for decent homes within budget remain many and underserved; we may have a market correction event on the way very soon! Or this dizzyingly complex puzzle will need explanation.

[Kampala Charlie @chakamp52]

Your Leadership is acting illegally without any mandate from your members according to @FERDINANDIUS. You have no moral standing to critique others @IsaacSsemakadde.

[Uganda Law Society @ug_lawsociety]

Silence of “The Lawyer’s Lawyer” Screams Loud: Open Letter to the Radical New Bar

Distinguished Colleagues,

MEA CULPA.

The man who called himself “The Lawyer’s Lawyer” while seeking to represent us on the 7th Judicial Service Commission no longer speaks for this Bar.

On 15 June 2026, a UPDF commando unit stormed the home of our brother, Senior Advocate Ssalongo Hajji Erias Lukwago, former Lord Mayor and iconic defender of the Constitution, and abducted him. State impunity, in broad daylight, broadcast live for maximum psyop effect.

“The Lawyer’s Lawyer” apparently saw nothing, heard nothing, and said nothing. His unforgivable silence screams loud.

In the euphoria of the September 28 Revolution, we set out to build structures of hope. We reached out to the more humane elements among regime sympathizers, seeking middle ground for the future of our noble profession.

Instead, we nearly traded the integrity of the Bar for transactional gain.

Having learned this, we issued Executive Order RNB No. 6 of 2025, proclaiming the end of performative professional neutrality in an era of militarized politics.

The Uganda Law Society, under the Radical New Bar Governing Council, is no longer neutral.

There is no neutrality in a militarized state.

I regret my attempt to serve as a bridge-builder between defenders of the rule of law and the Doubting Thomases, “pragmatists,” and fence-sitters. That attempt at an alliance has failed. I disassociate completely. I was wrong to associate with Elison Karuhanga @elisonk.

Neutrality Fallacy

Karuhanga and I have not spoken since Boxing Day 2025. He called me at 4:30pm East African Time. We spoke for 49 minutes.

He told me he was under immense pressure from undisclosed quarters to publicly disassociate from the RNB after Executive Order No. 6 of 2025.

I failed to persuade him not to issue that apology for a neutral Bar.

After all, the role of the Judicial Service Commission is to select the best and brightest among us, grounded in the truth that the Judiciary is the guardian of constitutionalism, and to place them in an environment worthy of that duty.

The Radical New Bar selects its representative to the Judicial Service Commission on one basis: that the person is themselves qualified to understand this.

The fact that Karuhanga can now be found preaching “neutrality” in the middle of a military coup on the Constitution proves he has been misrepresenting us. And misleading himself.

He subsequently parted ways with the RNB in a cowardly op-ed published in the New Vision, insisting the Uganda Law Society “should remain neutral” while people were being abducted and military officers glorified impunity on X.

This was never about doctrine. The fracture laid bare the real fault line between us: the temptation of proximity to Establishment power versus the Bar’s sacred duty to the wananchi and the rule of law.

Where was the robust defense of professional sanctity by "The Lawyer’s Lawyer” when one of our own was dragged away, tortured, and brazenly mocked by the UPDF Chief of Defence Forces?

Selective muteness in the face of tyranny is not neutrality; it is complicity dressed in procedural robes.

Bridge-Building Fallacy

For years, regime apologists have told us: “The problem is that we have not built strong enough bridges between the people, the wananchi, and the military-dynasty, the establishment.”

That notion is wrong. Power in Uganda is not a conversation or a fair debate between equals. It is the gun versus the law.

Associating with elites and careerists deeply embedded as strategists for CDF Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba and allied military networks hellbent on subverting the Constitution was not bridge-building. It was an invitation to co-option.

In hindsight, it was misguided optimism bordering on hubris.

Bridges imply reciprocity and shared foundations. What we face today is not a river to cross but a fortress that extracts loyalty while offering sinecures.

”The Lawyer’s Lawyer” easily found his voice for a New Vision op-ed on neutrality, and for extraordinarily detailed analysis on Spaces on X.

He has yet to find it to defend the inviolability of the Bar after the Chief of Defence Forces called for its destruction on 15 June 2026.

His silence screams loud.

Why?

The dynasty does not seek partnerships; it seeks instruments. We erred in imagining otherwise.

Therefore, RNB must break from illusions of access. Our duty is to the wananchi, to the rule of law, and to the Republic.

A dictatorship is a raincloud that will soak everyone. Even those seeking shelter under the roof of the Dictator will be washed out by the subsequent  floodwaters that will find them there.

Either be firm in the struggle, or don’t join it. This is not a career path.

We ask for the prayers and support of all steadfast lawyers, and the wananchi, that we do not make the Karuhanga mistake again.

Isaac K. Ssemakadde, SC
Your Exiled Leader

#ResistLawlessness #LawyersStrike26June
#ULSAt70 #FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners
#BangTheTable #BackOnTrack #RNBVision2060

@ntvuganda @nbstv @nilepostnews @ubctvuganda @newvisionwire @observerug @ugandarn @mkainerugaba

[Kampala Charlie @chakamp52]

"Since then ULS has been under the dictatorial regime that shouldn’t be the one to raise issues of dictatorship" Chei @FERDINANDIUS. You have banged @IsaacSsemakadde table. So this dude is illegally leading @ug_lawsociety??? Uganda is a mess

[Random World Ψ @randomworldke]

20 years in Germany:

One of the worst mistakes Kenyans make abroad is to go with same Kenyan mentality.

There is a reason Germans have 1 to 2 kids. If you continue like that, you better be ready to retire their with nothing. 4 children is not a joke abroad 😳.