Emmanuel Johnson Obbo

Husband. Catholic. NRM. Republican. Wild but Human.

[Emmanuel Johnson Obbo @EmmanuelObbo2]

@bkabumba @dfkm1970 Equity and Justice, wow. What is Uganda without Buganda. The young generation has a lot to do to unify Uganda. Insightful article otherwise.

[Emmanuel Johnson Obbo @EmmanuelObbo2]

@SimonWANYERA_ @ApassMarley My man, best of luck. Go represent. Politics is like football, today you play for PFF as I play for NRM, who knows tomorrow, we could all find selves playing for PLU or ANT.

[Dr Busingye Kabumba @bkabumba]

Kindly share this call from @huripec within your networks ~

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

While at Cambridge some years ago, I met Ugandans who were studying there - genetics, crop science, development studies, education, etc… I have kept contact with many of them. Some are in Uganda. Some returned after their studies but later left to other countries. Some never returned. The last two categories, were especially those who had solicited their own funding. On return, many struggled to fit in. Others felt that their expertise could not shine in institutional cultures of mediocrity. They were frustrated by mediocres - who tend to be the majority.

When a country adopts mediocrity, everyone is put at risk. Technical people (if employed) are supervised by clueless powerful relatives and friends of some above who ultimately determine what gets to be done or not. Scholarships at big universities that would have facilitated the best brains to think and innovate for the country end up being taken by their average relatives and friends - who return to mess things. Even when the cream succeed at getting scholarships on their own, they hardly find opportunity to shine - as the connected mediocre take first priority.

I have taught many students who only returned to university for papers (sometimes a BA) but were already occupying big offices. In class you would at times listen to the quality of their submissions and only wonder where such brains can take the country, yet they’re in charge! They are running things, with untold arrogance!

Countries that care where they want to go are very deliberate in selecting talent and utilising it. It is ideas that move and change the world - and that is our key deficit. Yet even the few good ideas are messed by the mediocres in offices. I imagine that if the first visit to the moon were to be in Uganda, certain people would still have insisted on fixing in their relative. A combination of putting clueless people in critical positions plus our breakdown in integrity is just but a sure way to national decay. Third world cancer - people who not only lack progressive ideas but they are also thieves.

[The Raila Odinga Amolo Foundation @RailaOdinga]

Thank you, President @KagutaMuseveni, for your encouragement, solidarity, and support.

[Yoweri K Museveni @KagutaMuseveni]

I am in Kenya today, attending the launch of Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga’s African Union Commission Chairmanship bid which we support.

[Emmanuel Johnson Obbo @EmmanuelObbo2]

@NUPInstitutions @DrBerlinerMD @MaserukaRobert @lubega_nsamba @MusiriDavid @Katereggakj @NUP_Ug @Allano56 @ivanssempijja2 @ShamimNambassa Comrade Musiri, has suffered. Imagine I see about 3 colleagues by his side who openly subscribe to NRM as well. Indeed we are one just during day some are red and at night they put on yellow.

[TUSIIME SERAH 🇺🇬 @SeraTheActivist]

@ntvuganda Nobody is criticizing the innovation, we only talk about bad timing. We can't spend all that money just because of sittings when Medical interns are home crying because you claim you don't have resources. No wonder when you get flu, you run to abroad 🚮🚮😏

[Emmanuel Johnson Obbo @EmmanuelObbo2]

@Patrioticleagu Bambi. I feel the pain.

[Emmanuel Johnson Obbo @EmmanuelObbo2]

@xephas_official @AKasingye But Cephas. ...hehe...let me stop here.

[Emmanuel Johnson Obbo @EmmanuelObbo2]

Found this on Socratis status. Was touched .ehh

[Lubega Nsamba @lubega_nsamba]

What are we without a story?

Those here have been, those here within, those here will be

Gallant Makerereans, let’s come together on 20th September, 2024 as we celebrate our storied past,present and future.
@KatoPaul_ @RoySsemboga @AdekeAnna @BwoweIvan @_papawere @LAlionzi

[Gov. Anyang' Nyong'o @AnyangNyongo]

Former Nigerian President H.E. Olusegun Obasanjo and Kenya's African Union Chairperson candidate Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga paid a courtesy call to my office ahead of the Festac Africa Festival.

[The Revolutionary Son @WANYERA_simon]

NAKAWA COURT.

Afande: Go away

Me: I go where? This is Court & a public place.

Afande : I will arrest you

Me: Tokanga kanga nawe, gezako olabe.

Crowd: waaa waaa, Let him arrest you Wanyera if he thinks he is a Man..

📷 @KlMukulembeze

[Emmanuel Johnson Obbo @EmmanuelObbo2]

@Clinton_Goatman @TumukundeTT Man. Do you know that garbage is everywhere currently. That KCCA team needs to be ko serious for once.

[Gov. Anyang' Nyong'o @AnyangNyongo]

Former Nigerian President H.E. Olusegun Obasanjo has just arrived at Kisumu International Airport for the official opening of the @FESTACAFRICA Festival today at Jomo Kenyatta International Stadium.

The world is coming to Kisumu!

#FESTACAFRICAFESTIVAL2024
#KisumuMyPride

[Anthony Natif @TonyNatif]

Mr President: Time To Embrace Medical Labor Export as a Government Policy?

Dear President @KagutaMuseveni, I think there’s a way your government can actually turn this medical interns issue into a longterm win both for the country and for the medical practitioners themselves.

Sir, you and your government, against some advice, liberalized the education space and part of this exercise was by subjecting it to the whims of the free market.

You started by opening up Mbarara University of Science and Technology which has gone on to be one of the best medical training schools in the region. Excellent move.

Then the Basajjabalabas of this world went on to open new medical schools with the ability to churn out more graduates in one year than we previously used to churn out in five years. They have a profit motive so it follows that numbers will be their thing.

It’s worth noting that barely twenty years ago, Makerere University Medical School was the only one we had in Uganda.

It’s a credit to your government that these numbers have grown and that people have responded to your call to embrace science education.

The numbers of Doctors we produce every year has gone from just under 100 to nearly 1,000. It promises to grow even more. Hopefully, our abysmal Doctor to Patient ratio of 1:25,000 will be a thing of the past. @WHO recommends a ratio of 1:1,000.

Sir, we won’t hit this target by failing to absorb trainees into internship programs.

It’s poor planning on our part that we created a bigger conveyor belt of medical talent without the accompanying resources to package them into a final finished product that serves the multitudes of Ugandans ravaged by all manner of diseases.

But we can use this opportunity to actually turn a messy situation into a great one.

Your government can create a program that funds certification costs for some of these medical personnel to make them ready for markets like the US, Canada etc where medical professionals can rake in upwards of $150,000 a year. Structure it like a loan.

I mean, you’ve managed to do such mass scale investments like PDM, Emyooga etc. You can do this too.

By doing this, we create a pool of high earning diaspora Ugandans who then send back money to their country and this cash goes towards funding medical training of the ones who stay.

It’s not a perfect play, especially given how badly we need Doctors here, but it creates a positive financial loop that might lift most medical boats.

There’s countries that have embraced medical labor export and the economic numbers are actually great!

Mukilowozeeko, Ssebo. 🙏🏾

[Emmanuel Johnson Obbo @EmmanuelObbo2]

@DerrickMujuni97 @mkainerugaba @PaulKagame @onduhungirehe @UgandaWaragi @AndrewMwenda One of the things Uganda & Rwanda Gov't should do is walking the EAC talk. The closest (on paper) countries to integrate politically is Rwanda & Uganda. From the names to the leaders. Am looking at that time when Uncle Kagame & Jaja are on the same ballot.

[Emmanuel Johnson Obbo @EmmanuelObbo2]

@trevor_matovu @AburaGodfrey @lubega_nsamba @rodney_adroni @Makerere @_papawere At Night it may be necessary to identify self. Though, I would suggest that a student can as well use their portal for identification in the absence of an ID.