dotcom hajji

Roads Engineer focussing on social protection training programmes, a big fan of the Donald, formula one and Go Kart racing

[Winnie Kiiza @WinnieKiiza]

Leaders, listen carefully

#Uganda.

[dotcom hajji @haji_dotcom]

@TheDemSlayer Because their intervention strategy is leading to the recruitment of more Hezbollah members out of desperation ith many remaining homeless after the destruction of their homes. You destroy an apartment complex just because you want to kill one man

[Buregyeya Apollo, PhD @ApolloBuregyeya]

Building Control is Progress, Not Punishment?.
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Uganda’s construction sector is entering a new era, and that is a good thing. A country that builds without rules is not free. It is unsafe. It is expensive. And it is unfair, because the people who pay the price are never the shortcut-makers. It is tenants, workers, and families living under someone else’s risk.

That is why stronger building control is a sign of progress. It is the State admitting a simple truth that urban growth must come with safety, order, and accountability.

But we should also be honest. Regulation is a living thing. Like every law, it meets reality. It meets uneven capacity across districts, informal construction, limited inspection resources, and a large population that will not be reached overnight through formal processes alone. That reality does not make the law wrong. It simply means implementation must be practical, consistent, and fair.

Attacking building control because “not everyone will comply” is a dangerous argument. It is the same logic as saying that, since not everyone will obey traffic lights, let us remove them. That is not reform. That is lawlessness/ chaos dressed as empathy.

This is why we must support institutions that are doing the hard work of turning the law into practice. The @NBRBug has been steadily pushing awareness, guidance, and clarity, even when the public conversation turns emotional. The insults and threats on social media will be met with grace. And the commitment appears undeterred. That is how systems are built.

We should also adopt the right mindset as a country. Not one to declare failure because implementation will be imperfect, but to fail forward. We must agree to learn, correct, strengthen capacity, and keep moving towards safer buildings and a more professional industry. Systems are not born perfect. They improve through use.

In a few years, we will be glad we finally built the systems we should have built long ago. As the Chinese proverb says, the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is today.

Let us support systems.

[dotcom hajji @haji_dotcom]

@Schandillia How about Qatar?

[Buregyeya Apollo, PhD @ApolloBuregyeya]

How Kampala Designs Its Own Potholes.
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At Wandegeya junction, the story does not begin with a pothole. It begins with trapped water. The drain is there, but it is closed, hidden beneath concrete covers. On paper, it looks modern, clean, and efficient. In reality, it is inaccessible. Once silt, plastics, and organic waste enter the system, as they inevitably do in Kampala, the drain gradually loses its ability to receive and evacuate runoff. What follows is not dramatic failure, but something more subtle and more dangerous. Water begins to stagnate along the road edge.

That stagnation is where the real problem starts. Water remains in prolonged contact with the pavement, seeping into small cracks and weak points. It reaches the base layers and softens the support structure beneath. Traffic then completes the process. What begins as a sound pavement slowly loses integrity from below, until one day, a defect appears. Weeks later, we call it a pothole. But the pothole is not the problem. It is the evidence of a failure that has already taken place.

The mistake is not simply technical. It is conceptual. We are designing for appearance instead of performance. We are also copying drainage ideas from cleaner, wealthier, and more organized cities without paying enough attention to our own reality. There are cities where stormwater channels carry relatively clean runoff, where waste management works, where sediment loads are lower, and where drainage lines are so clean and stable that fish can live safely in them. Kampala is not that city. Our catchments are different. Our runoff carries silt, plastics, organic matter, and all the evidence of a city still struggling with waste discipline, exposed soils, informal discharge paths, and uneven maintenance. Our urban hydrology is not a copy of theirs. Yet too often, our drainage choices suggest we are designing for another environment, not our own.

Closed drainage is not wrong in itself, but it assumes clean flows, disciplined waste management, and consistent maintenance. Kampala operates under different conditions. Access is critical. When a system is closed without making cleaning easy and routine, it does not fail immediately. It fails gradually, then completely.

What follows is a cycle we have normalized. The pothole is patched. The drainage remains blocked. Water returns. The patch fails. Another repair is funded. The same location consumes resources again and again. This is not maintenance. It is repetition driven by design oversight.

The most expensive roads in Kampala are not the ones we build. They are the ones we keep repairing.

If we are serious about durable infrastructure, then design must reflect reality. Water will carry waste. Systems must be accessible. Maintenance must be designed into the structure, not assumed after the fact. Our catchment conditions, waste streams, and urban hydrology must shape our engineering decisions more than imported aesthetics do. Until then, every pothole we fix will simply be another one we designed in advance.

[dotcom hajji @haji_dotcom]

@F1 Max is the only pathway to beating Lewis Hamilton's records

[Filius Grokidis @FiliusGrok]

@Mike_Pence You are forgetting

Trade Expansion Act of 1962
Trade Act of 1974
Tariff Act of 1930
International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977

YOU FUCKING TRAITOR.

[dotcom hajji @haji_dotcom]

@DailyMonitor Only two years

[Mo @mo_free_nig]

They did it with Russia, now they’re trying it with Epstein. Think about it, Biden’s government had these files all along. It was never a problem… until Trump surges in the polls. Suddenly it’s breaking news? Another coordinated hit job to sabotage a second Trump term. But this time, if they go down that road, they’re not coming back. They’ll go down hard.

[dotcom hajji @haji_dotcom]

@CalltoActivism The countries offset the tariffs to keep prices lower for the American consumer, implying the profits are shared with the US government

[dotcom hajji @haji_dotcom]

@TAftermath2020 Warmongering

[Elsje_Unfiltered @ElsjeJvR77]

@elonmusk this happens when your integrity is higher than money, they try and break you in the media! We know better!

We are extremely proud of you as a person! What you've accomplished and how far you've come but most importantly the person that you are and how you managed to stay true to yourself! All we can say is Thank you sir. If you ever need anything a normal average Jane can help with let me know!

You won't fall! America has your back! We, as South Africans in America who are not YET Americans, ALL stand with you, sir!

[dotcom hajji @haji_dotcom]

https://t.co/MShZxnnMM7

[dotcom hajji @haji_dotcom]

@BBCPolitics The easier way to handle reciprocal tariffs is by either lowering or raising your tariffs

[dotcom hajji @haji_dotcom]

@UgLadyLawyer The guy is a coward if he is 50+....
The contract can't be enforced, though, because of public policy (children rights, emotional well-being, bingi). How can he avoid future disputes ? What if the Mama gets broke?
They can try non-traditional stuff as well if our laws allow it...

[dotcom hajji @haji_dotcom]

@ApolloBuregyeya Prof., you deserve your coffee. As always, you never disappoint. However, it will be hard to beat the powerful bank lobbyists. Increasing our debt payment from our limited tax revenues limits the govt's ability to provide to its people. We need that mindset change 💯

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

I love this clip, great efficiency!

[Papas @papasxmeta]

@RapidResponse47 @PressSec @EDSecMcMahon Karoline is such an upgrade

[dotcom hajji @haji_dotcom]

@SpireJim Stay in your lane...You just don't get it

[Kelly @kellytx2]

It's absolutely invigorating to hear a White House Press Secretary deliver the truth with authenticity. Bonus, she doesn’t take any nonsense from the fake news outlets.