Kulume Patience

[Kulume Patience @KULPESH]

@HabatNkoola @observerug @dfkm1970 Well said.......

[Emily kabuye @EmilyKabuye]

At the a.k.a mighty school⁦@IgangaSS⁩ our girls are making re-usable sanitary pads to give out to the disadvantaged girls in surrounding communities. Thank our HM and prefecture ⁦@igassosa⁩ ⁦⁦@WereJuliet⁩ ⁦@RCkasangati⁩

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

… Take note that Dr Suruma has on several occasions indicated how he opposed the sale of critical parastatals like the Uganda Commerical Bank when he was then serving as the Deputy Governor Bank of Uganda and still you didn't listen to him, you later regretted your decision although you have never apologized to Ugandans!

Your Excellency, we don't understand especially when you play double standards, preaching water while happily drinking wine. You claim that UCDA is parasitic and that's why you want its operations under the Ministry yet last Financial Year you allocated 37 billion to the Presidential Advisory Committee on Exports and Industrial Development (PACEID) purportedly to promote Uganda's Coffee abroad. Why didn't you put this money under the Ministry of Agriculture? Or the Uganda Export Promotion Board?

You continue to allocate billions to the many scattered outfits under your office namely; State House Health Monitoring Unit, State House Anti-Corruption Unit, State House Investors Protection Unit, State House Revenue Intelligence and Strategic Operations Unit among others. Why don't all these be merged under the Inspectorate of Government if you indeed want to streamline government operations? Why do you struggle to remove agencies created by the law when you have many redundant outfits in your office which do not even require Parliamentary approval to remove?

Moreso do you have the moral authority of talking about wastage of money when you gave over 400bn to your friend Pinneti for a non existent Lubowa Specialized Hospital? When you gave over 530bn to Atiak Sugar and not even a single kilogram of sugar has been produced, is it not wastage? What about the 500 billions you have given to Roko Constructions?

Your Excellency, we want a convincing argument on why UCDA should be put under the Ministry against the will of farmers and other stakeholders. We need evidence that the Ministry of Agriculture which has failed to promote tea will not kill our coffee. That the Ministry which has failed to fight Foot and Mouth Disease has the capacity to manage our coffee to say the least!

We are not fighting rationalisation policy as Parliament, and that's explains why we approved 90 percent of the bills you tabled before us, we are only asking you to be logical and rational on the UCDA!

Your Excellency the earlier you listened to Ugandans and act in their best interests, the better for our country. Taking such strategic mistakes ahead of a general election is not only detrimental to the NRM party but also to your own MPs!

Hon James Kaberuka Ruugi Niringiyimana, MP Kinkizi West, Kanungu District

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

*An Open Letter to President Museveni, Don't touch our Coffee!*

By Hon James Kaberuka Ruugi Niringiyimana!

Your Excellency, receive my warm greetings.

I pen this letter with pain, bleeding in my heart, first as an NRM cadre but also as a Member of Parliament who represents my people, whose views sadly are being discarded by your leadership.

Your comments in the recent NRM caucus meeting in which you referred to those of us opposed to the now Controversial Coffee Bill as criminals left me bewildered but also wondering whether we are still a democracy or not!

Fast forward, I did not attend this NRM caucus which turned out to be a tour of your farm by the MPs! The reason I didn't attend was that in the previous caucus I had indicated to the Chief Whip Hon Hamson Obua that we should always be given an agenda before going for any meeting other than taking us sheep-shilly as if we don't matter.

Your Excellency, I am sure that you have attended several meetings and Summits; be it United Nations, African Union, COMESA, EAC etc, I don't think you can board a plane to New York or any other place to attend a meeting when you don't know the agenda. Then why do you keep bundling NRM MPs to buses without even giving them an agenda of what they are going to discuss? Is it because you don't respect your own MPs and the institution of Parliament? Is it because you don't respect the voters who they represent in Parliament? Or is it because you think it's only you who matters and everyone else can be treated as dregs?

Secondly the language that you used was uncalled for. The language of threatening those with divergent views and referring to them as being indiscipline and criminals is not called for in a democracy. You engage & dialogue with those dissenting against your opinion rather than subduing and crushing them!

Your Excellency, when we disagree it's because we are looking at a specific issue from different perspectives, that doesn't call for crushing us. In any case if we have done any crimes, then you can take us to courts of law other than blackmailing us with intentions to coerse us into submission.

Your Excellency, in one of your several missives, you have acknowledged that you were 'sleeping' until a team by Gen Salim Saleh and Ramathan Ggobi (current PSST) woke you up in 2016. You also acknowledged that your own agencies have been parasitic for years; that means that you acknowledge mistakes done by your own government. Why then is it hard for you to listen to others? In any case the reason you did those mistakes of creating "parasitic agencies" was because you did not listen to anybody. It's because you took yourself as the Alfa and Omega and custodian of knowledge who does not listen to anyone else except your family!

What puzzles me is why you keep employing hundreds of Presidential Advisors yet you don't listen to them. A case in point is Dr Ezra Suruma, a Presidential Advisor on Economic Affairs who advised against the controversial Coffee bill and instead of talking to him in order to understand his point of view, you simply brushed him off in the media. One therefore wonders why you even pay him as a Presidential Advisor if you have no regard for his advice?
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[Martin Ssempa @martinssempa]

This University student died in her bed due to hunger.
Many others are on the verge.
Hunger, malnutrition, skipping meals, abdominal ulcers, death.
95% of @Makerere students go without meals because they can't afford them. We have a silent humanitarian crisis both @kyambogou , @Makerere and other universities in Uganda. @ProfNawangwe @magaralorna #HungryatMakerere

[Denis Duke Woniala🇺🇬 @DenisDukeUG]

Dear Men, There’s Nothing Wrong With Leaving work early, get home and help your woman with cooking and organizing the home plus the children.

It doesn’t make you less of a man.
You are Welcome.

[Kulume Patience @KULPESH]

@Sambannz Totally unfair

[Samwise Gamgee @Sambannz]

Close to 2yrs now, I have documented the destruction of this part of the wetland along the Mutungo-Kajjansi expressway.

From when they started dumping soil in the wetland now apartments are ready for occupation.

Then you will see NEMA evicting the poor mbu "destroying" wetlands

[Alex Ponton @ponton_alex]

How come the Gaba Fish market never ends up in tourism videos? You can buy a whole fish fresh from the lake, listen to Paul Kafeero with a cold Nile, walk through a colorful market full of fresh fruits and vegetables and finish it all with a boat ride! Breathtaking views of the lake and life in action. Uganda zaabu

We should embrace spots like this! They are magical...

[Samwise Gamgee @Sambannz]

Construction of Gulu hospital staff quarters has stalled for 10yrs.
Construction started in 2014 but stalled in 2019 due to "lack" of funds.

Ugx 3,000,000,000 can't be found to finish these staff houses but we spent Ugx 5,000,000,000 on regional parliamentary sitting in Gulu.

[Kulume Patience @KULPESH]

@Sambannz Finally someone who understands why I was not for the sitting in Gulu.

[Godfrey KUTEESA!! @GODFREY_Kutesa]

I just dropped one of my boys to school by force with few kibokos. Nze sagala mutwe munene!!

But here’s how it started:

Saturday last week, was their reporting time. Poor woman, ( mother ) didn’t have all the money so she picked a school fees loan paid and bought all the requirements.
Around midday she called home told the boy to prepare kubanga a special hire was picking him. Boy refused. Started giving excuses of eyes. Sunday the car came back to pick him up, he started moving in circles mbu his hair nio nio nio. Car hire was paid again and it went away. Monday (yesterday) while the car was on its way to pick him, he gave an excuse mbu stomach ache meanwhile when everyone leaves home… he gets fine and gets back to his Play Station ordering the maid around to serve him noodles.
Kati munange the mother calls me up yesterday evening narrating the whole story nenyiiga!! Told her tofaaayo because I know with teenagers if peace fails, a relative amount of force must be applied.

This morning at 2:47 am , I woke up left home and drove all the way to their home in munyonyo. My aim was to reach there before he wakes up and God made it happen. They opened the gate for me and got access to the main house all the way to the bedroom and boom he didn’t see this coming!! We pulled him out bed military style and he knew life has come to an end. Within 4 mins he’d carried all his luggage to the car. Didn’t even give him a chance to shower sijui brushing. In his pajamas told him to enter the car nga alidde empi eziwelako!!
Time check 04:36am we hit that road to school. God blessed with me a good driver. I have just reached the school in Masaka and dumped him there. Ordered him to carry his luggage out of my car to the dormitory and his friends who were going for morning lessons were wondering why he was in pajamas. Don’t know what he will lie to them when am gone but that’s his mess to deal with.

Have decided no pocket money for them term but I have left him with shs2300 to buy a ruler 📏 and two pens. Let’s see how he will die. Warned him not to call home for visitation for this term. He must stay at school till it breaks off after all it’s too short. Talked to the teacher I found on duty and affirmed that he must be given too much work. Been informed he’s going to sweep the DH for 3 days starting today.
Promised, I will be back to check on his performance in 3 weeks time. Meanwhile his friends are already doing BOT exams. Told him I expect top performance without any excuses or else emboko endala zijja mulya.

How can you not want to go to school?

How can you be a bully to your mother? How ?? They tell u to do this , you do that? They tell u this you respond that??

No way!! Ogwo omutwe omunene nemputu must be toned down. By the way if your son has a big head , don’t die alone… tell me abt it.. we see what to do!!

[Vik🃏 @Amviktar]

THE MAN, THE MYTH & THE LEGEND

I have seen some scathing criticism from his detractors, but #LegalRebel’s track record thwarts & dwarfs all that. @ug_lawsociety incumbents vying for the presidency have little more than hot air to show for their tenure.

Here is a mega-thread.

[Kulume Patience @KULPESH]

@SarahBireete @PoliceUg @igp_ug1 That is painful 😣

[Kulume Patience @KULPESH]

@powerfmuganda @ReaganMbabali @nantabafj Brian Lubega, Ntaate, Pompi, Ada.....

[Kulume Patience @KULPESH]

@Mr_Teekay001 Hahah.......

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

I propose,
that we adopt this child’s poem,
as our new national anthem.

Those in support type ‘Aye’,
Those opposed type ‘Nay’

And, share with us the line in the poem that moved you most

[Kulume Patience @KULPESH]

@ruth_muhawe Congratulations Ruth 🎉🎉

[Kulume Patience @KULPESH]

@elonmuskTN 10+5+4=19

[Kulume Patience @KULPESH]

@GodwinTOKO @AgoraCFR @SpireJim @KakwenzaRukira @AAgather Cry oh motherland 😢