As opposition to the planned giveaway of the 150-acre Kituburu Forest to Tiang Tiang Group of Companies for development intensifies, leaders in Entebbe Municipality have described the move as a grave mistake. #NTVNews
Entebbe Mayor Fabrice Rulinda says those behind the proposal are misguided and display a negative attitude toward environmental conservation.
Rulinda argues that the Entebbe Peninsula already has ample land suitable for commercial developments such as supermarkets and cautions that existing businesses, including malls and hotels, are already struggling to attract customers.
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@IlailaSonja We applaud you Mayor. This forest is not just land. It is heritage, home, healing and hope. We have a shared obligation to safeguard it, not for ourselves, but for our children and their children after them
@EarthUga Let us stand with those defending our planet and our beautiful motherland from exploitation and short term gain. This Kitubulu forest doesnt belong to us, it belongs to the future
@DailyMonitor Thank you @DailyMonitor for highlighting this issue.
My stand is clear: Kitubulu Forest must be protected.
There is no urgent need for a hotel there — but an unquestionable need to preserve the forest that protects Entebbe from floods and keeps Lake Victoria alive.
#SaveKitubulu
While South African musicians sang songs of revolution to extricate the nation from the fangs of white apartheid, Ugandan musicians are gathering themselves to whitewash the atrocities of the rogue regime for crumbs. If you cannot use your talent in this moment to speak against the rampant and systematic kidnaps, torture, corruption and the entire bad governance, then the talent is in the wrong hands and throats. Using the talent to sing or write to rubberstamp atrocities simply because your stomach is empty means that your head is empty as well. That is where @HEBobiwine, King Saha, Nubian Li and other revolutionary musicians defeat you, and you wonder how they are loved by millions of oppressed Ugandans, yet you can do the same and we sing ourselves to freedom.
Whenever you see an artiste, artist, musician, writer et cetera using their talent to heap encomiums onto the senile despot and calling it freedom to associate, to support whomever they want, that is not freedom but stupidity. You cannot praise the chains that are digging into my legs and arms and call it freedom. Freedom of choice and association does not mean freedom to propel what is oppressing the nation.
@kizzabesigye1 was kidnapped from Kenya and smuggled into a kangaroo court, transferred to civil court and denied bail, remains in prison because he is determined to remove the government that has created a hell for us, and you begin to sing for a despot responsible for denying his liberty? Are you stupid?
Sam Mugumya was recently kidnapped and made to disappear, despite many habeas corpus subjiciendums ordering his release, and these have been disrespected by his captors—and you go around singing for the same captors while calling it your freedom? Are you stupid?
A son of despot @KagutaMuseveni has several times boasted that he is holding NUPians in his basement, torturing them, and you start supporting and singing for such people while calling it freedom? Are you stupid?
There must be a special maggot that squirms inside the heads of people who support this regime. You can support an ideology, but you have no right to support torture. Torture is not an ideology but backwardness and barbarism. If you cannot call out a despot for embodying barbarism and backwardness, then you do not belong to this civilisation. And you find Ugandans who still support such musicians! When your head is empty, your stomach empty, your pockets empty, stop and ask yourself why. The moment you see who’s responsible for your emptiness, you’ll stop accepting crumbs from their table and begin to BANG the same table.
This is emotional for me. I once dreamed of the day two African women would command a jet from Africa to Europe.
Today, Capt @ms_koki and Capt Cathleen Kangethe made that dream real.
You’ve scored another psychological victory for African girls. Hongera!
No barrier is unbreakable. The sky—literally and metaphorically—is the limit.
Dream it. Fly it. 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾
@DailyMonitor Indeed this would be great investments where many clans and families would be out of poverty. And it would be an economically empowering pratice that is seemlessly handed over to the next generations
@bryanodong You are spot on with your analysis. Despite our natural endowments the comms and campaigns to promote tourism are not aligned to the richness and the diversity of our ecosystem. Eg when showing the wild life species they often show one malnourished animal or out of focus images
@jkkarungi This is good of you to post this here. You guys with a large following, use your platforms to continuously call out these guys. They'll eventually feel ashamed of using our money to build themselves apartment blocks at the expense of our health
A giant of Africa and the Global South, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, has gone to sleep—and with him, a part of me.
At 13, we read The River Between in class, and for months, we were teenagers caught in Waiyaki and Nyambura’s love. Through your gentle yet powerful storytelling, you opened our eyes to the world we were growing up in—torn between tradition and modernity, our cultures and Christianity.
The greatest gift you gave me was Petals of Blood, where I first became aware of neocolonialism and the betrayal by our elites. Petals lit a fire in me. I followed you, read your books and essays… You shaped me and my generation.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, rest well. Pumzika kwa amani.👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾
“Justice” Bernard Namanya should help us understand what he means by saying that Faridah Nambi was denied the right to vote.
Is this Faridah’s ghost holding the very ballot paper she ticked? 🤬
@ntvuganda I only wish they could do away with elections and just appoint whom ever they want. Why waste tax payers money when essential sectors like health, education and agriculture are in dire need?
Explore urgent challenges & survivor-centered solutions to end violence in conflict settings in The Lancet:
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@KampalaJournal But why all this brutality? Are we in a war zone? I wonder about how the men in uniform feel after all this violence. Is there something we do not know about them?