Semulema Daniel

[Legion Hoops @LegionHoops]

The NBA is asking for the phones and emails of at least 10 Lakers employees, including two of LeBron’s associates, as part of its investigation into illegal sports gambling.

(via @sam_amick, https://t.co/PSkmFulddT)

[Anthony Natif @TonyNatif]

Today’s sermon is reserved for President @KagutaMuseveni and his colleagues in government like the @IGGBetiKamya who, by failing to fight corruption, are selling our country to debt-giving imperialists. They really are the true agents of imperialism and not activists like myself, @PublicSquareEA and our comrades at @AgoraCFR that they keep labeling this for fun. They’re the true “mistake makers”.

See, Uganda’s budget has gone up from UGX. 52.7 trillion in FY 2023/24 to UGX. 72 trillion for FY 2024/25. Of this, the government projects that it will collect 32.3 trillion shillings, less than 45% of its own budget. This is voodoo economics.

The gov’t plans to make up for this 55% shortfall by borrowing. The plan is to borrow about UGX 9 trillion from the domestic market, effectively starving local businesses, from which they plan to collect domestic taxes, of much needed financing.

So, just over 12% of our budget will be borrowed locally. “Local” banks are really only local in name. The real owners are chilling in imperialist capitals, so even what they call domestic debt has mainly imperialist capital and the very few Ugandans who listen to @KakandeAlex’s bonds gospel.

The rest of our budget will either come from grants from imperialists but most importantly from foreign debt that our grand children will have to pay, for the right to live in a potholed, diseased country.

Currently, our public debt is hovering above UGX 97 trillion and it would have been worse if imperialists didn’t at one time forgive our debt. By end of FY 2024/25, that imperialist agency, @IMFNews projects that our public debt will be just under UGX 111 trillion. AND we are still digging.

You’ll obviously hear some economists and talking heads in expensive suits come out to tell you that our debt to GDP ratio is still fine but don’t fall for that. It has inched higher than 53%. The @WorldBank’s benchmark for healthy debt is at 50%.

Domestic interest payment to revenue ratio is at 16.3%, higher than the 12.5% benchmark. We are overachieving on the wrong indicators.

To compound our misery, we have passed silly laws like the AHA which have meant that we can’t easily get external grants that used to shore up our economy.

Add the Moody downgrade and you realize that we are gonna have to borrow at high interest rates to finance our corruption. “Corruption on a credit card” sounds like fiction. Not for our Uganda.

In all this, the owners of our public debt; those imperialists our President loves to hate, are laughing all the way to the bank. The reason for this isn’t because of human rights activists and people calling for the end of corruption. Those just get cashless placards from @EUinUG and threats of danger from the state. More on this in a later op-ed.

The real agents of imperialism are the government officials who are mortgaging our collective future so they can finance their wanton greed. In medieval Europe, these would be roasted at the stake, for women and hanged if they were men.

Here, we hand them heroes’ awards on June 9th.

[Casual Geopolitics @Casualgeopol]

You watched "The Hunger Games" and sided with the resistance.

You watched "Star Wars" and sided with the resistance.

You watched "The Matrix" and sided with the resistance.

You watched "Divergent" and sided with the resistance.

You watched "V for Vendetta" and sided with the resistance.

When it's fiction you understand. Yet you refuse to see it when it's the reality you're living in.

Wild.

[East African Records @EARecordsUg]

What are you doing this weekend? 18 hours of #music #watersports #food #cocktails at #Kalabash festival, 25th May at Ragga Dee Beach, Busabala, for only 30k @DJVadim @DjShiru @pepsi

[East African Records @EARecordsUg]

"🎶 KALABASH Int'l Music Festival 🎉
🗓️ May 25th, 12pm-dawn
📍 Ragga Dee Beach, Busabala
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family fun activities, live bands, DJs & MCs!
🍔 Top food & drinks by Yujo Izakaya, Que Pasa, The
Mixologist & more.
💸 30k before 8pm, 60k after. Kids <15 free.
#KALABASH"

[Mucii Pictures @mucii_pictures]

Meet the Grantees from Uganda...
@IvanTusabe, @ruthnazzinda, @nitumwesiga, @daisy_masembe & @SemulemaD

The film development program for East Africa is funded by @dw_akademie and @BMZ_Bund

📸 Ash Gallery

[Semulema Daniel @SemulemaD]

@TrustTheDocUK @RadioExileFM @bandofvirgins @NXPanther @greeneamani Jashu 🔥

[Semulema Daniel @SemulemaD]

@PrYncessDiaries Hi

[East African Records @EARecordsUg]

"Akatuuti" event: THE CHILDREN OF NYABINGI. A collaboration between an incredible music group with local school kids, in musical drama celebrating the ancestral spirits Nyabingi and Muhumuza. Today at the National Theatre from 4-7pm. #worldmusicday #alliancefrancaisekampala

[Semulema Daniel @SemulemaD]

Luganda voice actors needed

[East African Records @EARecordsUg]

AUDITIONS!
We are looking for kids' voice actors for our animated educational shows.
Age 8 - 14
Criteria
-Confidence
-Fluency in reading and speaking Luganda
-Ability to sing in Luganda
Click the link below to fill out a google form
https://t.co/U53g1lYTWr
Deadline: 12/05/2023

[Semulema Daniel @SemulemaD]

@IsaacSsemakadde @SheilaWagidoso https://t.co/eH4v7Hh98t

[Semulema Daniel @SemulemaD]

@0Moseti1 @Kenyans Definitely

[Semulema Daniel @SemulemaD]

@NaamanKala @Kenyans More like Kampala

[Semulema Daniel @SemulemaD]

@Rickykagino96 Khidu Makubuya

[Semulema Daniel @SemulemaD]

@RamahKizito @mtnug Move the money to your bank account for fee of Ugx 9000 and withdraw from an ATM for Ugx 1000

[East African Records @EARecordsUg]

@cwynenalukalala & @mungoshifi Love Marijuana premieres today on @reggaeville
https://t.co/tBM4OpNTlA

[France in Uganda 🇫🇷🇺🇬 @FrenchEmbassyUg]

Sixteen young music producers participated in an intensive 4-week training course with our partner @EARecordsUg ,as part of the FSPI Culture project.

[Him Burton @MrBigyemano]

This production class has taken so much of my time and energy and ability to be present in my everyday life but it's already been so worthwhile. Blessings @EARecordsUg @FrenchEmbassyUg @coco_em @joemoocha @WanaBENja @SemulemaD 🙏🏿⚡️🔥

[Timothy Kalyegira @TimKalyegira]

There's a reason why______recently found her limousine being quietly trailed, despite her public show of support for M7 and NRM.

The job of counterintelligence is to distrust everyone: The more you show ardent support, the more you come under suspicion.

So, drop the pretence.