US President Trump once said “Iran has never won a war, but they have never lost a negotiation”
Reading the 14 point Agremeent just concluded between the US and Iran. I feel like Iran won both the war and the Negotiations.
What a capitulation by the US. Brilliantly done Iran 👏🏾.
Be like the Iran Negotiators chop Agbala. What!!!
President Museveni has cautioned all Ministers that if he visits the field and finds that public services meant for Ugandans are not being delivered as expected, he will take appropriate action to ensure accountability and improved service delivery. #OpenGovUg
𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐄𝐂𝐇 𝐁𝐘 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐋𝐘 𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐈𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓, 𝐑𝐓. 𝐇𝐎𝐍. 𝐉𝐀𝐂𝐎𝐁 𝐎𝐁𝐎𝐓𝐇 𝐎𝐁𝐎𝐓𝐇
Your Excellency the President,
My Lord the Chief Justice of the Republic of Uganda, Hon. Justice Dr Flavian Zeija,
Honourable Members of Parliament,
All staff of Parliament,
Members of the Media,
All Ugandans near and far following these proceedings,
Ladies and Gentlemen, I greet you all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Your Excellency and Honourable colleagues, allow me to begin by thanking God for this great day that the Lord has made. It is one of those great moments in our nation’s history, made possible only by the Almighty God.
Allow me to share with you passages from the Holy Book. The first is from Isaiah 60:22, which says, “When the time is right, I, the Lord, will make it happen.”
The second is from the book of Habakkuk 2:3, which says, “For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.”
I can testify before you all gathered here today that faithful and strategic patience has brought us this far, and we cannot thank God enough. I therefore stand before you today not in this official Speaker’s regalia by accident, but because God has made it all possible.
From a rural village in Muwafu, Tororo District, I struggled to attain better education, and today I stand before you as Speaker of the 12th Parliament. It can only be by divine grace. To God be the glory.
I wish to thank my NRM Party Chairman for the confidence and trust he has shown in my abilities since 2011. Honourable Members, I thank you most sincerely for entrusting me today with the highest office of being your Speaker, a responsibility I receive with utmost humility and modesty.
God has spoken to Uganda through you all, through the @NRMOnline Party, through the NRM Parliamentary Caucus, and through this Parliament and the PLU pressure group. To those who may not have voted for me, I will be your Speaker too.
Honourable Members, the Speaker’s Chair is not enthroned. My role now is to ensure that, working together, the voices of over 45 million Ugandans are heard, protected, and respected.
We are aware of the challenges that may be before us. I pledge a corruption-free Parliament. Under my leadership, we will cultivate a culture of integrity and accountability. Accountability begins with us.
In the next five years, we shall hold the Executive and other government bodies accountable, but we must first begin with ourselves. Parliament must lead by example.
Every Bill, motion, and decision must directly respond to the needs of the ordinary citizen. Results must guide our work. Budgeting and appropriation will no longer be an exercise in financial engineering and distortion, but a results-driven endeavour to deliver services to our people.
An open Parliament: we must recognise that the media is not our enemy, but the public’s eye. A transparent and open Parliament strengthens trust between the House and the people.
We must also strengthen our oversight function. Oversight should not be a post-mortem. We must not wait for public funds to be lost; our committees should be empowered to act in real time to protect public resources.
I invite all Members to embrace these guiding pillars to restore public trust. I appeal to our technical team for continued support as we implement necessary structural changes.
My final promise to all Ugandans is that, as I assume this high office of Speaker, I remain the same person and I will not change in character or commitment.
Let us all serve the Parliament and the people of Uganda with humility, modesty, and honour.
I thank you all. God bless you, and may God bless the Republic of Uganda.
#OpenGovUg
🚨[🟢] NEW: Arsenal’s Premier League title lift recorded the highest live viewership for a title celebration in the last two decades 😳
Today’s celebrations peaked at 7.3 million live viewers, compared to Liverpool’s 3 million viewers during their title lift last season.
🗣️ Jens Lehmann to David Raya on the Champions League final: “Do us a favour & play 90 minutes, do NOT get sent off! If you win it, you are giving something back to the fans which we couldn’t. I didn’t deliver because I got sent off.” ❌🟥
Max Dowman has made HISTORY as the youngest player to win the Premier League, aged 16 🏆
But who are the next ten youngest players to win the competition?
Just in: PLU has withdrawn its earlier endorsement of Rt Hon Anita Among and Rt Hon Thomas Tayebwa for speaker and deputy speaker of the 12 parliament.
🚨 Enzo Maresca: “I’m feeling ready for next chapter, that’s the most important thing. Man City job? What matters, apart from clubs, is to be ready”.
“There still fee weeks before the season ends and then we will see what happens”.
👀 As revealed months ago, Man City see Maresca as ideal candidate for the job if/when Pep leaves.
Greetings from Kyankwanzi. My foot is firmly on the gas pedal and there is no reducing the pressure. This is not about me. It is about the ISSUES that need to be addressed ON MERIT as earlier guided. Those who were lying to the public that the race was closed now stand corrected.
Rain of missiles fire from Iran all over Israeli skies tonight. Interceptors no longer works.
Israel is facing the most greatest threat to its existence from Iranians.