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@MasindeHassan1 What good is earning dollars from coffee if we spend them importing human hair? The real issue is not who exports, but why we produce so little of what we consume.

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@MasindeHassan1 Museveni is right economically but wrong structurally. A weak shilling can encourage exports and discourage imports. But that only works if Uganda has productive capacity.

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@kirya_ug Identify who is evicting these traders and under what authority before demanding answers from the Lands Minister. A human rights degree doesn’t redraw ministerial mandates.

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@kirya_ug You’re assigning the wrong minister sole responsibility. Commercial tenancy disputes, KCCA enforcement, urban planning and unlawful evictions fall under different legal mandates.

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@ChrisOMagezi The real question is whether Uganda is prepared. With rising debt, heavy debt servicing and dependence on foreign capital, how much pain could we withstand from sanctions, aid cuts or financial isolation?

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@Naturinda96 Were you qualified for that role? HIV care demands empathy, non-discrimination and strict confidentiality. Patients are not objects of pity. Recognising them isn’t a breach; exposing their status is. Your attitude raises serious questions about your professionalism.

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@dorynshapes The deeper question is whether Ugandan households can accumulate, preserve and transfer productive assets across generations in an economy where many people earn little surplus, businesses struggle to survive succession, and property can be difficult to formalise or divide.

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@MwesigyeFranks @HonTwallafadil @AndrewMwenda @mkainerugaba @UgandaMFA CHOGM is a biennial summit of 56 Commonwealth countries, not a personal favour bestowed on Uganda’s foreign minister. Encouraging a member state to participate is routine diplomacy. What matters is what Uganda negotiates, the investment it secures and the commitments it delivers.

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@BekarSebat51443 Even Buganda’s Lukiiko chose an Acholi (Ochieng), an Asian (Visram) and a Briton (Simpson) to represent it in the 1962 National Assembly. If Buganda could transcend ancestry then, why should Uganda embrace ethnic restrictions today? Voters, not tribes, choose representatives.

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@BekarSebat51443 Ruhindi represents Nakawa, not a tribal constituency. Kampala is Uganda’s national capital, home to citizens of diverse origins. The principle that politicians must contest only in their ancestral regions would turn citizenship into ethnic territorial ownership.

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@NiwaRodgers People are treating a junior civil service appointment as though Mujuni has been made a minister. Most traders in Kikuubo probably earn more than he will. The outrage is wildly disproportionate to the office. Let's not pretend he has joined the inner circle of power.

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@ArdenRose72 @UwayoPaula Except in cases of rape, men don't force women to grant them sexual access. Women choose whom they sleep with, knowing pregnancy is a possibility. You cannot exercise sexual agency, ignore the risks, then absolve yourself of responsibility by blaming men.

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@tufre80 People are making a mountain out of a molehill. If it’s a U3 position, it’s a junior civil service job with a modest salary. A lot of ordinary people doing business in Kikuubo probably make more money than he will make.

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@jkmuhwezi @KagutaMuseveni @mkainerugaba @Thomas_Tayebwa @NRMOnline Muhwezi is retrofitting Uganda’s negotiated decolonisation into a heroic liberation myth, then borrowing that invented struggle to legitimise the NRA/M. History should not be rewritten to flatter the victors of a later conflict.

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@jkmuhwezi @KagutaMuseveni @mkainerugaba @Thomas_Tayebwa @NRMOnline Britain was dismantling its empire after WWII. Uganda’s political elite negotiated a transfer of power; they did not defeat Britain in a liberation struggle. Calling that “hard-won” confuses political negotiation with costly resistance.

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@jkmuhwezi @KagutaMuseveni @mkainerugaba @Thomas_Tayebwa @NRMOnline Muhwezi’s claim that Uganda’s independence was “hard-won” needs historical evidence, not patriotic rhetoric. Uganda achieved independence through constitutional negotiations and elite bargaining, not an armed liberation war or mass civil resistance comparable to Kenya or India.

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@sejudav His resistance is one history; Uganda’s independence is another. A national holiday should commemorate the birth of the nation, not retroactively substitute a kingdom’s struggle for it's own survival decades earlier.

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@sejudav Using logic, if Kabalega had defeated the British and preserved Bunyoro’s sovereignty, Uganda as we know it will never have existed. So what exactly would we be celebrating on Uganda’s Independence Day that you want renamed to Kabalega day?

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@sejudav What lesson do we teach future generations by naming Independence Day after him? That defiance is enough, even in defeat? Honour his resistance, but let independence commemorate the achievement of sovereignty, not the humiliation of a King.

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@sejudav History does not reward effort; it rewards victory. Kabalega resisted heroically, but was defeated, captured and exiled. His kingdom was subdued, and he died a prisoner.