#  @YusufSerunkuma Yusuf Serunkuma🌹
Yusuf Serunkuma🌹 posts on X about uganda, money, kenya, countries the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.
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### Social Influence
**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries) [finance](/list/finance) [currencies](/list/currencies) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [stocks](/list/stocks) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [premier league](/list/premier-league) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)
**Social topic influence**
[uganda](/topic/uganda), [money](/topic/money), [kenya](/topic/kenya), [countries](/topic/countries), [sudan](/topic/sudan), [in the](/topic/in-the), [if you](/topic/if-you), [bank of](/topic/bank-of), [make a](/topic/make-a), [tanzania](/topic/tanzania)
**Top assets mentioned**
[Spire Inc. (SR)](/topic/$sr)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"Africa received $162bn in [----] mainly in loans aid and personal remittances. BUT the same year $203bn was taken from the continent either directly through multinationals repatriating profits and illegally moving money into tax havens. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/may/24/world-is-plundering-africa-wealth-billions-of-dollars-a-year https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/may/24/world-is-plundering-africa-wealth-billions-of-dollars-a-year"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1411719883268702209) 2021-07-04T16:13Z 15.1K followers, [--] engagements
"@Unseen_Archive @umichLSA @Makerere Congrats Derek"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1441473667708428294) 2021-09-24T18:44Z 15.7K followers, [--] engagements
"In my view Gen. Muhoozi's presidential bid ought not to be discussed for its deservedness (intellectually politically) most bids are never qualified enoughbut rather understood. I think it is telling us sth about YMK & crises in the palace. I write: https://www.observer.ug/viewpoint/77480-three-things-muhoozi-bid-is-telling-the-country https://www.observer.ug/viewpoint/77480-three-things-muhoozi-bid-is-telling-the-country"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1650050636908580865) 2023-04-23T08:15Z 12.2K followers, 11.1K engagements
"Dear DONOR community (@EUinUG & others): In funding financial education esp saving culture what do you mean How do you expect people who have nothing to eat to have what to save How do you expect youths without jobs at 41% to have what to save #ugandaNGOexhibition"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1671791018742538240) 2023-06-22T08:03Z 11.7K followers, [----] engagements
"This is the deception of Kampala elite. Farming is NOT their job. Like M7 they channel money from main jobs into farms. On weekends like tourists they take pictures. Ever seen M7 in overalls working the farm The man dresses the same way among animals & among dignitaries"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1678323853985030145) 2023-07-11T07:22Z [----] followers, 32.2K engagements
"Since [----] when he signed the loan from Libyan Arab Bank & took over the farm this manAga Sekalala Snrhas never left his Magigye Farm. He is perhaps the most successful (native) agro-businessman UG has produced. Lesson 1: real farmers live on the farm"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1678409651929456640) 2023-07-10T14:23Z 12.3K followers, 16.1K engagements
"FACT: a huge section of Africa's talking elite is soo ignorant about continuing French colonialism of [--] West African countries which includes not just the CFA but also open stealing & murder of W. African revolutionaries But are so educated abt the values of democracy. Why"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1687821368757256194) 2023-08-05T13:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I still cannot wrap my head around how broad-day colonizers (esp. France US) so successfully managed to recruit large armies of African & Africanist scholars political elite (ECOWAS) folks in media that are actually fighting a clear-cut anti-colonial moment Mind-boggling"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1688635134847635456) 2023-08-07T19:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""And when they have fallen into things/ they eat meat from the chests of bulls/ their wives grow large buttocks. while the voters sleep on the same earth they slept before Uhuru." How would Okot p' Bitek phrase lines about husbands whose women have "fallen in things" Anyone"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1690725013404430337) 2023-08-13T14:00Z [----] followers, 34.8K engagements
"While these MPs appear to be physically shaking MK's hand in their heads & spirit they are actually shaking YKM's hand. Dear MK there are Generals in Niger but it is Capt. Ibrahim Traore in the headlines: then they'll shake your hand in body and spirit"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1691435557325299712) 2023-08-15T13:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Just to be clearthe world is run by autocracies: some are individualized (common in Africa) others are institutionalized (common in western Europe & North America). The problem we havent yet mastered the tools to see & call out the institutionalized forms"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1692234644438011939) 2023-08-17T17:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Ghana makes this at home. All value is created in Gha: (farmed harvested processed packaged marketed). It is truly an original taste. The word is value creation. ("addition" is a stupid depriving term like there was no value in the first place)"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1694235059975245877) 2023-08-23T06:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"What are you reading @Smith_JeffreyT Here is Jason Hickle in The Divide telling us why Europe and North America are so rich (& us the wretcheds so poor) He has a few words on nice coups & bad democracies"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1694708826128425255) 2023-08-24T13:50Z 12.1K followers, [----] engagements
"This is how nations fail. (It has nothing to do with the nature of institutions)"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1694718391574233555) 2023-08-24T14:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Rule of the thumb III: there has never been any differences btn World Bank IMF Unesco Usaid EU or GIZ on the one hand & Coca-Cola Total Heritage Oil Glencore Plc Barclays ABSA MTN or Monsanto etc. on the other. These are one and the same. https://www.observer.ug/viewpoint/78944-the-world-bank-and-other-museveni-s-coy-mistresses https://www.observer.ug/viewpoint/78944-the-world-bank-and-other-museveni-s-coy-mistresses"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1695007927831072941) 2023-08-25T09:39Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements
"There is a thing called "trade misinvoicing" Each year through this thing Africa loses a whooping $875 billion (to the democratic world). Thus for $1 received as foreign aid the democratic world steals $24 in turn. (From Jason Hickle *The Divide*)"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1695120074435068351) 2023-08-25T17:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"As coups (or more accurately anti-colonial revolutions) continue to sweep across West Africa commenters ought to read about Euro-America's new colonial traps. Jason Hickle's *The Divide* is required reading"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1696811131744993646) 2023-08-30T09:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"When there were no democracies in the global south but soldiers anticol. fighters (1950s - 1970s) incomes were rising poverty falling gap btn rich & poor cntries closing. Britain US France & other former colonisers were threatened. They moved in. 👇 Thanks @jasonhickel"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1697322579277553697) 2023-08-31T18:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I don't like the biases behind the questions. But Nyerere's clarity is outstanding and the blessedness with which he talks about retirement. Cannot imagine this is comrade M7's mentor"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1698609052387844316) 2023-09-04T08:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"BREAKING: If you missed show at National Theater in April or just want to reminisce those crispy jokeswhich is a mustDr Spire Ssentongo comedy special This Country Laughs A Lot streams ONLINE starting this weekend. Who said academics arent funny musical explosive"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1699734378799140952) 2023-09-07T10:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I once listened to a story of a Governor of California who simply created a secret "ministry of symbolism.""
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1699838860463861957) 2023-09-07T17:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"One of the measures of the successes of New Colonialism is that instead of Africa discussing revolution/liberation 90% of online conversations radio OpEds letters discuss strengthening democracy constitutionalism human rights. billions of $ flow out uninterrupted"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1700167468688298432) 2023-09-08T15:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I told comrade brother @rkabushenga that we need to register this man Jimmy Spire Ssentongo with Ministry of Natural Resources. We also need a Ush5b budget for his conservation. Spire's comdey show This Country Laughs A Lot is streaming today"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1700484465410134122) 2023-09-09T12:21Z [----] followers, 10.3K engagements
"Bobi Wine raised the bar too high for many ordinary Ugandans (esp folks on Twitter). Dear Ugandans it is World Bank & IMF that ruins our livesthey endlessly buy off leaders with aid & grantsas their corporations and banks loot your country. I explain:"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1700579411412533488) 2023-09-09T18:38Z [----] followers, 37.3K engagements
"See even with most of his adult life spent in Buganda M7 still returns to Rwakitura to vote. To him and co. Buganda is simply HUNTING GROUND. Kyeeyo Boy they have hunted That's partly what Bobi Wine is saying. (Earlier travelers to Bugandalike our parentsBugndanized)"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1700804575127564689) 2023-09-10T09:33Z [----] followers, 35.2K engagements
"The basic question: Is President M7 sectarian Does his govt & work ethic appear to promote a particular ethnic If the answer is NO then Bobi Wine & others talking back are the problem. But when mother bird is eating the young ones watch its mouth African proverb"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1701094058775515605) 2023-09-11T04:43Z [----] followers, 20.8K engagements
"On [--]. [--]. [----] The Independent Magazine's lead story was "Family Rule in Uganda." With insights from Prof. Oloka-Onyango & Charles Onyango Obbo). Remember "The death that will kill a man begins as an appetite" Nigerian proverb. See excerpts:"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1701132300207968374) 2023-09-11T07:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""One reason M7 ended up with so many relatives in key security positions is that fairly early in his presidency he sought to entrench his power by limiting the independent growth of his party the NRM and to dismantle the institutions of state" @cobbo3 to IPL in 2009"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1701146860935606367) 2023-09-11T08:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"On [--]. [--]. [----] a survey on M7's tribalism in the "national" army conducted & published by The Independent revealed the following: Ug is forever grateful to comrade @AndrewMwenda. We thank him for his services. Thus if this be a crime it is not original to Bobi Wine & co"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1701154639649857844) 2023-09-11T08:44Z [----] followers, 25.5K engagements
"WHEN Theordre Roosevelt took lessons from Buganda on race relations How then did this civilisation after inspiring Wazungu from afar become tribalistic xenophobic It is a difficult accusation"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1701530090859864175) 2023-09-12T09:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Dr Jonathon Earle's essayon Buganda as real-life Wakandaappeared in Politico on 10.3.2023. Delightful read. (NOTE: there is no attempt to denigrate other communities. Just spotlight on Buganda & its interaction with the larger world). Fully essay:"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1701533416691282107) 2023-09-12T09:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"They committed no crime"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1702230256482963464) 2023-09-14T07:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@AAgather @MKSerumaga @AgoraCFR @NativeLandgrab @sulakakaire1 @I_Rugambwa @deuce_mercy @Sambannz @Samwyri @GodwinTOKO @OtafiireH @karamagi_andrew @SpireJim @mwineedgar Kalundi developed the point of impoverishment well. Forgot to add occupancy of juicy govt positions & linkages (tenders jobs taxi evasions) from which buyers get cash. Bse buyers aren't businessmen with honest cash. (Yes the economy). But beneficiaries of nepotistic linkages"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1702555476540391895) 2023-09-15T05:30Z 12.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Do media outlets nowadays ask questions like "How deeply entrenched is M7's tribalism" Or conduct surveys/ studies on tribalism allegations This was @AndrewMwenda journalistic genius (btn 2005-2010) see for example:"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1703663325857370420) 2023-09-18T06:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Arguably the most shamelessly sectarian govt Uganda will ever see"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1704004678868988171) 2023-09-19T05:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"On Uganda's economy: "We do not have an economy. But people charged with managing an extractive process." How accurate And extraction ranges from agric products (mostly coffee tea) Kampala's toil & minerals to actual human beings young adults veiled & ferried to the ME"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1706595699624677504) 2023-09-26T09:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Buganda land of immigrants. Kalundi Serumagaallegedly a "Buganda nationalist"carries a nickname his grandparents earned on first arrival: Omulundi Akalundi So it matured into "Kalundi." The fella is quite light-skinned markedly different other immigrants from Acholi"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1706971793347535136) 2023-09-27T09:59Z 12.3K followers, 17.6K engagements
"@YN_BUDDU @AAgather @GodwinTOKO @DavidLRubongoya Dear Yuliana all these are fair points. But a lot is readable in Agather's tweets & activism. See if you considered the potential of a leading opp party& the weight of the office comrade Mpuuga occupiessurely they are barely scratching the surface: bakola gwa kabandabe"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1707521626600870383) 2023-09-28T22:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"As LoP comrade Mpuuga has power to summon Gen. Freeman Mugabethe chief judge of M7s court martialto Parliament. But he also has his private number & can call him to his office & negotiate a settlement. [---] years over [--] appearances and no witnesses /3"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1707763313927483771) 2023-09-29T14:24Z [----] followers, 12.8K engagements
"AGAIN: Unless you're a thief no genuine business thrives in Uganda. [---] buildings [----] vehicles lost to loans in three months No not Russia-Ukraine not Covid-19 either. But (a) interest rates & (b) closure of local banks. I wrote in 2021:"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1708033109256442130) 2023-09-30T08:16Z [----] followers, 61.7K engagements
"the same banks ask for 1.5% interest in Europe & NA. But extort at an average of 20-35% in Africa. That Africans are not trustworthy No wonder com banks in Africa are "the most profitable in the world while being least efficient." The Economist"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1708037340281667939) 2023-09-30T08:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"btn 1993-2016 Bank of Uganda closed exclusively locally owned commercial banks with "no guidelines/ regulations or policies" - Auditor Gen. John Muwanga. Recall also TM was also consultant for the WB. Yes our governor was also a worker of WB"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1708092255452418065) 2023-09-30T12:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Ruto Statehouse spends a paltry Ksh76m a day How does he manage 😇 And this MP wants it cut Eh. (For us our M7 statehouse scrapes by with Ush2.8bn a day)"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1708783632859463754) 2023-10-02T09:59Z [----] followers, 11.8K engagements
"Dear African govts WB and IMF sold us a lie. No country grows on collecting taxes. In Europe & NA govts do business: they own things & exploit countries' resources: London Underground BritishAir DB BP Gazprom etc. They then subsidise entrepreneurs. Or go abroad & steal"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1709132131266359642) 2023-10-03T09:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"How novelist Allan Tacca predicted the Entebbe women murders in [----] & the rise of SFC. It was SG then. All in *The Silent Rebel.* It reads like a horror movie man (Excerpted and analysis by Prof. Abasi Kiyimba Mawazo 2010)"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1709546533312500168) 2023-10-04T12:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Voice of Uganda [--] January [----] Shows Amin & Indian minister of Ext. Affairs Binipipal Das holding cheque No.19 (US$ 1627144). The obligation to pay beneficiaries had been given to govt of India. This was money for [----] properties I researched:"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1712145927476044137) 2023-10-11T16:39Z [----] followers, 51.5K engagements
"Palestine-Israel; Ukraine-Russia are so instructive: You quickly realize that people you thoughtfor a very long timeto be fair smart clear-headed & humanistic that they have never been any of that. But zombies trapped in ideology belief systems and absolute superstition"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1712401783622918428) 2023-10-12T09:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Ush47b in [----] another Ush240b in [----]. Can brother Patrick Bitature & others survive a change in government Truth is we are all broke; we are victims of this broken extractive economy. Even M7's generational "tycoons" are only keeping appearances on our taxes. Eh"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1713116746112975041) 2023-10-14T08:57Z [----] followers, 21.2K engagements
""Make an impact on the girl child." Good theme. Problem though & I'mnt dissing is that the prominence of most of these lovely ladies is being public servants pol. appointments & wives. Not bad. But how about CEOs coffee giants or investors in major EA brands Or scholars"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1713462231730409925) 2023-10-15T07:50Z [----] followers, 35.6K engagements
"Consider this: @AbsaUganda allegedly just declined funding assistance to Busoga kingdom royal wedding scheduled for Nov. [--]. I cannot imagine if lady Helen Basuuta Nangozi author of declining lettera Musoga herselfwas CEO MD or owner of Absa (as a locally owned bank). See"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1713496577828929661) 2023-10-15T10:06Z [----] followers, 65.1K engagements
"@Malikiham @AbsaUganda I know. But think for a second if this were the British royal wedding & Barclays Bank/ABSA board of directors have to make a decision on this matter. British crown does not even have to make a request The banks will offer. Oba okitegeera"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1713500264026525775) 2023-10-15T10:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Many responders missed my point entirely: this isn't about ABSA or the royal wedding necessarily. But rather that we need local investors (local bankers telecom coffee giants.) as opposed to celebrating public servants as icons. With local investors much more can be done"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1713598287779889424) 2023-10-15T16:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@AppelezmoiKizza @_Nairob @AbsaUganda This is the point: The absence of local players in the economy (& instead glorification of pub servants). If this were a native bank royal wedding wld be top CSR. FACT: Despite being least efficient commercial banks in Africa (esp in UG) are the most profitable in the world"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1713647991607689442) 2023-10-15T20:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AppelezmoiKizza @_Nairob @AbsaUganda @Absa One more time: the original tweet wasn't about Absa or the royal wedding. (They flashed out as timely antagonistic examples out of so many). The tweet was a follow-up on an earlier long debate on UG political economy esp the space for native home-grown investors & icons"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1713652764167831594) 2023-10-15T20:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Arresting Spire will not help. Truth is Spire is entire country & when the tribal fires breakout like all identity-inspired fires it will leave no one behind. Stop and listen"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1714272548559749532) 2023-10-17T13:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"We love to laugh at cmrde Bitature& all the bailout gang. But we should learn to sympathise. They are victims. M7 set up his friends for failure calling them businessmen when they are simply dealers & agents [--] years Why doesn't Bitature OWN a bank Or a telecom company"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1715302238313218099) 2023-10-20T09:41Z [----] followers, 36.4K engagements
"these are victims like all of us. It might be too late now but M7 failed to empowered his friends clanmates family to OWN this economy. This is the genius of Ethiopia Tanzania Nigeria. Despite challenges their rich are key playerscan survive different regimes"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1715314819442585678) 2023-10-20T10:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"England proposed 6000m proposed in Uganda for the Jews Senga ekyaliyo omuddugavu"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1720388493615013897) 2023-11-03T10:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"One more time unless you are a thief. no honest business thrives in Uganda. And it isn't poor business acumen not bad business decisions nor laziness. But rather the nature of the economy esp its (foreign-controlled) extortionist banking regime"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1722550158624161985) 2023-11-09T09:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Just 150km out of Kampala one ends up in [----] Uganda Eh"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1722914311536853061) 2023-11-10T09:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"the connection btn our beautiful smartphone lives & the bloodied lives in DRC. Pictures taken at @CarfCenter Lubumbashi"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1723997815930487007) 2023-11-13T09:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Voice of Uganda. Monday January [--] 1976"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1725484208112476323) 2023-11-17T12:01Z [----] followers, 125.9K engagements
"So Saudi Arabia would openly eliminate Jamal Khashoggi while the western world locks up Julian Assange in Belmarsh prison. While both actions are meant to suppress dissent the Saudi's open violence allows the West to claim a reputation as exemplars of rule of law"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1729111571555832144) 2023-11-27T12:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Was there ever a move to actually REVIVE cooperatives If not what then was the objective of a "war loss compensation" Who are these cooperatives & what are they trading Not surprising (Ms. Ssali again) it was seen as mana from heaven. Looks like this was the design itself"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1731324617610965474) 2023-12-03T14:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"In [----] I warned @rggoobi "The assumption that outgoing technocrats had wrong answers to easy questions cannot even be said by an undergrad student studying M7s Uganda. It is not simply designed-to-fail but designed-to-benefit us' us with power"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1737103723372163361) 2023-12-19T13:32Z [----] followers, 19.6K engagements
""They die often as they lived without a fuss without fanfare. once upon a time public service meant exactly that serving the public." This against the disturbing facts of the present day"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1737475628390064542) 2023-12-20T14:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Dear @NUP_Ug the wall whisperer has it that you are changing LoP If you miss a fully-blown activist Delta Force II warrior such as my friend Francis Zaake I wld retain Hon. @MathiasMpuuga or move to reluctant activist but hardline diplomat Muwanga Kivumbi"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1737950454481392013) 2023-12-21T21:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Here is the latest set of M7's victims victims of a system that successfully weaponized cash. You are soiled dirtied by cash. Difficult trap: Young ambitious idealistic but in a sea of poverty. If it isn't overwhelmingly huge salaries it is bribes that deliver themselves"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1738632390166151643) 2023-12-23T18:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"If I were my brother @JoelSsenyonyi (sadly Im not) I would decline the appointment as LoP especially if it means dislodging a more senior comrade Mathius Mpuuga (a small thread)"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1739589077588914197) 2023-12-26T10:08Z [----] followers, 79K engagements
"1. Against expectations: Joel is mildly radical and surely not more diplomatic nor more technical than Mpuuga. So what would I be delivering If the president needed more control over LoP I would advise him against it & instead let the boat steady"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1739589079350530253) 2023-12-26T10:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"3. The position is lucrative but terribly dirtying (than productive). You wont push anything substantive. As a young politicianinterested in removing a dictatora critical distance from the dirt would be preferred. Let the Mpuugas & Ssegonas continue these entanglements"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1739589082815013263) 2023-12-26T10:08Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"4. The people who joined NUP from DPHons. Kivumbi Mpuuga Ssegona Namboozeso much needed NUP to win their elections. Presently NUP needs them for its stability especially that mainstream NUP legislators have proved to be entirely meek and mute (if not members of MK camp)"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1739589084337656082) 2023-12-26T10:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""He started as a newspaper vendor and rose through the ranks to become a senior editor at Munno newspaper. and has authored more than ten titles in form of books & academic papers" Joseph Tamale Mirundi. Perhaps Kampala's leading public intellectual and analyst in our time"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1740346872215343212) 2023-12-28T12:20Z [----] followers, 22.1K engagements
"Many Kampala analysts loudly speak their opinions. But lack the doggedness & commitment to sit & write them. Mirundi's doggedness researching sitting & writing his thoughts (books or pamphlets call it whatever you'll) is absolute genius. Our Zizek"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1740362412862402908) 2023-12-28T13:21Z [----] followers, 11.4K engagements
"I strongly disagree. [--]. Those aren't their best. That was the 'best of poorest' they knew. NOTHING they built in colonies compares to their own. Notice also a surge of recent inventions in fakes. [--]. They were building for OWN use. [--]. There were no plans leaving. I asked a Prof friend why the British built strong infrastructure (buildings dams railways that still stand) even when it was clear that they were leaving. In his view its not just abt hope for neocolonialism but also because building strong things is part of their culture. https://t.co/py62xEQ6bL I asked a Prof friend why the British"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1740853806605455497) 2023-12-29T21:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I see Prime Minister Melesi Zenawi written all over this deal. Some legacies are real. Ethiopian Airlines inked a deal for [--] Boeing jets the largest-ever order of Boeing aeroplanes in African aviation history. ET is Africas leading airline #GoodAfrica2023 https://t.co/TLDvOLd1ym Ethiopian Airlines inked a deal for [--] Boeing jets the largest-ever order of Boeing aeroplanes in African aviation history. ET is Africas leading airline #GoodAfrica2023 https://t.co/TLDvOLd1ym"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1741420952397754431) 2023-12-31T11:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Poisoned lives in Congo"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1741772607144292449) 2024-01-01T10:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""Uganda is now entering the last and final phase of every strongmans political cycle: idol worship and erecting such vanity symbols. It happened almost in every country one can think of that was ruled by a strongman." @IvanOkuda"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1742595916199088632) 2024-01-03T17:16Z [----] followers, 84.7K engagements
"On [--] June [----] then Deputy Gov. Bank of Uganda E. Lule wrote to Maj. Noble Mayombo about the (compensation of) expropriated properties. Mayombo had asked BoU about which of those properties were occupied by the Ministry of Defence. E. Lule was very generous in his response"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1742880819247550799) 2024-01-04T12:09Z [----] followers, 51.7K engagements
""They go thru our country. But they are accusing us of stealing Congo's minerals. How about the destination Dubai Brussels Tel Aviv. And if we deployed everything & stopped these things flowing the accusation would be even worse." the last line is the subject itself"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1743632859741458452) 2024-01-06T13:57Z [----] followers, 17.4K engagements
"anthropologist of the Horn (& activist) @HoehneVirgil offers background & broad-picture thinking on implications of MoU btn Somaliland & Ethiopia: Djibouti talks betrayed Loss in Lasacaanood Al-Shabaab re-invigorated Egypt opposed Eritrea watchful"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743995930674659801) 2024-01-07T14:00Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"DRC lost $78.8b revenue btn 2009-2021 DRC & Angola's recently signed an agreement for the oil exploitation of (only) [--] offshore fields. Yet: according to a WB report the DRC lost $78.8bn revenue between 2009-2021 in what effectively could be Congolese oil. For more see our earlier piece: https://t.co/RGGLuN6Rcm https://t.co/Na75u8E6cF DRC & Angola's recently signed an agreement for the oil exploitation of (only) [--] offshore fields. Yet: according to a WB report the DRC lost $78.8bn revenue between 2009-2021 in what effectively could be Congolese oil. For more see our earlier piece:"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1744675795514064936) 2024-01-09T11:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"For younger strugglers if "the struggle" had a name & a human face it is this man comrade brother Sam Mugumya. Mabira Forest Protests (New Vision [--] April 2007)"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1745091694909858154) 2024-01-10T14:34Z [----] followers, 23.1K engagements
"Dear @IsaacSsemakadde your South African twin here is another clear-cut 'essential lawyer.' 🚨 47-year-old South African lawyer and legal scholar Tembeka Ngcukaitobi just laid out a DEVASTATING case documenting Israel's genocidal intent in Gaza before the International Court of Justice. https://t.co/MwOzznSIFc 🚨 47-year-old South African lawyer and legal scholar Tembeka Ngcukaitobi just laid out a DEVASTATING case documenting Israel's genocidal intent in Gaza before the International Court of Justice. https://t.co/MwOzznSIFc"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1745496614322524351) 2024-01-11T17:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"And here lives the gentler thieves. https://t.co/L3SGrEukuq https://t.co/L3SGrEukuq"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1745901506426007916) 2024-01-12T20:12Z [----] followers, 12.4K engagements
"Sometime last year I mulled over the roots of cowardice of todays subaltern intellectuals esp in Africa. Watching Israel's colonialist bombing of Palestine I still wonder what happened to Africas decolonial scholars (there is DRC Sudan & Somalia)"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1746163479776567500) 2024-01-13T13:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Non-Aligned Movement was a claim of belonging to neither the communist camp (USSR) nor the capitalist (Euro-America). Looking in awe as these CAPITALIST enclaves gather under the banner of non-aligned. At the same time MUK has a neoliberal conference ongoing. #NAMSummitUg2024"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1746180340526243926) 2024-01-13T14:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@mabonga_joseph @DuncanAbigaba Wikipedia: South African (then further on British)"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1747638698613588260) 2024-01-17T15:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"No comrade COO. It is not a thing with coups breeding each other. It is the thing with colonisers who refuse to leave. Coups is their game we have only learned to play. Thus coups & counter coups form a core part of the struggle. May the strongest stand. Umpteenth coup attempt foiled in Burkina Faso and alleged coup plotters arrested. Thats the thing with coups; one only breeds another https://t.co/g8YIUEuIBN Umpteenth coup attempt foiled in Burkina Faso and alleged coup plotters arrested. Thats the thing with coups; one only breeds another https://t.co/g8YIUEuIBN"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1748380452266610925) 2024-01-19T16:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"One of those bits of evidence. @CapitalFMUganda https://t.co/XZx65tpMYU @CapitalFMUganda https://t.co/XZx65tpMYU"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1748815496600789049) 2024-01-20T21:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Dear @CapitalFMUganda did you miss that headline: "Thieves hide behind Museveni's back" IGG Justice Irene Mulyagonja (Monitor [--] June 2018) Dear Patricia see here:"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1748817258514636803) 2024-01-20T21:18Z [----] followers, 22.1K engagements
"In all fairness Nanfy's crime is paraphrasing Justice Mulyagonja Dear @CapitalFMUganda did you miss that headline: "Thieves hide behind Museveni's back" IGG Justice Irene Mulyagonja (Monitor [--] June 2018) Dear Patricia see here: https://t.co/qauSjNNOls https://t.co/MuVWSQnzBt Dear @CapitalFMUganda did you miss that headline: "Thieves hide behind Museveni's back" IGG Justice Irene Mulyagonja (Monitor [--] June 2018) Dear Patricia see here: https://t.co/qauSjNNOls https://t.co/MuVWSQnzBt"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1748819243401953324) 2024-01-20T21:26Z [----] followers, 20.4K engagements
"If non-alignment were to mean anything it would be revolutionthrough coups & violent struggle. Like Niger Mali & Burkina Fasos recent shakeups it would mean seeking to command the power to align with whoever we like whenever we like" I write"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1749437161001078923) 2024-01-22T14:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Who has a deep dive on the closure of this one What dont we know about EFC Any minutes warning letters Any evidence for claimed crimes Bro. @IsaacSsemakadde where are you comrade These are [--] years of closing banks and micro-finance institutions. Seems legacy continues Deposit protection fund only compensates a customer up to Ugx [--------] Now EFC closed and all its customers to be refunded apart from the (2%) who had over Ugx [--------] on their accounts. Moral of the story: if you have more than Ugx 10M on your account its on YOU. 😂😂 https://t.co/vJiiBsWQ3K Deposit protection fund only"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1750544451188019706) 2024-01-25T15:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It is neoliberalism = collapse of cooperatives + closure of indigenous banks & then 34% interest rate + difficult business/ farming environ = surge in rural poverty surge in land selling then boba-bodas and then this exodus. It has been [--] years. #LabourExportExhibitionUG DAY [--] of the #LabourExportExhibitionUG A list of registered labour export companies in Uganda Ive got shows [---] of them We need to ask ourselves: Why are all these young people fleeing the country for opportunities Its okay to seek for jobs elsewhere but this EXODUS https://t.co/khJZrWoUwl DAY [--] of the"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1750983178897047624) 2024-01-26T20:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Some more numbers here dear Charlie: Between 1960-2018 Europe and North America stole from Africa $152 trillion. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2021/5/6/rich-countries-drained-152tn-from-the-global-south-since-1960 Some true-blooded pan-Africanists are angry angry that a small inconsequential European country like Italy is holding an Africa-Summit and gathering the continents leaders at her feet. A realist unleashes the numbers says yes Italy is about the size of South Africa but https://t.co/9PJ41gQBxb"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1751617295544172777) 2024-01-28T14:44Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"For background & context on the extreme levels of poverty forcing Ugandans into slavery in the Middle East and elsewhere Prof. Ezra Suruma's words are timeless: "Ugandans will remain slaves until they own their banks." #LabourExportExhibitionUG"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1751619185128440236) 2024-01-28T14:52Z [----] followers, 15.9K engagements
""The questions of [----] might be the questions of today but the answers are totally different. The answers are not where you have to remind us that you came from the bush; you had guns. No the narrative is different." What ocassion was this Seeing the last of this man"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1752046934443889025) 2024-01-29T19:11Z [----] followers, 19.6K engagements
"Africans: "these whites people met in Berlin and without asking any of us divided our continent & started exploiting us." Europe: "Our apologies. welcome to London. Welcome to Paris. Welcome to Rome. When shall we have you again We'll host you in all cities.""
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1752762888836517956) 2024-01-31T18:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Ugandans working abroad sent home $1.1 billion (Shs4.2 trillion) in the twelve months to July [----] according to data from Bank of Uganda Coffee our prized cash cow employing 11m farmers brought in about 1.4trillion. How many folks are abroad"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1754435910639264183) 2024-02-05T09:24Z [----] followers, 32.5K engagements
"Textbook example of reverse psychology: he is actually denying Euro-American control of African governments by shocking us with an open brazen crudely stated interest in doing so in future. (Yes why would he signal to interest in doing it if they were already doing it) Uhm "the imperial hat" this head honcho of mercenaries speaks of has always been on & the "governing" of Africa never stopped. Only difference now is that all masks are off so they can do away with the "democracy" coating. So why are we shocked exactly https://t.co/XHilQDA0TR Uhm "the imperial hat" this head honcho of"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1755675462594900397) 2024-02-08T19:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"So our Artorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka (KK) was Jovia Saleh's personal lawyer by [----]. Eh. Explainer: Jovia is Gen. Saleh's wife and Gen. Saleh is Presisent M7's brother power broker & true co-president. (No conflict of interest of course just an interesting storyline)"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1757023394803953920) 2024-02-12T12:46Z 12.1K followers, 46.8K engagements
""Popular feeling ran high against political corruption as did against Asian exploitation. Amin executed consistently a policy that the colonial government initiated in 1952: affirmative action as an antidote to popular pressures for democratization" Mahmood Mamdani (1995)"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1758096376653594649) 2024-02-15T11:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Always wondering why calls and Internet charges are most extortionist in UG These multinationals MTN Airtel once in UG a claimed free market economy started by harrasing their way into signing MONOPOLY agreements. So new players have to offer them a cut to play"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1758981672857428334) 2024-02-17T22:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@YN_BUDDU No. I cannot. But that is not my point either. I'm saying that had PB lived under a different regimeone that allowed Greenland Bank to thrivehe would never have needed to go to South Africa. And this contention if ever arose would be concluded in Kiggundu's living room"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1759610747519205706) 2024-02-19T16:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Uganda. Last year Uganda Railways Corporation overpaid [--] staff by Ugx [----------] 😂 URC's accounting officer over-estimated the wage cost for FY 2023/24 by Ugx [----------] 😂😂 URC also didn't invoice ministry of works Ugx [----------] for their offices at URC station building Last year Uganda Railways Corporation overpaid [--] staff by Ugx [----------] 😂 URC's accounting officer over-estimated the wage cost for FY 2023/24 by Ugx [----------] 😂😂 URC also didn't invoice ministry of works Ugx [----------] for their offices at URC station building"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1759983890532532464) 2024-02-20T16:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Somewhere he says (loosely): "We missed the bunch of matoke & ran off with fingers. Diving Africa into our small countries weakens us. No wonder our economies are chaos." Okot p' Bitek author of 'Artiste the Ruler' must be proud. [--] sec of public intellectualism"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1759992696197001313) 2024-02-20T17:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The expenditure includes a daily $4000 per diem for speaker abroad; another $3500 for the deputy two months annually. We also borrow to sustain the life of Yoweri Museveni at Ush2.8b a day. And Sobbi was the bad one"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1761399558335066545) 2024-02-24T14:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"In the spirit of the ongoing #UgandaParliamentExhibition I'm tempted to revisit my [----] piece on the opposition. Many now can agree with the headline: There is no opposition in Uganda but happy people on either side"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1762121449186185374) 2024-02-26T14:24Z [----] followers, 10.5K engagements
"Comrades Esp. Bobi Wine Lewis Rubongoya: This ought not to be a witchhunt or Hon. Mpuuga taking a bullet for the team. These streets have seen many many folks implicated. House cleaning ought to be thorough. Dr Twaha Kagabo told us as much when he was left in the cold"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1763253651424924100) 2024-02-29T17:23Z [----] followers, 18.7K engagements
"Dear @NUP_Ug This doesn't look good at all. It is not true that you didn't know about these Mpuuga monies b4 the #UgandaParliamentExhibition. (No one believes you bse there is much more). Acting after public pushback has a name: M7 will sacrifice a soldier for the team"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1763708984043663707) 2024-03-01T23:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"If Kulabisa (exposing) is the core job of the opposition then these are our new leaders of the opposition: Jimmy Spire Ssentongo Agartha Atuhaire Godwin Toko Agora Samwise etc. ALL others are running behind (Sadly on things they knew all along) #UgandaParliamentExhibition"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1763875954324062512) 2024-03-02T10:36Z 12.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Dear Opposition This is a revolutionary moment. You dont have to miss it. You have all the information you need plus public support to move a motion to censor Speaker Anita Among. #CensorAnitaAmong (Officially ask for these docs) #UgandaParliamentExhibition"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1763887928395071815) 2024-03-02T11:23Z [----] followers, 39K engagements
"George Galloway. Thanks Rochdale. One of the greatest speeches in history 🔥 Congratulations to George Galloway on his stunning victory in the Rochdale by-election. https://t.co/OLsCnhm3pK One of the greatest speeches in history 🔥 Congratulations to George Galloway on his stunning victory in the Rochdale by-election. https://t.co/OLsCnhm3pK"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1763915464537723042) 2024-03-02T13:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@anderlukson @observerug You are missing the point comrade please see next tweet"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1764358030387191871) 2024-03-03T18:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"the late Hon. Hussein Kyanjo predicted the birth of exhibitionsusing printed posters and the Internet. He called it "Free Uganda." This is [--] years ago. Let exhibit him and remember him as an iconic parliamentarian. #UgandaParliamentExhibition"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1764627685748207768) 2024-03-04T12:23Z [----] followers, 16.5K engagements
"A little context was necessary and thus @observerug is on the streets. But the #UgandaParliamentExhibition continues undistracted. # Censor Anita Among. That even dearest Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja doesnt like her"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1765064659311206858) 2024-03-05T17:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"A little context helps: [----] - 1980s: Africans tried to dig up this stuff on their own; they were coup-ed and killed. Libya lived like this. Folks in Mali Burkina Faso Niger are trying to pull this off again but the heat is too much. A friend just posted this on a WhatsApp group. The caption read. Africa waiting for investors https://t.co/wL8Wley0lM A friend just posted this on a WhatsApp group. The caption read. Africa waiting for investors https://t.co/wL8Wley0lM"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1765759109633016200) 2024-03-07T15:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Here we go Zaake-Kakwenza dragging the opposition on. Dear Hon. @ZaakeFrancis I have relied upon your patriotic commitment to mobilise the right thinking legislators to remove mabaati thief @AnitahAmong from office and Ive started on the motion as your legal counsel. I promise to deliver by end of business next week but I need https://t.co/QCUxyk2U2r Dear Hon. @ZaakeFrancis I have relied upon your patriotic commitment to mobilise the right thinking legislators to remove mabaati thief @AnitahAmong from office and Ive started on the motion as your legal counsel. I promise to deliver by end of"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1766927106313699435) 2024-03-10T20:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"There is NO WAY that Ugandas Finance Intelligence Authority (FIA) is unaware of huge cash payouts involving Parliament BoU & other comm. banks. We have been on the international money laundering list. No way FIA slept on the job. They are in. #UgandaParliamentExhibition"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1767529795514986643) 2024-03-12T12:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""But I believe Bobi Wine erred immensely in seeking to exploit public pressure-#UgandaParliamentExhibition to seek to win an old power struggle against Mpuuga. It is recipe for implosion." I called it a "pointless self-immolation." Hon. @JoelSsenyonyi could you help us understand these monthly honorariums. They could be legal but now we want to go beyond legality to understand in the context of Uganda and our circumstances. Is this 6300000/ a monthly allowance for Commissioners beside MP salary In https://t.co/m4dE5TxN9x Hon. @JoelSsenyonyi could you help us understand these monthly"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1768309059604693179) 2024-03-14T16:11Z [----] followers, 16K engagements
"Dear @NUP_Ug STOP playing with Hon. Zaake. Had you made him LoP presently that house would have moved to the streets already. You have now thrown him a position you are sure hell not have. I will watch if you also make him Deputy President replacing Mpuuga fully"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1768959795980120490) 2024-03-16T11:17Z 12.5K followers, 37.9K engagements
"Sobbi vs Parliament of Uganda The man looked at Sobbi then parliament moved his eyes from parliament to Sobbi again then from Sobbi to parliament and could not tell the difference. #UgandaParliamentExhibition"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1770024257235403184) 2024-03-19T09:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"If M7 had appointed Muhoozi Kainerugaba as Vice President it would signal towards civilian trust as VP officially becomes President if calamity struck sitting head. Under same circumstances a CDF has to upstage the VP. Not sure why M7 has decided to make son's life hard"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1770936281599520886) 2024-03-21T22:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"It is now or never for Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba. I know it is a scarry (somewhat staged) thing naye tolina kyewekwasa. One of those rare moments in politics where a sitting military president plots own coup. (Well for son but all unusual)"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1771100878436466785) 2024-03-22T09:05Z [----] followers, 13.9K engagements
"Col. Kizza Besigye: "Elites are the most useless in Uganda." NUP youthwingers: these so-called intellectuals are the problem. Gen. Yoweri Museveni: I agree. Congrats Balaam Barugahare. You have support across the Isle"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1771140352361091541) 2024-03-22T11:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"To have allies there must be adversaries somewhere. There must be a project as well for which an alliance is necessary. Tusimbude"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1771575103693656174) 2024-03-23T16:29Z [----] followers, 13.1K engagements
"In a [----] piece on AG Kiryowa Kiwanuka @IsaacSsemakadde connected the dots: a constitutional transition requires support from key actors in cabinet military judiciary CSO & media. This AG is one of the cogs that move the wheels of succession. 1/4"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1771599360406458717) 2024-03-23T18:06Z [----] followers, 12.9K engagements
"Africa's first sons: Some of the chaotic presidential successions have involved sonsMahamat ibn Idriss Dby in Chad Faure Gnassingb in Togo Joseph Kabila in DRC and Ali Bongo Ondimba in Gabon. Dby and Kabila were straight-forward installations by the military. /2"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1771599362243592648) 2024-03-23T18:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"First they closed our local banks now they are targeting SACCOs. Look these SACCOs aren't *really* lifting people out of poverty as banks would (if they had a locally determined interest rate). But our masters the debt trappers still don't want them to exist. Fight"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1772238949894778907) 2024-03-25T12:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Still wondering why Museveni doesn't find it urgent to appoint son Gen. Kainerugaba vice presidentif he really wants him to for presidency. Next step after CDF Bse if he collapsed nowGod forbidthe dream would be harder for MK. What is he afraid of"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1772245276696199644) 2024-03-25T12:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Olivia Lutaaya & others: As a definition *political prisoners* are never charged with any crimes but politics. Thus no law applies to them. But politics. While other prisoners could be freed on the strength of evidence for political prisoners it is strength of politics"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1773320981014012406) 2024-03-28T12:07Z [----] followers, 13.5K engagements
"I agree. 100% Bobi Wine is a captive and NUP under siege Mpuuga says. Bobi Wine is a captive and NUP under siege Mpuuga says"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1773811706788974866) 2024-03-29T20:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"To redeem himself Mpuuga is right Bobi Wine might have to resign from NUP. Like all others party is corrupted. Consider: How does BW align with cmds Kakwenza Rukira Spire Agatha GT Mabiriziwho may never join NUPwho are currently carrying the flame of people power"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1773829649543397697) 2024-03-29T21:48Z [----] followers, 23.3K engagements
"It is not just Mpuuga losing the war. It takes two to tangle. You have to have the entire national condition of "political parties" in context to fully make sense. It is a national condition under a Museveni-led neoliberal order. For all parties it is a matter of time. From his statement today Mathias Mpuuga has effectively conceded that he has lost the war against NUP. Whether he has lost the battle that is another question. From his statement today Mathias Mpuuga has effectively conceded that he has lost the war against NUP. Whether he has lost the battle that is another question"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1773847238042591322) 2024-03-29T22:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"We are on our own in UG You have a @UCC_Official obsessed with censorship of the users of data instead of protecting customers from the unscrupulous corporations. We are on our own. This one is either an employee of @mtnug or @Airtel_Ug. They are spilling secrets 🤣 #DataExhibitionTheft https://t.co/OsOt14gm08 This one is either an employee of @mtnug or @Airtel_Ug. They are spilling secrets 🤣 #DataExhibitionTheft https://t.co/OsOt14gm08"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1775103873625051571) 2024-04-02T10:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"With interest btn 15-34% "African banks generate a 17% return on equity for shareholders. On that measure Africas banks are the most profitable in the worldwhile also being the least efficient." The Economist So are telecoms #DataTheftExhibition https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/05/21/why-interest-rates-are-so-high-in-africa https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/05/21/why-interest-rates-are-so-high-in-africa"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1775152217290420391) 2024-04-02T13:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Dear Parliament of Uganda You either own the bank or you don't. Being headed by a non-national is a small matter for Ugandans whose interest rates average at 34%. You closed all your own without minutes without minutes Com' on @pwatchug . VIDEO: Hon Paul Omara on the issue of the former Stanbic Bank CEO Anne Juuko being replaced by a nonnational. #NBSParliamentLive #NBSUpdates #PlenaryUg https://t.co/Rbz2H2aHFJ https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/audit-report-pins-bou-on-closure-of-7-banks-1777912 VIDEO: Hon Paul Omara on the issue of the former Stanbic Bank CEO Anne Juuko being"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1775159637169385684) 2024-04-02T13:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This energy ought to be spent discussing space for locally-owned banks which Mutebile & Co. closed without minutes: Teefe Greenland UCB Crane NB NBC. See they are planning to impose taxes on SACCOS This didn't even make it to the floor Mulimba nnyo bakulu. Stanbic Bank was in the hands of a Ugandan Patrick Mweheire it performed very well. The brought in a female young Ugandan lady it also performed exceedingly very well. Now the question of bringing in a non-Ugandan to a Bank which we entrusted our biggest assets & most of our https://t.co/mGg5tUiTM9 Stanbic Bank was in the hands of a Ugandan"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1775204655057793147) 2024-04-02T16:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"13 Generals in [--] years Key national assets. Trained over a long long period. Most deaths under suspicious circumstances not at the battlefront That is something. Thanks @observerug"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1775366097039966457) 2024-04-03T03:33Z 12.1K followers, 19.1K engagements
"African farmers must be envious of the farmers' protests across Europe. Yes they want MORE subsidies (tax cuts pollution regulations) & protection from foreign imports. Yes in Africa IMF & WB still demand that govts DONT help farmers in any away: Free market economics"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1776964192072769781) 2024-04-07T13:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Newly-elected French PM Gabriel Attal announced a package of $160 million for French farmers for farmers unions to tell their members to suspend protests. Every cow in France receives [---] annually. A son of African peasant farmers I'm so envious. https://time.com/6632372/farmer-protests-europe-france-germany-brussels/ https://time.com/6632372/farmer-protests-europe-france-germany-brussels/"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1776997262096322862) 2024-04-07T15:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Wait didn't Mpuuga present a "legislative agenda" which came to nothing. Now an "Alternative Budget Prioties." Eh. That "the dictator" will abandon his priorities & implement the opposition's alternative. Naye banamwe muzannya nnyo. UPDATE: Mr Robert Kyagulanyi alias @HEBobiwine the president of the @NUP_Ug has arrived at Parliament to attend the presentation of Alternative Budget Priorities for the Financial Year 2024/2025. He was received by the LOP Joel Ssenyonyi and the Opposition Chief Whip John https://t.co/QWUHpItdr0 UPDATE: Mr Robert Kyagulanyi alias @HEBobiwine the president of the"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1777331559969743025) 2024-04-08T13:43Z [----] followers, 18.6K engagements
"Reminder that the people in our governments (Finance URA BoU) are by definition Uncle Toms. They receive instructions and enforce them like robots"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1777658223048135041) 2024-04-09T11:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""security services and politicians. play a pivotal role in ensuring the failure of border controls allowing illegal trade to flourish." One of the stories among so many about how "security services and politicians" turned Uganda into a crime scene"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1778343311528362012) 2024-04-11T08:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Good people Anyone knows where satirist Harry Sagara of Saggys Wacky World is hiding This man was pure satire humor and parody. I recall booking him for a reading at MUK about [----] the room was unusually full hours before event sadly he pulled the joke on us"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1778456666872197387) 2024-04-11T16:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"We are witnessing decolonization. With the new manifestation of colonialism so disguisedas anti-terrorism security partnershipsit wont come easy to dismantle them. Sadly there'll be arguments from among the colonized in support of continued control https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/13/hundreds-protest-in-niger-demanding-departure-of-us-troops https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/13/hundreds-protest-in-niger-demanding-departure-of-us-troops"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1779472027113369637) 2024-04-14T11:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"In just six months ABSA in an impoverished economy called Uganda made a whooping $38m. How: Interest Rate. Banks in Africa specifically East Africa are most profitable in the whole world while being least efficient according to @TheEconomist 😇 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=yea4j5eK5Bk https://www.youtube.com/watchv=yea4j5eK5Bk"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1780618454535729643) 2024-04-17T15:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Looking for Nasser Road vibes in Nairobi: River Road"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1780898929384567168) 2024-04-18T09:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Dear RK with due respect to Dr Clarke this is just another story that seeks to reproduce the coffee bar in Belgrade in London (bse they don't know us) We are not even present at home Ethio Kenyan Columbian farmers are big at home. Are organised at home. Home is base 👇 In light of the current coffee debate in Uganda here is an enlightening perspective from @DrIanClarke a large scale coffee farmer https://t.co/3NoplsMmnb In light of the current coffee debate in Uganda here is an enlightening perspective from @DrIanClarke a large scale coffee farmer https://t.co/3NoplsMmnb"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1782007857635791329) 2024-04-21T11:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Wallayi twetunda. Ne UTL A foreign firm owns majority shares. I thought we owned this one. Eh. I write about the telecom monopolies M7 sold to MTN Celtel & UTL about [----] & the same man would be complaining in [----]. The Money We Refused to Count: https://www.observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/81086-the-money-that-museveni-failed-to-count https://www.observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/81086-the-money-that-museveni-failed-to-count"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1782371528597803446) 2024-04-22T11:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I like the doublespeak in this headline: Either Museveni himself spoke lies that is told the country lies. Or whatever he was told were lies. Either way this is how we have known our man"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1785674752486445283) 2024-05-01T14:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Killing Coffee Marketing Board East Mengo Growers West Mengo Growers Banyankore Kweterana UCB Yoweri Museveni currently bashing WB-IMF sold Ugandan coffee farmers to German Singaporean UK Dutch dealers the 70% Now promoting Pinetti While calling us poor & lazy"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1786017818514698533) 2024-05-02T13:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Confusing: The @EUinUG keeps clean relations with M7 govt. Gives money. He abuses human rights. EU awards Ugandans fighting M7 abuses. Next Year: EU gives M7 more money. Abuses more rights; his workers corrupt. EU awards another Ugandan fighting M7 abuses. Congrats @SpireJim"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1786355313865617625) 2024-05-03T11:21Z [----] followers, 30.2K engagements
"That Pesident YKM is a clean man but the people around him are the problem. Only them need to be sanctioned. Waswa Lule's had this brutal response 👇 (Cited from Dipio and Sillars eds. [----]. Performing Wisdom: Proverbial Lore in Modern Ugandan Society)"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1786751573273580019) 2024-05-04T13:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"They threatened to sue us. But we continue being The Observer That is our identity. The only thing we know is observing"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1787889247510266200) 2024-05-07T16:56Z [----] followers, 13.7K engagements
"@lukusem @Johnblanshe_m Revised abstract by Bloomberg: "Less than four weeks after South Sudan became an independent country in [----] a delegation of Glencore Plc traders arrived by private jet in search of oil. They were carrying with them $800000 in cash to pay bribes." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-02/cash-traders-and-oil-how-glencore-bribed-its-way-across-africa https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-02/cash-traders-and-oil-how-glencore-bribed-its-way-across-africa"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1788166327108079739) 2024-05-08T11:17Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Interest rates. A survey by @newvisionwire found out that [---] properties (land commercial&residential buildings) were advertised for sale in media in the first [--] months of [----]. It is b'se of economic hardships or "lack of financial discipline" as experts called it https://t.co/jX6P4rEcPK A survey by @newvisionwire found out that [---] properties (land commercial&residential buildings) were advertised for sale in media in the first [--] months of [----]. It is b'se of economic hardships or "lack of financial discipline" as experts called it https://t.co/jX6P4rEcPK"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1788308383201742969) 2024-05-08T20:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Dear @KagutaMuseveni Here is a young man clearly committed to transforming his people. He is not calling his lazy but organising them. Here he spent slightly over $100m. He is talking reviving cooperatives extension services & all. Imagine doing this for [--] years"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1789033554099290342) 2024-05-10T20:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I would like to defend AAA naye aswaaza. Obuntu bw'abba nga temuli atte n'abwolesa Eh. Singa yasitukira mu banka oba telecom oba Uganda Railway oba UEB nze singa ndi ku side ye"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1789208944985993683) 2024-05-11T08:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Dear Ugandans lets stay focused. Anita Among is not the enemy. Sure she is annoying non-discreet & almost too excited about her ill fortune. Almost embarrassing. But never been the enemy"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1789915097755771372) 2024-05-13T07:06Z [----] followers, 22.9K engagements
"I still dont know why the World Bank & IMF have their offices inside the Bank of Uganda building. Is it a rent issue Can they not afford rent anywhere in Kampala I thought BoU building would be a national security facility accessed mostly by nationals. No @BOU_Official"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1789945491481924030) 2024-05-13T09:07Z [----] followers, 36.5K engagements
"Finally Ethiopia has fallen. Prime Minister Meles must be turning in his grave"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1790338529530188232) 2024-05-14T11:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Congo doesn't have "a huge population" Congo is 99m people & is six times the size of Germany. Germany is [--] million people clearly overpopulated. How many times is "huge" used to describe GER population Also DRC is way way richer than GER. (I know)"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1793166595340255525) 2024-05-22T06:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"30 Years of rabbits and bananas I write: https://observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/81385-museveni-s-is-lazy-tribalism https://observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/81385-museveni-s-is-lazy-tribalism"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1793217612391858443) 2024-05-22T09:49Z [----] followers, 10.6K engagements
"This image: They normally stand in the background. In observance of ethics they never try to learn your PIN either. Indeed President Ruto has a real chance of staying in powerdemocraticallyforever if he wanted to"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1797634575751159820) 2024-06-03T14:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Dr Jimmy Spire Ssentongo @EUinUG "Human Rights Defenders Award" recipient summarizes EU duplicity on human rights (& sanctions): We see you delivering death to Palestine; driving over dead bodies to schmooze with us. We see through. Thanks Jimmy. #FreePalestine"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1798004376436666715) 2024-06-04T14:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This is a grand hijack. Not support. "the violations of Musevenis government are heavily funded and protected by the same forces (UK EU USA) that are now trying to appear like friends of the resistance. And this is an old ugly trick Why I explain: https://observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/81530-how-usa-uk-hijack-and-kill-local-struggles https://observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/81530-how-usa-uk-hijack-and-kill-local-struggles"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1798351724480225334) 2024-06-05T13:50Z [----] followers, 16.9K engagements
"That we collapsed our UCB at just a dollar (yes just $1) I'm envious that Kenya's KCB is the biggest bank in the region with largest shareholding held by GoK (19%) and NSSF-K (10%). Damn All profits stay home. What happened to Uganda Anyone Kassaija or Goobi"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1799807148752584869) 2024-06-09T14:13Z [----] followers, 11.8K engagements
"@IvanOkuda @IsaacSsemakadde a thousand differences. But I will tell one anecdote: A Ugandan medic at a top private facility told me a story about a Kenyan expecting mother who declined going into labor at his "super" facility saying "our public hospitals are better than this one. I'm going back home.""
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1799814831618576875) 2024-06-09T14:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"AGAIN: Why doesn't Bank of Uganda have a governor over two years after Mutebile's passing Dear opposition (& other parliamentarians) is this an issue you would wish to summon M7 to explain Dear Male Mabirizi what might be the legal implications of this Any economists"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1800149948459344005) 2024-06-10T12:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Fascinating watching PLU folks elbowing themselves into the opposition space. Whilst being deep inside the establishment they have quite aggressively tactfully crafted an anti-establishment position. If calamity struck YKM it has to be them Hmm https://t.co/ZFCCtoCcv0 Hmm https://t.co/ZFCCtoCcv0"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1800192860979147019) 2024-06-10T15:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Then Auditor Gen Justice Irene Mulyagonja would simply remove "ON" and that headline would perfectly represent her findings"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1800209911076511936) 2024-06-10T16:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"If Spire Agather Toko are "foreign agents" why only focus on the recruited and not the foreigner recruiting Who are they Why are they recruiting Why have we not investigated arrested & charged these foreigners for subversive activity I ask: https://observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/81653-who-is-the-foreigner-recruiting-agents-in-uganda https://observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/81653-who-is-the-foreigner-recruiting-agents-in-uganda"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1803506980847493263) 2024-06-19T19:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The struggle in Kenya is in full bloom. Some Bobi Wine vibes here. Time Bomb"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1803689340096106870) 2024-06-20T07:20Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements
"the dream will not be thru elections a shallow democracy not worthy of its name. Smooth elections are actually not just a distraction but the post-1980 craft through which pillageeuphemized as free markets is executed #REJECTFINANCEBILL2024 https://roape.net/2022/09/08/africas-election-trap-finessing-the-craft-of-pillage/ https://roape.net/2022/09/08/africas-election-trap-finessing-the-craft-of-pillage/"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1803723450881610141) 2024-06-20T09:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Dear Kampala Nairobi is calling inspiring. Our conditiongraft taxes state capture collapse debt arroganceis far worse than Kenya"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1803791345376485833) 2024-06-20T14:05Z [----] followers, 74K engagements
"Kampala let's be inspired: a fire should not be left to warm just one house. Dear Kampala Nairobi is calling inspiring. Our conditiongraft taxes state capture collapse debt arroganceis far worse than Kenya. Dear Kampala Nairobi is calling inspiring. Our conditiongraft taxes state capture collapse debt arroganceis far worse than Kenya"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1803811672257094097) 2024-06-20T15:26Z [----] followers, 51.1K engagements
"What does this even mean Uganda. Our colleague Journalists Alirabaki Ssengooba and Dickson Mubiru have been remanded on a very frivolous Charge of "operating an online Website illegally." @GabrielBuule @AAgather @YusufSerunkuma. https://t.co/5s8XrC1ltt Our colleague Journalists Alirabaki Ssengooba and Dickson Mubiru have been remanded on a very frivolous Charge of "operating an online Website illegally." @GabrielBuule @AAgather @YusufSerunkuma. https://t.co/5s8XrC1ltt"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1803889064799801381) 2024-06-20T20:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@TimKalyegira Perhaps better to say in addition to IMF Kenya has other enemies. But European-supported corporations and tax regimes take a humongous amounts of money out our colonial outposts. Also the regime of business in which China thrives was put in place by IMF itself"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1804062992411115954) 2024-06-21T08:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Arrogance Entitlement Impunity Or stupidity. Something like: We own this place. We are here just to collect our money and we don't care about what you feel or think. We are above the law. Because we collect taxes"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1805327031959535644) 2024-06-24T19:48Z [----] followers, 12.1K engagements
"IMF in a nutshell Fired for corruptionby the presidentat a national tax body IMF hired Doris Akol immediately as technical advisor & now as senior economist. Yes IMF does background checks but the crimes at URA Akol worked for IMF. Makes sense https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/ex-ura-boss-akol-gets-top-imf-job-4487342 https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/ex-ura-boss-akol-gets-top-imf-job-4487342"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1808158503321608539) 2024-07-02T15:19Z [----] followers, 44.2K engagements
"If there are any lessons to learn from former URA com Dickson Kateshumbwa "Mr Money bags" it is that corruptionbse of the crippling IMF-designed taxesis unavoidable. The incentive to bribe is in the tax-system. Businesses have to bribe to survive. https://observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/81778-why-everyone-at-ura-is-rich https://observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/81778-why-everyone-at-ura-is-rich"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1808420655634821584) 2024-07-03T08:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Tanzania. Quietly doing things. Just four years in office President Suluhu continues JPAM legacy. Recently demanded that if the US really wanted to support her with grains they should come & buy it from Tanzanian farmers (Not bring in foreign maize to suffocate Tz farmers)🙏"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1808467399303139437) 2024-07-03T11:46Z 11.6K followers, [----] engagements
"In these "free markets" govts subsidize & protect local businesses. Except in Africa "The EU says Chinese brands including BYD and SAIC are also increasing market share as Beijings massive subsidies help them undercut European brands on price. https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/6/12/eu-threatens-tariff-hike-on-chinese-electric-vehicles https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/6/12/eu-threatens-tariff-hike-on-chinese-electric-vehicles"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1808797765935206444) 2024-07-04T09:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Just to add Mehta Group (Scoul UGMA Cable corp Tea Estate and Luwala Tea Estate) is majority people-of-Uganda shareholding. Ugandans own Mehta Group. But we have never collected a dime. Not a single penny. Gov't has given Ugx [------------] to Roko Construction Co. Ugx [------------] was given to Roko in [----]. Qn. Why bailing out a company with: Over Ugx [-------------] in contracts Over Ugx [------------] in performing contracts Over Ugx [------------] in arrears https://t.co/Ln9LWN1um0 Gov't has given Ugx [------------] to Roko Construction Co. Ugx [------------] was given to Roko in [----]. Qn. Why"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1808811221212119071) 2024-07-04T10:32Z [----] followers, 13.9K engagements
"IMPORTANT: Built by the Govt of Tanzania. Not by some extortionist "investor" who will ask for arm & a leg in rent or ownership. It leadership. As Ugandans wait for Lubowa Hospital the SGR (after billions have been eaten) this was completed in just a couple of years"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1809226284641231100) 2024-07-05T14:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"It is a national condition. (Just that the others haven't been tried as yet)"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1809547602200797299) 2024-07-06T11:19Z [----] followers, 16.1K engagements
"this is the extent of backdoor dealing in M7's Uganda that (a) everybodyI mean everybodyis trying to help themselves (b) publicly talking about it (& ruing missed opportunities) is so normal now Does Pastor Kakande know how much evidence of crime he has just released All deals in Uganda start with Salim Saleh like @YusufSerunkuma once wrote he is not simply the vice president but a co-president Maybe we should also exhibit him. @AAgather @SpireJim https://t.co/26sXu2ok6W All deals in Uganda start with Salim Saleh like @YusufSerunkuma once wrote he is not simply the vice president but a"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1810982374106136614) 2024-07-10T10:20Z [----] followers, 11.1K engagements
"As the Kenyans say "IMF is the enemy" Even when majority of them are struggling they have committed a most heinous crime: messing (foreign bankers) banking monopoly giving loans at negotiated interest rates. https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/business/markets/imf-wants-govt-to-remove-tax-exemptions-on-saccos--4567822 https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/business/markets/imf-wants-govt-to-remove-tax-exemptions-on-saccos--4567822"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1811325038777274771) 2024-07-11T09:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The beauty with Kenya nowshould Ruto resign as is looking very likelyis that the next leadership (& all foreign emissaries) have been put on alert that Kenyans know the enemy. Thus go slow with forcing stupid taxes onto the country. Good for Eastern Africa: Uhuru"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1811413016480448824) 2024-07-11T14:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Who saw this recovery"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1813526291104104893) 2024-07-17T10:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""China and East Asia are some of the only places where structural adjustment was not imposed by Washington." Jason Hickel 2017"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1813658559844073603) 2024-07-17T19:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""Three trillion dollars in total illegal secret net outflows per year is twenty-four times more than the annual aid budget. In other words for every dollar of aid that developing countries receive they lose $24 in net outflows." Jason Hickel 2017"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1814209962039488939) 2024-07-19T08:05Z 14.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Protection from who"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1814233964011303066) 2024-07-19T09:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"the 2010s onward The streets of our capitals courtrooms & market-squares are the bushes for staging our struggles. Our poetry & slogans blasted on placards & posters; our pleadings & eloquence in courtrooms are the bullets with which we shoot. Social media is the village square"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1815334597292339520) 2024-07-22T10:34Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements
"We aren't free people Btn 2000-2017 Europeans & Americans grabbed 162m acres of land (more than five times the size of England) in the global south. This excludes colonial land grabs. These are recent land grabs. Not bought. Gabbed of course with state violence) 😇"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1815741837807698235) 2024-07-23T13:32Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Always wanted to ask @KagutaMuseveni Comrade in your heart of hearts at [--] what do you think you are adding to a country of kids btn 15-20 years of age an entirely different generation: of cryptocurrency apps artificial intelligence Here is your minister Matia Kasaija"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1817117841591542271) 2024-07-27T08:40Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements
"When a fire breaks down we'll all burn As Raymond Mujuni recently put it Uganda is seated between Bashirs Sudan Siad Barres Somalia on the one hand and Arap Mois Kenya on the other. It is Musevenis choice to make and endlessly protecting thieves is a bad sign I write: https://observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/82024-when-a-fire-finally-breaks-out-we-ll-all-burn https://observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/82024-when-a-fire-finally-breaks-out-we-ll-all-burn"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1818952780427522112) 2024-08-01T10:11Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements
"a false immortality We have turned the idea of a "good life" to mean "more goods" Endless acquisition. Thus people have acquired a lot of goods clothes cars shoes houses which has given them a false sense of immortality of security. But it is all stupid bse we'll still die. I write: https://observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/82024-when-a-fire-finally-breaks-out-we-ll-all-burn https://observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/82024-when-a-fire-finally-breaks-out-we-ll-all-burn"
[X Link](https://x.com/YusufSerunkuma/status/1819257445157306369) 2024-08-02T06:22Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements
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Social category influence countries finance currencies travel destinations technology brands stocks celebrities social networks premier league automotive brands
Social topic influence uganda, money, kenya, countries, sudan, in the, if you, bank of, make a, tanzania
Top assets mentioned Spire Inc. (SR)
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Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"Africa received $162bn in [----] mainly in loans aid and personal remittances. BUT the same year $203bn was taken from the continent either directly through multinationals repatriating profits and illegally moving money into tax havens. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/may/24/world-is-plundering-africa-wealth-billions-of-dollars-a-year https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/may/24/world-is-plundering-africa-wealth-billions-of-dollars-a-year"
X Link 2021-07-04T16:13Z 15.1K followers, [--] engagements
"@Unseen_Archive @umichLSA @Makerere Congrats Derek"
X Link 2021-09-24T18:44Z 15.7K followers, [--] engagements
"In my view Gen. Muhoozi's presidential bid ought not to be discussed for its deservedness (intellectually politically) most bids are never qualified enoughbut rather understood. I think it is telling us sth about YMK & crises in the palace. I write: https://www.observer.ug/viewpoint/77480-three-things-muhoozi-bid-is-telling-the-country https://www.observer.ug/viewpoint/77480-three-things-muhoozi-bid-is-telling-the-country"
X Link 2023-04-23T08:15Z 12.2K followers, 11.1K engagements
"Dear DONOR community (@EUinUG & others): In funding financial education esp saving culture what do you mean How do you expect people who have nothing to eat to have what to save How do you expect youths without jobs at 41% to have what to save #ugandaNGOexhibition"
X Link 2023-06-22T08:03Z 11.7K followers, [----] engagements
"This is the deception of Kampala elite. Farming is NOT their job. Like M7 they channel money from main jobs into farms. On weekends like tourists they take pictures. Ever seen M7 in overalls working the farm The man dresses the same way among animals & among dignitaries"
X Link 2023-07-11T07:22Z [----] followers, 32.2K engagements
"Since [----] when he signed the loan from Libyan Arab Bank & took over the farm this manAga Sekalala Snrhas never left his Magigye Farm. He is perhaps the most successful (native) agro-businessman UG has produced. Lesson 1: real farmers live on the farm"
X Link 2023-07-10T14:23Z 12.3K followers, 16.1K engagements
"FACT: a huge section of Africa's talking elite is soo ignorant about continuing French colonialism of [--] West African countries which includes not just the CFA but also open stealing & murder of W. African revolutionaries But are so educated abt the values of democracy. Why"
X Link 2023-08-05T13:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I still cannot wrap my head around how broad-day colonizers (esp. France US) so successfully managed to recruit large armies of African & Africanist scholars political elite (ECOWAS) folks in media that are actually fighting a clear-cut anti-colonial moment Mind-boggling"
X Link 2023-08-07T19:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""And when they have fallen into things/ they eat meat from the chests of bulls/ their wives grow large buttocks. while the voters sleep on the same earth they slept before Uhuru." How would Okot p' Bitek phrase lines about husbands whose women have "fallen in things" Anyone"
X Link 2023-08-13T14:00Z [----] followers, 34.8K engagements
"While these MPs appear to be physically shaking MK's hand in their heads & spirit they are actually shaking YKM's hand. Dear MK there are Generals in Niger but it is Capt. Ibrahim Traore in the headlines: then they'll shake your hand in body and spirit"
X Link 2023-08-15T13:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Just to be clearthe world is run by autocracies: some are individualized (common in Africa) others are institutionalized (common in western Europe & North America). The problem we havent yet mastered the tools to see & call out the institutionalized forms"
X Link 2023-08-17T17:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Ghana makes this at home. All value is created in Gha: (farmed harvested processed packaged marketed). It is truly an original taste. The word is value creation. ("addition" is a stupid depriving term like there was no value in the first place)"
X Link 2023-08-23T06:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"What are you reading @Smith_JeffreyT Here is Jason Hickle in The Divide telling us why Europe and North America are so rich (& us the wretcheds so poor) He has a few words on nice coups & bad democracies"
X Link 2023-08-24T13:50Z 12.1K followers, [----] engagements
"This is how nations fail. (It has nothing to do with the nature of institutions)"
X Link 2023-08-24T14:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Rule of the thumb III: there has never been any differences btn World Bank IMF Unesco Usaid EU or GIZ on the one hand & Coca-Cola Total Heritage Oil Glencore Plc Barclays ABSA MTN or Monsanto etc. on the other. These are one and the same. https://www.observer.ug/viewpoint/78944-the-world-bank-and-other-museveni-s-coy-mistresses https://www.observer.ug/viewpoint/78944-the-world-bank-and-other-museveni-s-coy-mistresses"
X Link 2023-08-25T09:39Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements
"There is a thing called "trade misinvoicing" Each year through this thing Africa loses a whooping $875 billion (to the democratic world). Thus for $1 received as foreign aid the democratic world steals $24 in turn. (From Jason Hickle The Divide)"
X Link 2023-08-25T17:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"As coups (or more accurately anti-colonial revolutions) continue to sweep across West Africa commenters ought to read about Euro-America's new colonial traps. Jason Hickle's The Divide is required reading"
X Link 2023-08-30T09:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"When there were no democracies in the global south but soldiers anticol. fighters (1950s - 1970s) incomes were rising poverty falling gap btn rich & poor cntries closing. Britain US France & other former colonisers were threatened. They moved in. 👇 Thanks @jasonhickel"
X Link 2023-08-31T18:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I don't like the biases behind the questions. But Nyerere's clarity is outstanding and the blessedness with which he talks about retirement. Cannot imagine this is comrade M7's mentor"
X Link 2023-09-04T08:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"BREAKING: If you missed show at National Theater in April or just want to reminisce those crispy jokeswhich is a mustDr Spire Ssentongo comedy special This Country Laughs A Lot streams ONLINE starting this weekend. Who said academics arent funny musical explosive"
X Link 2023-09-07T10:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I once listened to a story of a Governor of California who simply created a secret "ministry of symbolism.""
X Link 2023-09-07T17:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"One of the measures of the successes of New Colonialism is that instead of Africa discussing revolution/liberation 90% of online conversations radio OpEds letters discuss strengthening democracy constitutionalism human rights. billions of $ flow out uninterrupted"
X Link 2023-09-08T15:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I told comrade brother @rkabushenga that we need to register this man Jimmy Spire Ssentongo with Ministry of Natural Resources. We also need a Ush5b budget for his conservation. Spire's comdey show This Country Laughs A Lot is streaming today"
X Link 2023-09-09T12:21Z [----] followers, 10.3K engagements
"Bobi Wine raised the bar too high for many ordinary Ugandans (esp folks on Twitter). Dear Ugandans it is World Bank & IMF that ruins our livesthey endlessly buy off leaders with aid & grantsas their corporations and banks loot your country. I explain:"
X Link 2023-09-09T18:38Z [----] followers, 37.3K engagements
"See even with most of his adult life spent in Buganda M7 still returns to Rwakitura to vote. To him and co. Buganda is simply HUNTING GROUND. Kyeeyo Boy they have hunted That's partly what Bobi Wine is saying. (Earlier travelers to Bugandalike our parentsBugndanized)"
X Link 2023-09-10T09:33Z [----] followers, 35.2K engagements
"The basic question: Is President M7 sectarian Does his govt & work ethic appear to promote a particular ethnic If the answer is NO then Bobi Wine & others talking back are the problem. But when mother bird is eating the young ones watch its mouth African proverb"
X Link 2023-09-11T04:43Z [----] followers, 20.8K engagements
"On [--]. [--]. [----] The Independent Magazine's lead story was "Family Rule in Uganda." With insights from Prof. Oloka-Onyango & Charles Onyango Obbo). Remember "The death that will kill a man begins as an appetite" Nigerian proverb. See excerpts:"
X Link 2023-09-11T07:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""One reason M7 ended up with so many relatives in key security positions is that fairly early in his presidency he sought to entrench his power by limiting the independent growth of his party the NRM and to dismantle the institutions of state" @cobbo3 to IPL in 2009"
X Link 2023-09-11T08:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"On [--]. [--]. [----] a survey on M7's tribalism in the "national" army conducted & published by The Independent revealed the following: Ug is forever grateful to comrade @AndrewMwenda. We thank him for his services. Thus if this be a crime it is not original to Bobi Wine & co"
X Link 2023-09-11T08:44Z [----] followers, 25.5K engagements
"WHEN Theordre Roosevelt took lessons from Buganda on race relations How then did this civilisation after inspiring Wazungu from afar become tribalistic xenophobic It is a difficult accusation"
X Link 2023-09-12T09:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Dr Jonathon Earle's essayon Buganda as real-life Wakandaappeared in Politico on 10.3.2023. Delightful read. (NOTE: there is no attempt to denigrate other communities. Just spotlight on Buganda & its interaction with the larger world). Fully essay:"
X Link 2023-09-12T09:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"They committed no crime"
X Link 2023-09-14T07:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@AAgather @MKSerumaga @AgoraCFR @NativeLandgrab @sulakakaire1 @I_Rugambwa @deuce_mercy @Sambannz @Samwyri @GodwinTOKO @OtafiireH @karamagi_andrew @SpireJim @mwineedgar Kalundi developed the point of impoverishment well. Forgot to add occupancy of juicy govt positions & linkages (tenders jobs taxi evasions) from which buyers get cash. Bse buyers aren't businessmen with honest cash. (Yes the economy). But beneficiaries of nepotistic linkages"
X Link 2023-09-15T05:30Z 12.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Do media outlets nowadays ask questions like "How deeply entrenched is M7's tribalism" Or conduct surveys/ studies on tribalism allegations This was @AndrewMwenda journalistic genius (btn 2005-2010) see for example:"
X Link 2023-09-18T06:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Arguably the most shamelessly sectarian govt Uganda will ever see"
X Link 2023-09-19T05:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"On Uganda's economy: "We do not have an economy. But people charged with managing an extractive process." How accurate And extraction ranges from agric products (mostly coffee tea) Kampala's toil & minerals to actual human beings young adults veiled & ferried to the ME"
X Link 2023-09-26T09:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Buganda land of immigrants. Kalundi Serumagaallegedly a "Buganda nationalist"carries a nickname his grandparents earned on first arrival: Omulundi Akalundi So it matured into "Kalundi." The fella is quite light-skinned markedly different other immigrants from Acholi"
X Link 2023-09-27T09:59Z 12.3K followers, 17.6K engagements
"@YN_BUDDU @AAgather @GodwinTOKO @DavidLRubongoya Dear Yuliana all these are fair points. But a lot is readable in Agather's tweets & activism. See if you considered the potential of a leading opp party& the weight of the office comrade Mpuuga occupiessurely they are barely scratching the surface: bakola gwa kabandabe"
X Link 2023-09-28T22:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"As LoP comrade Mpuuga has power to summon Gen. Freeman Mugabethe chief judge of M7s court martialto Parliament. But he also has his private number & can call him to his office & negotiate a settlement. [---] years over [--] appearances and no witnesses /3"
X Link 2023-09-29T14:24Z [----] followers, 12.8K engagements
"AGAIN: Unless you're a thief no genuine business thrives in Uganda. [---] buildings [----] vehicles lost to loans in three months No not Russia-Ukraine not Covid-19 either. But (a) interest rates & (b) closure of local banks. I wrote in 2021:"
X Link 2023-09-30T08:16Z [----] followers, 61.7K engagements
"the same banks ask for 1.5% interest in Europe & NA. But extort at an average of 20-35% in Africa. That Africans are not trustworthy No wonder com banks in Africa are "the most profitable in the world while being least efficient." The Economist"
X Link 2023-09-30T08:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"btn 1993-2016 Bank of Uganda closed exclusively locally owned commercial banks with "no guidelines/ regulations or policies" - Auditor Gen. John Muwanga. Recall also TM was also consultant for the WB. Yes our governor was also a worker of WB"
X Link 2023-09-30T12:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Ruto Statehouse spends a paltry Ksh76m a day How does he manage 😇 And this MP wants it cut Eh. (For us our M7 statehouse scrapes by with Ush2.8bn a day)"
X Link 2023-10-02T09:59Z [----] followers, 11.8K engagements
"Dear African govts WB and IMF sold us a lie. No country grows on collecting taxes. In Europe & NA govts do business: they own things & exploit countries' resources: London Underground BritishAir DB BP Gazprom etc. They then subsidise entrepreneurs. Or go abroad & steal"
X Link 2023-10-03T09:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"How novelist Allan Tacca predicted the Entebbe women murders in [----] & the rise of SFC. It was SG then. All in The Silent Rebel. It reads like a horror movie man (Excerpted and analysis by Prof. Abasi Kiyimba Mawazo 2010)"
X Link 2023-10-04T12:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Voice of Uganda [--] January [----] Shows Amin & Indian minister of Ext. Affairs Binipipal Das holding cheque No.19 (US$ 1627144). The obligation to pay beneficiaries had been given to govt of India. This was money for [----] properties I researched:"
X Link 2023-10-11T16:39Z [----] followers, 51.5K engagements
"Palestine-Israel; Ukraine-Russia are so instructive: You quickly realize that people you thoughtfor a very long timeto be fair smart clear-headed & humanistic that they have never been any of that. But zombies trapped in ideology belief systems and absolute superstition"
X Link 2023-10-12T09:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Ush47b in [----] another Ush240b in [----]. Can brother Patrick Bitature & others survive a change in government Truth is we are all broke; we are victims of this broken extractive economy. Even M7's generational "tycoons" are only keeping appearances on our taxes. Eh"
X Link 2023-10-14T08:57Z [----] followers, 21.2K engagements
""Make an impact on the girl child." Good theme. Problem though & I'mnt dissing is that the prominence of most of these lovely ladies is being public servants pol. appointments & wives. Not bad. But how about CEOs coffee giants or investors in major EA brands Or scholars"
X Link 2023-10-15T07:50Z [----] followers, 35.6K engagements
"Consider this: @AbsaUganda allegedly just declined funding assistance to Busoga kingdom royal wedding scheduled for Nov. [--]. I cannot imagine if lady Helen Basuuta Nangozi author of declining lettera Musoga herselfwas CEO MD or owner of Absa (as a locally owned bank). See"
X Link 2023-10-15T10:06Z [----] followers, 65.1K engagements
"@Malikiham @AbsaUganda I know. But think for a second if this were the British royal wedding & Barclays Bank/ABSA board of directors have to make a decision on this matter. British crown does not even have to make a request The banks will offer. Oba okitegeera"
X Link 2023-10-15T10:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Many responders missed my point entirely: this isn't about ABSA or the royal wedding necessarily. But rather that we need local investors (local bankers telecom coffee giants.) as opposed to celebrating public servants as icons. With local investors much more can be done"
X Link 2023-10-15T16:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@AppelezmoiKizza @_Nairob @AbsaUganda This is the point: The absence of local players in the economy (& instead glorification of pub servants). If this were a native bank royal wedding wld be top CSR. FACT: Despite being least efficient commercial banks in Africa (esp in UG) are the most profitable in the world"
X Link 2023-10-15T20:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AppelezmoiKizza @_Nairob @AbsaUganda @Absa One more time: the original tweet wasn't about Absa or the royal wedding. (They flashed out as timely antagonistic examples out of so many). The tweet was a follow-up on an earlier long debate on UG political economy esp the space for native home-grown investors & icons"
X Link 2023-10-15T20:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Arresting Spire will not help. Truth is Spire is entire country & when the tribal fires breakout like all identity-inspired fires it will leave no one behind. Stop and listen"
X Link 2023-10-17T13:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"We love to laugh at cmrde Bitature& all the bailout gang. But we should learn to sympathise. They are victims. M7 set up his friends for failure calling them businessmen when they are simply dealers & agents [--] years Why doesn't Bitature OWN a bank Or a telecom company"
X Link 2023-10-20T09:41Z [----] followers, 36.4K engagements
"these are victims like all of us. It might be too late now but M7 failed to empowered his friends clanmates family to OWN this economy. This is the genius of Ethiopia Tanzania Nigeria. Despite challenges their rich are key playerscan survive different regimes"
X Link 2023-10-20T10:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"England proposed 6000m proposed in Uganda for the Jews Senga ekyaliyo omuddugavu"
X Link 2023-11-03T10:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"One more time unless you are a thief. no honest business thrives in Uganda. And it isn't poor business acumen not bad business decisions nor laziness. But rather the nature of the economy esp its (foreign-controlled) extortionist banking regime"
X Link 2023-11-09T09:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Just 150km out of Kampala one ends up in [----] Uganda Eh"
X Link 2023-11-10T09:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"the connection btn our beautiful smartphone lives & the bloodied lives in DRC. Pictures taken at @CarfCenter Lubumbashi"
X Link 2023-11-13T09:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Voice of Uganda. Monday January [--] 1976"
X Link 2023-11-17T12:01Z [----] followers, 125.9K engagements
"So Saudi Arabia would openly eliminate Jamal Khashoggi while the western world locks up Julian Assange in Belmarsh prison. While both actions are meant to suppress dissent the Saudi's open violence allows the West to claim a reputation as exemplars of rule of law"
X Link 2023-11-27T12:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Was there ever a move to actually REVIVE cooperatives If not what then was the objective of a "war loss compensation" Who are these cooperatives & what are they trading Not surprising (Ms. Ssali again) it was seen as mana from heaven. Looks like this was the design itself"
X Link 2023-12-03T14:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"In [----] I warned @rggoobi "The assumption that outgoing technocrats had wrong answers to easy questions cannot even be said by an undergrad student studying M7s Uganda. It is not simply designed-to-fail but designed-to-benefit us' us with power"
X Link 2023-12-19T13:32Z [----] followers, 19.6K engagements
""They die often as they lived without a fuss without fanfare. once upon a time public service meant exactly that serving the public." This against the disturbing facts of the present day"
X Link 2023-12-20T14:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Dear @NUP_Ug the wall whisperer has it that you are changing LoP If you miss a fully-blown activist Delta Force II warrior such as my friend Francis Zaake I wld retain Hon. @MathiasMpuuga or move to reluctant activist but hardline diplomat Muwanga Kivumbi"
X Link 2023-12-21T21:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Here is the latest set of M7's victims victims of a system that successfully weaponized cash. You are soiled dirtied by cash. Difficult trap: Young ambitious idealistic but in a sea of poverty. If it isn't overwhelmingly huge salaries it is bribes that deliver themselves"
X Link 2023-12-23T18:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"If I were my brother @JoelSsenyonyi (sadly Im not) I would decline the appointment as LoP especially if it means dislodging a more senior comrade Mathius Mpuuga (a small thread)"
X Link 2023-12-26T10:08Z [----] followers, 79K engagements
"1. Against expectations: Joel is mildly radical and surely not more diplomatic nor more technical than Mpuuga. So what would I be delivering If the president needed more control over LoP I would advise him against it & instead let the boat steady"
X Link 2023-12-26T10:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"3. The position is lucrative but terribly dirtying (than productive). You wont push anything substantive. As a young politicianinterested in removing a dictatora critical distance from the dirt would be preferred. Let the Mpuugas & Ssegonas continue these entanglements"
X Link 2023-12-26T10:08Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"4. The people who joined NUP from DPHons. Kivumbi Mpuuga Ssegona Namboozeso much needed NUP to win their elections. Presently NUP needs them for its stability especially that mainstream NUP legislators have proved to be entirely meek and mute (if not members of MK camp)"
X Link 2023-12-26T10:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""He started as a newspaper vendor and rose through the ranks to become a senior editor at Munno newspaper. and has authored more than ten titles in form of books & academic papers" Joseph Tamale Mirundi. Perhaps Kampala's leading public intellectual and analyst in our time"
X Link 2023-12-28T12:20Z [----] followers, 22.1K engagements
"Many Kampala analysts loudly speak their opinions. But lack the doggedness & commitment to sit & write them. Mirundi's doggedness researching sitting & writing his thoughts (books or pamphlets call it whatever you'll) is absolute genius. Our Zizek"
X Link 2023-12-28T13:21Z [----] followers, 11.4K engagements
"I strongly disagree. [--]. Those aren't their best. That was the 'best of poorest' they knew. NOTHING they built in colonies compares to their own. Notice also a surge of recent inventions in fakes. [--]. They were building for OWN use. [--]. There were no plans leaving. I asked a Prof friend why the British built strong infrastructure (buildings dams railways that still stand) even when it was clear that they were leaving. In his view its not just abt hope for neocolonialism but also because building strong things is part of their culture. https://t.co/py62xEQ6bL I asked a Prof friend why the British"
X Link 2023-12-29T21:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I see Prime Minister Melesi Zenawi written all over this deal. Some legacies are real. Ethiopian Airlines inked a deal for [--] Boeing jets the largest-ever order of Boeing aeroplanes in African aviation history. ET is Africas leading airline #GoodAfrica2023 https://t.co/TLDvOLd1ym Ethiopian Airlines inked a deal for [--] Boeing jets the largest-ever order of Boeing aeroplanes in African aviation history. ET is Africas leading airline #GoodAfrica2023 https://t.co/TLDvOLd1ym"
X Link 2023-12-31T11:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Poisoned lives in Congo"
X Link 2024-01-01T10:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""Uganda is now entering the last and final phase of every strongmans political cycle: idol worship and erecting such vanity symbols. It happened almost in every country one can think of that was ruled by a strongman." @IvanOkuda"
X Link 2024-01-03T17:16Z [----] followers, 84.7K engagements
"On [--] June [----] then Deputy Gov. Bank of Uganda E. Lule wrote to Maj. Noble Mayombo about the (compensation of) expropriated properties. Mayombo had asked BoU about which of those properties were occupied by the Ministry of Defence. E. Lule was very generous in his response"
X Link 2024-01-04T12:09Z [----] followers, 51.7K engagements
""They go thru our country. But they are accusing us of stealing Congo's minerals. How about the destination Dubai Brussels Tel Aviv. And if we deployed everything & stopped these things flowing the accusation would be even worse." the last line is the subject itself"
X Link 2024-01-06T13:57Z [----] followers, 17.4K engagements
"anthropologist of the Horn (& activist) @HoehneVirgil offers background & broad-picture thinking on implications of MoU btn Somaliland & Ethiopia: Djibouti talks betrayed Loss in Lasacaanood Al-Shabaab re-invigorated Egypt opposed Eritrea watchful"
X Link 2024-01-07T14:00Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"DRC lost $78.8b revenue btn 2009-2021 DRC & Angola's recently signed an agreement for the oil exploitation of (only) [--] offshore fields. Yet: according to a WB report the DRC lost $78.8bn revenue between 2009-2021 in what effectively could be Congolese oil. For more see our earlier piece: https://t.co/RGGLuN6Rcm https://t.co/Na75u8E6cF DRC & Angola's recently signed an agreement for the oil exploitation of (only) [--] offshore fields. Yet: according to a WB report the DRC lost $78.8bn revenue between 2009-2021 in what effectively could be Congolese oil. For more see our earlier piece:"
X Link 2024-01-09T11:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"For younger strugglers if "the struggle" had a name & a human face it is this man comrade brother Sam Mugumya. Mabira Forest Protests (New Vision [--] April 2007)"
X Link 2024-01-10T14:34Z [----] followers, 23.1K engagements
"Dear @IsaacSsemakadde your South African twin here is another clear-cut 'essential lawyer.' 🚨 47-year-old South African lawyer and legal scholar Tembeka Ngcukaitobi just laid out a DEVASTATING case documenting Israel's genocidal intent in Gaza before the International Court of Justice. https://t.co/MwOzznSIFc 🚨 47-year-old South African lawyer and legal scholar Tembeka Ngcukaitobi just laid out a DEVASTATING case documenting Israel's genocidal intent in Gaza before the International Court of Justice. https://t.co/MwOzznSIFc"
X Link 2024-01-11T17:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"And here lives the gentler thieves. https://t.co/L3SGrEukuq https://t.co/L3SGrEukuq"
X Link 2024-01-12T20:12Z [----] followers, 12.4K engagements
"Sometime last year I mulled over the roots of cowardice of todays subaltern intellectuals esp in Africa. Watching Israel's colonialist bombing of Palestine I still wonder what happened to Africas decolonial scholars (there is DRC Sudan & Somalia)"
X Link 2024-01-13T13:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Non-Aligned Movement was a claim of belonging to neither the communist camp (USSR) nor the capitalist (Euro-America). Looking in awe as these CAPITALIST enclaves gather under the banner of non-aligned. At the same time MUK has a neoliberal conference ongoing. #NAMSummitUg2024"
X Link 2024-01-13T14:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@mabonga_joseph @DuncanAbigaba Wikipedia: South African (then further on British)"
X Link 2024-01-17T15:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"No comrade COO. It is not a thing with coups breeding each other. It is the thing with colonisers who refuse to leave. Coups is their game we have only learned to play. Thus coups & counter coups form a core part of the struggle. May the strongest stand. Umpteenth coup attempt foiled in Burkina Faso and alleged coup plotters arrested. Thats the thing with coups; one only breeds another https://t.co/g8YIUEuIBN Umpteenth coup attempt foiled in Burkina Faso and alleged coup plotters arrested. Thats the thing with coups; one only breeds another https://t.co/g8YIUEuIBN"
X Link 2024-01-19T16:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"One of those bits of evidence. @CapitalFMUganda https://t.co/XZx65tpMYU @CapitalFMUganda https://t.co/XZx65tpMYU"
X Link 2024-01-20T21:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Dear @CapitalFMUganda did you miss that headline: "Thieves hide behind Museveni's back" IGG Justice Irene Mulyagonja (Monitor [--] June 2018) Dear Patricia see here:"
X Link 2024-01-20T21:18Z [----] followers, 22.1K engagements
"In all fairness Nanfy's crime is paraphrasing Justice Mulyagonja Dear @CapitalFMUganda did you miss that headline: "Thieves hide behind Museveni's back" IGG Justice Irene Mulyagonja (Monitor [--] June 2018) Dear Patricia see here: https://t.co/qauSjNNOls https://t.co/MuVWSQnzBt Dear @CapitalFMUganda did you miss that headline: "Thieves hide behind Museveni's back" IGG Justice Irene Mulyagonja (Monitor [--] June 2018) Dear Patricia see here: https://t.co/qauSjNNOls https://t.co/MuVWSQnzBt"
X Link 2024-01-20T21:26Z [----] followers, 20.4K engagements
"If non-alignment were to mean anything it would be revolutionthrough coups & violent struggle. Like Niger Mali & Burkina Fasos recent shakeups it would mean seeking to command the power to align with whoever we like whenever we like" I write"
X Link 2024-01-22T14:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Who has a deep dive on the closure of this one What dont we know about EFC Any minutes warning letters Any evidence for claimed crimes Bro. @IsaacSsemakadde where are you comrade These are [--] years of closing banks and micro-finance institutions. Seems legacy continues Deposit protection fund only compensates a customer up to Ugx [--------] Now EFC closed and all its customers to be refunded apart from the (2%) who had over Ugx [--------] on their accounts. Moral of the story: if you have more than Ugx 10M on your account its on YOU. 😂😂 https://t.co/vJiiBsWQ3K Deposit protection fund only"
X Link 2024-01-25T15:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It is neoliberalism = collapse of cooperatives + closure of indigenous banks & then 34% interest rate + difficult business/ farming environ = surge in rural poverty surge in land selling then boba-bodas and then this exodus. It has been [--] years. #LabourExportExhibitionUG DAY [--] of the #LabourExportExhibitionUG A list of registered labour export companies in Uganda Ive got shows [---] of them We need to ask ourselves: Why are all these young people fleeing the country for opportunities Its okay to seek for jobs elsewhere but this EXODUS https://t.co/khJZrWoUwl DAY [--] of the"
X Link 2024-01-26T20:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Some more numbers here dear Charlie: Between 1960-2018 Europe and North America stole from Africa $152 trillion. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2021/5/6/rich-countries-drained-152tn-from-the-global-south-since-1960 Some true-blooded pan-Africanists are angry angry that a small inconsequential European country like Italy is holding an Africa-Summit and gathering the continents leaders at her feet. A realist unleashes the numbers says yes Italy is about the size of South Africa but https://t.co/9PJ41gQBxb"
X Link 2024-01-28T14:44Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"For background & context on the extreme levels of poverty forcing Ugandans into slavery in the Middle East and elsewhere Prof. Ezra Suruma's words are timeless: "Ugandans will remain slaves until they own their banks." #LabourExportExhibitionUG"
X Link 2024-01-28T14:52Z [----] followers, 15.9K engagements
""The questions of [----] might be the questions of today but the answers are totally different. The answers are not where you have to remind us that you came from the bush; you had guns. No the narrative is different." What ocassion was this Seeing the last of this man"
X Link 2024-01-29T19:11Z [----] followers, 19.6K engagements
"Africans: "these whites people met in Berlin and without asking any of us divided our continent & started exploiting us." Europe: "Our apologies. welcome to London. Welcome to Paris. Welcome to Rome. When shall we have you again We'll host you in all cities.""
X Link 2024-01-31T18:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Ugandans working abroad sent home $1.1 billion (Shs4.2 trillion) in the twelve months to July [----] according to data from Bank of Uganda Coffee our prized cash cow employing 11m farmers brought in about 1.4trillion. How many folks are abroad"
X Link 2024-02-05T09:24Z [----] followers, 32.5K engagements
"Textbook example of reverse psychology: he is actually denying Euro-American control of African governments by shocking us with an open brazen crudely stated interest in doing so in future. (Yes why would he signal to interest in doing it if they were already doing it) Uhm "the imperial hat" this head honcho of mercenaries speaks of has always been on & the "governing" of Africa never stopped. Only difference now is that all masks are off so they can do away with the "democracy" coating. So why are we shocked exactly https://t.co/XHilQDA0TR Uhm "the imperial hat" this head honcho of"
X Link 2024-02-08T19:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"So our Artorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka (KK) was Jovia Saleh's personal lawyer by [----]. Eh. Explainer: Jovia is Gen. Saleh's wife and Gen. Saleh is Presisent M7's brother power broker & true co-president. (No conflict of interest of course just an interesting storyline)"
X Link 2024-02-12T12:46Z 12.1K followers, 46.8K engagements
""Popular feeling ran high against political corruption as did against Asian exploitation. Amin executed consistently a policy that the colonial government initiated in 1952: affirmative action as an antidote to popular pressures for democratization" Mahmood Mamdani (1995)"
X Link 2024-02-15T11:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Always wondering why calls and Internet charges are most extortionist in UG These multinationals MTN Airtel once in UG a claimed free market economy started by harrasing their way into signing MONOPOLY agreements. So new players have to offer them a cut to play"
X Link 2024-02-17T22:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@YN_BUDDU No. I cannot. But that is not my point either. I'm saying that had PB lived under a different regimeone that allowed Greenland Bank to thrivehe would never have needed to go to South Africa. And this contention if ever arose would be concluded in Kiggundu's living room"
X Link 2024-02-19T16:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Uganda. Last year Uganda Railways Corporation overpaid [--] staff by Ugx [----------] 😂 URC's accounting officer over-estimated the wage cost for FY 2023/24 by Ugx [----------] 😂😂 URC also didn't invoice ministry of works Ugx [----------] for their offices at URC station building Last year Uganda Railways Corporation overpaid [--] staff by Ugx [----------] 😂 URC's accounting officer over-estimated the wage cost for FY 2023/24 by Ugx [----------] 😂😂 URC also didn't invoice ministry of works Ugx [----------] for their offices at URC station building"
X Link 2024-02-20T16:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Somewhere he says (loosely): "We missed the bunch of matoke & ran off with fingers. Diving Africa into our small countries weakens us. No wonder our economies are chaos." Okot p' Bitek author of 'Artiste the Ruler' must be proud. [--] sec of public intellectualism"
X Link 2024-02-20T17:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The expenditure includes a daily $4000 per diem for speaker abroad; another $3500 for the deputy two months annually. We also borrow to sustain the life of Yoweri Museveni at Ush2.8b a day. And Sobbi was the bad one"
X Link 2024-02-24T14:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"In the spirit of the ongoing #UgandaParliamentExhibition I'm tempted to revisit my [----] piece on the opposition. Many now can agree with the headline: There is no opposition in Uganda but happy people on either side"
X Link 2024-02-26T14:24Z [----] followers, 10.5K engagements
"Comrades Esp. Bobi Wine Lewis Rubongoya: This ought not to be a witchhunt or Hon. Mpuuga taking a bullet for the team. These streets have seen many many folks implicated. House cleaning ought to be thorough. Dr Twaha Kagabo told us as much when he was left in the cold"
X Link 2024-02-29T17:23Z [----] followers, 18.7K engagements
"Dear @NUP_Ug This doesn't look good at all. It is not true that you didn't know about these Mpuuga monies b4 the #UgandaParliamentExhibition. (No one believes you bse there is much more). Acting after public pushback has a name: M7 will sacrifice a soldier for the team"
X Link 2024-03-01T23:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"If Kulabisa (exposing) is the core job of the opposition then these are our new leaders of the opposition: Jimmy Spire Ssentongo Agartha Atuhaire Godwin Toko Agora Samwise etc. ALL others are running behind (Sadly on things they knew all along) #UgandaParliamentExhibition"
X Link 2024-03-02T10:36Z 12.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Dear Opposition This is a revolutionary moment. You dont have to miss it. You have all the information you need plus public support to move a motion to censor Speaker Anita Among. #CensorAnitaAmong (Officially ask for these docs) #UgandaParliamentExhibition"
X Link 2024-03-02T11:23Z [----] followers, 39K engagements
"George Galloway. Thanks Rochdale. One of the greatest speeches in history 🔥 Congratulations to George Galloway on his stunning victory in the Rochdale by-election. https://t.co/OLsCnhm3pK One of the greatest speeches in history 🔥 Congratulations to George Galloway on his stunning victory in the Rochdale by-election. https://t.co/OLsCnhm3pK"
X Link 2024-03-02T13:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@anderlukson @observerug You are missing the point comrade please see next tweet"
X Link 2024-03-03T18:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"the late Hon. Hussein Kyanjo predicted the birth of exhibitionsusing printed posters and the Internet. He called it "Free Uganda." This is [--] years ago. Let exhibit him and remember him as an iconic parliamentarian. #UgandaParliamentExhibition"
X Link 2024-03-04T12:23Z [----] followers, 16.5K engagements
"A little context was necessary and thus @observerug is on the streets. But the #UgandaParliamentExhibition continues undistracted. # Censor Anita Among. That even dearest Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja doesnt like her"
X Link 2024-03-05T17:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"A little context helps: [----] - 1980s: Africans tried to dig up this stuff on their own; they were coup-ed and killed. Libya lived like this. Folks in Mali Burkina Faso Niger are trying to pull this off again but the heat is too much. A friend just posted this on a WhatsApp group. The caption read. Africa waiting for investors https://t.co/wL8Wley0lM A friend just posted this on a WhatsApp group. The caption read. Africa waiting for investors https://t.co/wL8Wley0lM"
X Link 2024-03-07T15:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Here we go Zaake-Kakwenza dragging the opposition on. Dear Hon. @ZaakeFrancis I have relied upon your patriotic commitment to mobilise the right thinking legislators to remove mabaati thief @AnitahAmong from office and Ive started on the motion as your legal counsel. I promise to deliver by end of business next week but I need https://t.co/QCUxyk2U2r Dear Hon. @ZaakeFrancis I have relied upon your patriotic commitment to mobilise the right thinking legislators to remove mabaati thief @AnitahAmong from office and Ive started on the motion as your legal counsel. I promise to deliver by end of"
X Link 2024-03-10T20:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"There is NO WAY that Ugandas Finance Intelligence Authority (FIA) is unaware of huge cash payouts involving Parliament BoU & other comm. banks. We have been on the international money laundering list. No way FIA slept on the job. They are in. #UgandaParliamentExhibition"
X Link 2024-03-12T12:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""But I believe Bobi Wine erred immensely in seeking to exploit public pressure-#UgandaParliamentExhibition to seek to win an old power struggle against Mpuuga. It is recipe for implosion." I called it a "pointless self-immolation." Hon. @JoelSsenyonyi could you help us understand these monthly honorariums. They could be legal but now we want to go beyond legality to understand in the context of Uganda and our circumstances. Is this 6300000/ a monthly allowance for Commissioners beside MP salary In https://t.co/m4dE5TxN9x Hon. @JoelSsenyonyi could you help us understand these monthly"
X Link 2024-03-14T16:11Z [----] followers, 16K engagements
"Dear @NUP_Ug STOP playing with Hon. Zaake. Had you made him LoP presently that house would have moved to the streets already. You have now thrown him a position you are sure hell not have. I will watch if you also make him Deputy President replacing Mpuuga fully"
X Link 2024-03-16T11:17Z 12.5K followers, 37.9K engagements
"Sobbi vs Parliament of Uganda The man looked at Sobbi then parliament moved his eyes from parliament to Sobbi again then from Sobbi to parliament and could not tell the difference. #UgandaParliamentExhibition"
X Link 2024-03-19T09:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"If M7 had appointed Muhoozi Kainerugaba as Vice President it would signal towards civilian trust as VP officially becomes President if calamity struck sitting head. Under same circumstances a CDF has to upstage the VP. Not sure why M7 has decided to make son's life hard"
X Link 2024-03-21T22:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"It is now or never for Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba. I know it is a scarry (somewhat staged) thing naye tolina kyewekwasa. One of those rare moments in politics where a sitting military president plots own coup. (Well for son but all unusual)"
X Link 2024-03-22T09:05Z [----] followers, 13.9K engagements
"Col. Kizza Besigye: "Elites are the most useless in Uganda." NUP youthwingers: these so-called intellectuals are the problem. Gen. Yoweri Museveni: I agree. Congrats Balaam Barugahare. You have support across the Isle"
X Link 2024-03-22T11:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"To have allies there must be adversaries somewhere. There must be a project as well for which an alliance is necessary. Tusimbude"
X Link 2024-03-23T16:29Z [----] followers, 13.1K engagements
"In a [----] piece on AG Kiryowa Kiwanuka @IsaacSsemakadde connected the dots: a constitutional transition requires support from key actors in cabinet military judiciary CSO & media. This AG is one of the cogs that move the wheels of succession. 1/4"
X Link 2024-03-23T18:06Z [----] followers, 12.9K engagements
"Africa's first sons: Some of the chaotic presidential successions have involved sonsMahamat ibn Idriss Dby in Chad Faure Gnassingb in Togo Joseph Kabila in DRC and Ali Bongo Ondimba in Gabon. Dby and Kabila were straight-forward installations by the military. /2"
X Link 2024-03-23T18:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"First they closed our local banks now they are targeting SACCOs. Look these SACCOs aren't really lifting people out of poverty as banks would (if they had a locally determined interest rate). But our masters the debt trappers still don't want them to exist. Fight"
X Link 2024-03-25T12:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Still wondering why Museveni doesn't find it urgent to appoint son Gen. Kainerugaba vice presidentif he really wants him to for presidency. Next step after CDF Bse if he collapsed nowGod forbidthe dream would be harder for MK. What is he afraid of"
X Link 2024-03-25T12:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Olivia Lutaaya & others: As a definition political prisoners are never charged with any crimes but politics. Thus no law applies to them. But politics. While other prisoners could be freed on the strength of evidence for political prisoners it is strength of politics"
X Link 2024-03-28T12:07Z [----] followers, 13.5K engagements
"I agree. 100% Bobi Wine is a captive and NUP under siege Mpuuga says. Bobi Wine is a captive and NUP under siege Mpuuga says"
X Link 2024-03-29T20:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"To redeem himself Mpuuga is right Bobi Wine might have to resign from NUP. Like all others party is corrupted. Consider: How does BW align with cmds Kakwenza Rukira Spire Agatha GT Mabiriziwho may never join NUPwho are currently carrying the flame of people power"
X Link 2024-03-29T21:48Z [----] followers, 23.3K engagements
"It is not just Mpuuga losing the war. It takes two to tangle. You have to have the entire national condition of "political parties" in context to fully make sense. It is a national condition under a Museveni-led neoliberal order. For all parties it is a matter of time. From his statement today Mathias Mpuuga has effectively conceded that he has lost the war against NUP. Whether he has lost the battle that is another question. From his statement today Mathias Mpuuga has effectively conceded that he has lost the war against NUP. Whether he has lost the battle that is another question"
X Link 2024-03-29T22:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"We are on our own in UG You have a @UCC_Official obsessed with censorship of the users of data instead of protecting customers from the unscrupulous corporations. We are on our own. This one is either an employee of @mtnug or @Airtel_Ug. They are spilling secrets 🤣 #DataExhibitionTheft https://t.co/OsOt14gm08 This one is either an employee of @mtnug or @Airtel_Ug. They are spilling secrets 🤣 #DataExhibitionTheft https://t.co/OsOt14gm08"
X Link 2024-04-02T10:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"With interest btn 15-34% "African banks generate a 17% return on equity for shareholders. On that measure Africas banks are the most profitable in the worldwhile also being the least efficient." The Economist So are telecoms #DataTheftExhibition https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/05/21/why-interest-rates-are-so-high-in-africa https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/05/21/why-interest-rates-are-so-high-in-africa"
X Link 2024-04-02T13:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Dear Parliament of Uganda You either own the bank or you don't. Being headed by a non-national is a small matter for Ugandans whose interest rates average at 34%. You closed all your own without minutes without minutes Com' on @pwatchug . VIDEO: Hon Paul Omara on the issue of the former Stanbic Bank CEO Anne Juuko being replaced by a nonnational. #NBSParliamentLive #NBSUpdates #PlenaryUg https://t.co/Rbz2H2aHFJ https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/audit-report-pins-bou-on-closure-of-7-banks-1777912 VIDEO: Hon Paul Omara on the issue of the former Stanbic Bank CEO Anne Juuko being"
X Link 2024-04-02T13:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This energy ought to be spent discussing space for locally-owned banks which Mutebile & Co. closed without minutes: Teefe Greenland UCB Crane NB NBC. See they are planning to impose taxes on SACCOS This didn't even make it to the floor Mulimba nnyo bakulu. Stanbic Bank was in the hands of a Ugandan Patrick Mweheire it performed very well. The brought in a female young Ugandan lady it also performed exceedingly very well. Now the question of bringing in a non-Ugandan to a Bank which we entrusted our biggest assets & most of our https://t.co/mGg5tUiTM9 Stanbic Bank was in the hands of a Ugandan"
X Link 2024-04-02T16:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"13 Generals in [--] years Key national assets. Trained over a long long period. Most deaths under suspicious circumstances not at the battlefront That is something. Thanks @observerug"
X Link 2024-04-03T03:33Z 12.1K followers, 19.1K engagements
"African farmers must be envious of the farmers' protests across Europe. Yes they want MORE subsidies (tax cuts pollution regulations) & protection from foreign imports. Yes in Africa IMF & WB still demand that govts DONT help farmers in any away: Free market economics"
X Link 2024-04-07T13:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Newly-elected French PM Gabriel Attal announced a package of $160 million for French farmers for farmers unions to tell their members to suspend protests. Every cow in France receives [---] annually. A son of African peasant farmers I'm so envious. https://time.com/6632372/farmer-protests-europe-france-germany-brussels/ https://time.com/6632372/farmer-protests-europe-france-germany-brussels/"
X Link 2024-04-07T15:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Wait didn't Mpuuga present a "legislative agenda" which came to nothing. Now an "Alternative Budget Prioties." Eh. That "the dictator" will abandon his priorities & implement the opposition's alternative. Naye banamwe muzannya nnyo. UPDATE: Mr Robert Kyagulanyi alias @HEBobiwine the president of the @NUP_Ug has arrived at Parliament to attend the presentation of Alternative Budget Priorities for the Financial Year 2024/2025. He was received by the LOP Joel Ssenyonyi and the Opposition Chief Whip John https://t.co/QWUHpItdr0 UPDATE: Mr Robert Kyagulanyi alias @HEBobiwine the president of the"
X Link 2024-04-08T13:43Z [----] followers, 18.6K engagements
"Reminder that the people in our governments (Finance URA BoU) are by definition Uncle Toms. They receive instructions and enforce them like robots"
X Link 2024-04-09T11:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""security services and politicians. play a pivotal role in ensuring the failure of border controls allowing illegal trade to flourish." One of the stories among so many about how "security services and politicians" turned Uganda into a crime scene"
X Link 2024-04-11T08:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Good people Anyone knows where satirist Harry Sagara of Saggys Wacky World is hiding This man was pure satire humor and parody. I recall booking him for a reading at MUK about [----] the room was unusually full hours before event sadly he pulled the joke on us"
X Link 2024-04-11T16:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"We are witnessing decolonization. With the new manifestation of colonialism so disguisedas anti-terrorism security partnershipsit wont come easy to dismantle them. Sadly there'll be arguments from among the colonized in support of continued control https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/13/hundreds-protest-in-niger-demanding-departure-of-us-troops https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/13/hundreds-protest-in-niger-demanding-departure-of-us-troops"
X Link 2024-04-14T11:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"In just six months ABSA in an impoverished economy called Uganda made a whooping $38m. How: Interest Rate. Banks in Africa specifically East Africa are most profitable in the whole world while being least efficient according to @TheEconomist 😇 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=yea4j5eK5Bk https://www.youtube.com/watchv=yea4j5eK5Bk"
X Link 2024-04-17T15:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Looking for Nasser Road vibes in Nairobi: River Road"
X Link 2024-04-18T09:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Dear RK with due respect to Dr Clarke this is just another story that seeks to reproduce the coffee bar in Belgrade in London (bse they don't know us) We are not even present at home Ethio Kenyan Columbian farmers are big at home. Are organised at home. Home is base 👇 In light of the current coffee debate in Uganda here is an enlightening perspective from @DrIanClarke a large scale coffee farmer https://t.co/3NoplsMmnb In light of the current coffee debate in Uganda here is an enlightening perspective from @DrIanClarke a large scale coffee farmer https://t.co/3NoplsMmnb"
X Link 2024-04-21T11:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Wallayi twetunda. Ne UTL A foreign firm owns majority shares. I thought we owned this one. Eh. I write about the telecom monopolies M7 sold to MTN Celtel & UTL about [----] & the same man would be complaining in [----]. The Money We Refused to Count: https://www.observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/81086-the-money-that-museveni-failed-to-count https://www.observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/81086-the-money-that-museveni-failed-to-count"
X Link 2024-04-22T11:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I like the doublespeak in this headline: Either Museveni himself spoke lies that is told the country lies. Or whatever he was told were lies. Either way this is how we have known our man"
X Link 2024-05-01T14:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Killing Coffee Marketing Board East Mengo Growers West Mengo Growers Banyankore Kweterana UCB Yoweri Museveni currently bashing WB-IMF sold Ugandan coffee farmers to German Singaporean UK Dutch dealers the 70% Now promoting Pinetti While calling us poor & lazy"
X Link 2024-05-02T13:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Confusing: The @EUinUG keeps clean relations with M7 govt. Gives money. He abuses human rights. EU awards Ugandans fighting M7 abuses. Next Year: EU gives M7 more money. Abuses more rights; his workers corrupt. EU awards another Ugandan fighting M7 abuses. Congrats @SpireJim"
X Link 2024-05-03T11:21Z [----] followers, 30.2K engagements
"That Pesident YKM is a clean man but the people around him are the problem. Only them need to be sanctioned. Waswa Lule's had this brutal response 👇 (Cited from Dipio and Sillars eds. [----]. Performing Wisdom: Proverbial Lore in Modern Ugandan Society)"
X Link 2024-05-04T13:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"They threatened to sue us. But we continue being The Observer That is our identity. The only thing we know is observing"
X Link 2024-05-07T16:56Z [----] followers, 13.7K engagements
"@lukusem @Johnblanshe_m Revised abstract by Bloomberg: "Less than four weeks after South Sudan became an independent country in [----] a delegation of Glencore Plc traders arrived by private jet in search of oil. They were carrying with them $800000 in cash to pay bribes." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-02/cash-traders-and-oil-how-glencore-bribed-its-way-across-africa https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-02/cash-traders-and-oil-how-glencore-bribed-its-way-across-africa"
X Link 2024-05-08T11:17Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Interest rates. A survey by @newvisionwire found out that [---] properties (land commercial&residential buildings) were advertised for sale in media in the first [--] months of [----]. It is b'se of economic hardships or "lack of financial discipline" as experts called it https://t.co/jX6P4rEcPK A survey by @newvisionwire found out that [---] properties (land commercial&residential buildings) were advertised for sale in media in the first [--] months of [----]. It is b'se of economic hardships or "lack of financial discipline" as experts called it https://t.co/jX6P4rEcPK"
X Link 2024-05-08T20:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Dear @KagutaMuseveni Here is a young man clearly committed to transforming his people. He is not calling his lazy but organising them. Here he spent slightly over $100m. He is talking reviving cooperatives extension services & all. Imagine doing this for [--] years"
X Link 2024-05-10T20:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I would like to defend AAA naye aswaaza. Obuntu bw'abba nga temuli atte n'abwolesa Eh. Singa yasitukira mu banka oba telecom oba Uganda Railway oba UEB nze singa ndi ku side ye"
X Link 2024-05-11T08:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Dear Ugandans lets stay focused. Anita Among is not the enemy. Sure she is annoying non-discreet & almost too excited about her ill fortune. Almost embarrassing. But never been the enemy"
X Link 2024-05-13T07:06Z [----] followers, 22.9K engagements
"I still dont know why the World Bank & IMF have their offices inside the Bank of Uganda building. Is it a rent issue Can they not afford rent anywhere in Kampala I thought BoU building would be a national security facility accessed mostly by nationals. No @BOU_Official"
X Link 2024-05-13T09:07Z [----] followers, 36.5K engagements
"Finally Ethiopia has fallen. Prime Minister Meles must be turning in his grave"
X Link 2024-05-14T11:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Congo doesn't have "a huge population" Congo is 99m people & is six times the size of Germany. Germany is [--] million people clearly overpopulated. How many times is "huge" used to describe GER population Also DRC is way way richer than GER. (I know)"
X Link 2024-05-22T06:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"30 Years of rabbits and bananas I write: https://observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/81385-museveni-s-is-lazy-tribalism https://observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/81385-museveni-s-is-lazy-tribalism"
X Link 2024-05-22T09:49Z [----] followers, 10.6K engagements
"This image: They normally stand in the background. In observance of ethics they never try to learn your PIN either. Indeed President Ruto has a real chance of staying in powerdemocraticallyforever if he wanted to"
X Link 2024-06-03T14:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Dr Jimmy Spire Ssentongo @EUinUG "Human Rights Defenders Award" recipient summarizes EU duplicity on human rights (& sanctions): We see you delivering death to Palestine; driving over dead bodies to schmooze with us. We see through. Thanks Jimmy. #FreePalestine"
X Link 2024-06-04T14:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This is a grand hijack. Not support. "the violations of Musevenis government are heavily funded and protected by the same forces (UK EU USA) that are now trying to appear like friends of the resistance. And this is an old ugly trick Why I explain: https://observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/81530-how-usa-uk-hijack-and-kill-local-struggles https://observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/81530-how-usa-uk-hijack-and-kill-local-struggles"
X Link 2024-06-05T13:50Z [----] followers, 16.9K engagements
"That we collapsed our UCB at just a dollar (yes just $1) I'm envious that Kenya's KCB is the biggest bank in the region with largest shareholding held by GoK (19%) and NSSF-K (10%). Damn All profits stay home. What happened to Uganda Anyone Kassaija or Goobi"
X Link 2024-06-09T14:13Z [----] followers, 11.8K engagements
"@IvanOkuda @IsaacSsemakadde a thousand differences. But I will tell one anecdote: A Ugandan medic at a top private facility told me a story about a Kenyan expecting mother who declined going into labor at his "super" facility saying "our public hospitals are better than this one. I'm going back home.""
X Link 2024-06-09T14:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"AGAIN: Why doesn't Bank of Uganda have a governor over two years after Mutebile's passing Dear opposition (& other parliamentarians) is this an issue you would wish to summon M7 to explain Dear Male Mabirizi what might be the legal implications of this Any economists"
X Link 2024-06-10T12:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Fascinating watching PLU folks elbowing themselves into the opposition space. Whilst being deep inside the establishment they have quite aggressively tactfully crafted an anti-establishment position. If calamity struck YKM it has to be them Hmm https://t.co/ZFCCtoCcv0 Hmm https://t.co/ZFCCtoCcv0"
X Link 2024-06-10T15:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Then Auditor Gen Justice Irene Mulyagonja would simply remove "ON" and that headline would perfectly represent her findings"
X Link 2024-06-10T16:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"If Spire Agather Toko are "foreign agents" why only focus on the recruited and not the foreigner recruiting Who are they Why are they recruiting Why have we not investigated arrested & charged these foreigners for subversive activity I ask: https://observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/81653-who-is-the-foreigner-recruiting-agents-in-uganda https://observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/81653-who-is-the-foreigner-recruiting-agents-in-uganda"
X Link 2024-06-19T19:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The struggle in Kenya is in full bloom. Some Bobi Wine vibes here. Time Bomb"
X Link 2024-06-20T07:20Z 10.8K followers, [----] engagements
"the dream will not be thru elections a shallow democracy not worthy of its name. Smooth elections are actually not just a distraction but the post-1980 craft through which pillageeuphemized as free markets is executed #REJECTFINANCEBILL2024 https://roape.net/2022/09/08/africas-election-trap-finessing-the-craft-of-pillage/ https://roape.net/2022/09/08/africas-election-trap-finessing-the-craft-of-pillage/"
X Link 2024-06-20T09:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Dear Kampala Nairobi is calling inspiring. Our conditiongraft taxes state capture collapse debt arroganceis far worse than Kenya"
X Link 2024-06-20T14:05Z [----] followers, 74K engagements
"Kampala let's be inspired: a fire should not be left to warm just one house. Dear Kampala Nairobi is calling inspiring. Our conditiongraft taxes state capture collapse debt arroganceis far worse than Kenya. Dear Kampala Nairobi is calling inspiring. Our conditiongraft taxes state capture collapse debt arroganceis far worse than Kenya"
X Link 2024-06-20T15:26Z [----] followers, 51.1K engagements
"What does this even mean Uganda. Our colleague Journalists Alirabaki Ssengooba and Dickson Mubiru have been remanded on a very frivolous Charge of "operating an online Website illegally." @GabrielBuule @AAgather @YusufSerunkuma. https://t.co/5s8XrC1ltt Our colleague Journalists Alirabaki Ssengooba and Dickson Mubiru have been remanded on a very frivolous Charge of "operating an online Website illegally." @GabrielBuule @AAgather @YusufSerunkuma. https://t.co/5s8XrC1ltt"
X Link 2024-06-20T20:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@TimKalyegira Perhaps better to say in addition to IMF Kenya has other enemies. But European-supported corporations and tax regimes take a humongous amounts of money out our colonial outposts. Also the regime of business in which China thrives was put in place by IMF itself"
X Link 2024-06-21T08:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Arrogance Entitlement Impunity Or stupidity. Something like: We own this place. We are here just to collect our money and we don't care about what you feel or think. We are above the law. Because we collect taxes"
X Link 2024-06-24T19:48Z [----] followers, 12.1K engagements
"IMF in a nutshell Fired for corruptionby the presidentat a national tax body IMF hired Doris Akol immediately as technical advisor & now as senior economist. Yes IMF does background checks but the crimes at URA Akol worked for IMF. Makes sense https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/ex-ura-boss-akol-gets-top-imf-job-4487342 https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/ex-ura-boss-akol-gets-top-imf-job-4487342"
X Link 2024-07-02T15:19Z [----] followers, 44.2K engagements
"If there are any lessons to learn from former URA com Dickson Kateshumbwa "Mr Money bags" it is that corruptionbse of the crippling IMF-designed taxesis unavoidable. The incentive to bribe is in the tax-system. Businesses have to bribe to survive. https://observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/81778-why-everyone-at-ura-is-rich https://observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/81778-why-everyone-at-ura-is-rich"
X Link 2024-07-03T08:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Tanzania. Quietly doing things. Just four years in office President Suluhu continues JPAM legacy. Recently demanded that if the US really wanted to support her with grains they should come & buy it from Tanzanian farmers (Not bring in foreign maize to suffocate Tz farmers)🙏"
X Link 2024-07-03T11:46Z 11.6K followers, [----] engagements
"In these "free markets" govts subsidize & protect local businesses. Except in Africa "The EU says Chinese brands including BYD and SAIC are also increasing market share as Beijings massive subsidies help them undercut European brands on price. https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/6/12/eu-threatens-tariff-hike-on-chinese-electric-vehicles https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/6/12/eu-threatens-tariff-hike-on-chinese-electric-vehicles"
X Link 2024-07-04T09:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Just to add Mehta Group (Scoul UGMA Cable corp Tea Estate and Luwala Tea Estate) is majority people-of-Uganda shareholding. Ugandans own Mehta Group. But we have never collected a dime. Not a single penny. Gov't has given Ugx [------------] to Roko Construction Co. Ugx [------------] was given to Roko in [----]. Qn. Why bailing out a company with: Over Ugx [-------------] in contracts Over Ugx [------------] in performing contracts Over Ugx [------------] in arrears https://t.co/Ln9LWN1um0 Gov't has given Ugx [------------] to Roko Construction Co. Ugx [------------] was given to Roko in [----]. Qn. Why"
X Link 2024-07-04T10:32Z [----] followers, 13.9K engagements
"IMPORTANT: Built by the Govt of Tanzania. Not by some extortionist "investor" who will ask for arm & a leg in rent or ownership. It leadership. As Ugandans wait for Lubowa Hospital the SGR (after billions have been eaten) this was completed in just a couple of years"
X Link 2024-07-05T14:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"It is a national condition. (Just that the others haven't been tried as yet)"
X Link 2024-07-06T11:19Z [----] followers, 16.1K engagements
"this is the extent of backdoor dealing in M7's Uganda that (a) everybodyI mean everybodyis trying to help themselves (b) publicly talking about it (& ruing missed opportunities) is so normal now Does Pastor Kakande know how much evidence of crime he has just released All deals in Uganda start with Salim Saleh like @YusufSerunkuma once wrote he is not simply the vice president but a co-president Maybe we should also exhibit him. @AAgather @SpireJim https://t.co/26sXu2ok6W All deals in Uganda start with Salim Saleh like @YusufSerunkuma once wrote he is not simply the vice president but a"
X Link 2024-07-10T10:20Z [----] followers, 11.1K engagements
"As the Kenyans say "IMF is the enemy" Even when majority of them are struggling they have committed a most heinous crime: messing (foreign bankers) banking monopoly giving loans at negotiated interest rates. https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/business/markets/imf-wants-govt-to-remove-tax-exemptions-on-saccos--4567822 https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/business/markets/imf-wants-govt-to-remove-tax-exemptions-on-saccos--4567822"
X Link 2024-07-11T09:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The beauty with Kenya nowshould Ruto resign as is looking very likelyis that the next leadership (& all foreign emissaries) have been put on alert that Kenyans know the enemy. Thus go slow with forcing stupid taxes onto the country. Good for Eastern Africa: Uhuru"
X Link 2024-07-11T14:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Who saw this recovery"
X Link 2024-07-17T10:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""China and East Asia are some of the only places where structural adjustment was not imposed by Washington." Jason Hickel 2017"
X Link 2024-07-17T19:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""Three trillion dollars in total illegal secret net outflows per year is twenty-four times more than the annual aid budget. In other words for every dollar of aid that developing countries receive they lose $24 in net outflows." Jason Hickel 2017"
X Link 2024-07-19T08:05Z 14.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Protection from who"
X Link 2024-07-19T09:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"the 2010s onward The streets of our capitals courtrooms & market-squares are the bushes for staging our struggles. Our poetry & slogans blasted on placards & posters; our pleadings & eloquence in courtrooms are the bullets with which we shoot. Social media is the village square"
X Link 2024-07-22T10:34Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements
"We aren't free people Btn 2000-2017 Europeans & Americans grabbed 162m acres of land (more than five times the size of England) in the global south. This excludes colonial land grabs. These are recent land grabs. Not bought. Gabbed of course with state violence) 😇"
X Link 2024-07-23T13:32Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Always wanted to ask @KagutaMuseveni Comrade in your heart of hearts at [--] what do you think you are adding to a country of kids btn 15-20 years of age an entirely different generation: of cryptocurrency apps artificial intelligence Here is your minister Matia Kasaija"
X Link 2024-07-27T08:40Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements
"When a fire breaks down we'll all burn As Raymond Mujuni recently put it Uganda is seated between Bashirs Sudan Siad Barres Somalia on the one hand and Arap Mois Kenya on the other. It is Musevenis choice to make and endlessly protecting thieves is a bad sign I write: https://observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/82024-when-a-fire-finally-breaks-out-we-ll-all-burn https://observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/82024-when-a-fire-finally-breaks-out-we-ll-all-burn"
X Link 2024-08-01T10:11Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements
"a false immortality We have turned the idea of a "good life" to mean "more goods" Endless acquisition. Thus people have acquired a lot of goods clothes cars shoes houses which has given them a false sense of immortality of security. But it is all stupid bse we'll still die. I write: https://observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/82024-when-a-fire-finally-breaks-out-we-ll-all-burn https://observer.ug/index.php/viewpoint/82024-when-a-fire-finally-breaks-out-we-ll-all-burn"
X Link 2024-08-02T06:22Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements
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