The Parliamentary session of 19th April 2023 was mainly about Uganda’s diplomatic relations, during the time I followed up proceedings on the media. Speaker after speaker underpinned the importance of Uganda’s relationship with other countries, especially our trade partners.
A ROTTEN SYSTEM FRUSTRATING YOUNG DOCTORS: Despite President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s directive that the emergency health workers who put their lives on the line to treat Covid19 patients be rewarded with employment by the Health Service Commission, concerned officials at the Dr Jane Ruth Aceng-led Ministry of Health (MoH) are yet to recruit these health workers.
Mathias Mpuuga Nsamba, the Leader of Opposition in Uganda’s 11th Parliament, has made it clear that there is no crisis at the National Unity Platform (NUP) over the new constitution, and that people should stop thinking that party leader Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, the singer and youthful politician, forces him to do things he disagrees with.
The Uganda Health Exhibition has entered its second day, with health workers making some really shocking revelations about what goes on inside the health facilities. The latest exhibitor, who asked online exhibition organizer Jimmy Spire Ssentongo to keep his identity anonymous, has revealed how President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s own sister slept on the floor of the Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital simply because there was no free bed for this member of the first family.
When he was arrested while driving along Lumumba Avenue in Kampala on April 14, 2023, State Minister for Planning Amos Lugoloobi must have been so angry at the men in uniform who uttered the words announcing his arrest but he now seems convinced that it could have been God’s plan to teach him a lesson and inspire him to do more for Ugandans.
I HAD TO CHOOSE WHO SHOULD DIE & WHO SHOULD LIVE: While government officials, particularly those from the Ministry of Health, were assuring Ugandans that the situation was under control during a health workers’ strike a few years ago, intern doctors on duty had to decide who lives and who does not make it, a former intern doctor at Kiruddu Hospital has told Dr Jimmy Spire Ssentongo, the chief organizer of the Uganda Health Exhibition.
The Uganda Health Exhibition has officially started today, Monday, April 24, 2023, as netizens seek to expose the sorry state of the country’s health sector. An online exhibition, #UgandaHealthExhibition, is being spearheaded by academic and cartoonist Dr Jimmy Spire Ssentongo, the activist behind the recent Kampala Pothole Exhibition.
Keith Muhakanizi, the former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance and Secretary to the Treasury, succumbed to a cancer that could have begun from his childhood, the late PS’ friend told mourners attending the official funeral of the fallen economist at Kololo Independence Grounds in Kampala at the weekend.
Head of Public Service and Secretary to Cabinet Lucy Nakyobe has revealed that former Permanent Secretary of the Office of Prime Minister (OPM) Keith Muhakanizi predicted the current Karamoja iron sheets (mabaati) scandal and had warned ministers against it but they did not listen.