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Kampala, Uganda
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More truth told. We should not underestimate the disease surveillance system that our @MinofHealthUG has built over the years. It's the most robust one this world has ever seen!
And it's continuing to work very well!
The world is so determined to vilify Uganda.
After all that we have done as a country to lead this Ebola response across the continent from 2014, no one, absolutely no one will give credit where it's due.
The most they will do is mock and ridicule and place themselves in an exalted place. How sad.
Dear Nigerians, this is not the time to tell the world how great you are. You're African. Be humble. Take a cue from the Kenyans because these things cut us all down to size.
Ebola is an existential threat to the continent and we need to fight it together. It won't recognize nationality and it favours none.
I thank you. (in President Museveni's voice)
@DianaAtwine @DrMusenero @MinofHealthUG @kasujja
A moment worthy of celebration. Keep shining Captain.
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This is Africa. Where people can dance in the street on a random day. But also Kampala can be beautiful. Eh.🌹💯
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The world has a lot to learn from Uganda's ebola response from the first outbreak in 2000, right in the middle of the Kony insurgency in Northern Uganda.
And not just ebola but epidemics in general.
I'm sharing this article by Martin Namasaka because it's very very instructive and the world needs to pay careful attention.
@MinofHealthUG
@DianaAtwine
@kasujja
@DrTedros
@WHO
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Way before they were rolled out, someone on Facebook, you know that old social platform, laughed about those digital number plates and passed it off as another scam by #katugugu.
The number plates came. The first set that were issued really looked like a scam from the poor quality that they were. I could bend one of them in half with my bare feeble hands. And the lettering was oba how!! Pathetic!
Back then I was glad my car had old number plates. White at the front and yellow at the back with big bold lettering. Nice old things.
When they said we'd all have to upgrade I said I would be the last one on the queue.
The plot thickens.
And the scam unfolds.
How does something that was supposed to enhance security start with a security breach, with dishonesty and with breaking every rule in the book?
The irony beats me hollow!
Do we even have a moral compass? At all?
Once again, poor unsuspecting Ugandans have been taken for a ride (pun intended) by none other than #katugugu
Kitalo!
The disjointed messaging and the lack of clarity on what everyone should be doing. This, is what ails our country, and it is the bane of our lives!
When the Honourable Minister for ICT stoped UCC from cracking down on these local and community hotspots, she said there should be a regulatory framework in place rather than arbitrary action taken against people who've identified a need and are providing a necessary service to the people. Now this. 👇
Honourable Lumumba and Nyombi Thembo why the sudden change of heart?
What solution have you created for the people who use those community WiFi hotspots? Will they now get kicked out of the digital economy for lack of access to the Internet?
@JustineLumumba
@UCC_ED
@kasujja
@PoliceUg
Police crack down on unauthorised Wi-Fi resellers in Kampala share.google/57f510rnu0LFIwv…
It was a great engagement for sure. @pirwot thank you for being in the room and being part of the conversation
It was a day well spent. Thank you @pirwot for being present to the end
Great to see a current AVODA Blue cohort participant, Benson Obua Ogwal, leading the session at the @YobelBiashara annual conference.
Your plan is still to prosper,
You have not forgotten us.
You're with us in the fire and the flood.
You're faithful for ever, perfect in love,
You're Sovereign over us
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Truth!
"So then, my beloved brothers and sisters, let everyone be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath. For the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God" James 1:19-20
AN APPEAL FOR PEACE AND UNITY IN TOORO
People of Tooro, our leaders, friends of Tooro and fellow Ugandans,
We are living through one of the most painful and delicate moments in the history of our Kingdom.
His Majesty Omukama Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV has passed away, and even before we have laid our King to rest, sharply differing positions have emerged regarding succession to the Crown of Tooro.
On one hand, a group has announced a new King. On the other, there is a Will left by the late Omukama containing his expressed wishes regarding succession.
These are serious matters that must ultimately be addressed. But as Batooro, we must ask whether this is the right moment, and whether the manner in which this is unfolding honours the King whose body we have not yet laid to rest.
Whatever our positions or interpretations of Tooro’s customs and institutions, there must remain a minimum standard of moral decency.
Let us first bury our King.
The Crown of Tooro has existed for generations and will endure long after all of us. Nothing is so urgent that we must sacrifice the dignity of His Majesty’s final journey, the grief of the Royal Family, the unity of our people or the peace of our Kingdom to settle it now.
There will be time to examine the Will, to hear those advancing a different position, and to consider our customs, the applicable law and the proper institutions through which succession should be determined. That process should take place calmly and credibly, not through competing announcements, confrontation, or attempts to establish facts on the ground while our King still awaits burial.
I therefore appeal to everyone involved, regardless of the position they support, to exercise restraint. Tooro is bigger than any one of us, and the Crown is too important to become the prize in a contest conducted in the middle of our mourning.
I also respectfully appeal to the Government of Uganda to provide appropriate guidance and support to ensure that peace, order and sanity prevail during this sensitive period.
This is not a request for Government to choose a King for Tooro. It is an appeal to help protect the conditions within which the relevant cultural, legal and institutional processes can take place peacefully, fairly and without intimidation or disorder. Where necessary, respected elders, cultural leaders and other credible persons should also help guide an orderly way forward.
My appeal is simple: lower the temperature.
We can disagree without destroying one another. We can defend our positions without insensitive language. We can seek the truth without abandoning our culture, dignity and humanity.
History will remember not only how the succession question was resolved, but also how we behaved when our King died.
Let it record that, in a moment of grief and disagreement, the people of Tooro chose restraint, our leaders chose wisdom over confrontation, and we gave His Majesty the dignity of resting in peace before turning to the future of his Crown.
For now, let us mourn together. Let us bury our King with honour. Then, with dignity, fairness and respect, let the truth and the proper process guide what comes next.
In whatever we do, Tooro must come first.
It's a very troubling state of affairs because why the aggression and the vitriol? We can adopt a certain degree of civility, and beware that bridges aren't irreparably burnt. I dare say, tentatively and very gently that the whole stance smirks of self ambition, and we see it in our country everyday, sadly! @FrankTumwebazek and @cobbo3 you do have the power to rein your errant comrade in.
Hi Comrade @AndrewMwenda as your friend and also as a friend of our late King oyo I appeal to you to consciously make a decision and keep quiet/ceasefire for now. We owe this to our humble and gentle King. All other issues are secondary plz. Debates can ensue thereafter. Plz 🙏
I couldn't agree more. There's a time for everything!
@BahatiRemmy
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The Lord gave us a King and the Lord took him away. Blessed be the Name of The Lord
Job 13:15
Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him. Even so, I will defend my own ways before Him.
When life is hard, when I want to sit in the dust, clap my hands sideways in astonishment, weep, wail and pull at my hair in anguish, that Bible verse points me back to The One who knows the end from the beginning. Then I am strengthened @Ronkawamara
I have struggled to find words for the death of my King, His Majesty King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru IV. P
I have seen him grow all his life. I watched him learn to play football and basketball, ride bikes, go to school, leave for university, graduate, and, year after year, grow into his Crown. I watched the boy become a man, and the man become a remarkable King.
We were supposed to be planning his wedding, not his funeral.
Perhaps that is what makes this so difficult to accept. None of us believed the King would die. Even His Majesty believed he was coming home. On the day he passed, we had expected him to be discharged. Only a week earlier, he was still speaking with doctors about new treatment options and participating in the daily family prayer hour. He was happy that Arsenal had started the season with a stronger squad. He was looking forward to this year’s Empaango.
He was still making plans. Still hopeful. Still living.
Oyo loved Tooro deeply. He loved Uganda. He loved his family, and he had a special closeness with our children. But above everything else, he loved God.
He was truly a servant King: humble, gentle, and remarkably close to ordinary people. No one was too small to matter to him. He knew the names of his farm workers and bodyguards, and remembered people he met along the way. The Crown never made him distant from people; it made him feel more responsible for them.
Today, our hearts are especially with the Queen Mother Akiiki. She raised a young boy carrying an extraordinary burden into a gentleman and a great King. What she gave Tooro, through him, can never truly be repaid.
His loss is immeasurable. For our family, the pain is almost impossible to describe. For Tooro, an era has ended far too soon.
But Oyo’s legacy will not die.
It will live in his young son. It will live in the people he served, in the causes he championed, in the Kingdom he loved, and in the contribution he made to Uganda. And above all, it lives with God, the King of Kings whom he loved and served.
I will remember many things about His Majesty. But I will also remember Amooti Oyo: my cousin, my friend, the boy I watched grow up, the Arsenal fan, the father, the son, the brother, and the gentleman behind the Crown.
We were not ready to say goodbye.
Rest in eternal peace, Your Majesty.
The King is dead. The Crown mourns, but the Crown stands.
Long live the King.
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Today, I have received a cheque of UGX 53.5 million from @WatotoChurch in support of the proposed Mobile Water Clinic, an initiative aimed at bringing healthcare closer to communities across the islands.
The Ssese Islands comprise 83 islands, while the Buvuma Islands comprise 54. Many communities continue to face challenges accessing healthcare due to the high cost and limited availability of water transport.
Following His Majesty the Kabaka’s instruction, I visited the islands to engage with communities and understand their challenges firsthand. It was during these engagements that His Majesty encouraged us to explore a mobile water clinic that can move from island to island, bringing essential healthcare services closer to the people.
Health is a prerequisite for social and economic transformation. We have so far raised approximately US$60,000 towards this initiative, and I sincerely thank Watoto Church for this generous contribution, as well as for the excellent organisation of the celebrations marking His Majesty the Kabaka’s 33rd Coronation Anniversary.
Together, we can make healthcare more accessible to our island communities. 🙏🏾 – at Kampala, Uganda
