Norah Owaraga

Our ancestors’ graves and final resting places versus ‘development’

I watched a video clip that was posted by Daily Monitor on its Twitter space @DailyMonitor. It was of representatives of eleven families reacting to a High Court ruling granting Dr. Apollo Kagwa Lutakome “an interim order stopping the eleven families from carrying out activities like farming, building or any other development on the disputed…

Tip for young women on how to handle cyber bullying

Sometimes back, Apese, a young innovator against poverty in her community and with whom I have never met face-to-face, took a chance and reached out to me for help. She had prior taken the initiative to use Facebook to name and shame a ‘very big man’ in her community who had done something terribly wrong.…

Revelations from COSASE UNBS probe – how have we gotten here as a nation?

In 2016, using beans loaded with impurities as the analytical framework, I authored a blog post: “UNBS is incompetent.” Ten days ago, I was reminded of it when I was shopping in a prestigious supermarket in Entebbe. To my utter shock, unabashedly, beans packaged in clear polyethene bags through which the impurities clearly stared one…

‘The people’s local authorities’ are detached

“I start by thanking people from the Entebbe Municipal Council for disrespecting us. You cannot invite people to a meeting at 10:00 a.m., and people arrive at the outdoors venue and there is no chair, no tent. We are the residents and citizens of this area and you were employed to work for us.” Ms.…