Norah Owaraga

MPs Compromised by Debt

“The Speaker, Rebecca Kadaga, blames banking institutions for misleading members of parliament (MPs), who are often taken by surprise at the willingness to provide them with huge sums of money at short notice when they have just gone through costly campaigns. But the Speaker says that she attempted to advise MPs to live within their…

Fruits of One’s Labour

The wisdom to replace grass lawns with food crops, even though it were done only partially, can never be overstated. It is the wisdom of our ancestors that one should eat food that one knows its source from seed to plate, after having participated in growing it. And this is possible for every Ugandan to…

Oblivious Members of Parliament

But, in Uganda, ordinary people living undignified, deprived lives is the norm. And if our members of parliament are called out for contributing towards the status quo, they effectively, ask the deprived and poor, who cannot afford the proverbial bread, to go eat the proverbial cake.

Household food planning is needed to stop food scarcity in Uganda

The problem of food insecurity in Uganda is more about food distribution than the actual lack of food. To allege that Ugandans prefer feeding their kids on food supplements is to tell us that Ugandans have majority elite. What does a food supplement mean to a poor woman living in Loro in Oyam District in…