Norah Owaraga

Speaker Kadaga’s legacy needs auditing

I saw a video in which Speaker Rebecca Kadaga was dicing her deputy, Deputy Speaker Jacob Olanya, as incompetent to handle matters in parliament, especially certain tough decisions. Decisions, according to her, like amending the constitution to remove the age-limit. She was dicing him in order to justify why she should be re-elected for a…

Speaker Kadaga should not seek another term

It is fact that on matters Uganda national governance, women are under-represented – from top to bottom. Read more of my analysis in my “GENDER LENS ON BEST MINISTERS,” published in July 2020 and in my “CRY KARAMOJA WOMEN!” published in December 2019 Be that as it may, I cannot accept the proposition that because…

Tundu Lissu’s Magufuli Died of Covid-19 Thesis – Part 4

Based on information of his imminent death I was receiving from my Kenyan and Tanzanian sources, that same day, I tweeted again: “The latest update from Nairobi: “They are planning to sneak him out to India to avoid social media embarrassment from Kenyans. They feel that it will be more embarrassing if the worst happened…

Tundu Lissu’s Magufuli Died of Covid-19 Thesis – Part 3

Army generals and senior clerics; prominent academics and business leaders; senior bureaucrats and professionals of all cadres, were all affected. In one day, 17 February, ambassador John Kijazi, Magufuli’s own chief secretary and head of the civil service; and the First Vice-President of Zanzibar, Maalim Seif Sharif Hamad — considered to the father of the…