Norah Owaraga

Bloated Irrational Parliament of Uganda

The current system is irrational for it allows for districts, such as my ancestral district, Pallisa, whose annual revenue collection is about 130 million shillings only, to be represented by five MPs that cost the nation 900 million shillings per year.

Parliament is a Cost Centre Rather than an Ideas One

In Uganda, we have come to accept and to promote a paradigm in which leadership at the top is perceived as the time for privilege for the individual to amass wealth and not as the time for the individual to render service above self to his/her country-folk.

Longole on Karamoja cattle-economy in crisis

Simon Peter Longoli’s insights that he shared in his article titled: “Cattle Crisis” demonstrates what many – Government of Uganda and other development agencies are doing wrong in Karamoja. Longoli has re-affirmed that the Karimojong people are really not the problem as they are so often alleged to be; but rather the problem is us…

Famine and deprivation in Uganda are caused by greed by a few leaders

Recently, I was at our ancestral home at my Alinga Farms in Pallisa in Eastern Uganda and I noted how the situation of my people has worsened. They are in a desperate state. Many families are surviving on only one meal a day – mostly consisting of eating lilies from swamps. Unfortunately, rains expected in…