Norah Owaraga

Jury is in on militarization of agricultural extension

While we celebrate the arrival of the rains for our first cropping season 2015, we are also apprehensive of a major change in our agricultural system – the allocation to the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) the role of logistical distribution of planting material; a role which has been removed from trained agricultural extension workers.…

An explanation of constitutionalism using Germany & Uganda

Chapter Seven of the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda 1995, stipulates the role and responsibilities of the Executive (99 Executive Authority of Uganda, sub-section (3): as follows: “It shall be the duty of the President to abide by, uphold and safeguard this Constitution and the laws of Uganda and to PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF…

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.