Norah Owaraga

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…

WEALTH CREATION OCCURS WHEN WE LISTEN

On Monday, 23rd February 2015, four Ugandans were honoured with the responsibility to debate on Spectrum, Radio one FM90 the question: “Is President Museveni, and by extension the ruling party, the National Resistance Movement Organisation (NRMO), prescribing the right solutions to poverty?” and I was among. Naturally, the current ‘wealth creation drive’ was scrutinised –…