Norah Owaraga

Whenever it is needed, papa’s spirit always comes alive in my defence

It had been a while since I visited papa’s grave and my Alinga Farms home. These past three weeks, it was great spending time with my daughters, his granddaughters, honouring and preserving papa’s memory. As we beautified and cleaned his grave, we reflected, remembered him and how he so loved us all. How he was…

Final medical bill was 9.8 million shillings – thank you for standing with Fred Tukei

Yesterday, 16th January 2024, in the evening, exactly one week since he was taken seriously ill and hospitalized, our Fred Tukei, my brother, son of my father, the late Engineer George William Obityo Owaraga, was discharged from hospital. He still has a long journey ahead to full recovery, but for now, we celebrate that he…

Entebbe has no hospital equipped to manage significant head trauma

We are frantically trying to find the money to pay a seven million shillings plus medical bill. Yes, woe upon you who gets a head injury while in Entebbe. There isn’t a single hospital – public or private – in the municipality that hosts Uganda’s only international airport and State House, which is equipped and…

Male dominated LOP Ssenyonyi’s shadow cabinet?

At the top echelon – the Leader of the Opposition, the Chief Opposition Whip, the Deputy Chief Opposition Whip, and the Commissioner of Parliament are all men. A whopping 75 percent of the heads of parliamentary committees (chairpersons and deputy chairpersons) are men and only 25 percent are women. Moreover, the women hold positions of…