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OFWONO OPONDO: We need Cautious Optimism in lifting COVID-19 Lockdown

Uganda is presently managing national emergency response to COVID-19, floods, landslides and…

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OFWONO OPONDO: Uganda Doesn’t Need a Petty, Hungry and Angry Parliament

For the last one month, parliament has been rumbling hungrily and angrily…

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OFWONO OPONDO: COVID-19 Relief food in Kampala, the Kites, sharks, and Lessons

When President Yoweri Museveni announced countrywide lockdown in response to the COVID-19…

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Did Speaker Kadaga pocket the missing Shs1.2 billion from Covid-19 money bonanza?

Government, through its spokesperson Ofwono Opondo, has fired back at Speaker of…

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OFWONO OPONDO: MPs Shs10bn COVID-19 Bonanza undermines Museveni’s Fundraising

Two weeks ago, MPs while considering a 304Bn Supplementary budget, managed to…

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OFWONO OPONDO: Use COVID-19 Lockdown to Instill good Habits

The coronavirus (COVID-19) has forced Ugandans into a countrywide lockdown of almost…

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OFWONO OPONDO: Madam Speaker, Parliament is not above Criticism

Ordinarily I should have left Tuesday’s outburst against me by the ever…

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OP-ED: Don’t use Academic Qualification to narrow the Democratic Space

By Ofwono Opondo Last week’s decision by parliament to set academic qualification…

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Tumukunde: Government maintains arrest is deserved as Woman MP remains stuck in General’s house

The arrest of former security minister Gen. Henry Tumukunde is normal and…

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OFWONO OPONDO: Kudos to Police on crime, but beware of Political Actors

It may still be too early to extend some appreciation to the…

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OP-ED: NRM, Opposition, and the Devil’s Bargain for 2021

By Ofwono Opondo It is a year since the grandiose opposition political…

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OP-ED: Coronavirus, Desert Locusts and Media Hysteria

By Ofwono Opondo Two months of sustained distressing news from distant places…

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