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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…
OFWONO OPONDO: Uganda Doesn’t Need a Petty, Hungry and Angry Parliament
For the last one month, parliament has been rumbling hungrily and angrily…
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…
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…
OFWONO OPONDO: MPs Shs10bn COVID-19 Bonanza undermines Museveni’s Fundraising
Two weeks ago, MPs while considering a 304Bn Supplementary budget, managed to…
OFWONO OPONDO: Use COVID-19 Lockdown to Instill good Habits
The coronavirus (COVID-19) has forced Ugandans into a countrywide lockdown of almost…
OFWONO OPONDO: Madam Speaker, Parliament is not above Criticism
Ordinarily I should have left Tuesday’s outburst against me by the ever…
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…
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…
OFWONO OPONDO: Kudos to Police on crime, but beware of Political Actors
It may still be too early to extend some appreciation to the…
OP-ED: NRM, Opposition, and the Devil’s Bargain for 2021
By Ofwono Opondo It is a year since the grandiose opposition political…
OP-ED: Coronavirus, Desert Locusts and Media Hysteria
By Ofwono Opondo Two months of sustained distressing news from distant places…