Ntoroko District floods again

Ntoroko District suffers another flood disaster. Yesterday the people of Ntoroko mostly from the areas of Masaka, Buyenje, Makindye, Budiba and Kiranga- the Greater Rwebisengo Zone (Bweramule, Butungama and Rwebisengo Sub-counties). Roads are cut off, Schools are not accessible, heath facilities out of reach, houses, Pit latrines, farms and gardens all submerged and every body is stuck about what happens next. the Primary Seven Candidates have a briefing on Friday, 31st October, 2014 and P.L.E on Monday, 3rd November, 2014 but the Schools cannot be accessed what next ? how can they be helped? The patients are helpless, and as if that is not enough there can be cholera out break any minute from now.we call upon all the stakeholder to act immediately since this is an emergency that needs quick response from every corner. the CSO's community like the Red cross, Save the Children, World Vision, UNICEF, the District leadership, the OPM (Office of the Prime Minister) and many others, let us help our Brothers and sisters in Ntoroko. The photos below show it all.

Knowledge Aquisition

I joined the rest of the participants in  various courses that were conducted by MS-TCDC Arusha-Tanzania.

The one week course that ran from 13^th-17^th October 2014 attracted participants from different countries among which were Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe

Courses like Tax justice campaign, Social Accountability, Data Analysis (using SPSS) among others were offered and that is what i enrolled for as these are in my line of work.

The trainings were completely practical giving the context of real world in relation to what is being done and the staff returned with the skills and knowledge to continuously support them in their day to day work.

It was such a great opportunity for the knowledge gained at this wonderful institution. Participants were later awarded certificates of participation and attendance.

Can we mind our own business..

This article caught me up. Fellow Ugandan citizens, why don't we wish our brothers and sisters good, we're full of lamenting and ill talking esp when our very own make prospering steps. Read the article as authored by a concerned citizen......
Stop your Hatred. Stop being tribalist. Stop your Malice. Stop being self righteous. Stop continuing this non development division among us as a people of this banana republic Uganda. Why are we so divided even?
Miss Uganda is beautiful!!

Below is a post from Facebook by a friend of mine Richard Obonyo who said things I was dying to write about, his sentiments match mine and his  insightful information needed to be changed.

This weekend happened to carrying a number of mixed feelings for me. First, some ass-hole organised a beer festival and then decided to push it forward because he probably got high sampling free beer (yes, Uganda still has poor event planners). Then Miss Agric, Oops, Miss Uganda happened.
I am a jerk-ass when it comes to looks, probably the biggest ass-hole in that regard. But the level of NUGU our new Miss Uganda is receiving makes you wonder what it is about Ugandans that makes us hate success for others!

I agree, she isn’t the most attractive woman in the country, but she is the best the judges had to work with. But then you find some poor excuse of a woman so ugly her man has to get drunk and turn off the lights to shag her also calling our reigning beauty queen ugly!

I blame the make-up designer for this fail but the gal is beautiful.

But it is not just this example that ticked me off. A few weeks ago, the more TV, radio and even local celebs told Ugandans to help vote and keep one of the Ugandan representatives in Big Brother, the more Ugandans took to social media to criticise the poor girl as if any of them could do better. Yes her English was lacking (so is mine, btw) but surely she had other qualities that we could have focused on.
This home grown NUGU is probably why our local entertainment industry has failed to grow. We yap about anything just to keep our “artists” in a box. They try a new style, we call the pretenders. They release a new music video, we focus on their wives sex-tape. We just hate to see our own progress.
Like the time Bebe Cool was invited to perform for Nelson Mandela (R.I.P), Ugandans just kept on talking about how it was an embarrassment and how they should have taken some Nigerian singer. WTF is wrong with my countrymen. They even called his backstage photo with Will Smith photo-shopped.
But of all the time NUGU has taken over and exposed stupidity, the time when Chameleon had an accident in Tanzania. Even the local media was engulfed in rumours of witchcraft and drugs but no one sent  him any help or prayers (in a country that claims to be religious, that’s a bit odd).
In Uganda, a rich man can not be intelligent or hard working or even lucky, he must have killed a mzungu or sacrificed his children. A guy doesn’t have game, he must be using a small stick in his pockets to attract when.
But where NUGU can be most seen, when a woman passes by in an expensive car. Regardless of her success in business or at work, many a Ugandan will automatically conclude that she got that car because of what’s between her legs. That’s how she got the business or even the promotion.
We are a nation that spends some much time trying to see our people fail that we forget to work on how we could instead succeed.
I guess none of this would have happened if only the fucktard in charge of the beer fest hadn’t gotten high.

Told you she was beautiful without that stupid make up

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Unregistered SIM cards still functional

In the bid for Uganda to have all her mobile phone subscribers registered (SIM card registration), it is believed that the unregistered SIM cards are still functional even after the deadline for registration expired. To me i thought this was a good practice for a country to get rid of the increasing crime rate.
What then happened and what was the relevance then?

Francis Kagolo  reports

A number of Ugandans are still using unregistered mobile phone numbers almost five months since the deadline for mass SIM card registration passed, according to New Visioninvestigations.

The exercise which ended on August 31, 2013 was one of the measures taken by the Government to curb crime in the country as per the Regulation of Interception of Communications Act 2010.

The Act, among other issues, provides for lawful interception and monitoring of certain private people’s communications.

After the deadline, telecom company Airtel/Warid claimed it had switched off over 300,000 unregistered subscribers, while MTN reported 327,000 customers cut off, among other operators.

Although it is true some SIM cards were cut off, many were not.

In a quick survey, several clients from three of the five mobile telecom firms told New Vision that they have continued making and receiving calls and enjoying other mobile phone services like short messages (SMSs) without registering.

“I bought my line in 2012 but I did not get time to register,” a journalist, said on condition of anonymity. “They have never switched me off. I no longer receive SMSs reminding me to register the SIM card. I am not worried because I use my phone every day.”

Another, who identified herself as Brenda, explained that she had three SIM cards and became busy after registering two of them.

According to her, the service provider of the third SIM card had few outlets around Kampala which made it difficult for subscribers to register.

“They used to send us reminders to register before the deadline. But after the deadline nothing happened. I am glad my line is still active,” she said.

Aside the SIM cards that were active last year and not registered, New Vision has also discovered that it is still easy to buy a new SIM card and use it without completing registration.

In countries like Tanzania one cannot use a new SIM card until it is fully registered and things like passport or identity card (ID) numbers captured.

In Uganda however, one of the giant operators requires a customer to register only their name and start making calls. In the process people give wrong names yet their other details are not taken.

“Dear subscriber, your registration details have been verified. Your details are incomplete. Please contact the nearest registration agent to provide correct data,” an SMS from one of the companies read after I sent a wrong name. Ironically, I managed to use my new SIM card to make calls.

It has also emerged that the sector regulator, the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), lacks capacity to determine unregistered but active SIM cards.

“No one should deceive you that we can identify any unregistered number. It is only the operators who can tell,” a source from UCC said. “We are relying on the mercies of the telecom operators yet some of them are only interested in making profits, not the country’s security.”

The deputy Police spokesperson, Patrick Onyango, expressed concern over the revelation, saying it is detrimental to national security.

“Unregistered phone numbers in use! That is risky for us,” Onyango exclaimed.  “We advocate that SIM cards be registered because that would make it easy for us to trace crime suspects and people would fear committing crimes on phone.”

Godfrey Mutabazi, the UCC executive director, explained that laws bar the commission from keeping a database of registered and unregistered phone numbers.

“We have already finished SIM card registration. If the operators are allowing people to use mobile phones without registering numbers then that is illegal,” Mutabazi said.

He implored the public to help the commission to crackdown lax telecom firms. “If you are selling SIM cards without registering the users that means you are doing an illegal act. Anyone using an unregistered card should report to UCC.”

Efforts to seek comments from giant telecom operators were futile as none replied by press time.
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/651437-unregistered-sim-cards-still-functional.html