28.06.2010

The senseless circumstances under which Khan Kakama, the innocent one-and-a-half-year-old toddler who was kidnapped from his home in Bugolobi and killed, must be condemned in the strongest possible terms.  We join Kakama’s parents, family, friends and indeed the entire nation in moaning the loss of an innocent Ugandan child.  Of course, it goes without saying that we condemn any crime, let alone such a senseless crime, in the strongest possible terms.  Sometimes it takes a single incident for an entire nation to wake up.  We hope this is it!  In death, Kakama will have achieved what powerful Generals have failed to achieve in nearly 25yrs. (more…)

The Judicial Service Commission, working hand in hand with the Office of the President, deserve to be given due credit for finally identifying appointing ten new High Court Judges.  The Principle Judge, Justice James Munange Ogola, deserves a lot of credit too.  It is he who has over the course several years shouted his voice hoarse trying to maintain pressure on the relevant authorities to appoint new Judges to help deal with the huge case backlog.  As Principle Judge, he was indeed in the best possible position to pass judgement on the deficit on the Bench. (more…)

The year was 1997.  The skies were just turning red in the horizon as the sun rose across the River Thames from the Palace of Westminster in London.  The young Tony Blair, MP for Sedgefield constituency had just pulled off a landslide election victory for Britain’s Labour Party and was about to march into Number 10 Downing Street as Britain’s new Prime Minister.  To capture the symbolism of the moment politically, he declared to the world, with an infectious smile, that “a new dawn has broken”!  We at Uganda Correspondent are experiencing something very similar.  It is a wonderful day!  It is a wonderful day because today, after months of hard work, a brand new and totally independent people’s platform for liberal debate has been born; and you are reading from it now! (more…)