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OPEN LETTER: Dear Museveni & Matia Kasaija, Please Grow Your Own Coffee, then Sell it to Vinci & Pinetti in Peace

As Vinci builds its factory, government can start planting coffee on its vast land (or even acquire more land) which they can then “undertake to take all reasonable measures to give priority of supply of coffee” to Vinci. I don’t think any coffee stakeholder or farmer will raise any finger when beans from the government’s farms are given to a single buyer.

Here’s Why Ex-VP Gilbert Bukenya’s Advice to Baganda to Vote Their Son Bobi Wine Could Work against NUP Boss

The former Vice President, Prof Gilbert Bukenya’s advice to Buganda makes him profess a tribal card and therefore, fanning drums of tribalism. This is not good for the stability of the Country and it is not even good for Hon. Kyagulanyi since it reduces him to only Buganda. Therefore, such statements that attempt to divide the Country along tribal lines, must be rejected and condemned in the strongest terms possible. 

Dear Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Don't Bring 'More Hell' to Karamoja, We Already Have 'Enough Hell'

The Commander of Land Forces, Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who has been “decorated” by the social media constituency as a tweeting General because of his free flowing opinions and comments on social media, has been tweeting about the insecurity in Karamoja. In one of the tweets that was trending on social media, the General is quoted to have said thus, “we have begged…now we are coming and hell is coming with us.”