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Charles O. Bichachi

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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
Friends, tragedy has come home again! Last night I lost my beloved daughter Clarissa Nafula, 11 yrs old. We will have requiem Mass at St Paul's Catholic Church, Mukono tomorrow May 21 at 9am. We shall lay her to rest at Lumino on Sunday May 22, funeral Mass starting at 12pm
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Charles O. Bichachi
3 months
You can tell the state of governance in a country by how government officials (dis)respect common traffic laws on the roads.
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
Road impunity has infected foreign diplomats as well. This vehicle muscled its way in opposite direction of traffic in Centenary Park yesterday Feb 15, 1.33pm. Inside car was only the driver, likely just another stupid Uganda flaunting privilege. Concerned embassy please action!
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
The Heights, Centenary Park in Kampala on fire.
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
The insensitive photographing & crowding by journalists of Mulago Hospital ward where victims of twin explosions in Kampala this morning are being treated is quite unnerving. Members of the Press, as you chase story, always remember to minimise harm & have empathy for victims.
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@andykristian Days later, I wrote a letter to the editor sharing my brush with power. @j_mucunguzi alerted a out letter. Rugunda promptly called me to his office, summoned driver, gave him a dressing, refunded my repair cost & asked his secretary to have the money deducted from driver monthly
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Charles O. Bichachi
3 years
@Longwood01 This is 3rd Easter without my beloved son Paul who died 6 weeks shy of his 19th birthday. There are moments pain, grief have been overwhelming. Not single day passes without memories of him flooding back, when I remember things he loved, and what he is missing. Makes me so sad.
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
While aboard MV Buvuma ferry this morning, we crossed paths (or is it waters?) with Kenyan wagon ferry MV Uhuru at 08:19 am. It was sailing to Jinja likely from Kisumu laden with oil tanks. Good to see Lake Victoria put to use.
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@andykristian Many years ago (2002), Ruhakana Rugunda's car -- then minister in President's Office -- knocked mine. He asked that we move aside. He told his driver and aide to resolve matter with me & he jumped into another car. With boss gone, his driver insulted me, telling me to fuck off!
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
Just wondering: Is illegal detention & torture in UG a failure of Security minister? Internal Affairs minister? Defence minister? Justice minister?Prime Minister? President? Or all above? Why Muhwezi & not any of the others or all of them? Or is he just predisposed to censorship?
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Charles O. Bichachi
9 months
1/6 Yesterday marked another milestone as we count down to opening of Bwema Island Resort & Museum of Lake Victoria. Arrival & floating of these boats is in line with our maxim, "We’ll leave no stone or water unturned" to bring to life this new gem in Africa’s biggest lake.
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@TimKalyegira Always better to use "many", not "most" unless you can quantify in real figures.
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Charles O. Bichachi
11 months
Oh my God! This is arrogance of the highest order! Does she remember then Minister of Health Stephen Mallinga, who collapsed and died shortly after in a Health Centre II in his Paliisa village? There was no time to call the president or be evacuated to Entebbe to fly to America!
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11 months
"None of us (government officials) is going to die in Mulago because there is no medicine. If there is no medicine, [we] will call the President and he will put [us] on a plane and take us to America. We are not victims of corruption." IGG Beti Kamya urges civilians to report…
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Charles O. Bichachi
1 year
What is in a name? Passed by this Nazi (or neo-Nazi) pharmacy along Mawanda Road, Kamwokya last week complete with names & symbol (logo). I asked myself if this is a place I would like to go buy lifesaving medicine. Same way I would react to "Interahamwe Pharmacy" or Restaurant!
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Charles O. Bichachi
1 year
@BMKGiftSnr1 This vehicle is notorious on the Kampala-Seeta-Mukono stretch. It usually branches off at Seeta after terrorising us on the road. It belongs to an infamous State minister in OPM.
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Charles O. Bichachi
1 year
Last week I used 18km Busia-Tororo road via Amungura. I'm glad it is being tarmaced. State of Uganda Trypanosomiasis Research Organisation (UTRO) at Osukuru left me sad. How cld a govt kill a centre of scientific research in just 35 years? What a legacy of killing institutions!
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@MKarekye We have done the needful. We got it wrong and now set the record straight. Apologies to our audiences.
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@MKarekye You don't respond to verbal insults by brazenly breaking the law & abusing guns! Law provides for civil address through defamation or slander. That's what we expect every one to follow when wronged, not to return verbal abuse with gun abuse. It makes gunman worse than wordsmith!
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Charles O. Bichachi
5 months
Uganda Olympian John Akii-Bua commemorative stamp emblazoned on a building at Uganda Museum. I've been here many times, but this is the first time I noticed it. Heroes live forever!
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Charles O. Bichachi
3 years
The world has moved on! Took this photo this morning. It is the end of the road for Nkonkonjeru Post Office. Even then, ... P.O. Box 81 Nkonkonjeru has a parting mail of some weight! Someone alert them to pick it.
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Charles O. Bichachi
1 year
Very inspiring story from the Mulwana Group. Many lessons to pick for us that are trying to find our feet in business. Thank you, CEO magazine @StKyamutetera
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@GabrielBuule Do you think Tz has no big ethnic group whose language could've been adopted? Sukuma, Chaga, etc? Or Kenya doesn't have one big ethnic group whose language could've been adopted? Opposition to Kiswahili is either lack of broad outlook or primordialism! "Envy" is in your heads!
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Charles O. Bichachi
1 year
@Sudhirntv Chief, I"ve imported cars directly from BeFoward Japan many times, including one I am driving without incident or delay. It appears problem is with one of local agents so affecting those that ordered indirectly thru this agent. A blanket statement likw this can damage a company.
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Charles O. Bichachi
1 year
Have you bought your copy? Now available in leading bookshops in Kla & at Fountain Publishers sales department. Read about events & persons that have shaped Uganda in 170 years. Did you know brain behind formation of Democratic Party in 1950s was a woman? Photo: Vibeke Quaade
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
Indeed they're very uninformed! How can @JoelSsenyonyi never have heard about Mamenero; tortured to death under Mayombo's watch & his explanation was that he fell down stairs! How about Besigye's brother Saasi, also tortured to death under his watch? Safe houses are his legacy!
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Don SM Kafeero
2 years
The problem with NUP leaders and supporters is they imagine Uganda started with their CULT leader. Imagine citing Mayombo, possibly the worst of Museveni enforcers, as a guy who would be shocked at what is happening now. He is one of the original architects!
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Charles O. Bichachi
11 months
@DanOgalo You have fallen for Ukranian propaganda!
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Charles O. Bichachi
9 months
Yesterday, I asked this boda boda guy why he had welded those ugly extensions at the rear of his bike. He said it was to protect his bike from stupid riders that ride recklessly and ram into the rear of other riders. Salvation is coming if boda guys now feel pain of recklessness!
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Charles O. Bichachi
1 year
These tangerines are from northern Uganda --Lira/Kamdini or West Nile. They're devilishly sweet! Looking to start backyard orchard in Lumino, Busia. Anyone knows where I can buy authentic quality seedlings of this particular variety of tangerine? Happy new year, God bless!
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Charles O. Bichachi
3 months
@desmossekyewa That's part of misgovernance cancer! Why do you think boda-boda riders in Kigali follow rules to the letter? See big picture, chief! It is same reason motorists create multiple lanes on a one-way lane & cause traffic gridlock. We are in a lawless country bse governance has failed
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Charles O. Bichachi
4 months
@RwandaOGS When Rwanda unilaterally closed its border with Uganda for over 3 years and blocked Ugandan goods from entering Rwanda, was that the spirit of the EAC? This hypocrisy stinks!
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
Bwema Island, Lake Victoria, Uganda, East Africa, 1 January 2022, 6:51 pm
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
If you know any boda boda rider, or any boda stage near you, please show them this video. It is just what might wake them from their stupid road behaviours and save lives.
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Posha Aloyo
2 years
WARNING. You may find this video disturbing. A video compilation of boda boda accidents. Please be cautious on the road. Regardless of what means you are using 🙏🏽
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Charles O. Bichachi
1 year
Is Sam Lyomoki, Usher Owere et al in town? I know Apollo Nyangasi is in prison. Can we hear from the workers' representatives about the foul smell around NSSF monies? Looks like the vultures are back!
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
Only 157 boda boda riders were found to be compliant with the law & therefore qualify to ride in Kampala -- i.e. have driving permits, 3rd party insurance, crash helmets, understand road rules, etc. -- Kampala deputy ED Eng Luyimbazi.
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
In this, Police is climbing wrong tree! 50kph speed is not what's causing road fatalities in Kampala, it's breakdown of road traffic rules! Boda-boda are above law, cars overtake, create multiple lanes with no sanction. Then siren class weave & drive against traffic. Bure kabisa!
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Joseph Beyanga Joe Walker
2 years
The police is introducing a 30km/h speed limit for all motorists in Kampala metropolitan area. The current limit is 50km/h. Reviewing the speed limit in urban areas where we’ve a mix of traffic and people to 30 km/h will reduce fatalities and save lives. #StayInYourLane
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@OfwonoOpondo While we're here, there are rogues who drive cars (Land Cruisers or Mark X) without conventional number plates, just photo of "President Museveni & 2021 - 2026". They follow no traffic rules, wield sticks, are always high on alcohol & drugs, can't speak two words in English...
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
Fire on the boat? No, just fishermen starting the long night fishing silverfish, Mpata Island, Buvuma District.
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Charles O. Bichachi
1 year
Tanzania with 49% of Lake Victoria is leading utilisation of lake for transport. Kenya with 6% is attempting to punch beyond its water weight while Uganda with 45% of is largely asleep, treating it mostly as a pool of waste water that should have been dry land for shopping malls!
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Africa Facts Zone
1 year
Tanzania unveils a locally built $43 million cargo and passenger ship in the Lake Victoria Port of Mwanza. It is East Africa's largest locally manufactured fresh water passenger and cargo ship with the capacity to carry 1,200 people, 400 tonnes of cargo and 20 vehicles.
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
The biggest political news in recent times, union btn DP (Mao) & NRM (Museveni) broke out last evening & filled social media today. This evening, two main Kampala English radio talk-shows are discussing NGO stuff! I am now playing music as I drive home! What changed FM radio?
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Charles O. Bichachi
1 year
@IvanOkuda Dstv is not FIFA! The listed are not national languages! Last I checked, Igbo, Yoruba & Hausa are not national languages of Nigeria. Dstv is targeting its big audiences that don't understand English. You may notice Lusamia is not included, they all fluent in English or Kiswahili!
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@RugyendoQuotes @TimKalyegira They do! I guess issue is numbers involved. Comes down to old issue of disproportionate distribution of opportunity, privilege & corruption. Basamia say, "he who has more firewood will have more ash!" West has more 'corrupt' elite (firewood) so more ash (abuse of public property
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Charles O. Bichachi
1 year
@emmanuel_dombo @UNRA_UG Our leaders only see problem when their own is hit! Grim police annual accident statistics shld've woken you guys. Highways from border to border shld long have been upgraded to dual 4-lane carriageways. Instead your focus on grandiose expressways for kickbacks from compensation.
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
When you watch Police's October 2022 Boda Boda accident video & see Ogon's cartoon, yet you still believe boda boda should remain part of our public transport framework, then you need to think again! This madness must end!
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Charles O. Bichachi
9 months
Jerricans of petrol waiting to be loaded onto big commercial boats heading into the islands of Lake Victoria. Each boat can load up to 100 of these in addition to other cargo. The big boats (kinaala) can take up to 8 tons of assorted items and people. That's a Tata truck!
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Charles O. Bichachi
3 years
@AndrewMwenda Matthew 5:25-26: “Settle matters quickly with your adversary taking you to court. Do it while you're still with him, or he may hand you over to a judge who may hand you over to officer, & you may be thrown into prison. I tell you; you won't get out till you've paid last penny.”
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
More respect for Raila Odinga. Like his father Jaramogi Oginga Odinga who refused a deal with colonialists to appoint him President of Kenya thius short-changing Jomo Kenyatta, Raila always puts country first ahead of personal benefit. Waiting for his presidency come August 2022
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
And then they issue a frivolous statement about putting nsenene onboard menu! It is sickening to say the least! Thorough shakeup is overdue! They must leave this village thinking on the ground & eat all the nsenene they want but not turn international flights into a joke!
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Chris Obore
2 years
Nsenene in Uganda Airlines! Calls for both security and administrative shake up at the airport and Airline. What if it was a bomb 💣? How did nsenene pass through the screening points ? This is our country’s image being joked about.
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@OrtegaTalks UTODA was not a public transport organisation! It was a cartel of individuals that had invested in public transport! Ugandans have short memory; have quickly forgotten impunity, arrogance & exploitative acts of UTODA at its zenith! Last public transport we had was UTC & People's!
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
Anybody with a clip of @norbertmao narration of when a man was asked to choose between heaven and hell with the benefit of a tour in both places before doing so? Kindly share.
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Charles O. Bichachi
3 years
@PaddyAnkunda1 You cannot be sharing stuff like this! He could have been arrested, not simply put out of action" as he rode a bike"!
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Charles O. Bichachi
1 year
Bwema Island, Lake Victoria. Photo: Richard Oundo
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
Kalonzo Musyoka & Musalia Mudavadi have in my view distinguished themselves as most hopeless politicians in Kenya! They never read the weather right & make blunders after blunders! This 2027 wish is just on such. Time now is to get Raila in & save Kenya from UG-like yellow gang!
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Nation Africa
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I should succeed Raila in 2027, says Kalonzo Musyoka
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@McFaul Why not just disband NATO? Cold war is over! We need to build a world based on economic cooperation, not military competition & annihilation of one nation by another or group of others! No one wins in war! We saw a band of mullahs defeat USA in Afghanistan. Any lessons?
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Charles O. Bichachi
9 months
6/6 So if you love to relax, refresh, make merry & learn new things as you travel, then make a date with us. If you are one that hates to follow the beaten path, then make a date too. You are WELCOME! KARIBU WOTE! @LillyAjarova
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Charles O. Bichachi
9 months
5/6 Now we are here nearly all set! We look forward to your patronage & support. In coming few months, we will rol out the red carpet to welcome you to Bwema Island Resort & Museum of Lake Victoria. Trust us, you will have a great time & will return again – & again!
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Charles O. Bichachi
3 years
@FNampiima @PoliceUg @AKasingye Do you choose which questions to answer & which to ignore? So far you've only answered on EPS tickets & changing driving permit. You have ignored the ones on who has right of way, why UP, UG and H4DF vehicles push everyone off the road. Are you biting more than you can chew?
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@j_mucunguzi I recall giving you a lift from office one evening, you asked why I kept flicking switch below steering. I said I was dimming lights for oncoming cars; you were shocked! I asked how you drove your Starlet at night & you said you only knew turn-on lights switch, not dimming one.
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
Specially and painfully put together by my daughter Ruth on 3rd anniversary of Paul's passing. We love you Paul, we miss you. Rest in eternal peace.
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Charles O. Bichachi
1 year
Look out for this book in new year & learn about 49 events & 66 people that have fundamentally impacted on Uganda from 1844 when it not exist as a country (was just a territory in eastern part of Africa) to today 2022 as a young nation, 60yrs independent & trying to find its feet
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@araoameny How many have been conned on streets or robbed & killed in their houses in languages that don't resemble Kiswahili? People who reduce their experiences to language don't know where rain started beating them! No sense of evaluation. They can live in their fantasy. Rest will go on
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Charles O. Bichachi
1 year
Broken down this way, the anti-Kiswahili group in Uganda may just realise they're running away from themselves!
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Learn Swahili With Twea❤️
1 year
So, Kiswahili & Luganda are related.They have the same language structure & are both Bantu languages but they are not mutually intelligible. They also have different phonologies. Below are a few examples of similar words in both languages. Siku Njema! ~Thread #SwaWithTwea
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Charles O. Bichachi
1 year
@BettyAmongiMP @nssfug @ChimpReports @SoftPowerNews @nbstv @ntvuganda Just wondering whether the "honourable" minister would pass interviews to supervise NSSF? From her conduct so far, I highly doubt. Taking here to the gallery like a common heckler is not ministerial at all, especially when there's an irregular request by her of Shs6bn from NSSF!
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@IvanOkuda I've kept away from the putrid coverage, commentary etc on social & mainstream media relating to death of Jacob Oulanyah. It is sad what we are seeing. I only shared this advice to NMG journalists & wider media fraternity
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@assempebwa Why don't you simply divert road & leave the thieving spirits & their relatives the tree they're using to extort. @UNRA_ED resolved such an impasse on Entebbe expressway by leaving another extortionist with his rock. Road projects won't end clan poverty! It's hard work will!
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@n_pcnwn @richimedhurst EU-NATO imposed sanctions on Russia, did they imagine this could not affect their gas transactions? Typical case of trying to have their cake & eat it too! Only kids think this way! Sanctions affect contracts! Russian money frozen in western banks, why should they add $&€?
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Charles O. Bichachi
4 months
In 1988, Lawrence Mbonigaba (RIP) & I did A-Level geography fieldwork studies at Njeru Stock Farm. It was full of exotic cattle complete with milking machines. Breaks my heart! How can it be that a chap that arrived in 1986 (see pix) owns this public land, now evicts govt farm?
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@assempebwa @BENNICEK @UNRA_UG This is super! Thanks UNRA for always acting on citizens' feedback. Your handling of public complaints and feedback restores our hope that there are still some public entities that listen and work for the people. Kudos @assempebwa and your colleagues!
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@IvanOkuda The long & short is that journalists, or at least one that acts or pretends to act as a journalist should be better than the next guy on street with a smart phone and data MBs. I say generally. Right or wrong of what u post is not based on number of likes but on code of ethics.
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Charles O. Bichachi
1 year
@ChrisObore1 You must be referring to Anglican Church Province of Uganda, erroneously referred to as "Church of Uganda". In wider Catholic Church in Uganda, tribe doesn't matter. Not sure though if a non-Muganda has been bishop of a Catholic diocese in Buganda since days of Bishop Streicher.
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
A little peek into my time leading the Daily Monitor newsroom. Only time will allow us tell the great stories we did or did not do & the tight ropes we walked along the journey. Congratulations @DailyMonitor on 30 years of truth, impact and influence.
@DailyMonitor
Daily Monitor
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"Working meticulously and secretly with a small team for fear of leakage (newsrooms have been heavily infiltrated by security organs in recent times), we pulled it off," ~ @cbichachi Read: #MonitorAt30 #MonitorUpdates
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@Wonderfrank1 @CGTNOfficial 0nly Ukraine has legitimate rights? Doesn't Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Panama, Syria, Serbia, Iraq, Palestine, N.Korea, Afghanistan, etc have rights? The idea that US and West have monopoly of deciding who has & who doesn't have legitimate rights is sickening. Let them be called out
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Charles O. Bichachi
6 months
Rutovu in Bururi Province, Burundi is hometown of 3 of country's presidents, all soldiermen: Michel Micombero (1966-1976), Jean Baptiste Bagaza (1976-1987) & Pierre Buyoya (1987-1993 + 1998-2003). They were cousins; their homes within radius of 3km! Between them, 32 bloody years!
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@Comrade_Otoa A very eloquent, humble, persuasive, knowledgeable man! That's what I remember him for when he was doing door-to-door campaigns for Constituent Assembly elections for Jinja West in 1994. Tell him a young man he impressed so much wishes him a blessed Easter and more years of life.
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@assempebwa @UNRA_UG We don't just want Jinja road fixed, we want Namboole-Namanve-UCU/Mukono road fixed as an alternative to relieve traffic on main Kampala-Jinja road. Our problem is not just potholes, it is "family-planning" inducing traffic jam! Tell us when this alternative road will be fixed!
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Charles O. Bichachi
1 year
A great man with so much humility. His contribution to Uganda journalism is etched in stone.
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Robert Kabushenga
1 year
Today I want to celebrate @wafulaoguttu , a remarkable man who turned 70 years!! Waf, as we call him, was the founding Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of @DailyMonitor . I am forever grateful for the chance u took on me & that is how my career in media began. Waf, Happy Birthday!
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@IvanOkuda @AKasingye What you call pettiness & envy is pragmatism, world view or big picture perspective. Looking forward to learning Lingala as well. Lugha ya Jumuiya ni Kiswahili. I shall continue speaking Luganda with mechanics, builders, at grocery & kafunda. There's more life outside local pond
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
On my usual sojourn in Lake Victoria, I ran into 12 of these fishing vessels in as many times. The platform floats on 2 cylinder, they're propelled by diesel engine which also supplies power for the bright light used in attracting silver fish. Big net that looks like satellite
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@AKasingye Until you make an example of the red-plated drivers, the undisciplined ordinary fools shall think it is okay after all no one touches the other fools! Good action you took but it is a drop in the ocean!
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
Uganda waiting for Kenya to build its SGR to Malaba & Tanzania to build to Mwanza before we start! What a country we live in, what leadership we have! The colonial rail network started in Jinja & radiated to Kla onwards to Kasese, & Tororo onwards to Pakwach. They were smarter!
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Jimmy Kiberu
2 years
Tanzania Railways. Another country joins the rail transformation project.
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Charles O. Bichachi
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@Sudhirntv @watotochurch I agree with KCCA. I hope they are not intimidated into giving in. Watoto can put up their 12-storey building elsewhere and use their property I the city for purposes compatible with heritage preservation. It doesn'tmatterwhich year they bought it or choose to sell it! @kasyate
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@GabrielBuule Do we think others are stupid?
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@GabrielBuule @FGoloobaMutebi Shocking! You probably need to read a lot more, open your mind & disabuse yourself of the thinking that your mum is the best cook! Uganda has been shaped by many forces & personalities, & is still taking shape. And, ethnic jingoism will likely not be part of this future
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Charles O. Bichachi
1 year
@UNRA_UG Will these help in sorting out silt from expensively built highways going to the dogs around feeder roads? You need to drive along Mukono-Kisoga-Nyenga road to see half of road in many places covered with debris & silt. Potholes emerge there. If you can't maintain, don't build!
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Charles O. Bichachi
11 months
@IvanOkuda My best is when as he drove past pork joint at Mukono, youth chanted that he buys them pork. He obliged, got out of his car with gun & guards, had 10kg of pork chopped & put on skewers. Minutes into roasting, he made them to eat half-cooked pork at gunpoint, as price of idleness
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@KiberuJimmy Very unfortunate! Just what the Museveni govt did to Olara Otunnu who was favourite to become secretary general of the United Nations.
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@UNRA_UG @assempebwa this signage at 1km to Lumino on the Musita-Lumino road has been down for the last four or so months. Our people have not stolen the fallen sign posts, thankfully. Hope the signage shall be fixed soon.
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@OrtegaTalks Interesting insights. Office politics is dirty, stifles and kills creativity and good ideas. Media is largely a place of ideas, of debate and creativity. Many media organisations remain stunted because of politics and intrigue and in the end, the winners also end up losers.
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Charles O. Bichachi
1 year
@nbstv @MugenyiHenry_ I have ordered and received several cars from BeForward over the last many years and never once was there a hitch. They are trusted and dependable! Someone must be impersonating BeForward and creating this scam.
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@kasujja When I joined S.1 in 1983 (Obote was president) annual school was 12,000/= for urban and 11,000/= for rural schools. PTA top up mainly for enhancing teachers salaries was 1,000/= per term. This remained more less same till 1986 when I sat UCE. Books & pens were given at school.
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@alfbyaru @IvanOkuda @TheMatundaMan How many headlines have been written about Museveni for weeks running? Is that usually a witchhunt? Leaders at whatever level must stand scrutiny (smoke) else they leave the kitchen!
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Charles O. Bichachi
3 years
Does UNRA have any environment specialists in its employ? Trimming grass off storm drains is what leads to silting of road drainage channels, blocking of culverts & flooding. This photo taken Aug 19 on Jinja road btn Mukono & Seeta near roadworks @UNRA_UG @UNRA_ED @assempebwa
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
BBC batubalemu amagezi! This Ukraine propaganda & hysteria is sickening! Considering turning off western media (BBC et al) till invasion is over & democracy established all over Europe & Asian part of Rusia by NATO @moseskhisa @sdkafeero @rakidi @kasujja
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
In my view, one of the most balanced stories from western media on the Ukraine war so far. @sejudav what do you make of this, General?
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Charles O. Bichachi
1 year
What platform do you get you first news when you wake up every morning? Keep the feedback coming!
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Daily Monitor
1 year
What is your first source of news every morning? #MonitorUpdates
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
@MbowaSavio @IvanOkuda Baganda politicians with national outlook & substance like Ben Kiwanuka, Paul Semogerere, Bidandi Ssali etc are not supported by Buganda. Rest of Uganda usually supports Baganda with national outlook. An emerging one is Erias Lukwago. Can Buganda support him? I doubt!
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Charles O. Bichachi
3 months
@KanairAugusto Have you not seen 4x4 vehicles with ordinary plates blaring sirens and armed men inside or following shoving everyone off the roads in Kampala? And traffic police is helpless? Are they ordinary citizen motorists?
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Charles O. Bichachi
2 years
This is great background and analysis of the Russia-Ukraine crisis by an eminent US scholar. Watch, listen and learn. No more reason to parade ignorance on this matter. Note particularly his prediction of the end, and who will be the biggest loser.
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Charles O. Bichachi
3 years
@SolomonSerwanjj @nbstv @KKariisa @nextmediaug @AfricanIIJ You are one of the best Solomon! You will definitely excel at your new station adding depth to journalism. You have my best wishes and full confidence. The world belongs to those that move to create things, not those that stay put. Bravo!
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Charles O. Bichachi
1 year
@SheDefender @echwalu @maureenagena That's an inspiring journey! Just get the spelling of border right in your next updates as you are going to cross many borders even as you will be using many boarding places for your overnight stops. Bon voyage!
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Charles O. Bichachi
1 year
@assempebwa @UNRA_UG Thank you! Way to go. This is how Kagina resolved the infamous rock that had blocked the Kampala-Entebbe Expressway; just create a diversion from the speculators & leave them weeping in "loss"!
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