Information is Power

Story by Osuta Yusuf.  Maracha District. 📸: Tents under which dignitaries, political leaders, clergies and other invited leaders sat under to attend the International Youth Day Celebration of Maracha District, held in in Alikua Sub-county on Friday 27-9-2024. Photo by Osuta Yusuf. Youths in Alikua Sub-county, Maracha east constituency, Maracha District picked placards on Friday 27-9-2024 to demonstrate over the lack of proper accountability by the district youth council leadership. 📸: Some of the protesting Youths. Photo by Osuta Yusuf. The over 40 Youths in number who were both hungry and angry hinted that, if a cow was bought and they slaughtered it, they would have been the one's eating the head because hosting of the event near their trading center forced hotel operators in the area not to cook food on the day of the Youth Day Celebration henceforth leaving them very hungry with no nearby hotel to cheaply eat food as they usually do. 📸: On...

Opinion Written by Osuta Yusuf.  28-9-2024. 📸: Courtesy Photo. I would suggest and recommend that, churches, schools and mosques in Uganda need to develop ideas of writing Project Proposals to be submitted to NGOs and Partners to fund them than only relying on local fundraisings which are most times politicized because majority of these fundraisings target politicians as the "assumed" biggest giver. With recent pronouncements by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni advising the Attorney General to draft a legal solution to end fundraisings which have become what he calls, unnecessary pressure which makes politicians to error, what would be the plan "B" of churches, mosques and schools that rely on these for building their infrastructures if government  eventually  blans it❓️. Whereas many preferred and still prefer local fundraisings in form of parties to raise money for construction of their institutions and other structures, the advantages are that, it so...

Susan has recently downloaded a very trendy fitness app called FiTrack, which was meant for tracking her workouts and health goals. A few days later, Susan started getting calls from her friends saing they did not appreciate her giving their numbers out to those 'FiTrack' people and updating them on her fitness 'journey'. As far as Susan remembers she never allowed the app to tell anyone about what she was doing or to even access her contact list in the phone. Are apps like FiTrack legally allowed to access and share her private information like that. WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY? According to the Data Protection and Privacy Act, 2019, of Uganda, an app like FiTrack cannot access or share personal information with any other party without express permission from the owner of that information. It also says that no person or company should collect (obtain) your personal information like your contact list or friends names or send them anything they have not asked for. ...

Agatha’s businesses all suffered at the same time. It was like someone had just cursed her. The rats ate her clothes in the boutique, the restaurant caught fire and somehow even her coffee business started losing customers. While she was wondering if she should shut down and first go back to the village, Aisha, her friend told her about a bank with ‘business resurrection loans’. So, she got the 100 million resurrection loan with an interest of 40% to be repaid in 8 months. Her businesses started running again until the tax man came for the ‘forgotten’ taxes and the businesses crashed. Last month the bank came to collect, and they told her the business land and her home that she left as security will be sold this month. Agatha is confused and doesn't know what to do.  WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY?    The law says that a licensed money lender like a bank can lend out money and take things you own as ‘security’ for the loan. The terms are usually that you have given you...

Story by Osuta Yusuf. Maracha District. 📸PDM Logo, Courtesy Photo. 📸: Some of the residents attending the heated PDM Baraza on Monday 23-September-2024. Implementation of parish development model in Egamara Parish, Alikua Sub-county in Maracha East constituency, Maracha District has been paused over several irregularities concerning the list of beneficiaries. 📸: Attached here is the national ID from the PDM file of a man who the residents and politicians said, he died years ago but his name and details have been submitted for verification to benefit from the PDM of Egamara Parish. According to the records and also the local leaders, PDM officials in Egamara Parish, Alikua Sub-county in Maracha District added and verified known dead people, known Outsiders and total strangers outside Maracha District as potential beneficiaries for the project, a syndicate which caused uproar from the residents. 📸: Hon Edema Robert Peterson, LC3 Alikua. LC3 Chairman for Alikua Sub-county,...