Daily Monitor
Sunday January 10 2021
In 1976 my late father Ben Matogo lived in Zambia. He was in exile and was joined by Eriya Kategaya, Samwiri Karugire, Edward Rugumayo and other highbrow exiles who were part of an intellectual vanguard committed to overthrowing Idi Amin.
These Ugandan exiles were adherents of Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah. A leader who believed that “the majority of the people,” in any movement, understood only action.
So my father and his colleagues’ mission, then, was to give intellectual expression to such action.
To serve as ground breakers for the practical implementation of what they, in echo of Nkrumah, called positive action.
Daily Monitor
Saturday December 12 2020
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Disgruntled, bitter, angry. This is how many have described former Ethics and Integrity Minister Miria Matembe’s feelings towards President Museveni’s government.
The former Mbarara Woman MP, who served in the same government for more than a decade, withdrew from elective politics in 2006 after a bitter fallout with Mr Museveni in 2003 over the removal of presidential term limits from the Constitution.
It is, however, possible for one to forget that the former minister retired from active politics almost 15 years ago, because of constant criticism of her former boss and the government he presides over.