July 14, 2021 Written by OUR READERS
The government has disclosed intentions of installing tracking devices in all vehicles, ostensibly to prevent violent crimes.
Parliament should conduct benchmarking and avail Ugandans with a list of all democratic countries that successfully prevented violent crimes by this regulation. Surveillance in foreign countries is restricted to convicts such as pedophiles and terrorists.
This regulation makes it easier for rogue state operatives to abduct people for ransom since the president once disclosed that police have ‘weevils’. This move is an insult to our constitutional right to privacy under Article 27.
It also violates a biblical right to privacy provided as the tenth commandment of Moses (Exodus 20:17). Why di
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December 23, 2020 Written by OUR READERS
The Electoral Commission has organized an election at a time when all sensible people, including the president, warned it was impossible to hold one under the current situation.
They set out a tough electoral program for the candidates that all of them knew was impossible to abide with. A candidate is supposed to hold a rally of not more than 200 people in all the districts of Uganda.
Assume that a candidate wants to meet and talk to at least 20 per cent of the voters in each district, how long will it take him to talk to these voters in just one district?