Daily Monitor
Friday March 12 2021
Summary
Mr Okodan Akwap says: The way the original members revived the EAC bloc that collapsed in 1977, was grossly faulty.
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A story headlined, ‘Ban Kenyan goods – MPs’ in the Daily Monitor of March 10, once again reminds us how unstable the East African Community (EAC) is. Our lawmakers called Kenya “a bully” in the region. They called for “a tit-for-tat response to the ‘unnecessary’ ban on Ugandan and Tanzanian products.”
I was not at all surprised. I have consistently held the view that the way Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania – the original members in 1990s revived the EAC bloc that collapsed in 1977 , was grossly faulty.
Daily Monitor
Friday February 19 2021
Summary
Mr Okodan Akwap says: Those who voted NUP. .. were angry at Museveni. Museveni is also now angry at them.
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We are still deep into the post-mortem phase of the January 14 polls. Indeed, the analytical phase of this election could last a little longer than what happened in previous times. This is largely because of the news bombshell Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, a former presidential candidate of the National Unity Platform (NUP) and leading challenger to President Museveni’s 35-year iron grip in power, unleashed in Buganda and Busoga.
The bombshell triggered a media feeding frenzy. Journalists competed to file stories about the massive win for NUP and the bloody nose NRM got. In journalism school, aspiring journalists are spoon-fed with this phrase the way newborns are breastfed: “When a dog bites a man, that is not news, but when a man bites a dog, that is news.”
So worrying about the tiff between Bobi and Museveni is a waste of time. Just sit back and enjoy the movie.
Museveni is life President. Dead men don’t hand over power. Voila, c’est le mythe de.