THE BALCONY

BY CHRISTOPHER KISEKKA As the year 2017 clocked in, the Deputy Chief Justice of Uganda, Justice Steven Kavuma, started branding himself a celebrity and now he is popular as he is known by many Ugandans for specifically two reasons. Recently Justice Kavuma reportedly said that he had sworn an affidavit amending his age to reflect he is four years younger than his current officially known age. The man insisted that his age had been altered and portrayed as younger than he actually has been publicly known. This came after Mr Kavuma’s name reflected on the list of judicial officers that were submitted to the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) for retirement this year. These brought up a big public debate and everybody wondered whether someone can use defy the nature laws by amending his/her age. Some days passed and the same person found his face on the front page of some dailies as he issued an order stopping Parliament or any indiv

Town Council authorities have ever tasked residents to ensure proper garbage collection and disposal claiming that the town councils no longer have money to collect garbage in the towns hence establishing the garbage management problem. Various townships in Uganda are currently choking on garbage and each one of the concerned parties has remained comfortable as garbage become part of our communities. The International Journal of Environmental Science and Development, by Naeem Ejaz and Nasir Sadiq Janjua indicated that open dumping and irregular collections of solid waste are creating serious environmental and development threats in small towns of developing world. When asked, Dr Mutebi, the district heath officer of Kalungu said that away from shuffling development, garbage mismanagement is the leading disease causing healthy problems in developing to towns like Kalungu. “Poor disposal and handling of waste because it is not only a development issue but als

BY CHRISTOPHER KISEKKA On the very last day of September 2016, out of the 3.4miillon Ugandans, I was among the few thousands who grabbed that day Uganda’s leading independent daily which also brands it’s self as ‘truth every day’. As others, I bought the paper not because I report for the said newspaper but now as a reader. Yes, I will accept that out of ten journalists, only two read newspapers beyond their by-line. But still I will accept that when I hold the paper my eyes will first dash to look for ‘ BY CHRISTOPHER KISEKKA’  and after confirming that editors considered using my story, I now settle to go through it (the newspaper) at my own pace. That days edition was interesting with a number of good stories and being a Friday, the sQoop magazine was inserted.  The sQoop feature of that day had a bold title;  The Ugandan Middle Class Trap; Once In, No Exist  and I could not wait to read it. The writer,  Ian Ortega,  goes down and write with an intro of a scene fr