It doesn't come as a surprise that with less than two weeks left to the next financial year or budget, most youth have been reluctant to get money from banks. This money is what constitutes the youth enterprise fund which was rolled out in the 2011/12 budget with the aim of creating employment for young people through enterprise development.

By all indications, this project, like several other populist projects churned out before, was bound to fail right from the start.The underlying purpose of the entire scheme is what would elicit unending questions. Was it a genuine course of action by government and the development partners plus other stakeholders to solve the unending youth question of unemployment, or Government was doing it out of political expediency, like some schools of thought are wont to allege?

The current hype is revolving around Uganda's Uhuru Golden Jubilee due in October this year. Last week, President Museveni launched what will become  a series of activities marking the Uhuru Golden Jubilee celebrations. At the launch, Museveni rightly pointed out that we need to have a shared vision as a people and country if we are to realise our dreams, aspirations and common destiny.

A lot has been said and written about how far we have moved as a country from the time we attained the so-called independence from the British. Most of the discourse has centred on who has done or not done their best or, worse still, who has excelled in continuing to drown this country with abandon. Some have pointed out, and I believe them, that the colonialists did a better job, or, rather they were better managers than the African leaders who soon took over.

This passing week has seen the most bizarre acts second to sorcery exhibited by our mothers of the nation in the name of protests. The first of naked protests came from a group of Amuru women who stripped themselves bare in protest against Madhvani's lust for their land on which the latter wants to increase his sugarcane acreage.

The Amuru women had even vowed to strip before Museveni on the latter's visit to the area. His persuasion that the Amuru land be given for the purpose of creating jobs and development by establishing a sugar factory fell on "stripped ears" as the Acholi women didn't want to hear any more of such nonsense.