I was impressed by President Museveni's Comment 'Down with the charlatans, Uganda is developing' (New Vision, April 18, 2012); that he shared with us, based on what he saw of parts of the country during his visit to Kapchorwa when he went to commiserate with the family of the late Susan Mugu (RIP), a strong NRM supporter, who died at the ripe age of 103.

Even as he flew by helicopter, the President closely observed every aspect of the landscape in the areas he overflew. He described in detail the changes in land use, making suggestions for what areas and good practices would be most suitable for rice growing, fish farming, or cattle keeping in Busoga and Bukedi, Kapchorwa, Bugisu/ Elgon, and Teso areas. 

The Marriage and Divorce Bill has been in the Parliament of Uganda for over 40years but it has never been passed. This clearly portrays the failure of our dear government to put the welfare and wellbeing of women, children and men as top priority in the country, which reluctance I find  very disappointing.

Despite a sustained campaign by Civil Society Organizations to have the bill passed then,  the 8th Parliament,  failed to pass this very important law.
Parliament should learn to take  women issues seriously and put them as priority rather than paying  lip service, because this bill is beneficial to all members of the family including the men.

Press freedoms are the modern day indicators for measuring the health of a democracy. In the old days, coal miners would take a canary into the mine as an early warning system.

If the canary died, miners knew the air was not safe and evacuated the mine. Press freedom operates in much the same way in democracies today - if press freedoms are undermined or threatened, then everyone understands that something serious is amiss with the overall democratic climate.

For quite a while as a regular reader of the weekly Sunrise I have most times read Ramadhan Ggoobi's Opinion page titled 'Are You Listening Mr President', with a pinch of salt. Why? I always found his 'scuds' thrown at the President or his government, rather unsavoury.

To me, he nearly always sounded negative and seemingly given to some kind of intellectual dishonesty, perhaps more or less typically toeing the usual opposition line, no matter what good government might have done, or so I thought.

I would like to begin with a simple statement that "access to a justice system does not necessarily equate with access to justice. I state this because I think there is a need to continually examine our systems of justice and scrutinize them to determine whether they are providing adequate access to justice for our citizens.

Access to justice is the right of each citizen; it's an inalienable right and applies both to civil and criminal law.