RUREKYERA GEOFREY

In 1997, as a fulfilment of the 1991 Jomtien resolution, the Government of Uganda initiated the Universal Primary Education(UPE),  in which four children per family would access free education in government schools. Realising the need and increasing pupil population, the government took up the audacity of educating all children from the initial four per family. Admittedly, the number of school going children increased by six digits.   However, if we take a look at the status quo of our education before the inception of the program in terms of its quality, one is left wondering whether uganda was ready for the program, or was just bound by the requirement as per the jomtien. The reality is that Uganda had a functional Primary system before 1997, which was marred by the introduction of UPE. In fact, the biggest mistake the government committed was increasing pupil populations with staticism in resource, which means the student population surpassed the available school re...

My fellow Ugandans, in 1997 when this government launched the UPE program. Most of us clapped our hands supposedly thinking it was of benefit to us and our posterity. How foolish, naive and gullible we were!   At the start of this month, the national examinations body, UNEB,  issued new circulars to all examination centres for primary and secondary, that is,  PLE, UCE and UACE centres announcing a hike in the registration fees for 2017. The amount is as follows; (a) PLE   Registration fee for each candidate       shs 34000=  (b) UCE  (I) Registration for each candidate           she  164, 000=                   (II)Additional fee for each private candidate   shs 15000= (c) UACE (I) registration fee for each candidate               186, 000=                  (II)Addition...

SIM CARD REGISTRATION MISARRAY IN UGANDA.   In Uganda, there has been an increasing cyber crime rate. As the number of people who use phones, media and internet, shoots high, cyber crimes have also increased. As a measure, the government of Uganda in 2013, issued a directive on which all phone subscribers had to register their sim cards by 1st august, 2015. This however didn't considerable achieve its intended outcomes, as conmen still continue to use phones to extort money from the public, not withstanding criminals who use phones to coordinate their duboius activities as well as threatening some members of the public. What is funny enough however, is that a big number of phone subscribers had their sim cards registered on other peoples' names, something the government is moving to correct.  In the recent move by Uganda Communications Commission, all mobile subscribers have to have their sim cards registered only with the national Identification cards in order to have...