Uganda: Doctors of the Economy Are Being Strangled By the Mandarins, Tumbus

opinion

This weekend the Nakivubo Stadium "Park Yard" was demolished to create way for the 1000th building of its kind, a commercial development, whose sole objective is to create as many shops and stalls as are humanly possible. If you want to contest the skill of our artisans you have to go to Kyaggwe Road where the street pavement recently collapsed either on account of road traffic or something else. When you scrutinise these new shops, they are about the size of an English sitting room window that grace most homes in the United Kingdom owned by rich or poor.

Soon the former yard, will have an in-game population that violates international safety guidelines all in the interest of the mandarins and tumbus. The mandarins often have the key, access to power and privilege to make the unusual happen. Why an eviction without a court order is carried out by police whose constitutional mandate is to protect life and property hazards anyone's guess. Since when did the "trustees" of the stadium acquire powers to dispose of the property entrusted to them like an ordinary business? What assets has Nakivubo acquired since 1949? But the powers of the mandarins work in such a way that even courts of law a last resort are left as bystanders.

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