The Observer

When cornered over the Shs 500 million, the man mbu did that which does not happen in this land.

He allegedly confessed and accepted responsibility; and even agreed to step down from the juicy perch. Sounds like a perambulating tale with special effects from Wakaliwood. The people oohed and aahed that the man had done the noble thing or perhaps more noble things to come in a land where mafia, pigs, parasites, haters, and foreign homos*xuals usually take the fall.

However, the man came back with a perambulating retort. Indignant, the man did not respond to the Shs 500 million accusations but painted a picture of a man in the throes of a well-oiled witch-hunt.

In the struggle for public accountability, the people ever enterprising with a healthy dose of laughter turn to social media. On social media, the people neither slumber nor forget; they keep receipts. Why social media?

The people long ago read the room and understood that to keep one’s voice/ head down is to live long for who doesn’t want the soft life of long life? Out on the physical streets, the people are hemmed in, smothered with blanketing corruption, blithering impunity, unadulterated unemployment, etc.; the list goes on depressingly.

How to perambulate like Shs 500 million Mathias Mpuuga

As Ugandans continue to mither over the grandiose handover of the Shs 2.5 billion luxurious vehicles to former speakers of parliament by speaker Anita Annet Among, they will even feel more pained when they learn about the ultimate benefits of the judges when they retire.

What retired judges get

Of the three branches of government, the officials of the judiciary get the most lucrative perks when they retire. According to the Administration of the Judiciary Act, 2020, a retired chief justice earns the same monthly salary as that given to a serving chief justice.

A retired chief justice is also given a one-off lump sum retirement benefit equivalent to 2.4 per cent of his annual salary which is multiplied by five and the years of service. For example, the current chief justice Alphonse Owinyi-Dollo earns Shs 20 million per month, therefore, when he retires in 2026 when he clocks the mandatory retirement age of 70 years, he will receive Shs 172.8 million when you calculate the seven years he is going to spend as chief justice.

But the figure will increase if one considers the 18 years he collectively has been a judge since his appointment in 2008. A retired chief justice also receives either a furnished house or a one-off payment of twenty thousand currency points which is equivalent to Shs 400 million, an annual medical allowance equivalent to the medical allowance payable to a sitting chief justice, a chauffeur-driven car or a one-off payment of ten thousand currency points which is equivalent Shs 200 million.

A retired chief justice also is given state security, two domestic servants, or a payment of Shs 300,000 per month. The retired chief justice also receives a fuel and vehicle repairs allowance of Shs 2 million per month, airtime, and internet for Shs 220,000. The same benefits also accrue to the deputy chief justice taking home the same perks as those that accrue to the sitting deputy chief justice.

Uganda's retired judges get even more benefits than former presidents, speakers judiciary

I will never forget her words: “There is nothing else that I can’t get from my father’s house, except s*x! So, why would I leave my parents’ home for this one thing and then get to the marriage and start being begged for s*x?”

She shut the debate down with class. So, this thing about stonewalling, what exactly is your problem? Why have you turned the s*x in your marriage into a haggling issue, a bargaining chip, part of this country’s endangered species that are rarely seen?

More and more married people are bringing excuses to the bedroom, sharing the marital bed (mbu, for the sake of our children) but refusing to share the reason that special bedroom exists in the first place. When you are no longer intimate, what you have is not really a marriage, unless there are underlying health issues that make lo******ng next to impossible.

But if you have just decided – like I have heard one wife declare – that enough s*x has been had to last you the rest of that marriage in celibacy, then you, my friend, are playing with fire.

S*x Talk: There is no need for stonewalling s*x talk

All Ugandans irrespective of age or employment status will have to fork out Shs 15,000 per year should the cabinet approve the proposed National Health Insurance Scheme bill, Health minister, Dr Ruth Aceng has revealed.

There have been various failed attempts by the Health ministry to establish the National Health Insurance Scheme since 2004. The latest attempt was last year when parliament passed the bill only to be withdrawn shortly after. Now, Aceng says in the new proposals, they are making it mandatory for everyone to join the scheme after establishing that Ugandans don’t appreciate what they don’t pay for.

"We have done a good job consulting many people and drafting this bill. In this bill, the National Health Insurance Scheme it is mandatory for all of us to join. Mandatory! When I say it is mandatory it means you don't have a choice whether you're working or not working. Whether you're in the village or whether you're a boda boda [rider], it is mandatory!

Because people don't appreciate services that they don't pay for and I can give you very good examples. When you go and find patients in Nakasero hospital, they behave, they don't break the toilet door or pull off the doors. They use the toilets very well and they pay for their services. But go to Mulago, they want to pull off the door, they want to break the windows, the beds are mishandled. People don't appreciate what they don't pay for," said Aceng.

Each Ugandan to pay Shs 15,000/yr for National Health Insurance health