Frederic Musisi

Kampala

Nosy hack @ICIJorg, @DailyMonitor, @NTVuganda. Investigations/Public Affairs/Oil&Gas/Politics. Cinephile. Wannabe screenwriter. Cosmic thinker. Hodophile.

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Articles

What is the state of the nation?

3 weeks ago | monitor.co.ug | Frederic Musisi

President Museveni will today deliver his State-of-the-Nation Address (SONA), in real sense, when the country expects to hear from their chief political executive about, among other things, the government's agenda and the direction being taken to inspire the nation towards a better future. Uganda is at a critical juncture.
Coffee’s Shs10 trillion Vs Shs7 trillion oil cash puzzle

1 month ago | monitor.co.ug | Frederic Musisi

What you need to know:In the new study findings, oil industry players, drew mixed reactions underscoring that coffee and oil are not mutually exclusive. A new study on alternatives to the oil and gas development has suggested that the coffee cash crop offers Uganda absolute advantage, with potential to generate an estimated $3b (Shs10 trillion) annually in earnings by 2030, if only the government can get the building blocks, such as massively rallying smallholder farmers, right.
From Obote to Amin:Tracing Uganda’s bloody past

1 month ago | monitor.co.ug | Frederic Musisi

“People speak sometimes about the ‘bestial’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts; no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel,” Russian essayist Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote in this 1880 novel, The Brothers Karamazov. The passage has been interpreted variously, but in essence, to mean that while wild animal cruelty is an innate attribute, for mankind, cruelty is often intended and purposeful.
Is Uganda sliding into dark past?

1 month ago | monitor.co.ug | Frederic Musisi

The German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel once strikingly said: “The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.” This saying rings true about the events unfolding in the country with a look back to its past and grim history of impunity, violence, abductions, forced disappearances, and torture and even deaths through successive the governments.
What next as Umeme, govt fight over extra Shs420b?

2 months ago | monitor.co.ug | Frederic Musisi

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IGG probes Prof Nawangwe academic papers

2 months ago | monitor.co.ug | Frederic Musisi

The Inspectorate of Government has launched a wide-ranging probe into the fallout at Makerere University occasioned by Vice Chancellor Barnabas Nawangwe’s governance and the brouhaha surrounding both his academic papers and ascension to the highest academic rank of professorship.
Power users to pay back Shs430b Umeme buyout

2 months ago | monitor.co.ug | Frederic Musisi

The mood inside Umeme’s national control centre at Lugogo, Kampala City, on the night of March 31 was outwardly chirpy for the event dubbed “The Big Switch”, and yet at the same time, there was a certain tinge of trepidation that filled the room.
Stanbic, four other banks pool cash for oil pipeline

Mar 27, 2025 | monitor.co.ug | Frederic Musisi

The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) holding company last evening announced closure of the first round of debt financing with a consortium of five African and Middle Eastern banks, signalling slow return of investor confidence in the Uganda Tanzania pipeline project, which has been long decampaigned by environmentalists.
Umeme buyout runs into more storm

Mar 26, 2025 | monitor.co.ug | Frederic Musisi

More confusion continues to mar the planned Monday exit of power distributor Umeme’s and Tuesday handover of the management of the country’s majority electricity infrastructure to the Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL). Amid the contradictory opinions and rope-pulling between Umeme and Energy ministry over the buyout amount, an internal assessment of the power distribution network has put the cost of existing defects in the system at Shs529b.
Fresh puzzle over Umeme exit

Mar 25, 2025 | monitor.co.ug | Frederic Musisi

A fresh dispute has erupted over Umeme’s exit with the Office of Attorney General (AG) putting an 11th-hour spanner in the works, ruling that the Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) did not have unfettered discretion over the power distributor’s investment requirements. The AG’s opinion, multiple sources who are privy to the exchanges, told this newspaper last evening, has disconcerted ERA executives as being favourable to Umeme.