What if the man is suffering from dementia? This is actually not a surprise I once met a man who asked a child to remind him the name of her mother’s name, he didn’t know the name cause they had separated and that is why he forget the name of a woman he had a child with.

Found this in X page of @NBSTVUpdates. For the past five years, I have followed and analysed Uganda’s annual budgets. One issue that keeps returning is domestic arrears, especially money owed to suppliers and contractors. The problem is when Government delays paying a supplier, the supplier’s cash flow is squeezed. They struggle to pay workers, suppliers and bank loans. Many businesses scale down and close, while others stop hiring or investing. The pressure then moves to the banks. As the @BOU_Official Governor explains in this video, deteriorating supplier loans increase provisioning and risk for banks, which can feed into higher lending rates. The cycle becomes: Government delays payment → businesses struggle → jobs are affected → loans deteriorate → banks price in higher risk → borrowing becomes more expensive → investment weakens → household incomes suffer. @rama_or @CSBAGUGANDA @ugbankers

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I came across a story I can no longer find, but it went something like this: A man took a woman on a date. At the restaurant, she looked at the menu and said she wasn’t hungry. He insisted she order something light. She declined. Later, she explained that the food and drinks were too expensive for one meal. She would rather he buy her a sack of charcoal and some matooke because that money would feed her for much longer. He bought them, then blocked her everywhere. He felt she had embarrassed him by turning a date into charcoal and matooke. People were divided. Some called her practical. Others called her uncultured and said she had missed the point of a date. But here’s the part people often miss: Two people can look at the same UGX 50,000 and see completely different things. One sees dinner, wine and an evening to remember. Another sees food for a week, charcoal for cooking and one less problem tomorrow. Neither perspective automatically makes someone wiser. The real foolishness is judging someone’s relationship with money without knowing what that money means in their life. For someone who has never worried about tomorrow’s meal, a restaurant bill is an experience. For someone who has, that same bill can look like tomorrow’s food being eaten tonight. And that’s where class, poverty and relationships get uncomfortable. Sometimes what we call “class” is simply having enough money not to think about its consequences. And sometimes what we call “being cheap” is actually someone who has learned, through necessity, that every shilling must have a job.

I came across a story I can no longer find, but it went something like this: A man took a woman on a date. At the restaurant, she looked at the menu and said she wasn’t hungry. He insisted she order something light. She declined. Later, she explained that the food and drinks were too expensive for one meal. She would rather he buy her a sack of charcoal and some matooke because that money would feed her for much longer. He bought them, then blocked her everywhere. He felt she had embarrassed him by turning a date into charcoal and matooke. People were divided. Some called her practical. Others called her uncultured and said she had missed the point of a date. But here’s the part people often miss: Two people can look at the same UGX 50,000 and see completely different things. One sees dinner, wine and an evening to remember. Another sees food for a week, charcoal for cooking and one less problem tomorrow. Neither perspective automatically makes someone wiser. The real foolishness is judging someone’s relationship with money without knowing what that money means in their life. For someone who has never worried about tomorrow’s meal, a restaurant bill is an experience. For someone who has, that same bill can look like tomorrow’s food being eaten tonight. And that’s where class, poverty and relationships get uncomfortable. Sometimes what we call “class” is simply having enough money not to think about its consequences. And sometimes what we call “being cheap” is actually someone who has learned, through necessity, that every shilling must have a job.

MY OPINION: Education is not a map to tomorrow if you are starving today. And money is not just “fuel for today.” Money can buy you time, access, connections, better health, better education and opportunities that education alone may never give you. The uncomfortable truth is that a poor person can be highly educated and still remain poor, while someone with money but little formal education can buy the opportunities that education was supposed to unlock. Education gives you knowledge. Money gives you options. What matters is knowing how to turn either into power, opportunity and a better life.

To play fair when nobody else is playing fair, is trying to be stupid. Use your unfair advantages for your own good.

What a pleasure to be invited to be part of the book launch, Flow of Purpose: From Streams of Childhood to Building Uganda’s Water Future. Indeed, Dr. Callist Tindimugaya, you have left an indelible mark on Uganda’s water sector. This book is a testament to the remarkable journey, contribution and impact you have made over the years. Felicitations, Dr. Callist. I am proud and humbled to be among your mentees and to have had the opportunity to learn from your experience and leadership. Here’s to the continued flow of purpose and the many lives and institutions your work continues to influence.

Today’s feature in @newvisionwire Vision captures an important part of ActionAid’s 2026 climate justice campaign: debt cancellation. For communities on the frontline of climate change, telling them to adapt without addressing the financial constraints facing their countries is not enough. Africa needs climate finance that enables countries to protect people, invest in resilience and build sustainable futures, not more debt that deepens the problem. @actionaiduganda @ActionAidDK #ClimateWeekofAction

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Actually, the person you dismiss today because he doesn’t earn enough might build himself and become successful 20 years from now. You may come looking for him then, but he may no longer want you. What will happen to that relationship where the money has reduced, what will hold it together? Of course you will simply hop to the next person with money. And in most cases, that person may not even be willing to settle with you. He may use the opportunity to revenge. I don’t support that, but it happens. Let’s stop treating loving a man as a charity and your demand for money as a ransom he has to pay before you accept him. Make money. Build wealth. Want a comfortable life. Nothing is wrong with that. Stop teaching people especially these young innocent girls that a person’s current income is the measure of their worth. Money can tell you what someone has. It cannot tell you who someone is. This is my personal opinion.

Let’s stop materialism dressed up as empowerment. Some of the relationship advice being pushed on social media is teaching young people to measure a person by their salary, car, house and lifestyle. “I’d rather cry in a Benz than on a bicycle.” “I’d rather cry in a mansion than in a hut.” It sounds catchy, but what exactly are we teaching the next generation? The danger is that some young people are being taught to choose what someone has already accumulated rather than who that person is and what they can build with them. Then we end up with high-end relationships where people have nothing to lose materially, but are still carrying and lamenting emotionally. Standards are standards. There is no high standard or low standard. It is us human beings who are variable in how we meet them. What we should be looking out for is values. Money matters, but money is not character. A salary is not loyalty. A mansion is not peace, and a Benz is not a guarantee of a good marriage. Let’s be careful what we sell to young people as empowerment. Some of it is simply materialism wearing the clothes of wisdom. This is my personal opinion. @kyamageroandrew @Kabugo_ @MugaluNathan @GODFREY_Kutesa @CarolPrim3