Bob John retweeted
THE 30-CHICKEN PER HOUSEHOLD DREAM IS HAPPENING! 🐓🥚
We received another consignment of local chicken from our partners TK Poultry Farmers & Breeders!
Vision: 30 local chickens per household in Bamutakudde, so every family can produce local eggs & we market them TOGETHER at a premium price in supermarkets.
Yesterday we distributed the 2nd consignment! Household by household, we are creating income!
Thank you TK Poultry!
#BamutakuddeModelVillage #PoultryFarming #AkaaloAmatendo #RuralTransformation #TikePoultry
Bob John retweeted
Bukedde TV has spent 1 month and a half while making a certain investigation about these hideouts where the government cars always park so as to milk fuel for whoever wants at just 6kugx.
These areas are around Kibuli, Kitintale and Lugogo and are well known by the officials including the Police Officers themselves that seem to be the head in the business.
Police cars, Military cars and other Government cars park inside here on a daily basis to milk and give people fuel at a very cheaper price, let it be known that all these cars are actually fueled by the Taxpayers Money.
Thank you Bukedde for this
Who will save us from our inferior selves? House niggas.
6 Things We Learned About African Leaders from the Putin Ice Cream Affair
It happened in Moscow, at the Third Russia–Africa Summit. Our presidents had just been given a tour of Russian gadgets. Then in what was meant as a lighthearted moment, they were led to an ice cream stand, where they lined up with their hands out, like Standard Four pupils on sports day. Social media had a field day.
Won’t join the outrage, but will do the responsible thing and ask what was in the cup. It was plombir, the pride of the Soviet kitchen: cream, milk, egg yolks and sugar, with enough butterfat to grease a bill through Parliament. With the science settled, here’s what we learned.
1. “Strongmen” means strong stomachs: For decades we were told African leaders are strongmen. We thought that meant a strong grip on power and strong immunity to term limits. It turns out it means the stomach. They swallowed full-fat plombir in the Moscow cold, and nobody had to leave the plenary early. Whatever their problems with the constitution, none of the presidents in Moscow had a problem with lactose.
2. They finally met a queue: Back home, queues are for citizens. You queue to vote at 5am, only to be told the kit has “malfunctioned.” You queue for unga, fuel, ID cards and a hospital bed. Presidents only see queues through the tinted glass of a motorcade, usually while the queue is being pushed aside for the motorcade. In Moscow they finally stood in one. Unlike our voter queues, this one had a guaranteed result: everyone who lined up got what they came for, and nobody found their name missing from the register.
3. They survived a food line full of strangers: Many of these leaders run cabinets that look like a family WhatsApp group: the son in Defence, the in-law at the Central Bank, the nephew handling tenders. For them, this was a brave outing. The person in front wasn’t a cousin. The person behind wasn’t from the home village. Amazingly, they all survived. Diversity was tried once, in Moscow, and it killed no one.
4. Somebody had to be fifth: At home, the first slice of the national cake is theirs by divine right: the juicy contracts, the prime land, the best piece of nyama choma before the guests even sit down. In Moscow, someone had to be fifth in line. Someone may have got the cup that had started to melt. Nobody declared a state of emergency.
5. They probably missed the lesson: The whole lesson was right in front of them. There was enough for everyone, each person got one, the line moved and nobody went home empty-handed. That is a public policy manual in a paper cup. Did they absorb it? Unlikely. Expect them to land at home and go straight back to the old formula: one for me, and the rest also for me.
6. But it felt like home: Beneath the cold, there was something warm and familiar about it all: free food, no bill and a host eager to please. It was just like home, where the banquets, per diems and hotel bills are paid by taxpayers who were never invited. But nothing in Moscow is free. The ice cream comes with a cone, and the cone comes with a contract: the grain deals, the mining concessions, and the Africa Corps men who guard shaky regimes for a fee reportedly paid in gold and mineral rights. The plombir melts in minutes. The invoice doesn’t.
Next summit, perhaps they’ll carry their own cooler box. Better still, they could stay home and fix the queues there.
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Bob John retweeted
🚨🚨DEAN OF THIEVES 🚨🚨
We the traders, boda riders, youth and ordinary Ugandans have suffered enough. We are not refusing to pay tax. We are refusing to be over taxed and scammed by a system designed to make us poor.
This is how URA over taxes us;
1. Six Taxes on One Item. This is a Scam.
You import one phone or one bale of clothes. URA charges you;
- Import Duty 25%
- Excise Duty
- VAT 18%
- Withholding Tax 6%
- Infrastructure Levy 1.5%
- Environmental Levy 30%
One item, six taxes stacked on top of each other. By the time you reach Kikuubo, the price has tripled. Who can afford that? This is not taxation, this is extortion.
2. PAYE 40% - Highest in East Africa.
In Rwanda PAYE is 30%, Tanzania 30%, Kenya 30%. In Uganda it's 40%. A worker who earns 1M takes home only 600k. Government takes 400k before you even buy food which also has 18% VAT. Where is our take home? 🏠
3. Fuel Excise Raised Every Year.
Fuel excise from 1,350/= to 1,550/= to now 1,750/=per litre. Every time fuel goes up, everything goes up taxi fare, food, cement, soap. Yet URA says they are widening tax base.
4. Double Taxation on Small Businesses.
A small shop owner in Kampala pays: Trading license to KCCA, Income tax to URA, VAT 18% plus daily EFRIS fines of 2M, 6M for small mistakes. Many shops closed in 2024-2025 because of EFRIS enforcement without education.
5. EFRIS and Instant Fines are Digital Scam.
URA introduced EFRIS but did not train traders. Now a mistake of not issuing a receipt is 2M fine, then 6M. How can a woman selling tomatoes afford 6M? This is not tax collection rather this is punishment of the poor.
6. 11% Tax to GDP yet Harassing the Same 1 Million People.
URA collects only 11% of GDP, the lowest in EAC because they fear to tax the rich and the corrupt who steal billions. So they squeeze the same 1 million compliant Ugandans, boda riders, market women and small shops over and over.
What we ask not request because we are tax payers;
1. Reduce PAYE from 40% to 30% like our neighbors.
2. Reduce VAT from 18% to 10% like Kenya.
3. Stop stacking 6 taxes on one imported item and harmonize to one single tax.
4. Stop EFRIS fines until every trader is trained free of charge.
5. Publish online how every shilling is used.
URA @URAuganda , you are not collecting tax. You are killing businesses. You are making Uganda the most expensive country to live in East Africa.
If you tax us to death, who will pay tax tomorrow?
We Pay Tax, We Deserve Respect, Not Scam.
#TaxJusticeUg #EndOverTaxation
Bob John retweeted
📌📌📌Fake pastors and religion
No more mental slavery.
God belongs to No walls of denomination.
I don't need middle men to talk to God
You can unlock physical chains with a key. Try unlocking a mind that prays to its own prison. Religion doesn't just chain the body — it convinces the prisoner to guard the gate.
Bob John retweeted
Coach Victor Mutebi teaching us about all the dispensations in the holy bible, but this is all @FrankGashumba ‘s effect.
Bob John retweeted
Nalebo Jonathan has dismissed comparisons between King Saha and Jose Chameleone, insisting that Chameleone remains in a league of his own.
“How do you compare King Saha to Chameleone? Chameleone is the Alpha and Omega of the Ugandan music industry,” Nalebo said.
Endemic corruption & thievery. Lawlessness. Indifference. Add Nepotism to this and poisonous food is ready to be served. Ooh Uganda. May God Uphold Thee. The future is volatile. So much anger everywhere. We lay our future in Thy hands. Come save us from ourselves. We pray. Amen.
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Very pertinent question. Iganda has been sold a raw deal by these unpatriotic lot. It is painful. Traitors at the very least. Criminals. They have zero idea about what it takes to build a nation. They waste taxpayer money in useless benchmarking trips abroad but return more empty
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Bob John retweeted
A very serious & immediate conversation must be had about how doing business in this country has become almost impossible for law abiding citizens. It now feels like only foreign investors with different skin colour and locally born & raised thieves can manage to start & run businesses in Uganda.
There is no successful business person who isn’t cutting corners or doing illegal things to stay in business. None! In Uganda it’s now officially impossible to operate a business and stay afloat when you’re doing the right thing.
The barriers to entry are way too many and even when you somehow struggle & open, you’re going to be driven into the ground by hurdles left right & center. Everyday there is a fresh problem for you to deal with.
If it isn’t the paperwork that will discourage you - from just registering your business to opening a bank account or even acquiring financing, it’s the running of the business that will finish you - rent is through the roof, electricity is expensive & unreliable and everyday you open your doors there is a robber planning to clean out your stock.
And if somehow those don’t finish you, the government will make sure of it by sending URA, KCCA, Police, your LC1, & all kinds of institutions to squeeze every little shilling out of you. Everyone is looking at your little business as their source of quick money.
How is a Ugandan supposed to do business when the environment is this harsh?
Everyday that passes you hear sad stories of people closing their businesses because the environment has totally failed them. Tears are being shed left, right & center, livelihoods ruined, all because the business environment is not conducive.
These are the pertinent issues people at the top should be focusing on. The country is slowly dying and it’s being killed by a regime that shouts about the importance of the private sector but quietly suffocates that same private sector at any opportunity.
This won’t end well.
