"must also recognise that music and poetry are key in promoting politics but you cannot ignore the fact that there is likely to be a clash. So as an artist you need to know how to manoeuvre and do the right thing in the place so that you are not misunderstood."

"There is a breakdown in the way our system is working because you should be able to foresee things."

"when you want to entertain people, go and entertain them, let them enjoy themselves. When it comes to politics, let politics be politics."

"There is time for everything. When you are entertaining communities, that is entertainment. When you are playing politics, that is politics. If you mix the two, there is likely to be a clash."

"This is one of the cycle of poverty when families are poor, young children are more likely at an early age to look out to that boda boda rider who might buy her a pair of shoes, or that Hajji who might marry her and give her a house because she is living in a very poor environment with the family."

"when people start dying, they don't just start dying all of a sudden. It means this problem has been brewing for a few months."

"Their attraction to education is less because the peers around them are not attending school, kids are not going to school for lack of basic necessities."

"Term limits will not take away the fact that women continue to face systemic barriers that keep them from participating in political processes and decision-making. I’d rather we draw lessons from other countries that have systems of affirmative action, as well as those without,”"

"women are called “prostitute” and other names, told to focus on marital concerns, and generally put down and berated."

"Women who vie for direct constituency seats are targeted for abuse, and this has led many to resolve that the violence is not worth enduring,”"

"We need to address the root cause why people are selling their land, once we can dialogue and people understand then automatically the issues would be sorted”"

"We must provide the direction for an alternative means of livelihood than sales of land, our people should get into production. Our negotiations should focus on special affirmative actions on Agro- agro-industrialization and related value addition chain support to bring our people into the money economy."

"There is a need for in-depth due diligence to present findings that can enable us to have a deep understanding of the questions of the balalo for a long-lasting solution to this issue”"

"I am a married woman and I have children of my own and many whom am sponsoring in various schools including 23 girls and six boys. I feel I have a responsibility as a parent and a leader, when I come across a young person getting to do wrong things"

"The incentive regime is structurally embedded in the country’s tax laws, making them non-discriminatory and accessible to both domestic and foreign investment, depending on the sector and level of investment."

"It is land linked, giving it a strategic commanding base to be a regional hub for trade and investment."

"We must also establish standards and promote product quality, industrial safety, and environmental protection in petroleum supply operations. Finally, we must promote more efficient modes of transportation in order to maintain the security of petroleum products supply and curb smuggling."

"Key sources being pursued are solar energy for lighting, irrigation, mosquito control and fruit drying, as well as the development of ethanol for cooking and the promotion of biogas technology and biomass resource replenishment."

"In terms of the promotion of renewable energy systems, the government has continued with the promotion of the use of renewable energy technologies with the objective of broadening the power generation mix."

"We must review and put in place modern policies and legislation that offer a conducive business environment. Acquiring and providing necessary information and data to attract and facilitate the private sector and capital inflows is also very important."

"Our strategic goals are to meet the energy needs of Uganda’s population for its social and economic development in a sustainable manner, as well as to use the country’s oil and gas resources to contribute to the early achievement of poverty eradication and to create lasting value to society"

"And the area local leaders kept on collecting this money from us until it got finished. I even injected in my personal money for the health facility to get its current outlook,” said Brandon Monday morning."

"The misunderstanding is no longer a secret fight, but the two giants have gone as far as accusing each other on microphones at public functions."

"I tried to reach out to my colleague, but she decided neither to pick up my calls nor to respond to my messages. I physically looked for her in vain yet her person is affecting me so much."

"If you focus your eyes on my disability, you will definitely never vote for me. You will never think I can do anything, but also you need to look at my experience. What have I done, even as a woman with disability. What other work have I done? Rather than focus on the things I can't do, and I keep telling people, there's nothing I can't do."

"think it goes back to attitude and to think that we can't perform beyond what we are there for as representatives of people with disabilities."

"don’t always have to say women with disabilities because there are things that are common about a woman, disabled or non-disabled, and there are things that affect youth."

"it's also good for people to accept and know that, you know, despite your disabilities, you can actually do so much."

"The chance I have to be in Parliament is because there's a specific slot for five Members who must be people with disabilities, and also the finances are because elections in the country can be very expensive and not very many women with disabilities can actually have access to those finances."

"You can't speak about another issue, if you are not speaking about disability, then you better keep quiet."

"The polls then were marred with rigging and some big wigs then sabotaged the success of people of Sembabule although the district was in shambles."

"The overwhelming support from People of Sembabule district requesting me to represent them have guided my decision and am sure this time around we are taking the mantle to represent and serve our people."

"Unfortunately, when people smile at us in real life their expressions do not come with honest interpretive guidebooks. We have to judge with the tools at hand, in our heads; heads which are all too often inadequate for the task."

"One of the biggest problems of people in love is that we can’t tell a false “salesman” smile from a genuine nurturing smile. One smile is delivered for the benefit of the smiler; it’s essentially predatory and self-serving. The second is delivered for us, the smile. It’s true, open, and giving."

"Strongly positive and essentially equal exchange for both parties. Laid out in that manner, no rational person would choose to be in the presence of salesman smiles when he could choose a true smile instead."

"We raise our concern because violence against women has not been taken seriously among women in Uganda."

"I believe that the public protest, with women voices loud and clear was instrumental in ensuring that justice is done."

"We as women are concerned about our safety in our homes and relationships. What message is this sending out about how the government of Uganda values women or takes its role of protecting its citizens seriously."

"Raising voices Dismayed activists raised concern in the hasty manner in which the case was handled, interpreting it as a failure of the justice system to protect the rights of victims of domestic violence."

"Whatever it is, if you haven't gotten a job, go out there. Don't wait for someone to hold your hands. Look for the job because it is true that you can go out and present yourself on your own merit. You will get it, let's be very truthful because shortcuts and shoddy work is what leads to the downfall of many of us."

"Because for everyone who betrays me, I will take revenge so that they feel the pain of being betrayed because it is very painful to betray your friend."

"Don’t leave yourselves in the hands of others. Work for yourself. Hard work pays. First of all is being focused, being determined and however small a job that you have is, even if it is not a permanent job take it seriously."

"Their problems were my problem. My problems were their problems. I shared it with them. I was happy to eat with them, dance with them. I was paying school fees doing everything."

"Ugandans have to learn or people have to learn to be true to themselves. You must keep your promise. It is an eye for an eye."

"What I learned was that it was not my loss, it was their loss because for me, when I love something or someone I will make sure that the person gets maximum support from me and I give it to my people."

"Politics in Uganda has become very transactional. You give them money; they will have to give you the votes."

"handwork pays”. I remember singing that hard work pays, this is our motto. It made me understand that hard work pays because I had a very solid foundation."

"It is going to take a holistic approach for this to get contained because when you don’t address the issue of poverty. teenage pregnancies will continue rising."

"we don’t earn much in terms of copyright and you know a lot of artists have been trying to fight so that people get paid for their music.If a song plays in radio or in a club and we are earning from it, we should be earning from it but that law is still very week but we are working on it."

"I don’t think I stole the song because we covered that song which I had thought was a folk song the time we did it. I think it’s gone to heights in ways it would never have done if we hadn’t covered it."