The Whistleblowers Protection Act exists, but it is underfunded and ignored. Powerful bosses still use paperwork and technicalities to ruin anyone who disrupts their "eating" chain. When a whistleblower is blacklisted, then a headline about UGX 41 billion recovery won't make sense since it will not pay their rent or protect their family from the thieves who have been exposed.
"The 1995 Constitution of Uganda is clear. Article 29 guarantees every Ugandan the freedom of assembly, demonstration and peaceful protest. It does not say this right is reserved for the NRM or its new appendage, the PLU. It says every citizen," Lubega said.
Media reports indicate 1.2 million people work as boda boda riders in Uganda, which makes the motorcycle taxi business the second largest employer in the country, right after agriculture.