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by Fred Muwema The government push towards middle income by having an estimated 5 million working class Ugandans earn a minimum of USD 1,040 p.a ( approx. Ushs 3.7M) is an ambitious plan which is desired but may instead benefit counterfeit business in the process. To understand the magnitude of the problem, you need to know that the global value of counterfeit traded goods has surpassed the national GDP of more than 150 economies in the world according to the World Bank .If you consider that the combined nominal GDP of Africa is USD 3.3 Trillion and that of Uganda is only USD 26 Billion, you can contextualize the problem. This means that counterfeiting which is a form of organized crime, also politely referred to as illicit business has the capacity to break or distort any economic programme or economy in any African Country. As the Government attempts to increase the income of Ugandans, it needs to find out what economic activity will produce this income, what the p...

by Fred Muwema I respond to two headlines ‘ ’Powers of Judges Cut  ‘’ New Vision  newspaper and  Court declares  interim  orders  invalid   Monitor Newspaper , all of today (24 th   February,2017) where a panel of three constitutional Court  Judges  are reported to have  held  that  only 5 Justices  of that  Court  can  issue Interim  Orders . For a long time, the practice of the Constitutional Court has been that a single Justice or three Justices of that Court can entertain Interim Order Applications. The full bench of 5 Justices has been reserved to handle   Constitutional Petitions which carry questions requiring interpretation of  the Constitution. By  a stroke of a pen, the  Constitutional  Court  has now  erased its own  wealth  of  jurisprudence  developed  in this  area which  in my view had been well founded....