MUKAMA PHILLIP KAHIGIRIZA: They called it sovereignty. We call it hunger: the law that sank the shilling and the man who begged us not to pass it

The Governor said, “A country without reserves is not sovereign.” Parliament passed the Bill anyway. Today petrol is up to Shs 8,000 a litre, the dollar is Shs 4,100, and every Ugandan is paying for a war that was meant for Bobi Wine.