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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Uganda is still in mourning after last Sunday\u2019s passing of her Speaker of Parliament, Jacob L\u2019Okori Oulanyah. While the death was announced in an avant-garde style \u2014 with President Museveni using five posts in a Twitter thread to get the message across \u2014 prior updates on Oulanyah\u2019s status had been conspicuous by their absence.<\/p>\n

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Information gap over Oulanyah health leaves public guessing<\/p>\n

Information continued being drip-fed to Ugandans even after a high-level delegation\u2014including Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo and Deputy Speaker Anita Among\u2014ended up bedside with the stricken Speaker. Instead what bore striking resemblance to a propaganda machine kicked in, with Ms Among telling Ugandans that Mr Oulanyah was \u201cresponding to treatment\u201d hours before the Speaker lost his battle to a still undisclosed condition.<\/p>\n

We are conscious of the administrative discretion our leaders enjoy whilst discharging duties in the realm of public administration. We are, however, alive to the fact that the failure to exercise reasonable judgment is abuse of discretion. The optics are particularly bad if state actors don\u2019t work hand in glove as has recently been the case.<\/p>\n

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How eerie silence greeted Jacob Oulanyah\u2019s final days<\/p>\n

While addressing mourners at Mr Oulanyah\u2019s home in the leafy suburb of Muyenga, the health minister said doctors were still trying to stabilise the Speaker before disaster struck. Dr Ruth Aceng\u2019s narrative was out of kilter with Ms Among\u2019s revelation that treatment\u2014in the strictest medical sense\u2014was being administered to Mr Oulanyah.<\/p>\n

The contradiction in terms should stand as a reminder of the dire need to recalibrate the government\u2019s communication policy. In its current state, the policy\u2014by reason of messiness and red tape\u2014is tailored to create an information vacuum. Yet nature abhors a vacuum. It\u2019s small wonder the end result has been pockets of misinformation and disinformation.<\/p>\n

The unprecedented turmoil of the last few days should strengthen the government\u2019s resolve to tighten up the loose ends. Mr Oulanyah\u2019s Wikipedia data was repeatedly edited to indicate he had died when in fact he was only showing signs of frightening weakness and pain. An information vacuum is what precipitated this classic case of disinformation.<\/p>\n

We believe the government should dedicate itself to resolving such information deficits going forward. It has already seen how enormously harmful they can be. A policy that encourages responsible public officials to be transparent whilst singing from the same hymn sheet has never been self-defeating as some in the ruling government would want us to believe.<\/p>\n

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We did everything humanly possible to save Jacob- Deputy Speaker Among<\/p>\n

Muted messaging in the Information Age\u2014thanks to a point of reference that runs everything down to the smallest details\u2014demonstrates nothing more than crippling weakness. Above all, the failure to defuse information-hungry Ugandans has shown the limits of not taking a proactive approach. You cannot be economical with information in this day and age. A paradigm shift is, consequently, long overdue.<\/p>\n

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