Away with the fairies, dreaming of real freedom

Contractors lay railroad tie. Until this recent Museveni great railway promise, the top honours belonged to former president Godfrey Binaisa. PHOTO | MWANANCHI

Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio was in Kampala last week, visiting President Yoweri Museveni.

He seemed to have had a hugely euphoric effect on Museveni, because the Ugandan chief announced that Uganda is to construct a railway line through Central Africa to the Atlantic Ocean to boost trade between East and West Africa, according to various reports.