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Celebrate the second-rate, kneel down and worship the gods of mediocrity

Ugandans start the year by celebrating several primary schools and many school kids for coming top in the previous year’s national exams, in a widely discredited evaluation system. ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGAH | NMG

By  Joachim Buwembo

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Uganda’s Inspector General of Government is an unhappy woman.

The information she has so far indicates that some 16 impostors presented themselves for police recruitment in 2016 using forged certificates.

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