OBBO: No matooke republic, just creative fuel sellers
A fuel pump. Uganda was also among the first countries in the region to throw open its fuel market, dismantling state control of pump prices in the late 1980s. FILE PHOTO | NMG
Uganda has always been a first mover when it comes to economic liberalisation and free market reforms, not just in East Africa, but Africa.
It is also true, that it has then tended to become the laggard as others catch up, and it has a very bad habit on rushing back into the cave, when the reforms become politically inconvenient.
