The Observer (Kampala)  Uganda: Oil - Uganda Still Has Chance to
Avoid Curse   Tucked away in one of the tallest buildings in
Kampala is the oddly named 'National Social Security Fund.'
Oddly named because despite its intention to provide a soft
landing for salaried employees, NSSF is hardly a pension fund.
Most Ugandans in fact consider its deductions a form of
taxation. Recently the NSSF managing director, the former
banking official Richard Byarugaba, described the fund, now
easily Uganda's wealthiest purse beside the Central bank, as a
"monster."  What he meant was that despite its lion size, the
fund is little more than a pussycat in the economy, meowing, not
roaring, scratching and not clawing forward at the opportunities
around it. Around the world these days it is fashionable to talk
of Africa's moment. On Sandhill road in the small but extra-
wealthy city of Palo Alto where Silicon Valley investors eager
for the next big find pitch their ventures, Africa is coming up
regularly.  These venture funds c