ARTICLES 2008-2015

By Haggai Matsiko Police chief’s new term begins years amidst stiff criticism as his force celebrates a hundred Inside the Uganda Police Force command centre on the second floor of the three-storeyed Shs9 billion plush Police headquarters located in Naguru in Kampala, about 30 police officers, neatly clad in khaki …

By Haggai Matsiko Parliamentary Defence Committee says wrong priorities threaten national security If not addressed, problems in the way the way the UPDF is run pose national security threats, according to analysts including some on the powerful Parliamentary Defence Committee. An indication of this emerged this September as the parliamentary …

By Patrick Kagenda Greed, intrigue, backstabbing at KCCA Besieged Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago is clear. “As KCCA reaches out to Kidandala, they are creating a more complex situation,” he says, “They are now entangled in the very net they laid for me and the more they try to wriggle …

By Andrew M. Mwenda If Mbabazi plans to challenge Museveni for the presidency of Uganda, he has begun on a wrong footing Since he was dropped from cabinet, speculation has been rife about what former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi is going to do. Will he challenge President Yoweri Museveni for …

By Joan Akello Justice Bart Magunda Katureebe of the Supreme Court talked to Joan Akello about his legal and political life. Any three things we don’t know about? I ’m a very private person; a family man with a wife, six children and 9 grandchildren and; I’ve met two living …

By Eric Kabeera East African Community Secretary General Dr. Richard Sezibera in an exclusive interview with The Independent’s Eric Kabeera about the regional integration process. How far is the implementation process of some of the regional projects that have already been ratified? The implementation process in on track, the single …

By Patrick Kagenda `As KCCA reaches out to Kidandala, they are creating a more complex situation’ On his view of the happenings at the KCCA: It is an attempt by President Museveni to overthrow the sovereignty of the people of Kampala. You know for sure President Museveni lost Kampala politically …

By Patrick Kagenda Kidandala speaks to The Independent’s Patrick Kagenda On working with KCCA Executive Director Jennifer Musisi: I tried a lot to reconcile Jennifer Musisi with the Lord Mayor. However whenever we would be approaching an amicable solution the lord mayor would throw tantrums and the situation would go …

By Moustapha Ndiaye Lack of enforcement actions such as the recovery of assets and application of sanctions The Inspectorate of Government (IG) recently released the Fourth Annual Report on Tracking Corruption Trends in Uganda, which includes data from the National Governance Baseline Survey conducted by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics …

By Julius Businge New scheme favouring technology, medicine, science education starts When The Independent first wrote a story about the student loan scheme in August this year, a reader, Vitas Muhairwe, posted a comment on our online version: “Am not seeing the possibility of this loan benefiting students from needy …