BY Mwambutsya Ndebesa The Daily Monitor, Tuesday March 15, 2016 under the heading, `Don’t give opposition government business deals—NRM boss’, the NRM Chairman; a one Karangwa, warned Kayunga District officials against awarding any state contracts to opposition supporters. Chairman Karangwa in a way was echoing President Yoweri Museveni who, sometime …
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By Bob Kasango Such attacks show why the world must widen the frontiers of freedom and promote democracy In May 2011, soon after the killing of the leader of Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, in Pakistan by US Special Forces, the Economist Magazine ran a special feature titled, “Now, kill …
Read More »Law Society’s bad move on Attorney General
By Bob Kasango We should never let our ideological differences and inclinations come in the way of our professional disagreements It’s not the rule of law, it’s the rule of lawyers: That’s the central message conveyed by the Uganda Law Society’s suspension of the Attorney General’s membership and the award …
Read More »TODAY IN HISTORY: Besigye dossier November 6, 1999
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | On this day nine years ago, former National Political Commissar and senior officer of the UPDF, Col. Kizza Besigye authored a 14 page statement critical of the National Resistance Movement (NRM). Besigye, 43, wrote the article November 6, 1999 ahead of that year’s referendum. …
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