By Haggai Matsiko Arrest. Expel. Block. The Independent has learnt that those are the three main options several meetings of NRM leaders on the Amama Mbabazi issue have been discussing. The most anticipated of the meetings is the Central Executive Committee (CEC) slated for early July. The desired outcome is …
Read More »Mbabazi announcement shakes NRM, Museveni
By Edgar Tushabe Muhairwe What will President do next? What is not in dispute, however, is that President Museveni had summoned Mbabazi and former Vice President Gilbert Bukenya to a meeting scheduled for June 15 to explain why they were allying with the new formed The Democratic Alliance (TDA). The …
Read More »Museveni’s 2016 Budget
By Haggai Matsiko Suspicions of vote buying eclipse record Shs 24 trillion budget On May 25, Keith Muhakanizi, the secretary to the Treasury, wrote to the Clerk to Parliament notifying the House of the final corrigenda to the 2015/2016 Shs.24 budget that Finance Minister Matia Kasaija presented on June 11. …
Read More »Big budget. Big dreams. Big fears
By Independent Team Is Uganda headed for a debt crisis? What happens when you take a bunch of election spending reality, throw in a pinch of anticipated oil dollar excitement, and wrap it all up in some new accounting procedures? That is the question analysts of Uganda’s 2015/16 national budget …
Read More »NRM in trouble over register, again
By Haggai Matsiko Fights in party primaries could be worse than 2010 Since April 27, when President Yoweri Museveni launched a massive registration of members of his ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party registers members, questions have emerged about the `real’ motive behind it. The NRM party register tends to …
Read More »Inside Burundi’s attempted coup
By Haggai Matsiko Warning to leaders seeking to unconstitutionally cling onto power Apart from fears Burundi could return to another civil war similar to the 13-year long one that ended in 2006, many point to the Burundi instability as a reminder of what danger lurks when leaders seek to unconstitutionally …
Read More »Jamil Mukulu: Behind the many unanswered questions
By Independent Reporters & Agencies Are international networks protecting the arrested ADF leader? By Independent Reporters & Agencies The arrest in Tanzania of the elusive Jamil Mukulu, leader of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) should bring to a close almost 20 years of the group’s quiet terror not only in …
Read More »Besigye coming back?
By Agather Atuhaire Pundits are warning that President Yoweri Museveni’s disregard of the people’s voices might lead to a chaotic election or even a boycott. “With these new developments,” said Makerere University don Mwambutsya Ndebesa, “the fate of the elections looks very uncertain.” On the day the Constitutional Amendment Bill …
Read More »Proposed constitutional amendments and why they failed to impress
By Agather Atuhaire After months of outcry from the opposition and Civil Society organisations, the government on April 30 finally tabled the Constitutional Amendment Bill in parliament. While the opposition and civil society had eyes on electoral reforms, the Bill has only one or two clauses about them. The over …
Read More »Pension scam case trouble for DPP, police
By Haggai Matsiko Bribery allegations, messy investigations swamp police as Kayihura asks for Shs400bn Gen. Kale Kayihura, the Inspector General of Police, does not like appearing before the parliamentary committee on Defence and Internal Affairs. Last year, he snubbed the committee twice and only appeared after the committee threatened to …
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