By Barrack Obama Today, May 24, I signed into law the Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009. The legislation crystallises the commitment of the United States to help bring an end to the brutality and destruction that have been a hallmark of the LRA across …
Read More »Muhwezi, Mukula and group face Anti-Corruption Court
By John Njoroge IGG says he is ready for the trial Three former health ministers Jim Muhwezi, Mike Mukula and Alex Kamugisha and State House aide Alice Kaboyo could be back in the dock following the Constitutional Court ruling that the Inspector General of Government (IGG) has powers to prosecute …
Read More »Nambooze
By Andrew M. Mwenda & Bob Roberts Katende Her victory leaves Museveni ahead of Besigye in Buganda She is diminutive in stature but firm in her devotion to Buganda kingdom, the Democratic Party and Catholicism. Her opponents discovered this combination can be devastating when Betty Nambooze, 43, or `madam teacher’ …
Read More »Who will defend our freedoms?
By Andrew M. Mwenda The government of Uganda has written a Media Law Amendment Bill which, even a committee composed of Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin, Benito Mussolini and Pol Pot would find rather stringent. Yet it is not the law that I find the problem but rather the …
Read More »Minutes of the meeting between the Russians and UPDF Air Force
The Independent Team Attendance: 1. Maj. Gen. J.B. Owoyesigire 2. .Brig Samuel Turyagyenda 3. Ag. Lt Col M.K. Bisaso 4. Ag. Lt Col Geofrey Turuma 5. Vladimir Rudenko- Rosoboronexport 6. Anatly Mikityk – Rosoboronexport 7. Andrey Kotsubinsky – Rosoboronexport 8. Irina Potapova …
Read More »Big deal
By Independent Team Inside UPDF purchase of Russian fighter jets and missiles On April 5, 2010 the Russian leading business daily newspaper Vedomotsi reported that the Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport had entered a contract to supply the Ugandan government with eight Su-30-MK2 fighter jets and missiles in probably …
Read More »Does Uganda need high-tech jets?
By Andrew M. Mwenda Recently, the Uganda government decided to spend about US$1 billion shopping high tech jet fighters and the accompanying missiles and armament from Russia. There has been outcry from the media, the donor community, the opposition and the wider public against it. How can a country …
Read More »Reformer on campus
By Dicta Asiimwe Makerere University’s new VC hopes a new governing law will give him control over a powerful University Secretary Who controls the purse at Makerere University? That is the question raised by an ongoing power struggle between the university’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. Venansius Baryamureeba and the University Secretary …
Read More »NRM faces shock test to its majorities in parliament
By Isaac Mufumba Last week members parliament went native. They nearly had a fist-fighting in the House. The opposition MPs broke a door of the parliament to force themselves inside after being blocked from re-entering the House where they had walked out to protest the Deputy Speakers refusal to allow …
Read More »Suspension of opposition MPs casts doubt on parliaments independence
By Dicta Asiimwe While speaking to The Independent on April 28, 2010, the government chief whip Daudi Migereko said: It is not realistic to expect a completely independent parliament, which is why our constitution provides for the government chief whip to be a member of cabinet. This independence of the …
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