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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’ …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Why the president may fire and throw him in jail When Vice President Gilbert Bukenya refused to appear before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of parliament that was investigating the abuse of over Shs500 billion meant for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2007 to …

By Rukiya Makuma Women and children often face hard times when the head of the family dies. The situation is compounded if there is poverty and disease. Jane Nalwadda, 48, is a typical case. Her husband died in 2000 leaving her to fend for their 10 children. Soon after he …