By P. Matsiko wa Mucoori & Obed K. Katureebe Museveni fears they could join opposition if retired Close to 100 senior officers at the ranks of Major and above are currently on katebe (without ‘proper€ deployment), according to information available to The Independent. This has created a sense of career …
Read More »Revealed
By Independent Team Intruder’s identity now known * Man was minister’s ex-guard * Had pistol wound to the head The shooting of an unidentified man in the early hours of May 7 at the residence of Security Minister Amama Mbabazi along Nyonyi Road in Kampala’s plush suburb of Kololo has …
Read More »Portrait of an assasin?
By Independent Team Francis Nuwagaba hails from Kyogo-Kafunjo village, Nyakaina parish, Buyanja sub-county in Rukungiri district. His father is Anselmo Byarugaba. On May 3, an unknown man is alleged to have climbed over the wall fence of the residence of Security Minister Amama Mbabazi in Kololo and was shot dead …
Read More »Opposition: Together you stand, divided you will fall
By Onghwens Kisangala It was yet another round of elections ‘” local council bye-elections on May 24, and as has become the custom, another round of allegations of electoral malpractices. The Electoral Commission (EC) and the security personnel were as usual at the centre of the blame game and for …
Read More »Uganda a collapsing state – Maj. Kazoora
By Onghwens Kisangala Many incidences of security concerns in Uganda have surfaced in the last few years. The central and western part of the country that had been perceived to be at peace is today under security threats; iron bar hit-men, ritual murderers, schools and markets burning, errant security officers …
Read More »Self medication, expired drugs aggravate spread of resistant TB
By Agnes Asiimwe Two deadly strains of TB are quietly and steadily spreading and will claim more victims if deliberate efforts arent put in place to check the spread. The multi-drug resistant tuberculosis or MDR – TB and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis or XDR TB are both very difficult and very …
Read More »Can’t have democracy without citizens
By Andrew M. Mwenda Last week, President Yoweri Museveni was campaigning for Peter Sematimba as chairman for Rubaga Division. The president told the electorate there that they lack public services like roads, hospitals and sewerage systems because they have been sending him ‘the wrong people’ through elections, i.e. have been …
Read More »Riyaz Kurji
By John Njoroge Rewinding clock to the second that took his life There was excitement in the village of Magezi-Tonyeze in Mityana district that Saturday afternoon. The second leg of the KCB Pearl of Africa Rally 2009 was coming that way and there was no missing the fast and furious …
Read More »Northern MPs’ anger shows national pain
By Gaaki Kigambo & Rosebell Kagumire The recent recall of Ambassador Julius Onen’s appointment to the East African Community (EAC) has re-energised mostly members of parliament from northern Uganda in their charges that the government is marginalising their region. It has also returned the spotlight on the NRM government, upping …
Read More »MPs claim systematic discrimination
By Onghwens Kisangala Are the loss and destruction, neglect and deprivation in northern Uganda a national issue or problems created by people from the region and one that they themselves should settle? The Independent spoke to some politicians. Banyenzaki Henry (MP Rubanda West ‘ Kabale district) There is a problem …
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