By Julius Odeke Issues new MP has to deal with in one of the poorest Districts The mother of one of the candidates beat up a policeman and the name of the father of another was erased from the voters register. Such was the drama and tension in the just …
Read More »FDC’s Salaamu Musumba and other opposition arrested in Butaleja
By Julius Odeke Police on Sunday evening at around eight o’clock moved swiftly and arrested the Vice President for Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Proscovia Salaamu Musumba on allegation that they were distributing basic commodities to voters. Musumba who was in the company of five other FDC district officials including …
Read More »NRM denies secretly supporting Butaleja’s independent candidate
By Julius Odeke The National Resistance Movement (NRM) party has in strong terms denied supporting the Independent candidate, Betty Hamaba in the Butaleja’s by-elections that are slated for February 11. The Director in charge of recruitment and mobilization in the NRM secretariat Hassan Galiwango in an interview with The Independent …
Read More »Butaleja in voting mood, as Museveni is expected yet again
By Julius Odeke Its three days to elections in Butaleja district where electorates shall go to polls to vote for the woman Member of Parliament filling the vacant post that was left empty after the death of Cerinah Nebanda. The electoral Commission has slated February 11 to be the day …
Read More »Kiggundu approves Butaleja Woman Representative by-elections
By Sarah Namulondo The electoral commission has today approved the electoral programme for the by-elections of the Butaleja District woman representative. Badru Kiggundu, the chairperson, electoral commission said it is required of the electoral commission by law to approve the electoral programme following the death of an honourable member like …
Read More »Nobody will divert my mind on the vision my daughter had – Nebanda’s Mother
By Julius Odeke As the people of Butaleja district are soon going to polls to elect their woman MP, following the sudden death of Cerinah Nebanda. Its no longer a rumour that the late’s sister is going to contest. In an interview with Nebanda’s mother while in Tororo High Court …
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