Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Harriet Mugeny Businge has been declared winner of the hotly contested Hoima Woman MP by-election. Businge of the National Resistance Movement was declared winner at 3:30 am on Friday. She polled 33,301 votes beating Asinansi Nyakato of the Forum for Democratic Change who garnered 28,789 …
Read More »Hoima DPC transferred hours to local parliamentary polls
Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hoima District Police Commander Christopher Katumba Kiggundu has been transferred, a few hours to the Hoima district Parliamentary election scheduled for Thursday. According to the transfer message released today, Kiggundu moves from Hoima to the Environmental Protection Police Unit –EPPU. He has been …
Read More »NRM wants presidential candidates to declare assets
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Resistance Movement (NRM) party has proposed that presidential candidates should be mandated to declare their assets and liabilities with the Inspector General of Government (IGG) before nomination. The party also wants every presidential candidate to declare and file with the Electoral Commission …
Read More »Why Museveni might not sign new KCCA law
Stage set for battle with Lukwago Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE AND JULIAN SABIITI | KCCA officials and Kampala district MPs are anxious about whether President Yoweri Museveni will assent to the Kampala Capital City Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2019 that parliament has passed. The anxiety is partly because of the …
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What the politics of People Power tells us about the nature of government they will preside over THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | People Power is the most trending political cult in Uganda. They are angry at the corruption of President Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Movement …
Read More »Colour of violence in 2021 elections
It’ll be bloody if yellow, red clash Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | ‘What to wear in Uganda.’ That is a common briefing topic for visitors to Uganda. Some of them are told not to wear black or blue garments – because they attract disease carrying tsetse flies. Recent events, …
Read More »Mugisha Muntu most principled politician – Attorney General
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Deputy Attorney General Mwesigwa Rukutana has hailed Gen Gregory Mugisha Muntu, the Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) leader for being the most principled politician in Uganda today. Rukutana says General Muntu is not a double standard politician who speaks the truth as it …
Read More »Mao faults Museveni’s leadership over brutal killings
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Democratic Party-DP President General, Norbert Mao wants President, Yoweri Museveni and his ruling National Resistance-NRM party government held accountable for the brutal murder and atrocities committed against Ugandans. He said this at a media briefing at Kolping hotel in Hoima town on …
Read More »Heavy security deployment as Bobi Wine, Besigye head to Hoima
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There is heavy deployment of security personnel in Hoima town and its surroundings ahead of a planned visit by Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi also known as Bobi Wine. The legislator is expected in the area to launch a campaign by Asinasi Kamanda Nyakato, …
Read More »Police hunt for thugs that punched nails in hands of NRM activist
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kawempe Police division is hunting for unknown thugs accused of punching 6-inch nails in the hands of Baker Kasumba, a resident of Kivuulu in Kawempe Division. In his statement at Kibe Police Post in Kalerwe, Kasumba says he was nailed by unknown people accusing …
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