NRM’s Deputy Secretary General Richard Todwong was airlifted to a Kampala hospital after he shot himself in the leg in an incident at Coo Pelwo Trading Centre in Kiryandongo district. Todwong was travelling to Gulu when he decided to mediate in an incident in which a kid was knocked by …
Read More »VIDEO: NRM warns uneducated against participating in Kamuli by-election
VIDEO: The NRM electoral commission has warned Hajati Rehema Watongola, the former Member of Parliament for Kamuli municipality not to turn up for the by-elections if she does not meet the academic requirements. The party chairman electoral commission Dr. Tanga Odoi while launching the road map to the party primaries for …
Read More »COMMENT: NRM’S loss of direction
COMMENT: By Mwambutysa Ndebesa Recent ambassadorial appointments show domestic political calculations trumping ideological clarity The NRM government, and President Yoweri Museveni in particular, prides in being a president that is ideologically anchored. The President always says that his political actions are informed and guided by his beliefs and ideology. And …
Read More »ANALYSIS: Race for EALA seats
A regional comparison between EAC member states The recent big fight over seats in the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) has led to questions over what is at stake. Answers to the question are important, not least because, fierce competition for the seats rages in almost all EALA member states. …
Read More »Lumumba explains Todwong shooting
It is not yet clear if National Resistance Movement (NRM) official Richard Todwong was shot at or shot himself, the party’s Secretary General Justine Kasule Lumumba has said. “We cannot establish at this moment whether he shot himself or was shot by someone else,” Lumumba said in a press statement Sunday. …
Read More »48 nominated for EALA
Parliament on Feb.10 released a roadmap for election of the nine members who will represent the country in the regional parliament – the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA). In a statement issued by clerk to parliament 38 independent candidates and 10 party flag bearers had been nominated and were set …
Read More »ANALYSIS: Mao’s DP test
Members say leader of oldest party in country must either quit or wind it up The leadership of President Norbert Mao of the Democratic Party is increasingly coming under major scrutiny. Mao is being accused of weakening Uganda’s oldest party with some critics saying he has ‘sold’ the party to …
Read More »TANGA ODOI: FDC will lose out in EALA race
National Resistance Movement (NRM) party officials have indicated that the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) could lose out in the race to fill Uganda’s nine places in the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA). Appearing on the NBS TV political show Frontline on Thursday night, the NRM Electoral Commission chairman Dr. …
Read More »Rose Akol, Musamali top NRM EALA race
NRM caucus Elects 6 for EALA as it vows to block all hostile opposition aspirants from the remaining 3 slots Former Minister for Internal Affairs Rose Akol Okullo and Paul Musamali, a policy analyst in the office of government chief whip came top in Wednesday’s election to pick NRM flagbearers for the East …
Read More »VIDEO: EALA not for the jobless – Museveni
VIDEO: Some NRM EALA candidates have withdrawn from the race protesting a decision by the NRM EC to amend rules to regionalize slots as opposed to the usual omnibus bus voting. The withdrawal came shortly after the president told off the Candidates that EALA is not for the jobless but those …
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