By Patrick Matsiko wa Mucoori Following the September 7-12 riots that rocked the city and its suburbs after the police stopped the Kabaka from visiting Kayunga, The Independent sought views from prominent Baganda and other senior citizens on what this violence means for the NRM-Buganda relations and how best the …
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By Odoobo C. Bichachi & P. Matsiko wa Mucoori Kololo meetings celebrate Otafiire ‘downfall’; 2016 is too far to wait In his autobiography, Sowing the Mustard Seed; the Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni argued that in his search for power, former Ugandan President Milton Obote …
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P. Matsiko wa Mucoori & Ongwens Kisangala Look, we have been told a million times: President Milton Obote rigged the 1980 elections. True, it happened. There is credible information of various forms of election irregularities orchestrated by Obote’s Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) in diverse places across the country. The rigging …
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By Andrew M. Mwenda Next week, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) will celebrate 23 years in government. The NRM revolution was born in a moment of great hope. It is difficult for me to capture the emotional tone of that moment. But there was great hope in most of this …
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