Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu, the President of the National Unity Platform-NUP, has trashed calls by some of his party members to negotiate with the government in order to release many of their detained supporters. Speaking at the party’s new headquarters at Makerere Kavule while commissioning the …
Read More »Ambassador Kinobe attributes NRM loss in Luwero to poor service delivery
Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s Ambassador to Sudan James William Kinobe has blamed the National Resistance Movement loss in Luwero district on poor service delivery and internal conflicts among party leaders. Luwero District has been a haven for National Resistance Movement candidates and President Yoweri Museveni since 1981-1986 when …
Read More »Frustration, poor services cited in areas where Museveni scored least votes
Luweero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Voters at Polling Stations in Luwero district where President Yoweri Museveni scored the least votes say that they voted against him over frustration as a result of poor service delivery. According to Presidential results for Luwero, Museveni obtained only 41,166 votes (27.94 per cent) while …
Read More »COVID-19 pandemic regressed aspects of democracy in Africa-Report
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The COVID-19 pandemic has regressed key aspects of democracy in Africa and the Middle East, including the disruption of electoral processes. That is one of the conclusions of a study by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. The report released on Thursday this …
Read More »Drama, politics behind independent’s campaign symbols
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Khisa Isaac | Campaign symbols are one of the key feature of an election. Unlike official party candidates, who use their party candidates, independents are expected to come up with meaningful symbols that they market to their voters. Cyprian Ogwang, the Head of Research and …
Read More »Kyagulanyi lectures EC’s Byabakama over campaign guidelines breaches
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |The National Unity Platform Presidential Candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu has responded in writing to the electoral commission denying accusations of flouting COVID-19 campaign guidelines. The EC chairperson Justice Simon Byabakama wrote to Kyagulanyi on the 10th of December 2020 summoning him to the …
Read More »Presidential candidates decry police deployments during campaigns
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of Presidential candidates, currently on the campaign trail ahead of the 2021 general election has decried the unpredictable police deployments, in several parts of the country. They say that a number of their activities have been blocked, and sometimes they are barred from …
Read More »Police battles Kyagulanyi supporters in Gulu
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parts of Gulu city were covered in Teargas on Wednesday as police battled supporters of Presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu. Kyagulanyi, the head of the National Unity Platform was scheduled to hold a campaign meeting at Awere Playgrounds in Layibi-Bardege division. He arrived in …
Read More »Teargas rocks Luweero town as Kyagulanyi heads to Pakwach
Luweero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Luweero town has fired teargas to disperse supporters of National Unity Platform – NUP who gathered along the Kampala-Gulu highway to wave to their Presidential Candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu, alias Bobi Wine. Kyagulanyi was heading to Arua district in northern Uganda ahead …
Read More »CCTV footage lands Bobi Wine’s bodyguards in deeper trouble
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda police Force-UPF has sanctioned four charges against two body guards of Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu aka Bobwine who have been detained at Wandegeya police station since Friday. Although police arrested them basing on ‘only’ one offence of assaulting police officers on duty, force …
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