Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has directed the Prime Minister Dr Ruhakana Rugunda to give a statement on the continued attacks on journalists by security officers in the country. This is after the Mityana Municipality Member of Parliament Francis Zaake raised a matter of national importance in which he …
Read More »Bobi Wine rejects new tax bill for armoured car, accuses URA of persecution
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi (Bobi Wine) has termed as continued persecution, the demand by Uganda Revenue Authority that he pays extra money as tax to clear his armoured car. This comes after URA revalued the car at USD 166,700 ( 601 million Shillings) and revised …
Read More »Muntu says COVID-19 restrictions affected ANT inroads in recents polls
Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) party presidential candidate Major General Gregg Mugisha Muntu has attributed the party’s huge loss in the recent general election to the COVID-19 pandemic. Muntu got 65,334 votes (0.65 per cent) of the total votes cast in a race that …
Read More »NUP leaders take oath to defend human rights
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Elected leaders in the National Unity Platform-NUP party have taken an oath to defend their electorate against human rights violations and fight corruption that they claim fosters poor service delivery in the country. While closing their two-day retreat at the Jinja based Nile Resort Hotel on …
Read More »Kawempe North MP-elect Mohammad Ssegirinya remanded further
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kawempe North MP Elect Muhammad Ssegirinya has been remanded further to Kitalya Prison after his legal team indicated that it was not ready to start his trial today. Ssegirinya faces charges of inciting violence. Segirinya was arrested on Monday, March 22, 2021, from Mini …
Read More »NUP spent 7 to 10 million shillings per day during campaigns
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform-NUP president, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine spent between Shillings 7 and 10 million per day during his presidential election campaigns. The party Secretary-General David Lewis Rubongoya told Uganda Radio Network in an interview that the money covered the basic needs of …
Read More »Mabirizi pursues criminal charges, warrant to arrest chief Justice Owiny-Dollo
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawyer Male Mabirizi has instituted private criminal proceedings against the Chief Justice of Uganda Alfonse Owiny-Dollo. The charges arise from the recently withdrawn Presidential Election Petition by former Presidential Candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, and the ensuing altercation that disrupted the Supreme Court last week. …
Read More »Armed men raid Fred Nyanzi’s home, arrest 15 year old son
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A group of armed men yesterday morning raided the home of former parliamentary candidate Fred Nyanzi, a brother to the National Unity Platform-NUP party president Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu. The group, according to the family was searching for who however escaped from the home as soon …
Read More »Tooro NUP leaders divided over Kyagulanyi’s call for demonstrations
Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders of the National Unity Platform-NUP in Tooro sub-region are divided over calls for peaceful demonstrations by the party president Robert Kyagulanyi. For the past few weeks, Kyagulanyi, a former presidential candidate has been calling for peaceful demonstrations across the country in a bid …
Read More »Justice Kisakye gives dissenting judgement in Kyagulanyi’s case
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Justice Esther Kisakye of the Supreme Court has disagreed with eight Justices in their decision on two applications arising from the presidential election petition filed by former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu. Kyagulanyi petitioned the Supreme Court to challenge President Museveni’s victory in the presidential …
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