Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A 27- Year old Felix Kamwesiga who has been missing for five days has been found dead. Kamwesiga is a nephew to the former Deputy Attorney General Mwesigwa Rukutana. According to the Kampala Metropolitan Police Deputy Spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire, Kamwesiga’s body was found at Mulago …
Read More »Kagera Uganda-Tanzania border evictees petition court over citizenship, compensation
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Persons who were expelled from Tanzania’s Kagera region as undocumented migrants have petitioned the East African Court of Justice for a declaration that the actions of the governments of Uganda and Tanzania contravene the treaty for the establishment of the East African Community. The …
Read More »Court issues criminal summons against state minister Rukutana
Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ntungamo Chief Magistrate’s court has issued criminal summons against the Labour State Minister, Mwesigwa Rukutana follow failure to appear for his trial for attempted murder, assault, malicious damage and threatening violence. The minister, who was expected to appear before Ntungamo Chief Magistrate, Sara Mponye Kolya …
Read More »NRM declares Rukutana flag bearer in Rushenyi
✳ Rukutana 25,310 – 46.3% ✳ Kabasharira 25,290 – 46.2% Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | The chairperson of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party-Electoral Commission Dr Tanga Odoi has declared State Minister of Labor Mwesigwa Rukutana winner of the Rushenyi County NRM party primary elections. This after a …
Read More »Minister Rukutana out on bail
Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | State Minister for Labour Mwesigwa Rukutana is out on bail. The Ntungamo Chief Magistrate today asked the minister to deposit sh4 million to secure the bail, and his sureties are former Rujumbura county Member of Parliament Jim Muhwezi, Michael Mawanda, the Igara …
Read More »Trouble for Rukutana
Will `God’ forgive him again? Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mwesigwa Rukutana, the Minister of State Minister for Labour who was arrested and remanded to prison on Sept.05 in relation to violence in the just concluded NRM parliamentary primary elections, is no stranger to the top and down of …
Read More »COMMENT: Rukutana and Uganda’s social media lynch-mob
COMMENT | Andrew M. Mwenda | In the age of social media, with its instantaneous dissemination of news, alongside such technologies as deep fake and photoshop, journalists in mainstream media need to be extremely skeptical and cautious of all information even that on video that seems authentic. Nowhere has journalism …
Read More »Minister Rukutana remanded until next week
Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | State Minister for Labor Mwesigwa Rukutana has been remanded until September 15. The Ntungamo Chief Magistrate court has remanded him to Kyamugorani Prison in Mbarara district after he was charged with seven offences related to attempted murder, assault, malicious damage, and threatening violence. Rukutana …
Read More »Rukutuna brought before Ntungamo court
Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The State Minister for Labour Mwesigwa Rukutana who was arrested from his home in Ruyonza, Rubaare Sub County after the NRM National primaries, has been brought to Grade one Magistrates Court in Ntungamo. Reports indicate that he will be charged with attempted murder, malicious …
Read More »MUSEVENI: Minister Rukutana will be prosecuted
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has hailed the voting by lining up used in the NRM Primaries, saying it has resolved the issue of cheating and bribery in his party. “The cheating in the NRM Primaries is over,” he declared. He said the process makes it …
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