The National Resistance Movement (NRM) political party plans to postpone its internal elections, with officials suggesting August and September of this year. According to its current roadmap, the NRM was to conduct primary elections in May and June, but this may not be possible due to the coronavirus lockdown. In a letter to the Speaker…
Members of the Budget Committee of Parliament have rejected a fresh government supplementary request of 15.8 billion Shillings. The Committee received the request on Thursday from Gabriel Ajedra, the Minister of State of Finance in charge of General Duties. According to Ajedra, part of the money about 10 billion Shillings is to facilitate the Uganda…
The Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has transferred a total of 500 million Shillings to the Ministry of Education for the delivery of television and radio teaching and learning content during the ongoing lockdown. Sources from the Ministry of Education indicate that there has been a crisis of identifying funds for the proposed…
Police has shot and killed a notorious robber in Kasangati Town Council, Wakiso district. SP Patrick Onyango, Kampala metropolitan Police spokesperson identified the suspected robber as Jamil Muwonge aka South Pole was part of a criminal gang that has been robbing people in and around Kasaganti areas. “The operation which was intelligence led happened today…
Last week a petition written by an Unnamed disgruntled individual(s) was making rounds in several Whatsapp groups claiming the alleged misuse of funds by the leadership of the Internal Security Organization. According to the document written on 01/04/2020, the writer accuses the Director General ISO of usurping the finance committee and allegedly diverting some finances…
Uganda Police Force together with sister security agencies have arrested and detained Ronald Bagyenda a social media blogger from Kabale Town over allegations of breaching the Computer Misuse Act. Bagyenda was arrested in the wee hours of Wednesday April 29, 2020 and transferred to Criminal Investigations department headquarters Kibuli for interrogation. According to an Insider…
The ministry of health confirmed two cases of coronavirus infections on Wednesday evening. According to Dr. Henry Mwebesa, the director-general of health services, the cases are of a 24-year-old Ugandan national and a 21-year-old Burundian refugee. Both are males. Both had been in contact with a Burundian refugee who had tested positive earlier. This brings…
The European Union (EU) has petitioned the justice and Constitutional affairs Minister Ephraim Kamuntu over the way the government has handled efforts to fight coronavirus where some people had urged that rights of citizens are being violated especially those in prisons. In a petition dated April 24, 2020 we’ve landed on, EU requested Government to…
High court judge Micheal Elubu has ordered Members of Parliament to return the contentious Shs10 billion they allocated themselves to reportedly help in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic in their respective constituencies. The order follows a consensus reached in court this afternoon by the parliamentary commission, Attorney General and Ntungamo Municipality MP Gerald Karuhanga…
Members of Parliament (MPs) who have taken the sh20 million given to them as part of the COVID-19 supplementary expenditures might be in trouble. In his update address on the Coronavirus pandemic on April 28, President Yoweri Museveni condemned MPs for seeking to divert Ugandans from the current war. “I’m very thankful with Ugandans they…
