The embattle Mityana Municipality Member of Parliament Francis Zaake has pleaded with Deputy Chief Justice Richard Buteera to expeditiously hear his application challenging his removal from the parliamentary commission. On March 10th, 2020, Parliament resolved to remove Zaake from the parliamentary commission for alleged indiscipline. This followed a report made by the Rules, Discipline and Privileges Committee chaired by Abdu…
Attorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka has guided that the Departed Asians’ Property Custodians Board (DAPCB) has no power to deal with any property for which the Finance Minister has issued a certificate of repossession. In a March 11 letter to the Finance Minister Matia Kasaija in the wake of the debate that has been on-going regarding…
City tycoon Hamis Kiggundu through his company Ham Enterprises Uganda Limited has made significant progress on his contemporary 500 modern housing project, Ham Palm Villas. The housing on a 200-acre land has a Clubhouse, swimming pools, Gym, Sauna and Steam, Salons and Barber shops, Healthcare facilities like Clinic and Pharmacy, Supermarket, a Fully Fledged Sports…
The spectacle of humility displayed on Thursday, 31 March 2022, at Bulange requires comment and scrutiny. We need to know where we all stand. We need to know if this is an act of cynical beguilement or not. If so, and there is every chance that it is, then it must be extremely criticized so…
The Court of Appeal has concluded the hearing of election appeals. The court received 84 election appeals arising from the 2021 elections and subsequent High Court decisions. According to the Judiciary public relations officer Jameson Karemani, five cases have been disposed of in the sessions that started on March 21, 2022, and the justices of…
Legislators from Karamoja sub-region have accused the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) of refusing to hand over 17,706 heads of cattle that they recovered from rustlers. The lawmakers made the accusations while responding to an earlier statement by the UPDF that the security situation in the region was ‘under control.’ The area which is inhabited…
Government has revised the burial budget for the send-off of the late former Speaker Jacob Oulanyah to shs 1.2 billion after an alarming Shs2.5 billion allocation caused a public outcry over unnecessary expenses and projected cash bonanza. With the body of the late Jacob Oulanyah jetting into the country today, the breakdown of his burial…
BY: JOSEPH KIYIMBA Kampala: The reshuffle of Resident District/ City Commissioners (RDCs/ RCCs ) might be a week behind us, but the fire from it continues to blaze with aggrieved circles spitting endless venom, mainly on social media. Line Minister, Milly Babalanda, has specifically been targeted by the different hostile camps accusing her of sidelining…
Ugandan Human Rights lawyer Isaac Ssemakadde of Legal Brains Trust (LBT) has trashed Chief Justice Alphonse Chigamoy Owiny Dollo’s apology to Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II, describing it as a “Non-Apology” Apology. According to Ssemakadde, the Chief Justice’s apology cannot be accepted because although he apologized to Kabaka Mutebi, he did not apologise to his…
