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NIRA Scandal: Mps Demand Forensic Audit Of National IDs Funds Mismanagement
Members of Parliament have adopted a report recommending a forensic audit of the national identification registration of learners undertaken by the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA). The report of the Committee on Defence and Internal affairs on the petition and oversight visits on operations of the National Identification and Registration Authority recommended that the…
Just In! Energy Minister Kitutu Orders REA Boss Turyahikayo To Hand Over Office
Mary Goretti Kitutu, the Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, has directed the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) Executive Director Godfrey Turyahikayo, to hand over office today July 9th, 2020, due to mismanagement of the agency. This website has established from credible sources that Kitutu directed Turyahikayo to hand over his office to her after his…
Angry Traders Give Museveni 5-Day-Ultimatum To Re-open City Arcades, Stella Nyanzi Arrested
City Businessmen have threatened to stage a massive demonstration in the city centre if government doesn’t open arcades in 5 days. Traders, led by Former Makerere University researcher, Dr. Stella Nyanzi made threats on Wednesday July 8, 2020 while addressing the media at Nakasero, in Kampala. It’s from here Traders called on Gov’t to reopen…
Covid-19 Crisis: French Govt Donates Relief Items To UPDF
The French Government has donated assorted items to Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces towards the fight against COVID 19 Pandemic. The French Ambassador to Uganda H.E Jules-Armand Aniambossou handed over 2510 jerrycans of 20 litres of hand sanitizers. The Minister for General Duties Hon Mary Karoro Okurut on behalf of the Rt Hon Prime Minister Dr…
UPDF Division Court Martial Members Sworn In
Members of the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces’ (UPDF) Division Court Martial (DCM) for General Headquarters that sits in Bombo barracks have sworn in to serve for a one-year term having been appointed by the President and Commander-In-Chief of the UPDF, H.E Gen Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. The new appointments came after the expiry of the last…
Kadaga Orders Gen.Jeje Odongo To Account For Tegu’s Murder
The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has directed the Minister of Internal Affairs, Gen. Jeje Odongo, to explain circumstances surrounding the death of Emmanuel Tegu, a Makerere University student. Kadaga’s instruction to Gen. Odongo followed a submission by the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament (LOP), Hon. Betty Aol Ocan. “The Minister of Internal Affairs…
UPDF Condemns Assault Of LC5 Chairman, Arrests 4 As Generals Rush To Mityana
The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) has launched Investigations under which a Local Defence Unit Personnel (LDU) assaulted the Mityana District LC5 Chairman, Joseph Luzige on Tuesday July, 7, 2020 evening. The video that went viral show L/Cpl Anguria Simon Peter, Pte Odeke Simon, Pte Musundi Caroline and Pte Okello Isaac seriously assaulting the LCV…
Dilapidated: Kadaga Orders Gen.Jeje Odongo To Investigate Rotting Nsambya Police Barracks
The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has directed the Minister of Internal Affairs to investigate the state of affairs at the Nsambya Police Barracks in Kampala. The directive was prompted after Hon. Maurice Kibalya (NRM, Bugabula County North) raised a matter of national importance in regard to the living conditions in the barracks. “It is…
Opinion: Ten Reasons Why M7 Did not Impose Additional Qualifications On Local Govt Leaders
By Steven Masiga Many local government leaders like councilors are more senior in National Resistance Movement ‘NRM’ ideology and methods of work than some even some government ministers thus president Museveni did not want to lose such resourceful persons who are also critical cadres involved in mass mobilisation and have been in touch with the…
Trouble Looms As Anti-corruption Court Summons Legendary Chameleone Over Flouting URA Rules
Celebrated legendary musician and Kampala Lord Mayor aspirant, Joseph Mayanja alias Jose Chameleon is in trouble once again after the Anti-Corruption Court summoned him over allegations that he is in possession of an imported and undeclared vehicle. According to the statement of the offence, Mayanja is accused of being in possession of uncustomed goods contrary to…