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Operation Harmony: UPDF Assures Defiant Balaalo To Face Bloody Eviction In Northern Uganda
The Deputy Defence Spokesperson and Co-ordinator Communications for operation “Operation Harmony” an operation coined to evict illegal pastoralists from northern Uganda Under presidential executive order number 3, Colonel Deo Akiiki has urged all nomadic pastoralists commonly known as “Balaalo” to comply with the provisions and rules of Executive Order No. 3 as instructed by the…
Open Letter To Hon.Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Robert aka BobiWine
Dear Hon. Kyagulanyi, I wish to extend my sincerely greetings to you and your family, to the National Unity Platform and the entire opposition in general. Mr. Kyagulanyi, allow me also to make a few concerns to you in your capacity since you’re the true face of opposition on our motherland in regards to your…
Open Arcades: Police Fire Live Bullets, Teargas To Disperse Defiant Traders Downtown
Uganda Police Force (UPF) have fired teargas and live bullets to disperse hundreds of traders in downtown Kampala who had reopened shops this morning, despite their continued closure by the government. Arcades have remained closed since March 2020, when the government first announced a lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus disease. Although, in…
OPED: Turmoil in FDC; Is Besigye’s Chauvinism a Source Of Conflicts In the Party?
By Massa Abrahams Kampala: The ongoing political wrangles in the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) have been instigated by selfish individuals in the party. The saboteurs include founder and first President Dr. Kizza Besigye, Waswa Birigwa, the national chairman, chief whip Ibrahim Ssemuju Nganda, and political prostitute Erias Lukwago who only left his former party…
Opec Prime Cites Malice In Botched Naguru-Nakawa Land Deal
Officials from Opec Prime Properties Ltd, a company formerly contracted to develop ultramodern satellite towns in the Naguru-Nakawa housing estate, have told Parliament of a litany of frustrations they faced in their attempt to deliver the same in the capital, Kampala. Opec Prime was awarded a contract and land in 2006 to construct 1,747 flats,…
OP-ED/Legal Review: The Consequences For BoU Over Total Court Losses Vs Sudhir In Crane Bank Sale Fallout
An analysis by Cymbell Advocate, a commercial law firm in Kampala, questions the Bank of Uganda on the consequences of the lost cases against city tycoon Sudhir Ruparelia in the fight for the defunct Crane Bank which now is believed was illegally shut down and sold off by the Central Bank. On 30th June 2017…
OP-ed: Zaake’s Loss Of Parliamentary Commission Position Lesson To Social Media Misusers
Kampala: The removal of Mityana Municipality Member of Parliament from the parliamentary commission should send a signal to people who misuse social media to malign others. The misusers of these social media platforms whose mainly is to vilify and disparage others- your time may soon come when those tweets or Facebook posts are used against…
OP-ED: Why Job Matua Is Also Becoming Another Saboteur
By Ben Ssebuguzi Kampala: It is OK to petition the PM but why doesn’t he first ask his inner man why the board is contented with Richard’s service? The board is the summation of all stakeholders of which even the gender ministry is represented. Why is the minister of Gender trying to buy time to…
OP-ED: Why Is Government Favouring Foreign Investors Over Local Investors?
By Ojok Smith Gulu: Will government survive fire for favouring foreign investors all the time against local businessmen? Moreover, when this is supposed to be a government by the people and for the people? Currently the government of Uganda is under heavy fire for over-pampering foreign investors and leaving the indigenous ones to wallow in…
OP-ED: What You Didn’t Know About ONC Boss Hajjat Hadijah Namyalo Uzeiye
While some of his disciples haven’t lived up to this task and have been boastful to low -level Ugandans like Akanyijuka, Hajjat Uzeiye Hadijah Namyalo, the Head of the Office of the NRM National Chairman (ONC), and National Coordinator – Bazzukulu Ba Museveni, fits in the description of the fishermen, a biblical metaphor the President…