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NUP Rioters’ Death Toll Rises To 39 As Bobi Wine is Freed On Bail
National Unity Platform Presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine, whose arrest this week triggered protests have led to the death of at least 39 people. Bobiwine was released on bail on Friday after being charged with holding rallies likely to spread the coronavirus. Following the violent political and criminal demonstrations, in multiple urban centres…
NUP MPs Implore Govt To Increase Funding For Vulnerable Ugandan Elders’ Welfare
The opposition members of parliament have urged the government to lower the eligibility age for elderly recipients of welfare payments from 80 to 65 years old and to enhance the funding while taking the economy into consideration. The remarks were made during a meeting held in the Leader of Opposition’s Boardroom on Friday, September 29,…
NUP MP Aspirant Perishes In Masaka Road Accident
National Unity Platform (NUP) Bukoto central parliamentary Contestant Badru Muhammed Katongole has perished. He died after being involved in a car accident along Masaka road. Katongole was rushing to the burial of Dr. Ana’s Kaliisa, a senior political analyst in Ruhama county. Several other passengers, who were traveling with the deceased in the saloon vehicle,…
NUP Leadership Set To Amend Constitution That Gives Absolute Powers To Bobi Wine
On April 12, 2021, city lawyer Male Hassan Mabirizi wrote a letter to the Secretary-General of the Electoral Commission demanding that he be availed with a copy of the constitution of the National Unity Platform-NUP. The party changed leadership in 2020 from Moses Nkonge Kibalama to Kyagulanyi Robert Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine. In August of…
NUP Launches Presidential Hopeful Kyagulanyi’s Campaign Poster Without Red Beret
The National Unity Platform (NUP) has officially unveiled Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Robert also known as Bobi Wine, the party presidential flag bear’s official campaign poster which has no red beret. The unveiled campaign poster has the face of NUP presidential flag bearer Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Robert, in a blue suit with the party symbol, the umbrella, and…
NUP Karamoja Coordinator Arrested Over Military Attire
On wee hours of Thursday morning ,a joint security intelligence led operation succeeded in arresting one suspect identified as Angulo Andrew Lokong, the National Unity Platform ‘NUP’ coordinator for Karamoja region. The operation was carried out in the area of Camp Swahili South division in Moroto municipality. CP Polly Namaye deputy police spokesperson revealed that…
NUP Female MPs Appeal To Govt To Expel Rice Growers & Sand Miners In Lwera
The National Unity Platform (NUP) has unleashed a barrage of criticisms at government, accusing it of folding its arms on the chest, as rice growers and sand miners destroy Lwera wetland. NUP legislators and other delegates described government as a ‘barking dog that seldom bites’ on top of supplying a neat link between intense rice…
NUP Faults EC For Suspending Women Council Elections
The National Unity Platform has lashed out at the Electoral Commission for suspending the women council and committee elections over lack of funds. According to NUP spokesperson Joel Ssenyonyi, the suspension of the women council and committee elections may be a well-orchestrated plan by the ruling NRM to prevent the NUP party from winning these…
NUP Distances Itself From Komambogo Bombing, Calls For Swift & Honest Investigation
The National Unity Platform, the biggest opposition political party has distanced itself from the Saturday bombings at Komamboga in Kawempe division, that killed at least one person and injured three others. Speaking today at the party headquarters in Kamwokya, David Lewis Rubongoya, the party Secretary General said their organization is a peaceful one that cannot…
NUP Diehard Lukumi Fears For Her Life As Abduction Of Bobi Wine Supporters Continues
The political persecution against members of the National Unity Platform (NUP), a political party headed by former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine, continues a year after the 2021 presidential elections. Several Bobi Wine supporters have between 2020 and 2021 continued to disappear, others are arbitrarily arrested while some have turned up dead days…