Kampala news
Forum for Democratic Change [FDC] Party on Monday marked 15 years Anniversary at Mandela National Stadium – Namboole at a colourful event that brought together Ugandans from all walks of life under the theme “Struggle for Freedom: The Final Phase”. On 16th December 2004, there was a merger of 3 Political forces; Reform Agenda headed…
Police has issued a traffic management plan for anti-corruption walk on Wednesday December 4, 2019. On 4th December, 2019, H.E the President of the Republic of Uganda will lead the walk code named Anti- corruption walk. The walk is aimed at intensifying the fight against corruption, said SSP Musinga Norman, KMP Traffic Commander. The walk…
Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago has paid an impromptu visit to the grief stricken people of Ssembule, Kabowa Parish in Lubaga Division who lost a resident this morning at the hands of a trigger-happy police officer. Kibuuka David, a community worker and local secretary for information, happened to have been within the vicinity of a…
Police Monday fired teargas to disperse traders who were protesting the leadership of the current chairman of Wandegeya market. Dressed in yellow T-shirts and caps, the angry traders carried placards denouncing the current leadership led by chairman Jonathan Ggita. Ggita was temporary appointed by former KCCA Executive Director Jenifer Musisi. Market women were seen dancing…
Kampala city businessman Godfrey Kirumira, the chairman of Kwagalana Group,who is nursing several injuries after being clobbered by soldiers on Saturday has vowed that Gen.Angina who is behind the land conflict in Muyenga uphill will not use military force to take his land. Kirumira was whipped, kicked and slapped by soldiers in Muyenga, where he…
Panic has engulfed the acting Executive Director for Kampala Capital City Authority Eng.Andrew Kitaka and his entire senior management are spending sleepless nights after court ordered that the former staff who were fired illegally recently from their jobs at the Authority be granted order to file suit on behalf of other 470 aggrieved ex workers.…
One person has been confirmed dead in an accident that occurred in Kiwatule. The accident that involved nine motor vehicles and two motorcycles happened during the morning rush hour at Kiwatule-Najeera intersection on Thursday. William Matovu, 32, a rider, died at Independent Hospital where he had been taken for treatment, Kampala Metropolitan Police deputy spokesman…
Walimu Cooperative Savings and Credit Union Limited will receive over shs7 billion in fulfillment of the presidential pledge of shs25 billon. The State Minister for Finance, Hon David Bahati said that the money will be channeled from to the teachers’ SACCO from the Microfinance Support Centre. “The resources that were supposed to go to the…
The Minister of Defence and Veterans Affairs Hon Adolf Mwesige has opened the two-day Annual retreat for Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs (MODVA) leaders and Members of Parliament on the Defence and Internal Affairs Committee at Speke Resort Munyonyo. The retreat is aimed at reviewing the performance of the Defence and Veteran Affairs ministry…
Military personnel guarding various security installations have blocked legislators from accessing and inspecting ‘safe houses’, a generic term for alleged torture chambers run by the Internal Security Organisation (ISO). The MPs on the Committee on Human Rights were denied access to safe houses in Kyengera, Nalukolongo and Nakasero. In the morning of Tuesday, September 10,…
