The Deputy Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon. Jacob Oulanyah has urged the Electoral Commission to review the on-going voter verification exercise to ensure all eligible people vote in the 2021 general elections. Oulanyah made the appeal on Wednesday December 4, 2029 after the Arua District Woman Member of Parliament Maurine Osoru raised a matter of…
Police in Jinja are investigating circumstances under which a security guard attached to Star React Security Guard Limited shot dead a third year student of Kampala University, Jinja branch. The deceased was identified as Isaac Katagwa who has been pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in hotel management, tourism and leisure. According to preliminary reports, Katagwa was…
Luweero Resident District Commissioner, Phoebe Namulindwa has disagreed with Police Commanders over handling marijuana exhibits. It follows the arrest of Christopher Nyombi and Tonny Segawa, both residents of Mawale village in Makulubita Sub County last week and subsequent detention at Luweeri Police Station. The duo were charged with staging unlawful assembly and assaulting police officers…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the Commander in Chief of armed Forces on a special mission has deployed his blue eyed boy Maj. General Paul Lokech as the coordinator of all South Sudanese Military groups. The development comes days after he was recently replaced from the position of Chief of staff Air force barely after serving…
City tycoon who doubles as the chairman of Bagagga Kwagalana group, Godfrey Kirumira, has bragged and called himseld a fieldmercial after battling out Uganda Peoples Defence forces (UPDF) soldiers attached to the deputy coordinator of Operation Wealth Creation (OWC), Lt. Gen. Charles Angina. Kirumira was involved in a land ownership brawl earlier in November at…
Reports from Bugisu region indicate that four people have died while scores are missing in Zesui and Masaba sub counties in Sironko district following multiple landslides on 03 December 2019. During a plenary sitting chaired by Deputy Speaker, Jacob Oulanyah, on 04 December 2019, Hon. Ismael Orot (NRM, Kanyum County) asked Parliament to observe a…
Uganda Police with sister security operatives have arrested and detained two men on suspicion of killing a herdsman and stealing 24 head of cattle. Police identified the suspects as Kamu Nanjo and Isaac Odema both detained at Kajjansi Police Station as investigations continue. According to preliminary reports, Kajjansi police first registered a case of cattle…
Government intends to borrow over Shs2 trillion to finance a budget shortfall realized a few months into the 2019/2020 financial year. In a domestic loan request presented to Parliament, Government indicated its plans to borrow up to Euro 300 million from each of two local banks: Stanbic Bank (U) Limited and Trade Development Bank. The…
Makerere University Vice Chancellor, Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe, has returned to Parliament for the first time since he was attacked by Mityana Municipality MP, Francis Zaake, last month. This time, Prof. Nawangwe was appearing before Parliament’s Committee on Rules, Privileges and Discipline, investigating the November incident. Then, Nawangwe was appearing before the House Committee on Education…
The Deputy Speaker, Jacob Oulanyah, has made a bold statement and re-committed on behalf of the Parliament to fight corruption. Speaking at the end of the Anti-corruption walk at Kololo Airstrip on Wednesday, 04 December 2019, Oulanyah said that corruption is widespread across society and it is upon the citizens to step up and engage…
