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The Court of Appeal has upheld the victory of Wilfred Niwagaba as the Ndorwa East Member of Parliament. Niwagaba’s victory was challenged by Dr. Protazio Begumisa, the former National Resistance Movement-NRM party candidate on allegations of bribery and falsification of results during the January 2021 elections. The Electoral Commission declared Niwagaba as the winner with 15,962 votes…
The Opposition is mooting plans to nominate a joint candidate to contest with the National Resistance Movement party candidate in the Omoro county parliamentary by-election. This comes a day after President Museveni picked 32-year-old Andrew Ojok Oulanyah, the eldest son of the former legislator and Speaker of Parliament Jacob L’Okori Oulanyah to hold the NRM…
President Museveni who doubles as the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) chairman has directed that the party flag for Omoro County by-election be given to Andrew Ojok Oulanyah, the son of the late Speaker Jacob Oulanyah, sources have said. This was after the NRM aspirants and leaders failed to agree on the choice of a…
The of chairman of National Resistance Movement(NRM), President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has summoned all contestants that want to stand in forth coming election on party card in the vacant Omoro County MP seat . More than ten contestants have expressed interest to replace fallen speaker of 11th Parliament Hon. Jacob Oulanyah who was the area…
The Rukungiri Resident District Commissioner (RDC) Nsubuga Bewayo Stephen who heads security in the area has described a section of residents who are planning demostrations over delayed completion of Kahengye Water project as “self and cheap popularity seekers”. RDC Nsubuga made these remarks from his offices on the current status of long awaited Kahengye Water…
Parliament’s Committee on East African Community Affairs has tasked the finance ministry to prioritise funding for the Ministry of East African Community Affairs. Committee members say low budget allocation to the ministry has affected its capacity to discharge its key activities on national and regional level. The committee chairperson, Hon. Noeline Basemera, said the budgeting…
A group of councilors from Rubaga division who were suspended from the council sessions last month over indiscipline have launch a secret campaign to censure the speaker of Musa Mbazira. The 25 councilors who included the Rubaga Mayor and his deputy Fugge Rehema were suspended for indiscipline during the council session held on March 12th…
Six people have expressed interest in vying for the Omoro County parliamentary seat in Omoro district. The seat fell vacant following the death of former legislator and Speaker of Parliament Jacob L’Okori Oulanyah on March 20, 2022, in Seattle in the United States of America. Last week, the Electoral Commission set May 26, 2022, as…
Andrew Ojok Oulanyah, eldest child and son to fallen former speaker of Parliament Rt Hon Jacob Oulanyah, has resigned his well paying job at National Information Technology Authority (NITA-Uganda), to go into the trenches of Omoro villages in search of replacing his father as the next MP Omoro County. Ojok has been a Senior Information…
The Speaker of Parliament Anita Among has blocked debate on former Speaker Jacob Oulanyah’s poison claims, saying his death should not be politicized. “We are not going to allow Oulanyah’s death politicized. We are still grieving let things of investigations go on, if it’s true, that he was poisoned, let the culprits be got,” she…
