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Members of Parliament are investigating circumstances under which the Uganda Lands Commission (ULC) allocated Uganda Railways Land in Nsambya to investors in excess of what was to be given. The Committee on Commissions Statutory Authority and State Enterprise (COSASE) chaired by Hon. Joel Ssenyonyi is probing the sale and giveaway of several estates belonging to…
The venue for the Masaka Diocesan day at Kitovu Sports Arena was a scene of running battles between police and supporters of the National Unity Platform-NUP who were gathering to catch a glimpse of Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu. Kyagulanyi and Members of Parliament from the Masaka sub-region attended the celebration on Sunday, in a mass celebrated…
The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) condemns the killing of suspects by Police or any other security agency. According FDC spokesperson Ibrahim Semujju revealed that it has become very common to kill suspects who moreover are handcuffed. The standard claim by Police is that the suspects were confronting their personnel or were attempting to flee.…
Yesterday marked a year since Ugandan security forces brutally clamped down on people protesting the arrest of opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi wine, killing 54 people, and injuring scores more. Just before noon on November 18, 2020, two months ahead of Uganda’s general elections, security forces arrested Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, as…
Resident City Commissioners have blamed the increasing corruption on the unwillingness by the chief administrative officers to fight against the vice. According to the RDCs, their efforts to fight the vice have been frustrated by the CAOs who have failed to implement recommendations given by various offices on technocrats who have been implicated in corruption…
The Parliament of Uganda has passed a supplementary budget of 3.81 trillion Shillings, mostly for stimulating the economy hit by COVID-19 and security-related interventions. The Capital Times has learnt that Of this, at least 1.3 trillion Shillings was already spent within the 3 per cent legal limit which the government can spend and seek approval…
Following the recently contested 2021 General Election, where the opposition politicians lost miserably to NRM candidate Yoweri Museveni, several militant and political criminal gangs and so-called vigilante movements are “aggressively stepping up the search for new members by recruiting youths in Kampala slum areas with an objective of disrupting the swearing in Ceremony of H.E…
A section of legislators have called on government to prepare comprehensive constitutional amendments to avoid the current trend where Members of Parliament are moving private members’ bills. These concerns were as MPs debated a motion to grant Igara County East Representative, Hon Micheal Mawanda, leave of the House to introduce a Private Member’s Bill. The…
The Parliament of the Republic of Uganda is set to resume it’s business despite the terror bomb blast threats in the country. In a letter dated 17th November 2021, Adolf Mwesige Kasaija the clerk to Parliament revealed that the August House’s preliminary sittings will resume on Thursday 18th November 2021 starting from 2:00pm. The house…
By Ben Ssebuguzi Kampala: If you read and analyse well President Museveni’s letter to CEC about land, you will realize that NRM is the only party that was founded on the principal and doctrine of empowering Ugandans at the grassroots level who the bakoopi (peasants). The President used his benevolence and tenderness to remind the…
