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Buhweju Member of Parliament, Francis Mwijukye of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) and his counterpart Hon Charles Ngabirano for Rwampara (National Resistance Movement – NRM) were involved in a minor accident at Mbarara. The two legislators were on Sunday May 24, 2020 travelling in Mwijukye’s car by the time it collided with a Toyota…
President Yoweri Museveni has ordered Jinja Resident District Commissioner (RDC) Eric Sakwa to vacate office and directed the office of Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to investigate his murder charges . The directive was issued in a letter written by President Museveni to the Minster in Charge of the Presidency Hon. Esther Mbayo, dated May…
Members of Parliament are concerned about the delayed roll out of the national rural electrification project following approval of a loan from EXIM Bank. Bududa District Woman MP, Hon. Justine Khainza said that the loan amounting to US$212.6 million is meant to have electricity extended to 287 sub-counties across the country. The project was supposed…
Kampala city Hall Magistrates Court has rejected pleas by Lt. General Henry Tumukunde to direct the state to expedite investigations into the treason and illegal possession of firearms charges slapped against him. The former Security Minister was appearing before the court this morning for the first time following his release from Luzira Prisons last week.…
By Mbabazi Hanning Gonzaga Lwemiyaga Constituency legislator Theodore Ssekikubo has returned the controversial Shs 20m to Sembabule District Covid-19 Task Force. Hon. Ssekikubo accompanied by a group of his supporters on Monday May, 18, 2020 handled over the said amount to Mr Bataringaya Nicholas the District Chief Administrative Officer (CAO). Upon handing over money, Ssekikubo…
As National Resistance Movement ‘NRM’ supporters we should not deliberately lose consciousness about what is happening in our country,being an NRM supporter doesn’t mean we should praise and support wrong things done by the government. I usually see old men on TV defending the indefensible and I wonder do these people have double personalities or…
Weeks after President Yoweri Museveni castigated Parliament for allocating itself Shs 10 billion to support individual MPs’ initiatives against COVID-19, his ruling NRM party is spending more than Shs 12.6 billion on the 317 MPs that supported the lifting of the constitutional presidential age limit. According to insiders, the ongoing payments are in phase one…
The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has assured legislators that the institution will interest itself in the quality of relief food distributed to the masses. Kadaga’s reassurance follows a complaint from several MPs during this week’s plenary sittings about the quality of the beans being distributed by the government. The government through the Office of…
The Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon. Rebecca Kadaga has tasked government to come up with tougher measures to curb the spread of corona virus by truck drivers crossing into the country. Through her official social media handles, Hon. Kadaga wrote.. “It’s disturbing to note that a bulk of the new #COVID19 cases are from truck…
Burundi has expelled four officials from the World Health Organization (WHO), declaring them persona non grata and ordering them to leave the country by Friday, a leaked memo from the country’s foreign ministry reveals. The decision comes days before the May 20 presidential elections and amid a global coronavirus pandemic. Bernard Ntahiraja, the foreign affairs…
