Recently, I had a debate with some Ugandan friends on the decision of the government to build an international convention center in Munyonyo in partnership with Sudhir Ruparelia. Uganda will host the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in January 2024. So far, 88 heads of state and government have confirmed attendance. The country already has an…
By Andrew Mwenda: Kampala: There has grown and consolidated a depressing mindset in our country that for anything good to happen, government must be the one to do it. This mindset is most pronounced among the educated who have been fed onto this ideology of the state as Santa Claus. Visit social media and you…
On February 11, businessman Sudhir Ruparelia won yet another victory in the Supreme Court against Bank of Uganda over the fate of Crane Bank. The central bank closed Crane Bank in October 2016 claiming it was undercapitalised. The latest ruling is a culmination of a running battle between the central bank and Sudhir for four…
City talkative Journalist Andrew Mujuni Mwenda has advised the frustrated Bank of Uganda (BoU) to concede in the four-year old legal battle with city tycoon Sudhir Ruparelia and his Meera Investments Ltd following the latest Supreme Court ruling that quashed the central bank bid to liquidate the defunct Crane Bank Ltd. This comes after an…
Rwandan President Paul Kagame recently dropped seasoned Ugandan journalist Andrew Mwenda from his list of advisors. Andrew Mwenda who was appointed to the 23-man Presidential Advisory Committee (PAC) in 2011 during one of their annual meetings in NewYork, USA, was dropped over ‘diplomatic reasons’ in the changes by President Kagame that saw six new faces…
Fort Portal Municipality MP Alex Ruhunda Akiiki has expressed his disappointments and irregularities in how he lost his MTN dealership, millions of cash, reputation, properties to commercial banks, plus sinking his firm in some parts of western Uganda to controversial veteran journalist cum CEO of the Independent Magazine Andrew Mujuni Mwenda and his sister who…
Veteran Journalist Andrew Mwenda,the owner of Independent Magazine as the eyewitness at Pearl Of Africa Hotel Kampala has come out to reveal circumstances surrounding the deportation of Chaka Chaka from Uganda on 31,December 2019. Mwenda urged Pressure group People Power Supporters with their leader BobiWine to stop politicizing the issues of ChakaChaka with out clear…
