IS IT THE END OF THE BEGINNING OR THE BEGINNING OF THE END? Every time something comes to an end, something else begins. So is it the end of a beginning or the beginning of an end for building strong opposition in Uganda? The future of Uganda’s opposition politics lies in the doldrums, as sharp…
By Massa Abrahams Kampala: The ongoing political wrangles in the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) have been instigated by selfish individuals in the party. The saboteurs include founder and first President Dr. Kizza Besigye, Waswa Birigwa, the national chairman, chief whip Ibrahim Ssemuju Nganda, and political prostitute Erias Lukwago who only left his former party…
Lawyers of Dr Kizza Besigye, his sister and Observer Media Limited have demanded more than Shs240m from the former Crime Intelligence Director, Col Ndahura Atwooki, after they won a defamation case. In 2012, Col Atwooki sued Ms Olive Kobusingye, Dr Besigye’s sister, in the High Court for defaming him in her 213-page book: The Correct…
By Andrew Baba Buluba The elections of 2021 may be too far behind us but many of its components will most likely continue influencing the country’s future political terrain for years to come. Four-time Museveni challenger Rtd. Col. Dr Kizza Warren Kifefe Besigye was for the first time in over two decades out of the…
The opposition political party, the Forum for Democratic Change-FDC has called upon government to create a separate ministry of sports by splitting it from the ministry of education. Speaking to reporters today at the party headquarters at Najjanankumbi, John Kikonyogo, the deputy spokesperson said that by separating the ministry, government would be demonstrating that it…
Senior superintendent of police (SSP) Samuel Bamuzibire, a police officer described by many Dr Kizza Besigye activists as a tormentor, has succumbed to Covid19. SSP Bamuzibire, the Kampala Metropolitan 999 Patrol commander, passed on at Nsambya Hospital after spending three days in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). “Bamuzibire has just died of COVID-19. He was…
By Faruk Kirunda Kampala: After so much time wasted, so much scheming and so much false promises made, the opposition has been slapped in the face. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has dismissed a petition which sections of the opposition had filed against President Yoweri Museveni and government of Uganda in respect of clashes that…
When Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) stalwart Rtd. Dr. Col. Kizza Besigye revealed a few months ago that he would not contest for presidency again in the 2021 election but was to announce ‘Plan B’ very soon, many Ugandans didn’t realise what he meant. But now analysts within Uganda’s political realm contend that he was…
The president of Uganda Gen. Yoweri Kaguta has applauded his colleague in politics, the three times Presidential contender and former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Party president Dr. Kiiza Besigye as his hero after saving his life in the early 80’s during their bush war battle that brought in National Resistance Army/Movement (NRA/M) to power.…
