The political persecution against members of the National Unity Platform (NUP), a political party headed by former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine, continues a year after the 2021 presidential elections. Several Bobi Wine supporters have between 2020 and 2021 continued to disappear, others are arbitrarily arrested while some have turned up dead days…
Retired Chief Justice Benjamin Odoki has shared his agony of handling two presidential election petitions and the key issues that should be taken into account should such petitions come up in the future. He shared his experience at a four day’s symposium in Kampala with Supreme Court Justices and a group of city lawyers who…
Former Forum for Democratic Change ‘FDC’ party President Rtd Col Dr.Kizza Besigye has hailed Kampala Capital City Lord Mayor Ssalongo Erias Lukwago as the next best president Uganda would have because of his political pursuits. “I can tell you without any doubts that Erias Lukwago would make a good president of Uganda,” he said. He…
Mityana Municipality Member of Parliament Hon. Francis Zaake Butebo has been admitted at Iran-Uganda Hospital in Naguru in critical condition. Mp Zaake who had been in Police cells at Special investigations Unit in Kireka was on Wednesday evening rushed to hospital by police after his health started deteriorating. Hon.Zaake was arrested by police and military…
State owned media managers face a year in jail or a fine of up to Shs10 million for denying presidential candidates coverage. Section 7 of the Presidential Elections (Amendment) Bill 2019, passed by Parliament on Thursday, 27 February 2020 prescribes the punishment. “An officer responsible for a state owned media house who contravenes subsection(1) commits…
Former presidential candidate Dr Kizza Besigye has been arrested in Jinja. Besigye was picked up from Sunset hotel where he spent a night ahead of a rally planned to take place later today in Jinja town. The area was first surrounded by both uniformed and non-uniformed security personnel, to stop Besigye from exiting the hotel.…
Former presidential candidate, Dr Kizza Besigye, was Wednesday arrested and detained at Nalufenya detention facility in Jinja district again. His aide, Ronald Muhinda, said Besigye was trailed by a one Muhumuza Albert on a motorcycle and Musa Walugembe in a Premio. This pair of cops was last year photographed along Katonga road in Nakasero near…
Police in Mbale, eastern Uganda has blocked Forum for the Democratic Change’s (FDC) belated 15th-anniversary celebrations at Mpumude playground. FDC marked 15 years on December 6, 2019, with national celebrations at Mandela National Stadium-Namboole. Party members in Mbale had planned to hold regional belated celebrations of the party’s anniversary but police blocked the event on grounds…
Forum for Democratic Change [FDC] Party President, Patrick Oboi Amuriat, has cited an uphill task for the party as it heads into 2021 general elections. In a message to party members and supporters on Sunday, Amuriat said it is just over two years now since he was elected to provide leadership at the helm of…
Forum for Democratic Change [FDC] Party on Monday marked 15 years Anniversary at Mandela National Stadium – Namboole at a colourful event that brought together Ugandans from all walks of life under the theme “Struggle for Freedom: The Final Phase”. On 16th December 2004, there was a merger of 3 Political forces; Reform Agenda headed…
