The State House Anti-Corruption Unit raided the Gulu City Offices on Thursday 25th August 2022 along with the ISO Anti-Corruption Task Force (ACTF) and the CID. According to the officials, the agencies were given a tip-off by the aggrieved Gulu City traders as well as a few government officials who felt that the technocrats had…
A woman identified as Valentine Agwang Kasaija, who purports to work with State House, is being hunted over allegations that she conned Shs 32, 250,000 (thirty-two million, two hundred and fifty thousand) from a city pastor, under the pretext of organizing a meeting between him and President Yoweri Museveni. Agwang is accused by Pastor David…
Police in Iganga has arrested six people for allegedly impersonating as officials from State House under their organisation, Tailoring Uganda. The operation which was led by the deputy resident district commissioner [DRDC] Iganga, Namagogwe Hajjira, saw the alleged members of Tailoring Uganda Organisation, arrested from Nampirika B village, Nakalama Sub-county in Iganga district. The suspects…
When we talk of City Landlords and Tycoons, names like Mogul Sudhir Ruparelia, Sir Gordon Wavamunno, Mukwano, Mulwana can’t be far away from from your mind because these are known self-made businessmen! Now forget these billionaires, our own Madam Molly Kamukama the State Minister for Economic Monitoring and former Principal Private Secretary to the President…
By David Mafabi Last Thursday, the Parliament of Uganda passed a so-called “Motion of Displeasure” directed at the President of Uganda for, amongst other things “making disparaging remarks against the Speaker and the Parliament of Uganda”! Another charge was, to paraphrase, disregarding “the doctrine of separation of powers”! Etc. A veritable day of infamy -…
By Mbabazi Hanning Gonzaga There is no better replay of the “Affair of the Diamond Necklace” as it happened under the French Bourbon Monarchy than what has transpired in the halls of the Ugandan parliament these last two weeks. During the reign of Louis XV between 1784 – 1785, he offered to have the most…
A fierce succession battle has erupted at State House over who will take over power in 2021, after retired Lt. Gen. Henry Tumukunde declaring his intentions to contest for the presidency. Gen. Tumukunde, a former Uganda Peoples Defence Forces Spy Chief, who also served as minister for security a few years back in president Museveni’s…
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…
The State House Anti-Corruption Unit led by Lt. Col. Edith Nakalema has resumed fresh investigations on how Bank Of Uganda under the reign of a former Deputy Governor Dr. Louis Kasekende allegedly swindled over Shs478 billion and among others, how old currency supposed to be destroyed was smuggled out by BoU officials who again returned…
Lawyers, Robert Kirunda the founding partner at Kirunda & Wasike Advocates and Andrew Kasirye of Kasirye, Byaruhanga & Co Advocates were recently trashed out of statehouse as they were silently fixing a plot for Dr. Louis Kasekende to meet President Yoweri Museveni. Kasekende’s contract as Deputy Governor at Bank of Uganda (BoU) expired on January…
