Author: Citizen Editor

After a three weeks recess, parliament yesterday resumed plenary and top of the agenda was confirming Chairpersons and Vice Chairpersons for 13 committees which are led by Museveni’s party NRM in parliament. The heavy deployment around parliament and across major towns in Uganda over the Anti-corruption march to parliament took centre stage even when the Deputy Speaker of Parliament Thomas Tayebwa has avoided a discussion about the youths who were protesting against corruption in parliament. ADVERT: FOR WORLD CLASS WEB HOSTING, WEB DESIGNS AND DOMAIN NAMES, CALL OR WHATSAPP +256758201313 As the debate gained momentum, charged legislators wondered why government…

While announcing that he had dismissed all the Cabinet Secretaries for his Kenya Kwanza government after listening to the protesting Kenyans (GenZ), President William Samoei Ruto revealed that he will formulate a broad based government which will work towards a common goal for all Kenyans. Ruto fired all ministers and the Attorney General Justine Muturi. He only retained the Prime Cabinet Secretary also CS for foreign affairs Musalia Mudavadi and these sweeping changes never affected the Deputy President (DP) Rigathi Gachagua. ADVERT: FOR WORLD CLASS HOSTING, WEB DESIGNS AND DOMAIN NAMES, CALL OR WHATSAPP +256758201313 “I will immediately engage in…

In the news again this morning, former Member of Parliament for Moroto Municipality and NRM’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) boss for Karamoja region Hon Simon Peter Aleper has died this morning. Aleper who was MP for Moroto municipality in the 9th Parliament of 2011-2016 is said to have perished in a motor accident today early morning along the Mbale-Tirinyi road though details of the accident were still scanty at the time of publishing this story. ADVERT: FOR WORLD CLASS HOSTING, WEB DESIGNS AND DOMAIN NAMES, CALL OR WHATSAPP +256758201313 He contested again in 2016 as independent after failing to secure…

In the news this morning, former long serving Executive Secretary of the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) Mathew Bukenya has died. Sources say he was in his early 90s. The news of his death has been shared by the Examinations body and its Mouthpiece Jenifer Kalule who in a statement said they are saddened by his passing on. Bukenya was the Executive secretary of UNEB between April 1995 to April 2016. ADVERT: FOR THE BEST WEB HOSTING, WEB DESIGNS AND DOMAIN NAMES, CALL OR WHATSAPP +256758201313 He was called out of retirement to head UNEB where he had served as…

On 11th this month, embattled Kenya president Dr William Samoei Ruto fired his entire cabinet and sent all the Cabinet Secretaries packing and Attorney General Justin Muturi who is also the former Speaker of the National Assembly in response to the Youth-led Anti government protests. Ruto while announcing the decision to dissolve his cabinet, revealed that he had only retained Prime Cabinet Secretary [seasoned politician] Musalia Mudavadi who also doubles as Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary and also the office of his Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua was not affected. “Upon reflection and listening keenly to what the people of Kenya have…

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Today morning, Kasokoso in Kireka was a scene of drama as police thwarted a political event convened by Kira Municipality Legislator Ibrahim Ssemuju Nganda who is the legislator of the same error. Ssemuju alongside other politicians including Nakawa East Legislator Balimwezo were in Kasokoso today morning to talk to residents following marking of 500 houses for demolition by the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA). ADVERT: FOR WORLD CLASS WEB HOSTING, WEB DESIGNS AND DOMAIN NAMES, CALL OR WHATSAPP +256758201313 According to NEMA, owners of these over 500 houses constructed in a wetlands and they were put on notice that soon…

Embattled former Leader of Opposition and Nyendo-Mukungwe legislator Mathias Mpuuga has sent the last warning to Bobi Wine and his colleagues of National Unity Platform against calling him a corrupt person which he says taints his name because he’s a clean man. According to Mpuuga who was speaking to NTV Uganda over the weekend, he says he received the service award as a former leader of opposition and will even get another as a former commission which his term ends. Political analysts have discovered two things surrounding Mpuuga’s service award. Him and the other three back bench commissioners received the…

Following his surprise move of dismissing his entire cabinet and only retained his Deputy Rigathi Gachagua and Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi, some Ugandans are now in the desire that Ruto be Uganda’s president like for two weeks to weed out the thieves in government. Ruto is not the first Kenyan president to dissolve cabinet, H.E Emilio Stanley Mwai Kibaki the 3rd president of the Republic of Kenya also fired his entire cabinet in November 2005 just a day after a humiliating defeat over a proposed constitution in the first ever referendum in Kenya. In another dramatic turn of events,…

On 22nd July 2020 at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in Uganda, Firebrand politician and former Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine in a surprise move unveiled a political party called National Unity Platform. For like three years, Bobi Wine was doing politics from his People Power pressure group but got in touch with Nkonge Kibalama and they secretly exchanged hands and leadership of the then National Unity, Reconciliation and Development Party (NURP) and rebranded it to National Unity Platform (NUP). Bobi Wine would later contest for presidency on the NUP ticket and several politicians who managed to get the…