Author: Evans Kalyango

The Mathias Walukagga ruling has confirmed what many observers suspected even before the judgment was delivered. The core problem is not the individual candidate, and not even the court, but a policy gap in how Uganda treats A-Level equivalency for continuing university students. Before the ruling, public debate centered on a basic contradiction. A certificate is recognized as equivalent to A-Level and valid for university admission, yet it is time-limited on paper. Such timebound limitations serve a legitimate gatekeeping purpose, preventing entry routes from becoming permanent substitutes for formal education. However, the system provides no permanent, renewable, or substitute proof…

Before hitting the bush in the early 80s to fight the government of the day, president Museveni who was in his early 40s was like any other Uganda but ambitious about the affairs of his country. After capturing power in 1986, besides the 10 point program which he unveiled, he also revealed that the problem of Africa in General and Uganda in particular was not the people but leaders who want to overstay in power. It’s 2025 and president Museveni is up and about campaigning to extend his rule to 45 years. This wouldn’t have been possible if the term…

Almost a month ago, a group of army officers including Gen Proscovia Nalweyiso told Ugandans that they should go home immediately after casting their vote on voting day. These were countering Bobi Wine’s NUP’s message to their voters that they should stay around to witness vote counting and whatever takes place at the polling station. Their threats were later confirmed by the chairperson Electoral Commission Justice Simon Mugyenyi Byabakama who without quoting any legal provision said voters should immediately return home after casting their vote. He even revealed that those who dare stay around will be arrested like nsenene. The…

On 3rd this month, Rev Father Deus Ssekabila went missing after armed men in UPDF uniform driving in a drone abducted him from his office in Masaka city causing uncertainty and panic among the church, friends and family. The Masaka Diocese Bishop the Rt Rev Serverus Jjumba authored a letter confirming the abduction of Father Ssekabira indicating that as the Church, they’ve done all they could to locate him but all in vain and even police revealed they don’t have him in their custody. “Rev. Fr. Deusdedit Ssekabira, a priest of Masaka Diocese, a Curate at Bumangi Parish, was kidnapped…

Uganda People’s Congress leader Jimmy Akena has in a very brave message to his supporters urged them to vote for any of the other 7 presidential candidates but not vote fo Museveni who is seeking to extend his grip to power to 45 years. Akena who picked nomination forms from the Electoral Commission failed to make it to the ballot over power struggles in his own party which saw three candidates including himself picking presidential nomination papers claiming they were the rightful leaders of the party. The Electoral Commission would later disqualify all the three claiming the party’s power struggles…

All the 8 presidential candidates who were nominated embarked on a countrywide hunt for votes on 29th October and this will stretch up to 13th January 2026 ahead of the date 15th when Ugandans will choose who will be their president and members of parliament for the next 5 years. During several harmonization meetings between Electoral Commission, Police and the candidate’s agents, each has submitted their campaign program on where they’re to campaign each day that passes. When campaigns had just commenced, candidates Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu of NUP and Nathan Nandala Mafabi of FDC were forced into deep villages and…

In yet another sad turn of events, a 16 year old student of Excel High School Mukono has died after spending three days in coma at the St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor in Gulu city today afternoon. The deceased had returned home in Gulu for holidays where he has met his death. The deceased has been identified as Joshua Leon Otim who succumbed to injuries he sustained on Saturday in Gulu City as armed gangs, police and army descended on supporters of National Unity Platform and beat them like cows. Otim is among those who tested the ruthlessness of the UPDF,…

Kadongokamu musician also the National Unity Platform MP candidate for Busiro East Mathias Walukagga has been denominated from the race the electoral Commission causing jitters and panic in the Kyagulanyi camp. His denomination follows a petition to the commission challenging the papers which Walukagga used for nomination. In the petition, Walukagga’s certificate of Mature Age/Aptitude test he presented for nomination had long expired. “Further, the petitioner contended that, at the time the Certificate of Mature Age/ Aptitude Test was used for nomination by Walukaga Mathias, on the 23rd of October, 2025, it had expired; thus rendering it invalid”- reads part…

The January 31st Supreme Court ruling in the Attorney General Vs Micheal Kabaziguruka, operations of UPDF’s General Court martial were frozen when it was stopped from trying civilians whom it had remanded for years especially the political prisoners of National Unity Platform. By the time the court’s powers were trimmed, it was headed by Brig Gen Robert Freeman Mugabe who took over over from Lt Gen Andrew Gutti in August 2022. The Court was at the time also trying Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Hajji Obed Lutale and 100s of NUP prisoners who have been in prison for over four years. The…

When Bobi Wine’s People Power converted from a pressure group into a political party dubbed National Unity Platform, several politicians who had doubts about his political standing started joining him from other parties. Among those who joined him were Mathias Mpuuga, Muhammed Muwanga Kivumbi, Medard Lubega Ssegona, Mike Mabiike, Moses Kasibante and Lubega Mukaaku from the then DP Block. The Kyagulanyi effect by then even forced seasoned politicians like Mike Mabiike to leave their own political parties to join him in 2020. Mabiike left his Social Development Party (SDP) while three time presidential candidate Dr. Abed Bwanika also left his…