Author: Citizen Editor

For the past three weeks, long serving Lwemiyaga county legislator Theodore Ssekikubo and his other colleagues notably Sarah Opendi from the NRM have been running a signature collection campaign to censure the four parliamentary commissioners. Ssekikubo and all the others who have signed accuse former Leader of Opposition and now Commissioner Mathias Mpuuga, MP Solomon Silwany, Esther Afoyochan and Prossy Akampurira of sharing a whooping Shs1.7billion among themselves as service awards which the motion movers say tantamount to corruption. ADVERT: FOR THE BEST WEB HOSTING, WEB DESIGNS AND DOMAIN NAMES, CALL OR WHATSAPP +256758201313 The signature collection drive suffered the…

Citizen Posts had written an article about how the three remanded NRM legislators facing corruption charges were brought to court today for their bail hearing after spending two nights behind the cold gates of Luzira prisons. Two of the jailed MPs; Cissy Namujju [Lwengo District] and Yusuf Mutembuli [Bunyole East] were denied bail and one of their colleagues Paul Akamba of Busiki county who is being represented by his Lawyer Asuman Basalirwa was granted a Shs13million cash bail. ADVERT: FOR THE BEST WEB HOSTING, WEB DESIGNS AND DOMAIN NAMES, CALL OR WHATSAPP +256758201313 The two whose bail was denied had…

By Frank Mugabi In the 2024/2025 budget speech, Minister of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development, Hon. Matia Kasaija, severally underscored the critical role of agriculture in driving Uganda’s economic transformation. The Agricultural Sector continues to be the mainstay of Uganda’s economic growth; employing approximately 70% of the population, and contributed 23.8% of the national GDP in the Financial Year 2022/2023. The budget theme, “Full Monetisation of Uganda’s Economy through Commercial Agriculture, Industrialisation, Expanding and Broadening Services, Digital Transformation and Market Access,” emphasizes the need to prioritise investment in the agriculture sector for the country to achieve her ambitious development goals. Achieving…

The Anti-corruption on Wednesday remanded three NRM legislators Cissy Namujju [Lwengo District], Paul Akamba [Busiki County] and Yusuf Mutembuli [Bunyole East] to the cold gates Luzira prisons over ocrruption. The Prosecution alleges that the three jailed MPs on 13th May 2024 at hotel Africana in Kampala solicited from Mariam Wangadya the Chairperson of the Uganda Human rights Commission an undue advantage of 20% of the anticipated enhanced budged of the UHRC for the financial year 2024/2025. ADVERT: FOR THE BEST WEB HOSTING, WEB DESIGNS AND DOMAIN NAMES, CALL OR WHATSAPP +256758201313 This was reportedly done by asserting that the MPs…

Today Uganda just like the other East African states presented it’s National Budget of the financial year 2024/25. The budget speech delivered by Uganda’s long serving Minister of Finance Planning and Economic Development Matia Kasaija, Uganda will spend a Shs72 trillion of which Shs32trillion going into debt repayment with URA projected to collect Shs32.3trillion. The Uganda Revenue Authority has severally failed to hit the Revenue collection targets like it failed to collect the target of Shs29trillion in the financial year of 2023/24 and has only managed to collect a historical Shs25.2trillion surpassing the revenue collection target of 2022/23 by Shs57.48billion.…

What started as a mere summon to the police CID headquarters in Kibuli to record statements and answer a few questions for three Members of Parliament culminated into two nights inside the police cells of Kira police and consequently denial of bail and remand to the cold gates of Luzira prisons. Cissy Namujju [Lwengo District], Yusuf Mutembuli [Bunyole East] and Paul Akamba [Busiki County] were yesterday remanded to Luzira prisons after not pleading guilty to charges leveled against them by the DPP. The three are accused of soliciting 20% of the enhanced Budget of the Uganda Human Rights Commission from…

Embakasi East Member of Parliament Babu Owino now says that the purported rift between President William Ruto and his deputy Rigathi Gachagua is only but a ploy to win the sympathy of Mt. Kenya residents. Addressing the press on Wednesday, the opposition MP rubbished the perceived rivalry between the two leaders terming it as a “games and gimmicks” strategy aimed at hoodwinking Kenyans who have lost confidence in their leadership. Mr. Owino claimed the President and his deputy intend to continue with the plot until the next general election, when they will purportedly make up in a bid to win…

Kenya Power has directed customers of its prepaid power plan to update their meters, commonly known as token meters, by August to continue accessing electricity. The power provider says the update is part of an ongoing global update of all prepaid meters that use the Standard Transfer Specification (STS) to ensure the security of generated tokens. “A total of 7.4 million prepaid meters are targeted for this exercise. All prepaid meters that will not have been updated by the deadline date will stop accepting the tokens after the deadline date,” Kenya Power Managing Director Joseph Siror said on Wednesday. Kenya…

Argentine football superstar Lionel Messi says he expects Inter Miami to be the club where he closes his legendary playing career, but he is not intending to depart right away. Messi, who has a contract with the MLS squad until the end of the 2025 campaign, made his comments to ESPN in an interview to be broadcast on Wednesday. “Yes, as of today, I think it’s going to be my last club,” Messi told ESPN. But Messi, who turns 37 on June 24, also added, “I’m not ready to leave football either.” The record eight-time Ballon d’Or winner became a legend…

One of the world’s largest annual religious gatherings officially begins on Friday, and Saudi officials are trying to keep the focus on prayers. The Gulf kingdom’s minister in charge of religious pilgrimages, Tawfiq al-Rabiah, warned last week that “no political activity” will be tolerated. The hajj, one of the five pillars of Islam, must be performed at least once by all Muslims with the means. As of late Monday around 1.5 million pilgrims had arrived in Saudi Arabia from abroad, most of them by air, the official Saudi Press Agency reported. “It’s magnificent,” Mariam Comate, a 48-year-old from Ivory Coast,…