Author: Evans Kalyango
As the country gears up for the 2026 general elections with the road map already out and the commission putting hands to several activities including the update of the national register and demarcation of all electoral areas in the country, it’s not well for some bosses ahead of the polls. In the news, five Electoral Commission bosses have been suspended pending investigations at the commission over mismanagement. Among the top bosses suspended is Leonard Mulekwah who is the commissions General Secretary and three others. Sources at the commission indicate the president instructed the commission boss Justice Simon Mugenyi Byabakama to…
By Mike Rwothomio The office of the Prime minister, on Thursday January 16, 2025 donated relief items that includes 20,000 kilograms of Posho, and 10,000 Kilograms of beans to the severely affected community of Abanga Sub-County, Zombo district. The relief items are part of the government’s effort to alleviate the month-long suffering of the victims from 1,355 households from the two Parishes of Pakadha and Serr, hard-hit by the unprecedented devastating hailstorm and pounding rain in July last year. The July 8, 2024 driving afternoon rain decimated crops such as beans, coffee, maize, cassava, and matooke, along with kitchen garden…
On the evening of Monday January, 13, 2025, Kamwokya was a danger zone as a joint operation of security forces “foiled” what they referred to as an attempted robbery. According to the police, a group of seven suspected robbers had planned to rob and not robbed a female Bank client after withdrawing an unspecified sum of money from Acacia Mall. Later that day, the police confirmed that seven assailants were put out of action around Total Fuel Station, Acacia Mall, and Corner House near Mawanda Road while the others managed to escape. The police reported having recovered two motor cycles,…
At the beginning of last year in what was dubbed as the Uganda Parliament Exhibition, parliament records leaked online showed how Commissioner of Parliament Mathias Mpuuga and other three commissioners in a meeting chaired by Speaker of Parliament a whooping Shs1.7bn among themselves as Service Award. This didn’t sit well with his party National Unity Platform which instituted disciplinary action against Mpuuga, he slammed the process and refused to attend any. The party wrote to Speaker Anita Among recalling Mpuuga as Commissioner of parliament which she respectfully declined. ADVERT: FOR WORLD CLASS WEB HOSTING AND DOMAIN, CLICK HERE OR WHATSAPP…
A section of Association of Uganda Tour Operators (AUTO) members have written to the AUTO executive committee calling for the cancellation of the upcoming AUTO elections. Through their lawyers; Atuhairwe and Company Advocates, the members have threatened legal action if the current AUTO leadership adamantly goes ahead and conducts elections that they are referring to as illegal and unconstitutional. “Under the current memarts, the Executive Committee is barred from seeking re-election in the upcoming elections, as they have already served two consecutive terms of two years each,” the letter dated January 14th that this website has seen reads in part.…
Chaos and confusion took centre stage in Butale, Kaddugala in Masaka city as thousands of mourners converged to say good bye to a politician whom every one described as a leader of the common person. Two burial functions were organized; one organized by Mathais Mpuuga on behalf of parliament where Ssegirinya was an MP for Kawempe North and another at Ssegirinya’s ancestral home by his party the National Unity Platform. Politics took it’s course as politicians used Ssegirinya’s burial to claim supremacy. Police and army who had come to take Ssegirinya’s body to the parliament’s designated ground were blocked by…
Early this week, the General Court Martial sitting at Makindye was a concert of chaos and confusion as Veteran Opposition politician Dr. Kiiza Besigye and his co-accused Hajj Obeid Lutale returned to the military court. The duo were kidnapped from Nairobi in November last year and are facing charges related to threatening National Security and subversion which prosecution says Besigye, Lutales and others at large committed in Athens-Greece, Geneva-Switzerland and Nairobi-Kenya. What started as a confrontation between Lawyer Eron Kiiza and the court Orderly who tried blocking him from taking the advocate’s seat in the court turned into a nightmare…
The death of Kawempe North MP Muhammad Ssegirinya continues to send shockwaves among his supporters, family and friends after losing a long battle of sickness at the Lubaga Hospital in Kampala. Many people have described Ssegirinya as a true face of the down trodden who cared for every one at their lowest and would anything with his means to save or care for anyone and his passion to help drove him to start a hospital for his constituents in Kawempe. Ssegirinya rose from being a radio caller to now a politician that each one is praising today. He joined active…
President Museveni after failing to secure the majority votes with his then newly established party UPM decided to launch a guerilla war against a legitimately elected government of Dr Milton Oboto in 1981. The war would later drag on for 5 years leaving 1000s displaced and others in 1000s dead in the greater Luwero triangle and on 26 January 1986, Museveni’s National Resistance Army (NRA) emerged victorious and took over government and has been around for now close to 40 years ruling Ugandans and has plans to extend this to 45 years in the coming elections of 2026. ADVERT: FOR…
In the news this morning, former Vice President of Uganda Dr Specioza Wandira Kazibwe was last evening rushed to hospital after being involved in a motor accident along the Jinja- Kayunga road in the areas of Wakisi. According to police, the front tyre of the Toyota Land Cruiser in which Dr Kazibwe and Louis Igapira Wandira, 17, were driving raptured before the driver, Fred Kayongo veered off the road and rammed into the pole. Specioza Naigaga Wandira Kazibwe now 70 years was the first female vice president of Uganda, she was also the first woman in Africa to hold such…