Author: Evans Kalyango
In recent months, political tensions in Kenya have escalated and one figure who has found himself at the centre of controversy is Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua whom parliament impeached 10 days ago. His impeachment didn’t come a surprise as the divisions between him and his boss President William Ruto had become irreconcilable. On Thursday last week, Kenya’s upper house; the Senate upheld Gachagua’s impeachment while he was at Karen Hospital where he had been rushed with terrible chest pains and was unable to take the stand for cross examination during the proceedings. As he was languishing in hospital, Ruto nominated…
In 2023, heartbreaks had started cropping up almost every week had it not been the Ministry of Health to impose breaks on the then trending DNA tests where several laboratories had even started running adverts for the testing services. When a woman is married to a man and they get together, confirmation of paternity can only be confirmed by DNA tests or if the woman dies before saying otherwise about the children she has but stories have always made headlines of grown ups being told the person they called dad is actually not their true father. Now in a surprising…
Lubowa Hospital is not a familiar name to Ugandans who have been following events since 2019. It’s a specialized hospital where parliament has approved appropriated and pumped over Shs700 billions since 2019 but until recently, it had been on the foundation level and was even bushy with no construction activities taking place. Due to the slow works at the Entebbe road based hospital, several attempts by Members of parliament including Minister of Health Dr Jane Ruth Acheng, another visit early this year by the Leader of Opposition Joel Ssenyonyi were all faced with resistance and heavily armed UPDF and Police…