Commentary

How Lukwago’s 2026 Presidential bid will end Bobi Wine’s dominance in Central region and give NRM Soft Landing

On 19 September 2023,the Forum for Democratic Change Katonga group held an extra-Ordinary delegates conference at their Katonga office.The same delegates conference passed a resolution to suspend the current...

Human Rights Observer on NUP Tours Shocked By Lack of Integrity

The National Unity Platform (NUP) Party President, Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, is nursing disappointment after...

REVEALED: Kabuleta Against Human Organ Transplant Bill as It Tramples on His Livelihood

Adam Mwanje, a former driver and friend of Joseph Kabuleta, revealed that his former boss is against the...

Local Supermarkets Billing Systems Leave Customers Disgruntled

Doreen Nankya, a frequent customer at a local supermarket, shares her bad experience suffered at a local supermarket. According...

Ssempa Accuses Homosexuality Promoters of being Economic Refugees or Mercenary Homosexuals

In the aftermath of passing the anti-homosexuality bill in Uganda, "pride month" has seen the renown defenders of...

NUP’s Kyagulanyi should educate himself about President Museveni’s four-acre farming prosperity model

On November 5th, while at a public rally in Nakalama village, Iganga district, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine, the leader of the National Unity Platform (NUP) blamed government for the soaring poverty rate in the Busoga sub-region. Kyagulanyi cited a report released by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) on June 2, 2021, which identified the region as having the largest percentage of poor people at 14%. According to the UBOS report, poor population planning and sugarcane growing, which takes almost...

Uganda’s Ebola Outbreak Is a Test of What We’ve Learned from Covid

The first major Ebola outbreak in Uganda happened when I was a medical student at Makerere University in Kampala. A professor of virology explained to us the dangers of filoviruses, the virus family Ebola belongs to, and why they should be avoided at all costs. Seven years later, in 2007, I was a newly minted military officer, detailed to respond to a new Ebola outbreak near the border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, where I saw this danger firsthand. It’s...

Bishop Balya’s Footprints: A Tale about Tooro’s Son that became the First African Anglican Bishop in East Africa

Africans have a saying that a warrior fights with courage and wisdom, not with anger. Bishop Balya’s legacy leaves footprints that are monuments of definite heroism demonstrated by service beyond self. The Rt. Rev. Bishop Aberi Kakyomya Balya Abwooli, was born in 1877 in Rwahunga Village, Mpara Sub-County in Kyaka County, Tooro. He was consecrated the First African Anglican Bishop in East, Central and Southern Africa on Sunday, 26th October 1947, a remarkable day to remember in the history of...

Deputy Speaker’s candid stance on Homosexuality re affirms Uganda’s cherished Values

"We are a society that is not ready for homosexuality and abortion. As Africa, we believe that the institution of the family is at the core of whatever we are doing.” Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa. Those were Hon Tayebwa’s frank words against homosexuality and abortion rights to the EU delegates attending the 61st session of the African Caribbean and Pacific- European Union (ACP-EU) summit in Maputo, Mozambique in October 2022. Tayebwa accused the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement for containing a clause that...

Lt Col (Rtd) Ahmed Kashillingi: The fierce NRA Commando that led an attack on Kisoga Police Station using stones

Ahmed Kashillingi RO/0040, one of the fiercest NRA bush war veterans passed away on 3rd November 2022 at the age of 82. Maj. Gen. (Rtd) Jim Muhwezi, the Minister for Security in a tweet described Kashillingi as a brave and dedicated soldier who served his country until the time of his death. “I am saddened to announce the passing of comrade Lt Col (Rtd.) Ahmed Kashillingi. He was a brave and dedicated soldier. He served his country until now when he...

Does the current trend of mob action in public justify Bobi Wine’s public court (Koti ya’abantu) rhetoric?

  Of late, the Ugandan community has witnessed a new political trend where funeral and wedding ceremonies are being used as political battlefields by most politicians especially those opposing the current government. As citizens, we have witnessed grisly confrontations where opposition activists especially those leaning to the National Unity Platform and pro-government politicians. The People Power/NUP activists have made it a habit to use public events such as funerals and weddings to attack and assault those who are opposed to their...