Kira Municipality MP Rejects National Kiswahili Council Bill
The Kira municiplailty Member of Parliament, Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda, has rejected the proposal by the government to create a National Council for Kiswahili to promote the use of Kiswahili in Uganda.
This was after the Speaker of Parliament, Anita Annet Among, asked the government to clarify if the National Kiswahili Council Bill 2024 had been processed and reached its final stages.
If the government wants to popularize a language, Ssemujju suggested making it mandatory in schools.
‘’You have 12 million children who...
Uganda’s Economy Grows 37 Times Compared to 1986
As Uganda gears up to celebrate her Independence Day on October 9, 2024, Uganda’s economy has tremendously grown 37 times in size compared to that of 1986, when the National Resistance Movement (NRM) government under the leadership of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni came into power.
Besides the rapid growth, Uganda’s economy has undergone political instability, civil war, and fluctuating global commodity prices as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As a result, with the coming of President Museveni after five years...
MPs Reject Surrogacy Proposal for Women Citing Concerns over Freedom
Members of Parliament (MPs) on the Health Committee have rejected the Uganda Human Rights Commission's proposal to allow all women, regardless of fertility status, to access surrogacy services, arguing that this would give women too much freedom, causing them to hire other women to carry their babies because they do not want to spoil their figures due to the bodily changes that come with pregnancy.
The protest was led by Joseph Ruyonga, the Chairperson of Parliament’s Health Committee, a medical...
MAK Guild President Faces Strange Threatening Calls from NUP Supporters
The 90th Makerere University Guild President, Lubega Nsamba, has reported that he has started receiving strange threatening phone calls and text messages suspected to be from the National Unity Platform (NUP) party foot soldiers asking for his whereabouts since Wednesday evening, October 2, 2024.
Nsamba said that the callers use abusive words and claim to be monitoring his movements, and that they are promising to inflict harm on his life. He has since reported the matter to Makerere University Police...
Semujju Nganda: A Corrupt, Hypocritical Populist Stealing Taxpayers’ Money
The Kira municipality Member of Parliament (MP), Ibrahim Semujju Nganda, has mastered the art of hypocrisy and deception using his oratory skills and eloquence.
Semujju disguises himself as a pro-change activist but does a lot of dirty work behind the curtains. Many Ugandans have failed to understand why he is the only MP who relentlessly attacks the first family in his plenary speeches, but the speaker has never denied him a microphone.
Semujju is a wolf in a goat’s skin, as...
EXPOSED: How Rubongoya Sponsored People’s Power Forum
Matthias Mpuuga, the former Leader of Opposition, has revealed that the People's Power Forum (PPF) is primarily sponsored by the National Unity Platform secretary General David Lewis Rubongoya.
According to Mpuuga, PPF is also being fully operated by Rubongoya’s brother, who is his personal assistant, challenging previous assumptions that he (Mpuuga) was the financier.
This revelation follows allegations from NUP party leader Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, on September 30, 2024, who accused Mpuuga of working with the government...
