Politics

Security has busted plans by the National Unity Platform-NUP to disrupt the forthcoming LCV chairperson by-election in Kayunga district. The seat was declared vacant by the electoral commission following the death of the former LCV boss, Muhammad Ffefeka Sserubugo who was found hanging on a jackfruit tree hardly few months after being elected into office. The Electoral commission has scheduled December, 14th, 2021 as the date to conduct the by election. But the security has since unearthed violent strategies being used by...

The arrest of Bigirwa Moses and a false narrative that had already been spread by Bob wine on social media has exposed the usual smear campaigns by NUP. Organized Members from NUP have been taking advantage of mob justice scenarios. The strategy has been to pick thieves beaten by mobs and people involved in accidents to frame security forces with intent to win public sympathy. Following the arrest of Birigirwa on charges related to defaming the Deputy Speaker Anita Among, Robert...

I read an article that The Sunday Monitor columnist Allan Tacca wrote.  Mr.Tacca went on a rant about the proposal to ban Nile perch consumption in Uganda. He blamed the president and tried to paint a picture that the president is the one who was behind the proposal. Allan also called Ugandans idiots and also made some sectarian remarks. Tacca should have been informed that the people who made the proposal were exporters under the Uganda Fish Processors and Exporters...

I read with extreme astonishment from a section of Ugandan media houses carried several news articles bashing government for proposing to restrict Nile perch fish local consumption and prioritize it for species for exports. This wild claim stemmed from the proposal presented to Parliament Agriculture committee by the Uganda Fish Processors and Exporters Association unfortunately as usual, our media attributed it to government. The proposal indeed caused endless uproar and debate that saw government prominently faulted for what it had no...

Following a video clip circulating on social media about a presumed delay, News channels went ahead to report items of inconvenience and delays at Entebbe airport without verification of the actual events. Civil Aviation Authority and Ministry of Health have said that no tourist is being held at the Airport upon arrival just to wait for the Covid 19 test result, as being portrayed and circulated in a video clip by a section of bad media. According to sources from Ministry...

Terrorism is the latest act of insecurity resurrecting in Uganda since the LRA rebels were defeated in 2009. In early 1990s, we only knew about the LRA and ADF rebel groups committing terrorism acts respectively in Northern and Rwenzori region of Western Uganda. I often watch in disbelief and astonishment how our media and political actors get to fast politicize an act of TERRORISM instead of supporting investigations so that terror is wiped from the surface of our Nation. Early this week,...