Security

Why 16 NUP Supporters Pleaded Guilty to Possession of Explosives, Treachery

In a new twist, sixteen National Unity Platform (NUP) party supporters reversed their plea on Monday, October 14, 2024, from "not guilty" to "guilty" after spending four years on...

Kisangani Coalition, Like Other Insurgents, will be Defeated by UPDF

A document named the Kisangani Declaration, dated October 5, 2024, is circulating on different social media platforms and...

Karamoja Leaders Asked to Prioritize Peace for Effective Wealth Creation

The Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) Commander of the 3 Infantry Division in Karamoja sub-region, Maj Gen. Don...

UMA Wants Gov’t to Setup Teaching Hospitals in Training Health Institutions

The Uganda Medical Association has proposed that the government set up teaching hospitals in most of the health...

UPDF Warns Charcoal Dealers in Northern Uganda

The Commander of the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) 5 Infantry Division Brig Gen Keith Katungi has issued...

Gun Violence at its Climax in USA

The amnesty international travel advisory has issued warning to all the people in the world of serious insecurity in United States of America due increased gun violence. The statement that the advisory is meant to make clear to any person with intention to travel to the USA to be vigilant and look out for one’s life. The warning reveals that there is ubiquity of firearms among the population of USA. “Avoid Places where large numbers of people gather, especially cultural events,...

Journalists,Youth, Targeted by Ugandan Domestic and Foreign Enemies

The Devil’s craft is to use deception and rule forever as a God. I am sure this phrase is common to some readers. For millennia, the Devil has always lured mankind to present himself as the True God. The gullible ignorant majority fall for the trick and indeed praise and worship him. It is harder for Ugandans to know that the media campaigns that are reaching their inbox on a daily basis are a pre meditated strategy to breed contempt...

Politicizing Ziggy Wine’s Death is a Cover of People Power in Fights of ‘Deal Gone Bad’

The public is awash with stories of the tragic death of Micheal Kalinda alias Ziggy Wine who succumbed to the wounds of torture by assailants who kidnapped him on 21st July 2019 from Kamwokya. His death is disheartening and sad but what is more insensitive is that the Public is falling victims of the Peoples' propaganda who are suspect number one in this racket of murders.  It is ok for people to grieve for lost lives but I want to...

Sectarianism a Dangerous Time Bomb

Uganda sits on a ticking time bomb despite strides made in evolving as a unitary nation. The third point in the NRM Ten Point Programme of 1986 is “Consolidation of National security and Elimination of All Forms of Sectarianism”. The first and second points are “Democracy” and “Security”. In the revised Ten Point Programme issued at Kololo by President Yoweri Museveni on October 9, 2012 during the golden jubilee independence celebrations, “Eliminating sectarianism” was number 2 after “Fighting ideological disorientation”. Sectarianism...

Uganda Insecurity Increasing due to Moral Decadency

The hustle for survival in Kampala is becoming more complicated as our society gets more eroded of human values. The News of a gruesome killing of a Boda Boda rider by thugs who were captured on CCTV camera mounted to nearby school gate, is yet another alarming incident that proves our society to be collapsing. In scenarios like this the public is quick to blame the government for not providing security to its natives. They have the right to. The...

All Armies Have a Doctrine and Purpose They Subscribe To- President Museveni

President Yoweri Museveni, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces has said all armies have a doctrine and purpose they subscribe to and that ideology and strategy are the “basic and crucial points.” He was Friday presenting an opportunity lecture to 297 trainees at Kabamba Military School, fifty-six of whom are professional cadets and ninety-six from the Somalia Defense Forces. President Museveni’s Remarks I had the pleasure, as commander in chief of the armed forces, to present a lecture of opportunity to...