UGANDA NEWS

Inside the Fate of Three Sacked KCCA Officials

Three senior officials from the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) are facing serious legal troubles following the tragic Kiteezi incident. ED Dorothy Kisaka, her deputy David Luyimbazi, and ex-...

Uganda Is Set To Launch First Mass Oil Production Come 2025

The Minister of State for Economic Monitoring, Rose Lilly Akello, has confirmed that Uganda is headed toward having...

Gov’t Boosts Luwero Agriculture with Tractors, Seedlings, and Livestock Support

The Government in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry, and Fisheries, has provided three tractors, 60,000...

Adjumani Health Officials Raise Alarm Over Broken Incinerators and Medical Waste

Health officials at Dzaipi Health Centre III in Adjumani District have expressed serious concerns about a broken incinerator,...

Acholi Cultural Festival Returns After Four-Year Break, President Museveni Set to Attend

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to grace the 4th Edition of the Acholi Cultural Festival scheduled for December 12-14,...

Bobi Wine’s National Unity Platform rigged the just-concluded 2021 election

President Museveni has said that Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine’s National Unity Platform (NUP) rigged the just-concluded 2021 election. President Museveni said on Sunday evening that Bobi Wine and his intolerant group was involved in ballot stuffing and intimidation of the ruling NRM party supporters. Museveni clarified on the reverse rhetoric being spread by NUP that it was the NRM that had cheated yet it was the reverse. “I couldn’t comment because there was a case in court which had been taken...

Those Planning to Disrupt My Swearing-in Ceremony are Jokers – President Museveni

President Museveni has warned Opposition extremists who think they can disrupt his swearing-in after being cleared by the Supreme Court. Addressing the country on Sunday evening, the President warned that anyone who thinks they can destabilize the swearing-in ceremony are jokers. Last week, posters written on “Museveni Tajja Kulayira” which loosely translates as “Museveni will not swear-in” were pinned in various parts of the city by a pressure group that calls itself Time is Now. The group said they will not...

UNCERTAINITY ROCKS NUP AS NEW MPs ARE TIPPED TO EAT BIG IN M7’S CABINET

National Unity Platform (NUP) party is in disarray after information leaked that more than 10 Members of Parliament were tipped for juicy Government positions including ministerial positions. According to an impeccable source, the feud broke out recently when some MPs- elect within NUP among them Abubaker Kawalya, Aloysius Matovu of Rubaga, Mityana's Joyce Bagala and Bashir Kazibwe of Kawempe South MP have since stopped picking NUP President Robert Kyagulanyi’s calls and vowed not attend  party functions. These MPs are said to...

City Traders Reject Bobi Wine Call to Riots, “You Are Not The One Who Feeds Us Bomboclat”

City traders under their umbrella body Kampala City Traders Association (Kacita) have warned leader of extremist NUP party Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine not to dare stage riots in the city because they are fed up of robbery and hooligan squads who storm their business amd loot them to zero. In a statement signed by Thadeus Musoke Keno, the Secretary General of Kacita , the traders unanimously decry the losses they have incured since the outbreak of the COVID19 lockdown...

Public Order Management Act amidst the ongoing demonstrations as called for by Robert Kyagulanyi

In 2013, the government of Uganda enacted into law the Public order management act meant to provide for the regulation of public meeting, and provide for the duties of the police, organizers and participants of the meetings. Yesterday, former presidential candidate and leader of the national unity party Robert Kyagulanyi held a press conference in which he declared himself President of Uganda and called upon his supporters to hold riots and demonstrations across the country to reclaim his victory which...

Security on High Alert as Bobi Wine Plans Violent Demos to Steal Victory

Security is on high alert after receiving information that National Unity Platform (NUP) extremists are planning nationwide violent demonstrations and riots beginning with Kampala Metropolitan from 9 March 2021 and expected to end on 17 March 2021 with the swearing in of Hon Robert Kyagulanyi as the President. During the press conference in NUP Kamwokya office, Kyagulanyi called on Ugandans to invoke Article 29 of the constitution and demonstrate to claim his alleged victory in the 2021 presidential election which...