Uganda’s leading National Unity Platform (NUP) opposition party has written to the ministry of Defence requesting permission to mark four years since the unveiling of the National Unity Platform to the people of Uganda On 22nd July 2024 . The party secretary Genereal Lewis Rubongoya in the letter he addressed to the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs noted that, the journey so far has been marked by so many challenges, trials and tribulations. ”However, we have also reached various milestones in the pursuit of our cardinal objective of ushering in a New Uganda. As we look to…
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Uncertain situation hits residents in Wakiso as NEMA Marks More Houses for Demolition in Wetland Restoration Effort. There is growing animosity among residents of Wakiso Sub-county in Wakiso District after the National Environment Management Authority (Nema) marked more houses for demolition in the ongoing joint exercise aimed at restoring wetlands in Uganda. The affected villages are in Nakuwadde-Bbira and Ganda-Nasere, where officials from Nema have marked houses of about 300 people. Mr Mathias Kisitu, a resident of Nakuwadde, said they will not watch as Nema officials erase their houses, which they say are outside the gazetted swamps. …
Residents of Lwemiyaga, Ssembabule District, have demanded for an urgent meeting with both the Speaker of Parliament Anitah Among and the President, Gen Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to among other things share pain of how their 23 year legislator keeps harassing them, taking their land through evictions. The residents also accused Ssekikubo of shooting people within the area if they attempted to stand in the way of Ssekikubo’s alleged land fraudulent deals. The residents, on Friday morning, converged at Parliament of Uganda, pleading to meet the Speaker of Parliament to intervene in the matter. “Ssekikubo has for the past 23 years,…
After being detained close to a month, The Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court has further remanded Herbert Anderson Burora until 19th July 2024 pending the prosecution’s response to the defense’s bail application. This after the state submitted an ammended charge sheet related to hate speech and spreading malicious information against the former Rubaga Division Deputy Resident City Commissioner (DRCC). Burora, who served as Deputy RCC for more than five years, faces charges under the Computer Misuse Act for allegedly using his X (formerly Twitter) handle “Harder HB” to share information that ridiculed, degraded, or promoted hostility against the Speaker of…
Police Officer told Court that Patricia Kakwanzi, daughter of the late businessman Henry Katanga, allegedly attempted to persuade police to falsify the circumstances surrounding her father’s death. Peter Ogwang, the officer in charge of Bugolobi police station, testified as the third state witness in the trial involving Molly Katanga, who stands accused of fatally shooting her husband on November 2, 2023.During his court appearance, Ogwang revealed that Kakwanzi had requested him to misrepresent her father’s death as an accident. He recounted advising her against covering up the details and instead urged her to involve a scene of crimes officer. Ogwang…
It’s almost the second months of collecting signatures enough to impeach Parliamentary Commissioners Alleged is Service Award money. Members of Parliament (MPs) fronting the censure motion against four parliamentary commissioners have pitched camp in the West Nile sub-region to collect the remaining six signatures from their colleagues in the area. Credit: The Explorer On Wednesday, July 10, 2024, Theodore Ssekikubo, the Lwemiyaga County legislator and the lead petitioner, while in Arua City, said out of 39 MPs in the West Nile Subregion, only 13 have signed the motion. The troubled commissioners include Rubanda District Woman MP Prossy Akampurira, MP Mathias…
Renowned Uganda’s Military intelligence head Rtd. Gen David Tinyefuza who later renamed himself Sejusa has set himself to seriously take in the nursery teaching job as part of his retirement work. Gen. Sejusa who is currently doing a short course in Nursery Teaching retired I. August 2022 from active army service and has made social media a friend sharing different views both locally and internationally like any other Ugandan. At the age of 69, Gen. Sejusa says, he is setting his eyes on nursery school teaching, to burn all the extra time he has on his hand. “By the way,…
A concerned citizen has tasked to inspector General of Government (IGG) to investigate the activities and block UGx 20 Billions being arraigned to be given to Kiira Motors corporation a state owned enterprise established to manufacture electric powered automobiles in Uganda with the government of Uganda owning 96% shareholding and Makerere University owning 4%. In the document received by IGG,the whistleblower faults the minister of science, technology and innovation Dr Monica Musenero alongside Prof Tickodri -Togboa,Paul Musasizi and other government officials of not telling the truth about the project. The whistleblower argues that Kiira Motors corporation has been receiving public…
By UJA Team Thursday 11 July 2024 Journalists Dickson Mubiru and Alirabaki Sengooba of the Grace Publications that runs the Grape Vine website and Ono Bwiino newspaper have finally been released on bail after having been jailed close to one month in jail over publishing information without a valid broadcasting license. The two have been released by the Makindye based Standards, Utilities and Wildlife Court magistrate Sienna Owomugisha, following their fresh bail application through their lawyer Andrew Mumpenje. They were arrested on Tuesday 18 June 2024 from their offices in Kampala and detained at the Central Police Station (CPS) before…
Taking to her X Account formerly , Minister of State for Mineral Development Hon. Phionah Nyamutooro has expressed displeasure with the Vision Group’s New Vision Paper over a publication she called horrible. In an open letter to the CEO Vision Mr. Don Wanyama, Nyamutooro wrote; Dear New Vision @nyamadon this is a national paper that should publish authentic news!!! It’s horrible to see you degrade your credibility to blog status stories!!! Your journalists can definitely do better @newvisionwire