The Human Rights Watch, HRW, has said up until now, freedom of speech in Rwanda is still an issue. HRW says dozens of people have been harassed, threatened or prosecuted for holding critical opinions about Rwanda’s government. In a report by the US-based group, an urgent release of activists, journalists and opposition leaders arrested in Rwanda was demanded. In 1994, ...

Hon. Mbwatekamwa Gaffa has said he is ashamed and embarrassed to be identified as a member of Parliament. In this season where prices of commodities have gone so high, the Parliament has been put on the spot for apparently doing nothing about it. The most annoying thing, at least as expressed by the public, is that they gave the Zaake ...

National Unity Platform, NUP, has pledged to support their candidate, Hon. Francis Zaake as he heads to court to challenge the move parliament made to do away with him as parliament commissioner. NUP Secretary-General, Lewis Rubongoya, said they will not in anyway abandon Zaake in this fight. He added that process that the parliament used to throw him out as ...

The Director of communications and public affairs at Parliament, Chris Obore has said the Deputy Speaker is not responsible for what happened to Hon. Francis Zaake. According to him, it is the Members of Parliament that decided that Zaake should leave the commission. “The mover of the motion censuring Hon. Zaake was not the Deputy Speaker. It was Hon. Mapenduzi. ...

Hon. Ssemujju has asked Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja why she has failed to whip the former Speaker and Minister for East Africa Affairs, Rebecca Kadaga to attend parliamentary sittings as required by the rules of procedure. Apparently, Kadaga rarely shows up at Parliament, not to say the sittings. However, Nabbanja just laughed off this question without answering it. Furthermore, Ssemujju ...