Uganda politics

The police in Oyam District have in their custody 15 suspects in relation to the chaos reported to have happened in the parliamentary by-election. The Kyoga region police spokesperson, Jimmy Patrick Okema said some of the people in this group included some motorcycle riders. These apparently happened to be escorting the ballot boxes to the polling stations. He said in ...

NUP President Bobi Wine took to his Twitter page last evening to respond to allegations made by his diaspora Canadian lawyer Robert Amsterdam.  Amsterdam who has been a long-term ally of Kyagulanyi said that he is aware of a plot by the government to eliminate his client.   Apparently, Museveni’s regime is allegedly planning to use North Korean poison on ...

Hon Betty Nambooze has scoffed at President Museveni’s presidential advisers. She said they are the only advisers she has seen wait for their boss at events to request him to call them to advise him. During the concluded 2021 general elections, as a strategy, President Museveni got different people and appointed them as his advisers. It was one way of ...

It seems the leader of the National Unity Platform (NUP) Hon Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu popularly known as Bobi Wine has accepted that elections can never oust President Museveni from power. Prior to the 2021 general elections, Bobi Wine came under the spotlight. This is after he went after Besigye’s statement that Museveni can’t be removed from power through an election. ...

Veteran journalist and political analyst Andrew Mwenda has branded former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) president, Dr Col Kiiza Besigye as the biggest problem for the country’s opposition. According to Mwenda, the opposition needs to do away with him. This is because Ugandans trust him so much and yet he’s the same person who tells citizens that an election can’t ...