Dr Twaha Kabogo, the Bukoto south MP, has accorded an apology to Speaker Anita Among and to legislators. This is for tarnishing the image of the parliament when he returned the shs40 million he alleged to be a bribe. He received this money as a token of appreciation for passing the supplementary budget. Kabogo told legislators during the Tuesday parliamentary ...
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Godfrey Kiwanda Declines Ambassadorial Post From President Museveni
Hon Godfrey Kiwanda Suubi, the former state minister for Tourism, has said he is going nowhere. He rejected a fat offer from his boss Gen Museveni to become Uganda’s new Ambassador to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Information from State House indicates that a cabinet meeting sat on Monday and approved 7 names of individuals to be appointed as ambassadors. These were ...
Read More »Uganda Needs To Invest In Separation Of Power To Thrive In Democracy, Benjamin Katana
City Lawyer, Benjamin Katana, has said if Uganda wants to thrive in democracy, there should be a separation of power among the three arms of the government. He said this comparing Uganda to Kenya after what most people called successful elections in the country. Apparently, in Uganda, these arms are not as independent as they ought to be. “For us ...
Read More »Bobi Wine Arouses Controversy After Declaring Buganda A Nation
The National Unity Platform leader Hon Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine has aroused controversy after declaring the kingdom of Buganda as a nation. Uganda has different ethnicities which are over 50. And with such, topics to do with these ethnicities are always bound to raise sentiments amongst people. With some people still harboring parochial beliefs, tensions always heat up ...
Read More »Hon. Timothy Batuwa Puts The Arising Hate Speech Among Ugandans On Leaders Overstaying In Power
Jinja City Division West MP, Timothy Batuwa, has put the rising hate speech among Ugandans on government overstaying in power. He says people are simply tired of being under the same government for so long. “I believe that the hate speech is arising out of the fact that the people in power have overstayed, not sectarianism. The public is reacting ...
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