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People Power Movement and People’s Government leaders on Monday held a meeting as partners in the struggle to free Uganda and signed a political deal to end the 33-year rule of President Museveni, something that has not gone well with the ruling National Resistance Movement. According to a joint statement issued after a press briefing at Fairway Hotel in Kampala Wednesday, Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine and opposition figure Kizza Besigye, have joined hands to fight as one team. They agreed that despite different fronts, they must work together as partners on the same mission. “To this…
The Speaker, Rebecca Kadaga has called for easy access of parliamentary library services to the public through online mediaKadaga said that that the public needs to have adequate knowledge on the legislative history of Uganda that is mainly archived by the libraries that they can appreciate the work done by the institution. “I am now delighted that our Parliament library tell us which law was made on which day in any year, except that I would want to see this information in the newspapers,” says Kadaga. She added that efforts must be put into place by library associations to ensure…
Parliament has written off taxes meant to be paid by selected investors to the tune of over shs500 billion. This was contained in the Tax Procedures Code (Amendment) Bill, 2019, whose object was “…to write off all unpaid taxes by government as at 30th June 2019.” Finance State Minister, Hon David Bahati, in his defense of the move, said government had committed to pay the taxes on behalf of the companies, but got stuck because the money to pay the taxes was unavailable. “A commitment has already been made, but we don’t have the money so the only thing is…
Police have vowed to apprehend all its officers who were behind the brutal arrest of the Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine. This follows the actions made on Easter Monday where police broke the window of Bobi Wine’s car using pistol butts and a hammer and later fired teargas in to grad him out of his car and disperse his supporters before he was arrested. Addressing journalists at the Naguru police headquarters, the police spokesperson Fred Enanga said the incident is regrettable and that all the officers involved will be charged because they did not follow the right…
President Museveni receives the Gold Award that Uganda won at the Indaba Tourism Fair in Durban, South Africa. It is the third time Uganda scores highly at the world’s third most important tourism exhibition. It is the third-largest annual tourism expo in the world and the largest on the African continent. It is a leading business-to-business exhibition for Africa’s leisure travel industry; bringing the world to Africa and bringing Africa to the world’s leading source markets. ‘The true spirit of the people of Uganda and the beauty of our land continue to get deserving recognition across the world, irrespective of…
Former NTV Uganda news anchor Joel Ssenyonyi has started his new task as the People Power pressure group Spokesperson. Joel who resigned last week from the office he had held 5years said regardless of people’s opinions on his decision, his intuitions tell him what he did was the right thing. While addressing his first press conference, Joel used big words like Flummoxed, Obliterate, gargantuan that slung several officials including Bobi bamboozled.
Donald Trump has presented Tiger Woods with the Presidential Medal of Freedom — and joked about how the two always remember the good things … and never the bad. Tiger was emotional as he accepted the award in front of his family and girlfriend — and choked back tears as he spoke about his late father. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award in the United States — and is given to people who make an especially great contribution to American society. Trump had announced Woods would be receiving the award after Tiger won the 2019 Masters…
Kabula County MP, James Kakooza, has taken oath as the new Uganda’s representative at the Pan African Parliament. Kakooza replaces Hon. Babirye Kadogo (Ind., Buyende district), following an earlier arrangement that the two independent MPs would each serve two and a half years out of the five-year term at the Parliament based in Midrand, South Africa. Taking oath for new members was the first item at the start of the first sitting of the second session of the fifth Pan African Parliament on Monday, 6 May 2019. Other members who took oath were from Algeria, Comoros, Eswatini, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia,…
Leaders in the Busoga sub region are opposed to the President’s proposals in the Sugar Bill, 2019 that he returned to parliament for reconsideration. President Museveni returned the bill calling for zoning. He said that the bill in did not address the concerns of the established big millers, noting that allowing small producers would distort the sugar industry. Zoning is the allocation of specific area of sugar cane production to a specific miller. Legislators removed the section on zoning from the original Bill which had provided for a radius of 25 kilometres within which a new miller would not be…
President Museveni on Sunday, joined Christians at Lubya Hill in Rubaga Division, Kampala to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Orthodox Christianity in Uganda. The celebration was led by His Eminence, Metropolitan Jonah Lwanga. This comes less than two months after the Bishop Jonah Lwanga made controversial comments on president Museveni’s life presidency campaign. During yesterday’s service, Museveni laid a foundation stone for construction of Aghia Sophia Orthodox Cathedral estimated to cost $4 million. He made a Shs300m contribution to the project and also pledged to support the church and priests’ Saccos. Speaking to the congregation, the President called upon the…