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Hon. Evelyn Anite has revealed the threats she has constantly received over the proposed age limit removal debate. Speaking to our Insider early this morning, Anite said she recently got a call threats to kill her like fallen AIGP Andrew Feleix Kaweesi. “I got a message on my phone that I was going to be killed the way Kaweesi was killed.” It should be remembered that AIGP Kaweesi was assassinated early this year along with his body guard and driver over unclear circumstance. Anite has been in the spotlight for her unbeatable support for president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and it…
Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago has been arrested outside his home in Wakaliga. Lukwago was this morning arrested at his home in Wakaliga, Rubaga Division in Kampala as he planned to leave for work. He has been taken to Kira Police where he is currently detained. It should be noted that Lukwago and a group of other opposition elected city leaders had today planned to hold a procession from city hall to City Square where they were to launch their ‘Togibikula’ campaign against lifting of the presidential age limit. Meanwhile, Buhweju county MP, Francis Mwijukye’s house has also been surrounded…
Three Makerere University student leaders have been arrested by the Police. The arrested are the academics minister Simon Wanyera, Ronald Ainebyoona and another unidentified student. Police arrested them as students who were gathered around Lumumba hall started throwing stones at the police.
Nasa leader Raila Odinga now wants the 12 electoral officials the coalition has named as responsible for the irregularities in the invalidated August 8 presidential election jailed after being ejected from office. Mr Odinga said the 12 officials, including commissioners Abdi Guliye and Boya Molu as well as chief executive Ezra Chiloba, his two deputies Betty Nyabuto and Marjan Hussein Marjan, must be punished for what Nasa has described as “hurting the sovereign will of the people”. “The lot that conducted the last elections must watch the next one from their prison cells, not from the IEBC offices,” said Mr…
Dokolo south legislator Hon. Felix Okot Ogong has described the move by the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Party MPs to scrap off the age limit clause from the constitution as a sign of betrayal and being unpatriotic. Speaking while appearing on NBS TV Early this morning, Okot added that president Museveni’s time is up therefore should give room another person because mature politics is not about an individual but about the ideology. “For our party, our chairperson’s time is up; by 2021, he will be over 75 years. Being fit doesn’t matter in leadership. Leadership is about vision of a…
Tanzania’s government has banned MwanaHalisi, a weekly newspaper, for two years after accusing it of inciting violence. The ban of MwanaHalisi comes after the government closed it twice in three months due to unethical reporting. “The government has suspended publication and circulation of the weekly MwanaHalisi newspaper for 24 months … due to repeated unethical reporting, publishing fabricated and inciting articles and endangering national security,” the state-run Tanzania Information Services said in a statement. MwanaHalisi is the second newspaper in Tanzania to be banned; the first one, Mawio, was banned in June over articles it published linking two former country’s…
Police have surrounded the Action Aid offices in the Kampala city suburbs of Kasanga blocked staff from leaving. A team of about 20 police officers stormed the offices at 5:05pm this evening, saying they are under instructions to close the premises. In an affidavit sworn by a Walya Henry Peter at Makindye Chief Magistrates Court, the search warrant against the premises of Action Aid International Uganda was issued to obtain evidence relating to elicit transfer of funds for funding unlawful activities The police officers reportedly took charge of the premises and stopped all employees from living before they started ransacking…
A Uganda People’s Defense Force colonel attached to Nakasongola Air Defense has died in a motor accident. The deceased is Colonel David Katorogo. He met his death in an accident at 8:40am this morning at Lavender Kagavu along Mityana -Mubende Highway Colonel David Katorogo was driving a landcruiser vehicle registration number H4DF 970 together with his wife, Beatrice Asimwe, son and bodyguard, Masin Guma. Colonel Katorogo died on spot while the other traveler sustained serious injuries and were rushed to Mubende hospital. The Police Traffic and Road Safety Spokesperson, Charles Ssebambulidde, says Katorogo’s vehicle lost control and veered off the…
With a few months left to the much anticipated Abryanz Style and Fashion Awards (ASFAS 2017,) hordes of big brands across Africa are ecstatically joining the vastly coveted (ASFA’s) sponsorship bandwagon. Business man cum tycoon Jack Pemba, the CEO and President of Pemba Sports Africa is the latest to join the list as a premium sponsor. The Abryanz Style and Fashion Awards are delighted to announce that Jack Pemba, under the flagship of his company, Pemba Sports Africa has sponsored the ASFA’s 2017 with 100M. Speaking shortly after signing the sponsorship agreement, Jack Pemba gleefully opined that the ASFA’s are,…
The Member of Parliament for Ayivu County Bernard Atiku has revealed the reason why he rolled elbows with Arua Municipality counterpart Ibrahim Abiriga marked at the August House yesterday. Atiku who was addressing the media at Parliament today noted that the spat with his the climax of a long standing dispute. Mr. Atiku added that he has had a long standing dispute with Abiriga since 2006 and what happened yesterday was a result of endless insults he has always received from his fellow legislator though he adds that intends to involve the Speaker of Parliament to reign in on the…