Author: Johnson Thembo
For the period of 9 months Apollo Kantinti spent in Parliament, several people have come in the open criticizing him for having have not been vibrant during his first 100 days till court forced him to exit. Its on record that it can take you a million hours trying to trace for the words the Hon. Member of parliament might have spoken on the floor of the House besides those during swearing in ceremony. Hon. Kantinti Apollo was elected on 18th February 2016 and subsequently sworn in on 16th May 2016. Three days after his elections in February, he was…
The Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon. Rebecca Kadaga has asked people of Busoga region to embrace agriculture and animal husbandry as a means of eradicating poverty in the region. The Speaker stressed that embracing Agriculture and farming is the only permanent means of ending poverty in the region. Kadaga made these remarks on Wednesday, 7th June 2017 while distributing poultry and goats in Kamuli under the Operation Wealth Creation Programme. During the distribution of the supplies to youth and women groups in Kamuli district, the Speaker emphasised the need to embrace the Operation Wealth Creation initiative as a way of…
Members of Parliament on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have vehemently condemned the behaviour of the Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Treasury, Keith Muhakanizi and other Ministry of Finance officials for undermining both Parliament as an institution and its Members. The Vice Chairperson of the Committee, Hon. Gerald Karuhanga (Ntungamo Municipality) made reference to the comments made by Muhakanizi and the Director Budget, Kenneth Mugambe, in an article titled, “MPs summon top Finance officials over Shs720b loan” published in the Daily Monitor on Monday 5th June, 2017 as disrespectful and offensive to MPs and the institution. He…
Uganda’s leading opposition party the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has resolved to discipline bigheaded party members who are not following the constitution. Speaking while appearing on Pearl FM on Tuesday evening, the Party Secretary General Harold Kaija articulated that the law will first affect the party members who have declined to support the Kyadondo East candidate Apollo Kantinti. Kaija added that by virtual of not supporting the party member is just a clear way of exiting the party. “Our party works on principals and this is how a member can cease being a party member. When the party resolves…
The court of Appeal has on Wednesday upheld the election of National Resistance Movement (NRM)’s Luweero Woman Member of Parliament Lilian Nakate. The High Court ruling came after the Democratic Party (DP)’s Brenda Nabukenya petitioned court challenging Ms Nakate’s victory. The High Court last year had nullified the election of Ms Nakate on grounds that the electoral commission failed to comply with the electoral laws and that there were other malpractices like voter bribery. However, a panel of three justices at Court of Appeal led by the deputy Chief Justice Steven Kavuma held that the nullification of Ms Nakate…
It has come to the attention of FUFA that Hon Allan Sewanyana together with Mr. Allan Mulindwa who is the Lawyer of the Dan Walusimbi Group has held a Press Conference on Wednesday 6th June, 2017 at Grand Imperial where statements were made implicating the person of the FUFA President in matters of unauthorized selling of tickets for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and that the matter has been submitted to FIFA Ethics and Integrity Committee. The details of the petition, its merits and demerits have been submitted to the Lawyers of the Person of FUFA President awaiting any legal…
The Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Rebecca Kadaga has expressed dissatisfaction at cabinet members’ attendance of plenary sessions and the slow and inadequate relay of information by government agencies to the Parliament. Kadaga noted while delivering the Communication from the Chair at beginning of the Second Session of the 10th Parliament and before the President, H.E. Yoweri Museveni delivering the State of Nation Address, , Tuesday 6th June, 2017, at the Serena Conference Hall in Kampala. “As we execute our function of oversight we require adequate and timely information from all the government agencies at different points; however,…
President Yoweri Museveni has promised to use the youth to transform the country. Museveni said that the youth, who make up a big part of the population, and are idle due to lack of jobs, can be turned around with “a little bit of training, equipment and operational capital.” “This massive number of young people is a huge force for production. They should go into industry and services. Do not send them to the villages into agriculture,” he said. The President said that youth in Kalerwe, along Gayaza Road, had complained to him of being arrested for being “idle and…
President Museveni has warned the Uganda Police and urged the top administration to clean up all the rotten elements in the organization. “The Police have been rightly criticized by the public for being lax in handling information given to them by the public, sometimes leaking this information, corruption in the form of extorting money from the public, high-handedness in dealing with people and protecting criminals or allowing criminals to infiltrate the Police. The Police leadership must, therefore, carefully listen to the public and clean up the few rotten elements. Otherwise, I can inform the public that, ever since we started…
The Forum for Democratic Change has vowed to knockout all the opponents in the forthcoming Kyadondo East Parliamentary by-election. Speaking while appearing on Pearl FM on Tuesday evening, the Party secretary General Harold Kaija added that it’s on record, the FDC strength started in Kyadondo during the reign of fallen leader Hon. Sam Njuba therefore there is no doubt, FDC will win the race. “We are going to hunt for votes like a bushman hunting for ants in a desert, this is our Seat, we lost it because of the carelessness of the electoral commission. We must retain it at…