Author: Johnson Thembo
An armed attack Sunday night (5th March, 2017) on Pan African Parliament legislators in Midrand, South Africa, has threatened to derail the deliberations of the Fourth Parliament’s extraordinary plenary session, with Members asking the PAP President, Roger Nkodo, to put aside the order of business of the day and address the Members’ security concerns. The thugs trailed a delegation composed of MPs from Kenya, Mozambique and Tanzania from OR Tambo Airport, Johannesburg, to Mercure Hotel where they robbed them at gunpoint. An interpreter to the Kenyan delegation was seriously injured when thugs hit her on the forehead with a pistol…
The Kiira municipality legislator Hon. Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda has said the minister for Kampala Hon. Betty Kamya is frustrated and acrimonious about vendors because they never voted for her in the recent elections. Speaking while appearing on the Capital Gang on Saturday 04th March, Ssemujju asked whether developing means construction of mall and displacement of people. “Decongesting the city does not mean grabbing people’s land and property and if Kamya is bragging about development, is she developing the people she evicted? Development is not driving cars and building of skyscrapers when people are surviving on one meal and water like…
The former Deputy Secretary General of the East African Community and former Member of Parliament for Kabarole District, Beatrice Kiraso, has been edged out of the race for the Clerk to the Pan African Parliament. The position was advertised in September 2016. While presenting before the plenary for debate the appointment process for the Clerk and Deputy Clerk of the Pan African Parliament, the First Vice President of the PAP, Hon. Eduardo Joaquim Mulembwe, informed the House that the successful candidates were Vipya Harawa (Malawi) for Clerk, while the post of Deputy Clerk was taken by Gali Massa Harou (Chad).…
The Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon. Rebecca Kadaga, has urged Ugandans to grow more food in order to be food secure and avoid famine. The Speaker said that people in homes without enough food are always poor and miserable. As we experience long periods of drought, it is the duty of all the heads of the families to store food in the homes,’’ she said. “”We are crying of poverty in the homes, we have to understand that you cannot get money, when all you get is spent on food at home.’’ The Speaker was officiating at the Thanks giving…
Ofono Opondo the government spokesperson has spastically laughed at the Forum for Democratic party for its failure to scoop a slot in the recently conducted East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) elections. “Iam honestly happy that FDC came out of the EALA elections emptyhanded and they are now leaking their own wounds.” Opondo stressed the point while appearing on the capital gang on Saturday 04th March. He also added that FDC plays amateur politics of hostility and treachery as the reason as to why they lost since the party had elected one candidate and another group in the party fronted another…
Human rights activist Frank Gashumba has said that he does not regret supporting Dr Kizza Besigye but only what he regrets is being associated with the opposition. While appearing on NBS Telvision on Sunday afternoon, Gashumba also attacked the Uganda police for fighting and harassing some individuals and mostly the poor people in Kampala. “Every time you see heavy police deployment, either Besigye is in town or the poor people are being harassed” said Gashumba. The Sisimuka Uganda boss also deprecated the manner Kampala city Park Yard Vendors were evicted by government. “Surprisingly, Jennifer Musisi is…
Lt. Gen. Thomas Cirillo Swaka, the former deputy chief of general staff for logistics, who resigned from South Sudan’s army, has formed a new rebel group calling itself the National Salvation Front (NAS) with an agenda to fight against the current government in Juba. Last month, Gen. Thomas Cirillo resigned while telling President Salva Kiir “you have disgraced yourself” by subjecting the country to ethnic bias. In a letter of declaration today and seen by Radio Tamazuj, Gen. Swaka said the National Salvation Front is left with no choice other than to fight the malady that has badly tarnished the…
One may ask himself a million questions why Singer Bobi Wine is silent, but the Ghetto Gladiator is fixed up with the upcountry music tours that are apparently ongoing in the Western Uganda. The Aidah hit maker has held about four successful concerts in different districts of Bundibujjo, Fortportal, Kasese and Mbarara which have all been a triumph. Besides sending and spreading Edutainment, Bobi Wine has also scooped an opportunity to visit some of the places he had not visited in a while including Tooro Kingdom Palace,Queen Elizabeth National Park among other places. Let’s pray he doesn’t…
South Sudan’s Ministry of Finance has officially announced an additional increase in the fees charged for application of national identification cards, passport, visas and other documents. In a letter seen by Radio Tamazuj yesterday, the undersecretary in the finance ministry, Agak Achuil Lual, said the fees are in accordance with the 2016/2017 budget. In compliance, on Wednesday last week, the Directorate of Nationality and Passports launched the new fees for a regular passport, with changes from 315 to 4,410 South Sudanese Pounds. The new fees charged for the nationality identification card increased from 45 SSP to 4,000 SSP. The new…
President Jacob Zuma has nominated Justice Mandisa Maya to become the president of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA). This is according to a statement from the office of the president which further noted that the female Justice was well equipped and thus the best candidate to fit in the SCA. “President Jacob Zuma has, in terms of Section 174(3) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, nominated Madam Justice Mandisa Muriel Lindelwa Maya as the President of the Supreme Court of Appeal, “[Justice Mandisa Maya] was appointed as an acting judge of the High Court in…