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People Power Considering ‘Plan B’ after Botched Consultative Meeting

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People Power pressure group is considering new tactics to ensure that their planned consultative meetings effectively take place. Joel Ssenyonyi, the People Power spokesperson notes that police is determined to frustrate their consultative meetings even after getting clearance from the Electoral Commission. His remarks come hours after police thwarted their planned consultative meeting at Pope Paul Hotel in Ndeeba. According…

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Museveni Directs Installation of Security Lights Around UCU Campus

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President Yoweri Museveni has directed security agencies to install security lights along all roads surrounding the Uganda Christian University Campus in Mukono, to curtail attacks against students. The directive followed a request by the UCU guild president Timothy Kadaga on the basis of cumulative cases of thefts taking place in villages where a sizeable number of students reside. Kadaga said…

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Police Deploys at Pope Paul Hotel Ahead of People Power Consultative Meeting

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There is heavy police deployment at Pope Paul Memorial Hotel in Ndeeba where the People Power pressure group is expected to hold its consultative meeting. While hotel security personnel are around and working, police officers are also seen checking people and vehicles accessing the venue. There are four police trucks, two parked close to the entrance and the other two…

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Three Ugandan Businessmen Held in Rwanda

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Three Ugandan businessmen are being held in Rwanda. The three include Bosco Nkwasiibwe, a resident of Kamwezi sub-county in Rukiga district, Dauliano Orikurungi from Kabale district and Siliaco Orishaba from Rubanda district. Peninah Karungi, a wife to Nkwasiibwe told our reporter on Sunday that the victims were arrested by Rwandan security operatives on Thursday morning. She adds that their captors…

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Couple Demands Ugx600M from Church Over Cancelled Wedding

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A couple has run to court seeking compensation of Shillings 600million from Registered Trustees of Church of Uganda and Kampala Diocesan Secretary for the losses they made and mental breakdown resulting from the cancellation of their wedding, 48 hours to the event. Through their lawyers of Mujurizi, Alinatwe & Byamukama Advocates, Benson Muhwezi and Sophie Akankwasa, the couples accuses the…

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40 MPs Push for Gen. Tumwine’s Censure, Bobi Wine Shies Out

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Kasambya County Member of Parliament (MP), Mbwatekamwa Gaffa has refuted allegations that he bribed to withdraw the censure motion against the Minister for Security, Gen. Elly Tumwine. He made the revelation while addressing journalists at parliament were he revealed a list of members of parliament who signed for the motion. The list Mbwatekemwa displayed to the media indicate that only…

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Gen. Muntu: I Don’t Expect Free and Fair Polls

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General Mugisha Muntu, the National Coordinator of the Alliance for National Transformation-ANT party, says he isn’t any illusion that the 2021 general elections will be free and fair. According to Muntu, there are many contested issues like electoral reforms that were proposed by the Supreme Court after the 2016 elections that haven’t been addressed by government. He notes that even…

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New Curriculum: MPs, Kadaga Disagree On Education Minister’s Statement

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The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga and several legislators mainly from the opposition have disagreed with the statement presented by the Education and Sports Minister, Janet Museveni on the revised lower secondary curriculum. On Thursday afternoon, the Education Minister delivered a statement in parliament explaining why the Ministry of Education went ahead to roll out the new curriculum in disregard…

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Research: Ugandan Officials Might Have Hidden UGX 267bn Aid Money

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Ugandan officials could have stashed away a whopping USD 73M (UGX267B) of the aid money from the World Bank between 1990 and 2009, a new research paper suggests. The controversial paper written by researchers from the Norwegian Business School, University of Copenhagen, and The World Bank observed that every time the institution released money to aid-dependent countries like Uganda, “there…

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