Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Speaker Rebecca Kadaga has supported the proposed reforms to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, a constituent organization of the Commonwealth. At the Association’s Executive Committee meeting in Mauritius, the Speaker said the reforms are long overdue and should be urgently implemented. “At the moment, the Commonwealth …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Eleven newly appointed Judicial officers including ten of the High Court and one of Court of Appeal who had retired, have been sworn in at the State House in Entebbe, on a function officiated by President Museveni. Acting Chief Registrar Isaac Muwata administered the oath …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Five people accused of murdering a Finnish National at Pearl of Africa Hotel in Nakasero- Kampala, have been charged and remanded to Luzira prison by Buganda Road Court. The five include a senior intelligence officer with the Internal Security Organisation (ISO) Appollo Kyabagye , the …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Two out of three Court of Appeal Justices Alfonse Owinyi Ddolo the Deputy Chief Justice and Paul Mugamba have nullified the election of NRM’s Winfred Matsiko Komuhangi as Woman MP Rukungiri District, and declared her seat vacant. The two ordered the Electoral Commission to organise …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | The Court of Appeal upheld the election of NRM’s Peter Mugema alias Panadol as the validly elected MP for Iganga Municipality. Three Justices including former Deputy Chief Justice Steven Kavuma, Catherine Bamugemereire and Cheborion Barishaki overturned the decsion of Jinja High Court Judge Magret Mutonyi …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | High Court Judge Wilson Masalu Musene compels prosecution to close its evidence against ninteen treason suspects including a woman who is related to Australian based Cardiologist , Dr. Aggrey Kiyingi. Justice Musene noted that much he has heard evidence of nine witnesses, the State has …

Brussels, Belgium| THE INDEPENDENT | The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, says it is practically impossible to have the opposition represented in the African, Caribbean and Pacific – European Union (ACP-EU) joint parliamentary assembly. Oulanyah who is leading Uganda’s delegation to the 49th ACP-EU joint parliamentary assembly in Brussels, Belgium …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Speaker Rebecca Kadaga has asked donors to tie aid to women-centred projects as a way of empowering local entrepreneurship. Kadaga was speaking during the 62nd session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women at the UN headquarters in New York. The Speaker …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | The proprietor of Safe Script Pharmaceuticals Ltd has sued National Drug Authority (NDA) accusing it of declaring her Hepatitis B vaccinating drug as counterfeit, yet it was inspected and verified by the same officials upon importation. Agnes Nabulwala has filed the case in the Kampala …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Former Bubulo West MP Tonny Kipoi Nsubuga has been transferred from Luzira prison to Makindye Police Military Barracks over security reasons. This follows a communication made to the General Court Martial in Makindye by the Prosecutor Maj. Raphael Mugisha, that he received intelligence information indicating …