By Independent Correspondent Girls confused, NGOs want sensitisation, and parents say it will not stand in the way of culture Shadrach Ruto says since 2010 when Uganda passed the law against female circumcision, or Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) as the lawmakers call it, people in his Korite village in Kween …
Read More »Pearl wants Musolini out
By Haggai Matsiko A book by university students that questions Museveni’s promises of fundamental change earns the ire of the police Musolini must go, I let him into my house. I will personally see him out, even with his own appointed guards at the door. I celebrate my 50th birthday …
Read More »Tullow’s oil spin
By Agather Atuhaire Firm grabs positive headlines but critics say bribery allegations remain While appearing before the Parliamentary Ad hoc Committee on Oil on April 11 to defend themselves against bribery allegations, Tullow Oil Uganda officials said the Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs) they signed with Uganda are the most unfavorable …
Read More »Posta audit shows billions stolen
By Rukiya Makuma Ailing parastatal risks losing UN aid Cash-strapped Posta Uganda is on the verge of losing vital aid from a United Nations agency that helps improve postal services in poor countries because of alleged corruption in the parastatal. Although the money involved, US$ 76,747 (approx. Shs 190 million) …
Read More »The force of character in public office
By Joseph Bossa Former Bank of Uganda Governor Nyonyintono Kikonyogo exhibited exemplary depth of character worth being emulated Ugandans should be most interested in the character of the person who aspires to occupy any of the three, in my estimation, most important public offices in this land. In no particular …
Read More »Armed struggle: Mamdani tells politicians to learn from Luwero
By Andrew Mwenda and Mubatsi A. Habati Leading political philosopher Mahmood Mamdani says the government’s ban on the political pressure group Activists for Change (A4C) is naïve and likely to drive opposition underground. He spoke to The Independent’s Andrew Mwenda and Mubatsi A. Habati. The government has banned the civic …
Read More »Behind the scenes at IPU conference
By Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi Why did Mbabazi, Nandala skip Kadaga’s big moment? On April 4, The Independent’s parliament reporter Agather Atuhaire was stopped as she rushed to cover the proceedings of a committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) assembly at the Kampala Serena Hotel. A plain-cloth security official interrogated her …
Read More »When governments kill their own people
By Agather Atuhaire Inter-Parliamentary Union offers lessons from the Arab Spring If the discussion and the subsequent resolutions reached at at the 126th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly in Kampala were not just good for the paper as observers say many others have been, Uganda, the host country benefit most. Unrest and …
Read More »Pioneer Easy Bus’s bumpy ride
By Karien Mukama Ownership queries persist in as it fights financial squeeze As members of parliament witnessed recently when he testified about the “true” ownership of his company, Pioneer Easy Bus’s Managing Director David Ndemeire Bagenda is a master of comic exaggeration. But none of his strokes then matched his …
Read More »Obama’s blunder at the Bank
By Jagdish Bhagwati It should have been clear that a most remarkable candidate – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala – was already at hand The selection of a successor to Robert Zoellick as President of the World Bank was supposed to initiate a new era of open meritocratic competition, breaking the traditional hold …
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