By The Independent Team When Parliament’s committee on Commissions, Statutory Bodies and State Enterprises winds up its public hearings of the Mbabazi-NSSF Temangalo land purchase scandal, it will be expected to produce a report in three weeks. This will cap nearly two months of public debate and political acrimony that …

By Independent Team He appointed friends to board Temangalo money Used to pay loan The parliamentary investigation into the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) purchase of land belonging to Security Minister Amama Mbabazi continues to raise dust. Now, sources within the Parliamentary Committee on Commissions and Statutory Bodies say the …

By The Independent Team The NSSF-Amama Mbabazi saga is now a mind game in which politics, business, and ethics are indecently mixed up. The Independent team talked to Amama Mbabazi to get matters back to the important issues. You appear to have a water tight case but you have people …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Thabo Mbeki addressed the country on September 21, 2008 after he sent a letter to the Speaker of the National Assembly,  tendering his resignation as President of the Republic of South Africa.  Mbeki decided to resign after he was asked to do so by the …

By Independent Team Since the scandal over the NSSF purchase of Amama Mbabazi’s land in Temangalo broke almost a month ago, the Security minister has accepted no mistakes on his part. In his defense before the NRM caucus he said the land deal was legal, fair €“ in fact unfair …

            By Patrick Kagenda Repair of the government wagon ferry, MV Pamba, is set to start following the lifting of a ban on direct procurement of consultants for the job by the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority (PPDA). The August lifting of …

By Independent Team Security minister faces censure over NSSF as party opponents wait in the wings for Museveni’s action On July 12, 2008, President Yoweri Museveni attended a wedding at the Serena Hotel. The groom was Mao Mbabazi, son of Security minister and secretary general (SG) of the ruling National …

HE the President and C-in-C of the UPDF issued a directive entitled ” Directives Under-Strength of UPDF Units” dated 5th March 2002. DIRECTIVES ON UNDERSTRENGTH OF UPDF C-in-C I have noted with grave concern that Uganda Peoples’ Defense Forces combat units are under strength and I have issued the following directives: …