By Dicta Asiimwe Former Vice President and now President Museveni’s advisor on microfinance Dr Specioza Wandira Kazibwe is again in the spotlight over abuse of public funds under the government’s Bonna Bagaggawale programme. The money meant for people with disabilities (PWDs) in Busoga under the Bonna Bagaggawale (Prosperity-for-All) has sparked …
Read More »SACCOs have left Busoga poor
By Isaac Mufumba Are they a means to a political rather than social-economic end? For most of the last part of 2009, government was dolling out food to sections of the population in West Nile, eastern and northern Uganda, following a famine that ravaged those areas leaving at least 50 …
Read More »PAC grills top ministers: Is it all bark and no bite?
By Isaac Mufumba Time check: 10:30 a.m., a lean looking man of average height, clad in a white short sleeved shirt and a sky blue necktie enters one of the committee rooms of Uganda’s parliament. This is the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Nathan Nandala Mafabi. He takes …
Read More »The Bududa aftermath
By Dicta Asiimwe Who takes care of the roaming lonely orphans? He is wearing threadbare rugs. Thats all he owns for clothes. Kutosi is the only name that identifies the 13-year-old boy whose parents and five siblings died in the Bududa mudslides. In the African setting, orphans without both parents …
Read More »Kasubi burning: The untold story
By Bob Roberts Katende UNESCO experts plan to rebuild tombs Govt agrees to pay Buganda debt Traditionally, the Baganda have a saying: ‘Akugoba yakuwa ekkubo’. It is similar to the phrase often attributed to the Mandarin of China that any crisis represents both danger and opportunity. The burning of the …
Read More »What Rukiga win tells of NRM-FDC rivalry
By Mubatsi Asinja Habati In the March 22 Parliamentary by-elections in Rukiga County, NRM’s Edson Kakuru defeated three rivals after polling 10,910 votes against his closest opponent – FDC’s Jack Sabiiti with 9,329, Independent candidates Amos Mugisha’s 6,786 votes and Medard Gumusiriza’s 291 votes. The voter turnout was 63% of …
Read More »How IPC would share top cabinet posts after Museveni defeat
By Patrick Kagenda Namboole Stadium outside Kampala was on March 13 the venue of an election that has become the talk of the country. ‘I have felt, smelt, experienced true democracy,’ screamed Dickson Opul to an excited crowd of about 1,000 people who gathered in the stadium last week for …
Read More »New Bill spells doom for Ugandan press freedom
By Jocelyn Edwards On September 10th last year, police stormed the transmission room of the Baganda kingdoms Central Broadcasting Services (CBS) and carried away a link to the transmitter. The station suddenly went off the air. Its licence had been revoked by the Broadcasting Council for allegedly stirring up tribal …
Read More »Bududa
By Joseph Were The day the mountain Moved One survivor said it sounded like a bomb explosion. Another said the mud moved so fast that victims had no chance to escape. One man was in a church praying when he saw the mountain of rocks, debris, and mud pummeling downhill. …
Read More »Leave my dead dad to rest, Gen. Okello’s son tells Museveni
By Matsiko wa Mucoori During celebrations for the NRMs 24th year in power on January 26, 2010 President Museveni awarded medals to 190 people for their role in Uganda’s liberation wars. The national function had passed as any other previous ones under the NRM reign until a member of one …
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