By Sarah Namulondo What has it got to do with how high up the thigh a mini-skirt is? When Macedonian pedophile Emin Baro was arrested for luring underage Ugandan girls to perform sex acts on him on camera last year, there was no clear law under which to charge him …
Read More »Compromise rescues Public Order Bill
By Agather Atuhaire NRM caucus agrees to key revisions as members fear suffering the law’s draconian provisions It is intriguing the ease with which President Yoweri Museveni – and the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Caucus – seems to have given in to Parliament on a bill that would have saved …
Read More »Who is Bahati’s bill meant to dupe?
By Andrew M. Mwenda His move is a masterstroke that eclipses political differences and diverts public attention from real issues to imaginary problems Recently, Ndorwa East Member of Parliament, David Bahati, re-tabled the kill-all-gays Bill before parliament. After his presentation, where he claimed to be the moral vanguard of our …
Read More »Public order Bill could end in court
By Mubatsi Asinja Habati Sam Mugumya, a Forum for Democratic Change youth activist and Dr Kizza Besigye’s personal assistant, has borne the brunt of police wrath during political demonstrations. Whenever Mugumya has participated in a demonstration pursuant to his constitutional right, the police have either clobbered him or threatened to …
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