Speech delivered amid soaring COVID-19 cases and insecurity fears after Gen. Katumba shooting Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | The preparation for the State of the Nation Address started off on a wrong note the previous day- mass vaccination against covid19 at Kololo Independence Grounds was halted to prepare for …
Read More »Four arrested over phone calls made at time of Gen Katumba’s shooting
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Four people have reportedly been arrested by the Joint Intelligence Committee –JIC over the repeated calls they allegedly made before, during and after the shooting of former Chief of Defence Forces Gen Edward Katumba Wamala. Gen Katumba’s vehicle H4DF 2138 was riddled with bullets on …
Read More »General Katumba’s daughter laid to rest
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Brenda Wamala Nantongo, the daughter of Gen. Katumba Wamala was laid to rest at the family’s ancestral home in Kikandwa, Kasawo town council, Mukono district. Nantongo was shot dead on Tuesday morning by unidentified gunmen who intercepted Gen Katumba’s vehicle registration number H4DF 2138 along …
Read More »Brenda called out to Jesus as she breathed her last – Gen Katumba
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Brenda Wamala Nantongo shouted the word Jesus as she breathed her last according to her father, Gen. Edward Katumba Wamala. The 32 year old Nantongo died on Tuesday in an attempted assassination on Kisoota road in Kisaasi. Nantongo who was traveling with her father to …
Read More »Gen Wamala: The man pushing for transport revolution
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | An Army General who loves farming and villagers is how one peasant in Mukono described Edward Katumba Wamala, the former Works and Transport Minister, just after getting news that he had survived an assassination attempt. He is also a General that has been at the …
Read More »KCCA to register extra driver per taxi
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority will register an extra driver per taxi in the on-going exercise. According to the Works and Transport minister Gen. Edward Katumba Wamala, taxi operators are now allowed to register two taxi drivers per taxi. When the exercise started on 30th …
Read More »THIS WEEK: Katumba Wamala defends ministerial appointment
Minister of State for Works, Gen Katumba Wamala, has dismissed efforts by some people who went to the Constitutional Court challenging his ministerial appointment while still a serving army officer. Wamala the immediate former Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) referred the petitioners to section 38 (2) of the UPDF Act …
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