Can Hamis Kiggundu deliver on his promise? Ham Shopping Grounds is a tiny concrete cream building, often called a mall, about half the size of standard football pitch with four floors and flat concrete roof-top right at the edge of Uganda’s oldest sports arena; the Nakivubo Memorial Stadium. The stadium …
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Parliament on Mar.01 engaged in a heated debate regarding eviction of vendors from Park yard market in down town Kampala on orders of Kampala Minister Beti Namisango Kamya.Following a proposal by Kampala legislator Mohammed Nsereko, Speaker Rebecca Kadaga asked the Minister to present to parliament a list of vendors who …
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Traders at Park yard market in down town Kampala were on Feb.27 left stranded as police sealed off their work station in the wee hours of the morning. This came after the police engaged in running battles with traders a week before as they demonstrated against their eviction, something that …
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VIDEO: Looking at the recent eviction of vendors at Kampala’s Park Yard, looks like the war on the issue is not over. Speaker of parliament Rebecca Kadaga directs Kampala minister Betty Olive Namisango Kamya to produce a full list of park yard vendors who were evicted and the stalls where they were …
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Betty Namisango Kamya has been dragged to the Commercial Court by a supplier of campaign posters used in the 2011 General Elections, over a sh54.2 million debt. Bakka Abubakari trading as Najab Printers and Stationers claims that on the November 21, 2010 Kamya wrote to him asking him to make posters …
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Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago and KCCA councilors have Monday afternoon been blocked from accessing the cordoned-off Park Yard Market, with a group of stick wielding men forcefully ordering them off the premise. Lukwago attempted to access the area after KCCA Council resolved to undertake a fact finding mission to …
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Betty Kamya is the new minister in charge of Kampala and Hajji Nadduli minister without portfolio in President Yoweri Museveni’s new cabinet. First Lady Janet Museveni is new Minister of Education and Sports. Kampala Full Ministry The ministry in charge of Kampala is also now a full ministry, independent from …
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By Ronald Musoke Beti Olive Kamya, the leader of the Uganda Federal Alliance spoke to The Independent’s Ronald Musoke. Are you also in the camp that believes the opposition should shun the 2016 general elections because the polls have already been rigged in favour of the ruling NRM party? What …
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By Andrew M. Mwenda Uganda needs social reform built around collectivities and not another constitution per se The year 2014 is going to be the year that sets the tone for the 2016 elections. The politician with an argument for the future of Uganda is Beti Kamya. She has been …
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By Patrick Matsiko wa Mucoori Is she power hungry or a victim of bad politics? Former minister of Agriculture in the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) shadow cabinet Beti is described by many who know her as ‘excessively ambitious’ but also shrewd. To them, the current friction between her and …
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