Kayunga, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Resistance Movement-NRM leaders in Kayunga are demanding funds for mobilization in the LCV chairperson by-election. Last month, the Electoral Commission set December 16, 2021, as the election date for the by-election. The seat fell vacant after Ffefeka Sserubugo, the LCV chairperson for Kayunga …
Read More »Nantaba set to battle another election appeal
Kayunga, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A second election appeal has been filed against Kayunga District Woman Member of Parliament (MP) Idah Erios Nantaba by her rival Jackline Kobusingye Birungi. The appellant Kobusingye is one of six women Nantaba trounced in the January 14th 2021 elections to be declared and …
Read More »Police uneasy placing homosexuals in normal detention
Kayunga, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Kayunga have raised concern about locking up self-proclaimed homosexuals with other suspects. Kayunga District Police Community Liaison Officer, Paul Ssali, says that they often find it challenging locking up other suspects with self-proclaimed homosexuals. Without giving figures, Ssali noted that homosexuality is …
Read More »Court dismisses one of three petitions against MP Nantaba
Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Mukono has dismissed with costs an election petition filed by Ritah Nabadda, a voter challenging the victory of Idah Nantaba as Kayunga District Woman Member of Parliament. Nabadda petitioned the court to nullify the election of Nantaba for allegedly bribing …
Read More »Nabbanja wants more land for IDP resettlement in Kayunga
Kayunga, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja has instructed Kayunga district local government to work closely with her office to conduct valuation of the land housing the internally displaced persons-IDP resettlement camp so as to purchase it. Nabbanja made the instructions after touring Galiraya sub county were over …
Read More »Court dismisses election petition against deceased Kayunga LC V chairperson
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Mukono has dismissed the petition challenging the election of the late Ffeffekka Sserubogo, the former Kayunga LC V chairperson. Boniface Musisi Bandikubi petitioned the court challenging the victory of Sserubogo on grounds that he was illegally nominated and lacked the necessary …
Read More »Petitioner struggles to justify forgery claims against Nantaba
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Jackeline Birungi, the first petitioner in the case challenging the victory of Idah Erios Nantaba as Kayunga Woman Member of Parliament found a hard time defending accusations against her rival for using forged academic qualifications. In her petition, Birungi who ran as an independent accused …
Read More »Pastoralists clash with Ssabanyala over grazing land in Kayunga
Kayunga, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Pastoralists in Kayunga District and the Banyala Chiefdom leader Captain Baker Kimeze are embroiled in a conflict over grazing land. The pastoralists under the Abaliisa Development Entrepreneurship Association (ADEA) accuse Kimeze of using his royal guards to protect another group of pastoralists to graze …
Read More »Joel Kayiira assumes office of Kayunga LC V chairperson
Kayunga, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Joel Kayiira, 28, has assumed the office of LC V chairperson Kayunga district. Kayiira who has been Vice-Chairperson replaces Ffefeka Sserubogo who died last month. Kayiira, a member of the National Unity Platform-NUP, who is also a councillor representing Ggaliraya sub-county says that he will …
Read More »Kayunga LC V chairperson committed suicide – Postmortem report
Kayunga, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The results of the postmortem done on the body of the late Kayunga district LC V chairperson Ffefeka Sserubogo suggested he committed suicide. The postmortem report was conducted at Mulago hospital by three senior surgeons and one independent doctor provided by the family. It was …
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