Tag Archives: Lukwago

By Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi What if Musisi’s NRM councillors can do it? When Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago showed up in Council Hall for a scheduled meeting on March 7, the ceremonial mace was missing. An agitated Lukwago mounted a hunt. No meeting of Kampala Capital City Authority’s (KCCA) can …

By Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi How will Lord Mayor’s star fare after he is done fighting his wars in KCCA? Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) Executive Director Jennifer Musisi Kiwanuka on Nov. 17 met journalists to review her first six months in office. Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago had held his weekly …

By Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi Lukwago takes on Gen. Tinyefuza and UTODA Barely a week after evicting former Kampala City Mayor Al-haji Nasser Ssebaggala from the official residence of the town clerk, Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago says he now wants the Mayor’s residence back too. Located on Plot 2 Mabua Road …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati The elderly Ssebaana Kizito is former mayor of Uganda’s capital city, Kampala which has just got a new Lord Mayor; opposition firebrand Erias Lukwago. Ssebaana spoke to The Independent’s Mubatsi Asinja Habati about the challenges Lukwago, who has to work with an executive secretary appointed under …

By eriasa mukiibi sserunjogi He comes to a downgraded office with a common man’s agenda. Will it work? I have not beaten only Sematimba, I have won against President Museveni and the entire state machinery.” That was the declaration of a triumphant Erias Lukwago, moments after Kampala District Returning Officer, …

By Onghwens Kisangala Democratic Party (DP) is the oldest political party in Uganda. It has competed in every national elections including the 1980 elections when (as is widely believed) it actually won elections but has never been in power, save briefly in 1961-62 as an independence transitional government. A party …