📌 Salons will be open provided they ensure ✳ Face shields for barbers ✳ Masks for everybody ✳ Temp guns ✳ Masks a must ✳ Social distancing ✳ No air conditioning ✳ Partitioning of big salons ✳ Hand-washing 📌 Some arcades can open provided they have the following ✳ Temp …
Read More »Muntu disappointed with rebel MPs for returning to NRM
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu, the presumptive presidential nominee of the Alliance for National Transformation [ANT] has said he is very disappointed that the National Resistance Movement [NRM] ‘rebel’ MPs have crawled back to the party. Muntu, a former commander of the Uganda People’s Defense Forces …
Read More »The end of opposition
Bobi Wine gains as Besigye, Mao, Akena kill their parties Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | The 2021 general elections have come at the best time for the leaders of Uganda’s three main political parties; the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), the Democratic Party (DP), and the Uganda Peoples Congress …
Read More »MPs caution against double standards as NRM opts for lining up
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of Members of Parliament has asked the government to open up especially for the electoral period after the National Resistance Movement (NRM) approved lining up behind candidates as a voting option for its party primaries. According to the ruling party’s roadmap which was …
Read More »NRM secretary general orders arrest of party members flouting COVID-19 guidelines
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The secretary-general of the National Resistance Movement Justine Kasule Lumumba has asked the police and other law enforcement agencies to arrest any member of the National Resistance Movement [NRM] found flouting the COVID-19 guidelines. Speaking at the party headquarters, Lumumba said belonging to the ruling …
Read More »Sebaggala seeks People Power support in quest for political comeback
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former Kampala city mayor Al Hajji Nasser Ntege Sebaggala has quit the National Resistance Movement-NRM party and joined People Power, a pressure group led by Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu. Sebaggala, a former member of the Democratic Party today returned forms to the …
Read More »President Museveni welcomes back ‘Rebel MPs’
‘Rebel’ MPs meet President Museveni, seek pardon Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Theodore Ssekikubo (Lwemiyaga), Barnabas Tinkasimire (Buyaga West), Sam Lyomoki (Workers) and Monica Amoding (Kumi) have led a group of 16 Members of Parliament that have sought forgiveness after defying and voting against their NRM party positions. The group, named …
Read More »Elections in the age of COVID
How a scientific election opens opportunities for the opposition in Uganda to perform better THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | There is a popular Chinese saying that a wise person looks for an opportunity in every problem while a stupid looks for a problem in every opportunity. …
Read More »The Besigye-Bobi Wine alliance
Why their alliance is an inconvenience Kampala, Uganda | MUBATSI ASINJA HABATI | Did youthful music superstar and Kyadondo East MP Robert Sentamu Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine commit a political blunder by appearing beside opposition strongman Kizza Besigye recently? The leading opposition duo appeared on the same podium on June …
Read More »Accepting scientific election is escorting Museveni to victory – Opposition
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Political players and commentators have described as impractical, illegal, biased and in bad faith, the pronouncement by the Electoral Commission to ban open-air campaigns in the run-up to the 2021 general elections. Electoral Commission chairman Justice Simon Mugenyi Byabakama announced on Tuesday that in …
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