By Mubatsi Asinja Habati As the National Resistance Army/Movement (NRM) celebrates 26 years in power, residents of Katebwa, a village that falls in Bunyangabu county, Kabarole district, which was at the heart of the bush war are yet to enjoy the benefits of their support for the fighters about 30 …
Read More »Quitting NRM
By Haggai Matsiko Besigye (1999), Bidandi (2003), who is next after Kyankwazi? Until recently, it was unheard of for an NRM party member to boycott summons by President Yoweri Museveni to the National Leadership Institute at Kyankwanzi which is respected as a sort of shrine where party folk go for …
Read More »NRM still strong in Luwero
By Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi NRM still strong in Luwero Over a week after the Luwero district Woman MP by-election was concluded, the Electoral Commission had not gazetted DP’s Brenda Nabukenya, who had been declared winner with 14,945 votes against 14,915 for NRM’s Rebecca Nalwanga. The Independent’s Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi talked …
Read More »NRM’s rebels
By Agather Atuhaire Might they be the key to a new Reform politics? President Yoweri Museveni could not have foreseen the hostility he has faced so far with in the 9th Parliament – not when his National Resistance Movement (NRM) party owns more than half the seats in the house. …
Read More »Power slipping away from Museveni in NRM
By Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi Parliament rebels, Muhoozi not in control of army, no bail law for opponents Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi usually prefers to be the perfect picture of calm even at his most harassed moments. So a few eyebrows went up when the dapper NRM-strongman, on the afternoon of …
Read More »High cost of living reveals contradiction in NRM ideology
By Kisembo Elia The spiritual aspects that informed the NRM ideological commitment to the people’s plight is being eroded. Africa is a continent that did not form a political and economic ideology of its own in the recent past. The political and economic ideologies that we use were just imposed …
Read More »NRM must recognise Buganda’s value
By Paulo Wangoola After subduing the rest of Uganda’s historical power centres, Museveni now is frontally taking on Buganda There is no doubt the coming to power by Yoweri Museveni and NRM in 1986, and remaining popular for 15 years, was directly linked to the unequivocal political support of Buganda …
Read More »NRM’s tough choices Why Museveni will not support Mbabazi against independents
By eriasa mukiibi sserunjigi On Dec. 20, President Yoweri Museveni will take his re-election campaign to Kamuli district, home to three important members of his government. There will be no controversy around Deputy Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga, who is looking to retain her seat as district Woman MP on …
Read More »NRM’s internal fights heat up
By the independent team Bukenya, Otafiire dropped from Museveni campaign team Mbabazi named in the plot Mid this year, President Yoweri Museveni received an intelligence report written against Vice President Gilbert Bukenya. Signed by then chief of Internal Security Organisation (ISO), Amos Mukumbi, the confidential report claimed that Bukenya was …
Read More »Independents expose holes in NRM socks
By Andrew M.Mwenda With nominations for parliamentary candidates finished, independents (largely malcontents who lost in the NRM primaries) are now the largest political party in the contest albeit a non-organised and unconscious one. By November 30, out of the 238 directly contestable seats, independents had fielded 269 candidates (in 95 …
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