By Ellady Muyambi Government’s resort to the use of force or threats in the Lukwago case will culminate in disaster I am compelled to write this article after viewing ugly and worse scenes on our national TV stations and reading concocted stories in our newspapers on the impeachment of the …
Read More »Who is next after Ruranga defects to NRM?
By Ronald Musoke Anxious times as NRM camp claims that Ruranga is coming along with other FDC big wigs When Maj. (rtd) Rubaramira Ruranga, the former head of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Electoral Commission, announced his defection to NRM late last month—the ruling party celebrated. But many opposition …
Read More »‘Married’ NRM shouldn’t live like a ‘bachelor’
By Peter Nyanzi Ruling party should not have waited for Speakers’ reminder that the country has moved on from the ‘Movement’ era The incessant sharp elbowing between the Legislature and the Executive has been a subject of news and political commentary for the better part of the past 12 months. …
Read More »Museveni’s war within NRM
By Haggai Matsiko Have some cadres become too strong for him? It is not clear how the latest clash between Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi and the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, will end. But it is interesting to watch how President Yoweri Museveni will handle it. In the past, Museveni …
Read More »How Museveni nearly quit NRM
By Haggai Matsiko Election case haunts President’s party On Friday October 22, 2010, President Yoweri Museveni held a heated meeting at State House, Entebbe, with a little-known former aide of his, Capt. Daudi Ruhinda Maguru. Present at the meeting was Adolf Mwesige, who was then-minister in the Prime Minister’s office …
Read More »Between NRM and the opposition
By Andrew M. Mwenda Museveni’s opponents have employed the same tactics as their adversary – and Ugandans no longer see a difference In the 1990s, the enemy of the government of Uganda was the government of Sudan in Khartoum. The Monitor newspaper I worked for was moderately critical of the …
Read More »NRM ‘rebel’ MPs
By Denis Musinguzi The irony of enforcing discipline within an undisciplined system The expulsion from the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party and, according to NRM Secretary General from parliament, of the four rebel-dubbed Members of Parliament, MPs Wilfred Niwagaba, Muhammad Nsereko, Barnabas Tinkasimire Ateenyi and Theodore Ssekikubo for indiscipline has, …
Read More »NRM and its rebel MPs
By Andrew M. Mwenda How party’s tolerance of rebel MPs was typical of its tolerance of other ills and a danger to democracy Finally, the NRM decided to expel it’s so called “rebel MPs”. Many critics of President Yoweri Museveni and the NRM have denounced this decision. The MPs themselves …
Read More »NRM fires Ssekikubo and Co
By Aloysious Kasoma The ruling National Resistance Movement party has fired four rebel MPs and suspended one. The MPs expelled include the Lwemiyaga MP Theodore Sekkikubo, Barnabas Tinkasimire, Muhammad Nsereko and Wilfred Niwagaba while Vicent Kyamadidi was suspended for three months. NRM’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) on Sunday adopted the …
Read More »NRM denies secretly supporting Butaleja’s independent candidate
By Julius Odeke The National Resistance Movement (NRM) party has in strong terms denied supporting the Independent candidate, Betty Hamaba in the Butaleja’s by-elections that are slated for February 11. The Director in charge of recruitment and mobilization in the NRM secretariat Hassan Galiwango in an interview with The Independent …
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