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NUP: Our MPs will vote for Kadaga

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform, now the largest opposition political party in parliament with 57 MPs has told its members to vote for Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga as speaker of parliament. The do or die contest is happen now at the Kololo Ceremonial Grounds. According to …

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NUP to conduct primaries for KCCA speakership seat

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The National Unity Platform-NUP will next week conduct primaries for the position of Speaker of Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA. The Speaker, a position introduced in the KCCA amendment of 2019 is elected by the councillors to preside over council sittings, pass authority budgets and conduct an …

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Mukono district NUP chairman appoints NRM candidate to deputize him

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mukono district chairman Rev Peter Bakaluba Mukasa has appointed Asuman Muhumuza, a member of the National Resistance Movement-NRM, to deputize him as he starts his term of office under the National Unity Platform. Bakaluba told the first sitting of the Mukono district council after the swearing-in …

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Ivan Ssempijja wins Makerere University guild presidential race

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ivan Ssempijja has been elected the new Guild President of Makerere University. He replaces Julius Kateregga. In an election that was organized both physically and online, Ssempijja, a fourth-year student of Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery defeated two other candidates in the race. Ssempijja garnered 3,112 …

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NUP declines invite to Museveni’s swearing-in ceremony

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform-NUP party has declined an invitation to the swearing-in ceremony of Yoweri Museveni, as President of Uganda for yet another term. The event is scheduled to take place on Wednesday May 12, 2021. The Minister for the Presidency Esther Mbayo yesterday told journalists …

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