Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | City lawyer Male Mabirizi has started the process seeking to remove the current Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo from office due to alleged misconduct and incompetence. Mabirizi started the process on Tuesday with his petition to the Secretary of the Judicial Service Commission, a constitutional body …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | On December 30th, 2020, Bony Obicho, 25, a mechanic who was working on National Unity Platform-NUP’s Robert Kyagulanyi damaged campaign cars was among the more than 100 campaigners who landed at Kalangala island where the pop-star-turned-politician had gone to campaign. A father of two children, …
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Kyagulanyi instructed his legal team to withdraw the election petition after losing two applications seeking to amend the petition and include fresh evidence in the Supreme Court Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The withdrawal of the petition by the National Unity Platform-NUP candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu from the Supreme Court …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Supreme Court has allowed former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi to withdraw his presidential election petition seeking to overturn the victory of the incumbent President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. The decision by a panel of nine Supreme Court Justices led by the Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kyadondo East Member of Parliament Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has petitioned the High Court in Kampala challenging the decision by the Uganda Revenue Authority to recall his vehicle for a verification process. Through his lawyers; Wameli and Company Advocates, Kyagulanyi says that he has been targeted …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | “Gift used to pick my calls. As I told you, I am a councilor. He is the one who used to pick my phone calls or make phone calls,” Happy Namatovu Ssempaka says her son, Gift Samuel Nsubuga, 16-year-old, shot in November 18th riot in …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Revenue Authority-URA has said that the motor vehicle that was reportedly donated to NUP President Robert Kyagulanyi was cleared in error. Last week, Kyagulanyi told his supporters that the car, a Toyota Land Cruiser V8 was acquired by local and foreign-based supporters after …
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Mayambala advised to file formal application to inherit Kyagulanyi’s petition Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former presidential candidate Willy Mayambala has been advised to seek the services of a lawyer to enable him file a formal application to take over a presidential election petition that has been abandoned by Robert …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The former National Unity Platform-NUP presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi has called upon leaders in his party to mobilize people to defend their party’s victory. Speaking on Thursday to about 300 leaders including councillors and chairpersons of sub-counties and districts of Kampala, Wakiso and Mukono who …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former presidential candidate Willy Mayambala has written to the Supreme Court requesting that he takes over the presidential election petition filed by former National Unity Platform presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu. The spokesperson of the judiciary Jameson Karemani says that they have received Mayambala’s letter. …
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