Tag Archives: Robert Kyagulanyi

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Judicial Service Commission has started investigations into the alleged misconduct of Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo. The charges stem from a petition filed by lawyer Male Mabirizi accusing Dollo of incompetence and misconduct. Mabirizi said that having served as a personal lawyer to President Yoweri …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The High Court in Kampala has allowed Ghetto TV Journalist Ashraf Kasirye to file new allegations related to human rights violations against the government. This arises from a case filed by Kasirye on December 3, 2020 challenging the decision by the police to forcefully remove …

Bobi Wine declared himself winner of the January 14 presidential election with 54.19 percent Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Days after the National Unity Platform-NUP former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine declared himself winner of the January 14 presidential election with 54.19 percent, the party has …

Justice Byabakama has questioned why Kyagulanyi failed to present the same result forms before the Supreme Court Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Justice Simon Byabakama, the chairman of the Electoral Commission has challenged former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi not to mislead Ugandans by parading results which he failed to table …

NUP president Robert Kyagulanyi called on Ugandans to rise up peacefully and unarmed to challenge a regime that has oppressed and exploited them Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform (NUP) is optimistic that demonstrations that were announced to start today will gain momentum in the coming days. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The founders of the National Unity Reconciliation and Development Party-NURP have appealed against the High Court decision that made them applicants before they were condemned to pay costs in the party takeover case. The two Moses Nkonge Kibalama and Paul Simbwa who are the founding …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …