Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu, the presumptive presidential nominee of the Alliance for National Transformation [ANT] has said he is very disappointed that the National Resistance Movement [NRM] ‘rebel’ MPs have crawled back to the party. Muntu, a former commander of the Uganda People’s Defense Forces …
Read More »Minister Rwamirama intervenes in Sembabule quarantine row
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bright Rwamirama, the State Minister in Charge of Animal Industry has intervened in a dispute on the enforcement of livestock quarantine in Sembabule district. Rwamirama and Dr Rose Ann Edmund, the Commissioner in Charge of Health and her Assistant, Doris Kiconco on Thursday were in …
Read More »MP Theodore Ssekikubo re-arrested
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Lwemiyaga County Member of Parliament (MP) Theodore Ssekikubo was rearrested a day after he was granted bail by Masaka Chief Magistrate’s Court. He was picked up by police from his country home in Lwemiyaga Town Council in Sembabule district Wednesday afternoon. Johnston Kamugisha, …
Read More »Ssekikubo blames Gen. Tumwine for his woes
Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Lwemiyaga County Member of Parliament, Theodore Ssekikubo is blaming his current woes on Security Minister, General Elly Tumwine. Ssekikubo is currently locked up at Masaka Central Police Station following his arrest on Friday this week for mobilizing residents to defy the livestock quarantine, reopen …
Read More »Uganda- Rwanda tensions overshadow debate on EAC integration
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have expressed disappointment over the failure to resolve the Uganda-Rwanda tensions. During plenary on Thursday, Maganda Julius Wandera, the Minister of State for East African Community Affairs who was presenting a statement on the 20 years of East African Integration was overruled …
Read More »MP Ssekikubo arrested
By Aloysious Kasoma The Police arrested controversial Lwemiyaga County MP Theodore Ssekikubo Monday night after a long week of summons over statements concerning Nebanda’s death. According to some sources, Ssekikubo was arrested at City Oil Petrol Station along Bombo Road by plain-clothed detectives over comments he allegedly made last year …
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