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Kiira Municipality MP Ibrahim Ssemujju has revealed that the National Unity Platform (NUP) President Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine asked NUP MPs to vote for the former speaker of Parliament, Hon Rebecca Kadaga in the recently concluded Speakership elections. “I wrote to everyone among the National Unity Platform MPs, I even wrote to the NUP President and asked to meet him at his convenience but he did not honor my request. Instead, he convened a meeting of NUP members on Sunday and told them to vote Rebecca Kadaga,” Ssemujju said. “Sometimes people pursue personal interest and begin rationalizing even the most…

The District Police Commander (DPC) of Kira Road Police Station, SP. Mathias Turyasingura has succumbed to the deadly COVID-19 virus. The Ugandan Wire has confirmed this from our sources within the Uganda Police and relatives of the late. The late SP Turyasingura passed on at Mulago National Referral Hospital where he had been admitted with COVID-19 related symptoms. The Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson Mr. Luke Owoyesigire confirmed the report revealing that the DPC had lost the battle to COVID-19. Turyasingura had for days been fighting for his life in the intensive care unit at Mulago. Police officers and friends of…

Exclusively, The Ugandan Wire has established that President Museveni did not chair the National Resistance Movement (NRM) CEC meeting that is yet to come up with a decision on whom the party should back in the Monday election of Speaker for the 11th Parliament. The meeting that started at 4PM today was chaired by Party Vice Chairman Hajji Moses Kigongo chaired the meeting as President Museveni did more of the listening. According to our source in the meeting, President Museveni decided to take a neutral stand in the matter amid accusations especially from the Kadaga camp that he is favoring…

All National Resistance Movement (NRM) Central Executive Committee (CEC) members will sleep in State House today ahead of the announcement of their decision on who will be backed by the party for Speaker of the 11th Parliament. According to our sources in State House, there have been complaints of bribery in the race and as a result of that, members of CEC will not be allowed to go back home today. They’ll spend the night in State House Entebbe and communicate their decision at 8am tomorrow. We have also learned that the members of CEC will be provided more data…

The top decision making organ of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party – the Central Executive Committee (CEC) has failed to agree on a choice for Speaker of Parliament. The committee has been in a closed door meeting since 4PM today to reach consensus on who should be the party choice for Speaker between Kamuli Woman MP Rebecca Kadaga and her hitherto deputy Jacob Oulanyah. The NRM Secretary General, Justine Kasule Lumumba has told this website that the meeting to decide who takes the flag shall resume tomorrow at 9am. The 11th Parliament shall converge on Monday during their…

Soroti East Division MP, Mr. Moses Attan Okia has spoken out for the first time about an incident on Monday during his swearing in when his two wives wrangled at platform over who takes the shine. The rivarly, which was vividly caught off camera, started as soon as Mr. Okia was called up to the lectern to take oaths of office and allegiance. One of the wives dressed in a gomesi sprung to her feet first and marched hurriedly forward, leaving her husband and co-wife to follow suit. The drama however, erupted the moment Mr. Okia lifted the Bible aloft…

After hours of deliberation at State House, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Central Executive Committee (CEC) pronounced itself on the fate of the candidates in the Speaker, Deputy race. The top decision making organ of the party has resolved that all those interested in the position of Speaker and Deputy Speaker of Parliament be vetted. With immediate effect, the party has said that expression of interest starts tomorrow at the party Electoral Commission offices on Kyadondo Road. The party is torn between current speaker Rebecca Kadaga and deputy Jacob Oulanya who are both vying for the top position. Among those…

The High Court in Kampala has found guilty and consequently convicted a Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) soldier on charges of murdering an Eritrean National and Businessman Daniel Michael Weldu in October 2016 and later robbing him of his property. Captain Mangeni Bumali aka Akeem, attached to the Special Forces Command (SFC) has been convicted together with a lawyer Benon Duncan Lumu and a one Andrew Kisitu. The three have been convicted by Kampala High Court Justice Flavia Angelin Ssenoga after ruling that prosecution had adduced sufficient evidence to prove that with intent to murder, the convicts caused the death…

It is alleged that NTV Uganda’s top news anchor Flavia Tumusiime has been pushing for salary increment since this year began but the station’s manager could not honor her request because he never saw the reason to do so. After 20 years in television, Flavia Tumusiime says she has chosen to quit the station according to latest reports. The mother of one on Monday announced that she had quit NTV-Uganda where she has been anchoring news for the last six years for great changes in both her career (media personality, content creator and business partner) and life as a wife…

To NBS Television journalist and Western Uganda Bureau Chief Sheila Nakabuye has died hours after giving birth. Nakabuye gave birth to a live baby girl on Saturday morning May 15, at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital. According to Nakabuye’s mother, the NBS TV Bureau Chief suffered seizures shortly after giving birth and slipped into coma and on Monday morning, doctors announced her death. “She had pre eclampsia which was not managed early, she was in coma by last night. She had seizures that affected the brain.” NILE POST