Author: Richard Nixon Gusango

Sponsored by Lord Nigel, the prominent Member of House of Lords of the United Kingdom, the Uganda’s High Commission to UK on 11th October 2022 hosted its inaugural diaspora youth Engagement aimed encouraging young to take up the initiative and responsibility in the next 2026 general elections. According to the consent order that was signed by Uganda’s Electoral Commission in 2020, all the necessary steps shall be taken to ensure that people in diaspora and prisoners participated in the elections. The Commission also moved the necessary offices to make amendments in the electoral laws to enable the said categories of…

Former Jinja district Resident District Commissioner Eric Sakwa yesterday evening dodged death after his office vehicle got petrol bombed by yet to be identified assailants in Nankulabye a Kampala surburb. It was a cold evening as the a group of community members patriotically saved Museveni’s boy from this massacre moments before another bomb had been dropped onto his car. Kampala Metropolitan Police deputy spokesperson, Mr Luke Owoyesigyire said Mr Sakwa was saved by community members as one of the suspects was about to hurl the second petrol bomb at the car. Eric Sakwa got known more in battles of fighting…

“As a philosopher and a cleric, I call upon all political forces in Uganda to identify a fact that misses in their engagements, which is the important ingredient of peace,” Pastor Martin Ssempa, the Makerere Community Church elder has emphasized. There is a lot of okusika omuguwa (tugging) from all political players which is unhealthy for the State and its citizens. Acknowledging this deficiency will sort out all this political kappa egoba emmese (cat-and-mouse) engagement, which is not the unifying contest that the origin of leadership and authority, God, requires us to apprehend and follow. “I completely don’t agree with…

The Gogonyo member of parliament, Derrick Orone is off the tenterhooks after winning against his petitioner Issa Taligoola who was the second to him in the recent elections. The Pallisa chief magistrate has ordered the Mr Taligoola to pay a total of ugx16m to the rivals in the petition.  Mr Taligoola sought a vote recount where he asserts that lots of irregularities in the elections. According to the results,  Mr Derrick Orone who also is the NRM flag holder garnered 6280 votes, followed by Taligoola who captured 6214 votes. According to the judgement, the chief magistrate ruled that Taligoola had…

National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential flagbearer Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu alias Bobi Wine has warned of a prospected interference with the internet and call networks on the voting days and appealed to Ugandans to download VPNs. While appearing on TV last night, Kyagulanyi asked Ugandans to equip their phones with VPNs in order to dodge the interference. In his discourse, he looks at phones as being the best way to share electoral results to various national political centres. He further asserted that Justice Simon Byabakama, the Chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC), is at logger heads with what he is meant…

Presidentail hopeful, Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine of the National Unity Platform (NUP) has taken to the campaign trail with bullet proof attire for fear of being sniped. Kyagulanyi has been battling with the security for the past days during his trails over “disrespecting” the Ministry of Health Standard Operating Procedurs (SOPs) against COVID-19 and it’s to this fact that bullets, teargas and loss of lives have been part of his trail. The most recent encounter he has had with the Police was in Kayunga where one of his EC assigned body guards a one ASP Kato was injured in…

President Museveni has orderered for the hand over of Centenary Park space to government in order to free up space for road construction. Businesses running at the Centenary Park end today since the land is to be handed over to government to pave way for construction of the long awaited Jinja Expressway. KCCA Executive Director, Dorothy Kisaka in a letter addressed to Nalongo Estates that manages the property, re-affirmed that President Museveni ordered that the land be handed over for the construction works. “His Excellency the President directed that the land surveyed and demarcated at Centenary Park for the Jinja…

Mbale City is all smiles after it received Shs 11Bn meant to construct some three roads within the newly created City. A proper road network eases business in any area, but the suggested roads have, according to residents and visitors, been a menace to business progress in the new city. The money was allocated to Mbale under the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development (USMID) program to construct the three roads which are currently plainly bad whether in a rainy season or not. According to James Kutosi, the Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mbale City, the roads to be constructed are…

National Resistance Movement (NRM) National Chairman and 2021 flag bearer President Yoweri Museveni has launched an app called “Mzee Nalo” as a way of catching up with the latest political trend. A man well known for his famous campaigning tactics, has matched his usual election build up over the years with an innovation at a time when many thought he is out of ideas. Through the past presidential election campaigns, he has hit the studio himself (with another rap) and then had the “Tubonga Naawe” song that caused many Ugandan musicians trouble among the opposition. Now he has come up…

At about 10:00am this morning, locals from Namutumba District converged at Bugobi Town Council in protest over the results that the returning officers led by their chairman Bovan Magobi announced. They locals contend that the incumbent, who is the Butiki Constituency Member of Parliament (MP) was unfairly thrown out of the party primaries by just an announcement that was not in line with what came out of the common vote. The incumbent who allegedly scooped more than 30,000 votes was announced second over his opponent Dr. Fred Kasiisa who managed to secure just 17,000 votes. The protesters have further threatened…