Author: Osbert Mwesigye

Presidential candidate Kyagulanyi Sentamu Robert is living up to his task of giving the incumbent, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni a run for his money. This time literary. Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine was on November 14th canvassing votes in Orungo county, Amuria district in Eastern Uganda. To reach the venue where he was assigned to carry out his campaign procession that day, the National Unity Platform (NUP) candidate had to run there instead of using his vehicle.  He posted this picture on his social media captioned “Amuria, We shall be with you shortly with a message of FREEDOM.” Bobi, said that the venue was about 15km away from the town…

Kamuli Municipality Member of Parliament (MP) Hajjat Rehema Watongola is dead. Watongola succumbed to the COVID-19 infection from Mulago National Referral Hospital on Saturday morning where she had been admitted, the Ministry of Health has confirmed.Watongola becomes the second MP to succumb to the virus after Pallisa District Woman MP, Faith Alupo who passed on in September. The deceased’s husband Badiru Watongola, who doubles as the Kamuli Municipality NRM chairperson said the legislator was admitted with breathing difficulties. Watongola’s brother known as Sam Mubialiwo succumbed to COVID-19 on Thursday last week in the Intensive Care Unit at Jinja Regional referral hospital. In 2017, the late Watongola took the Kamuli Municipality parliamentary seat beating four other candidates including Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) flag-bearer, Proscovia Salaamu Musumba. She garnered 8,726 beating her main…

Justice Julia Sebutinde is one of Africa’s most senior female judges and the first woman to work as a judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) which she joined on February 6, 2012.According to the ICJ website, for one to be appointed a judge at the ICJ, he or she has to be elected by members of the United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council, where polling takes place simultaneously but independent of each other.In order to be elected, a candidate has to have an absolute majority in both bodies, which often leads to much lobbying and a number of rounds of voting.…

Police on Thursday 12th November blocked presidential candidate Nancy Kalembe from launching her manifesto on grounds that she was not supposed to carry out campaigns in Jinja city. Kalembe was scheduled to launch her manifesto in Jinja town on Monday but she postponed it to Thursday. However, officials argue that they had not received any official communication confirming the changes. In a three-hour closed-door meeting with Kalembe, electoral commission officials together with the Jinja city security committee members cleared her to hold a private meeting with her voters away from the official campaign program. Emanuel Mastiko, the Kira region election officer told journalists that presidential candidates cause a standstill…

Independent presidential candidate General Henry Tumukunde was yesterday 11th November denied access to campaign in Kisoro district by security officers of the police force. Tumukunde, who was completing his campaign tour in Kigezi region yesterday was in the morning blocked by security officers from entering Kisoro district on grounds that he was scheduled to be there on Tuesday. Tumukunde bashed the claims by police stating that their acts were motivated by political means seeing as there was no other presidential candidate campaigning in Kisoro district that same day hence no possibility of a clash. However, the decision by police to block Tumukunde was welcomed by…

The budget parliamentary committee has discovered that the two radio samples at the factory that had won the bid to supply radios to all the households across the country were imported from China via DHL, a global logistics company. The radios are intended to allow easy access to home learning by students during the pandemic especially in rural areas where people can’tafford to purchase them on their own. According to the committee, the said factory has no capacity to manufacture or even assemble radios in Uganda, thus the importation from China. The committee questions how the factory bypassed all the procedures and convinced the…

The incumbent and six-time presidential candidate Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Kaguta Museveni has come out to reinforce his image as the strongest candidate in the 2020-2021 elections. Museveni made these statements while addressing a select group of party leaders for the Lango-sub region at Olili Primary School in Apac district yesterday 11th November 2020 during his campaigns. According to Museveni, but for the COVID-19 situation, no other political party or presidential candidate would have attracted huge crowds like the NRM. He also confirmed that the NRM has decided to carry out house-to-house campaigning to mobilize and engage with its voters saying this is a safer method compared…

Over 50 telecom agents and records officials were arrested from various companies over the recent hacking of Pegasus, a third party aggregator in financial transactions run by MTN, Airtel, Stanbic bank and Bank of Africa. The operation that was carried out by the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) followed the hacking of the Pegasus Technologies system on October 3rd 2020 that saw transactions worth 10 billion shillings authorized to more than 2,000 MTN and Airtel simcards. In the aftermath of this occurrence, Pegasus filed a case at Jinja road police station but also alerted the cyber unit at CID headquarters in Kibuli. A senior police officer and one of the lead investigators…

It was chaos as tear gas and bullets rocked Kitgum town Wednesday as police blocked the National Unity Platform (NUP) Presidential flag bearer Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi wine from accessing campaign grounds. Kyagulanyi was scheduled to hold his rally at Christ the King Church playground, Pandwong Division in Kitgum Municipality, but the advance team led by Mr. Allan Ssewanyana was barred from accessing the venue by Rev. Fr. Raphael Steven Kilama, the second curette of Christ the King church. Fr. Kilama said he had been cautioned by security forces that the grounds would not be safe for COVID-19 and went ahead to demand for formal clearance issued by security officers to hold their rally at the church premises.…

The 14th edition of the Buzz Teeniez Awards (BTA) is here and the race is hot. The awards, which are slated to be held as a virtual event will take place on Sunday 13th December 2020. The nomination lists are in and here are the big surprises that have thrilled fans. Dominating the lists is the “Ebiluma Abayaye” singer Crysto Panda who scooped eight nominations for himself and the queen herself Sheebah Karungi and Karole Kasita who both took 6 nominations each. Buzz introduced a new category for Best Teenz Underground Rapper this year and hundreds of young unknown rappers submitted their freestyle videos for a chance to record with ArtinPro and a potential breakthrough. The videos will be posted…