Stories Unusual

DPP petitions speaker Kadaga over corruption

  It seems the speaker of Parliament Ms Rebecca Kadaga is in total pressure following the house’s continued investigations of corruption into Prime Minister’s office. The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) told Kadaga that it was giving the country a bad image for the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament to investigate Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi. […]

Museveni orders NRM Members of Parliament to stop investigations against Mbabazi

  Ugandan President Gen. Kaguta Museveni has ordered all National Resistance Movement (NRM) Members of Parliament to stop all their investigations against Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi. On Monday Museveni summoned all government ministers and MPs to Entebbe Statehouse for a meeting. The meeting was attended among others by Security minister Muluuli Mukasa, Justice Minister Maj. […]

Losers in Butaleja woman MP elections threatens to sue NRM over vote rigging

  The losers in Monday’s woman MP by elections in Butaleja are planning to sue the electoral commission and the government over vote rigging in favour of the National Resistance Movement candidate Florence Andiru Nebanda. The race attracted five candidates. Others were Sarah Annet Logose (independent), Betty Hamba (Independent), Perusi Munabi (independence) and Forum for […]

KCCA chasses away northerners from Kampala

  There were tears in Kampala today as Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) law enforcement officers demolished all kiosks owned by people from northern Uganda and West Nile. The kiosks demolished were at Arua Park in Kampala. There was also stiff resistance as food vendors and the business community involved l in running battles with […]

Uganda markets flooded by fake HIV home kits

  It now looks that Uganda markets are like a dumping area for all poor quality products from China and other countries in Europe, America. We are told that Uganda’s markets are flooded by fake HIV Home Kits for Self HIV Testing. Sources in Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) told us that these fake HIV […]

Police rocks suspects in public toilets

In what looks like violation of peoples’ inherent rights, Uganda police arrested and reportedly detained seven men in toilets. The seven men were arrested by the police at Nyeihanga Trading Centre in NdeijaSubCounty in Rwampara constituency in Mbarara District on Thursday 07/02/2013. The suspects locked up in police toilets are Mr Baguma Nelson, Mr Mutungi […]

Police, UPDF beat opposition supporters in Butaleja

 The candidates in the Butaleja women parliamentary by-elections have complained about the heavy deployment of police, Ugandan Peoples Defence Forces and military police in the district during Monday’s voting. Felistus Namwihiriri of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) says that the police and other security agencies have beaten their supporters and arrested dozens of others. Addressing […]

Uganda mothers hired to carry pregnancies for barren and busy women

    In 2005, a 20 plus year-old woman identified as only Fatumah was paid four million Uganda shillings to carry a pregnancy for another woman in Kampala (names withheld).  Fatumah delivered two health babies at a go and immediately handed the babies over to the woman who had paid her to nurse the babies. […]

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