One great writer said that, to the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth but when death comes more so abruptly and in such a gruesome manner like it happened to my Honourable brother Col.Ibrahim Abiriga, truth ceases to matter but the fact that a life is lost. I […]
The Member of Parliament for Makindye West, Allan Sewanyana, has suggested that a review of the Local Government (Amendment) Act 2014 whose provisions for lining up behind candidates while voting village council leaders be changed to secret ballot. He says that the law is impractical since many villages have a sizeable number of voters and that […]
The Democratic Party has demanded that government extends the dates of elections to village councils to allow fresh registration of voters at village level. The Democratic Party officials led by the party deputy secretary, Gerald Siranda, and the party vice president in charge of Buganda, Betty Nambooze, while appearing before the public service and local […]
Parliament has given the Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister, Kahinda Otafire an ultimatum of two weeks in order to furnish the house with the status of the elections of village councils. The directive was issued by the deputy speaker of parliament after opposition MPs who included; Mukono municipality MP, Betty Nambooze ,Busiro East MP Medard Segoona […]
Shadow Minister for local Government who is also Mukono municipality Member of Parliament Betty Nambooze appealed to colleagues in parliament to throw out the proposal by Government to create more counties. Yesterday the Minister of local Government Adolf Mwesigye tabled before parliament over 39 counties seeking parliamentary approval. However, Nambooze says that it should not be […]
Three political parties FDC, DP and Justice Forum have tabled their constitutional amendment and electoral reforms before the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs committee of Parliament calling for the return of presidential term limits, a running mate for any presidential candidate standing for presidency and appointing electoral commission by Judicial Service Commission The group consisted of FDC party leader Major General Mugisha Muntu , Democratic […]
It is hard to believe that Mukono Municipality MP, Betty Nambooze and Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago are no longer friends. Gone are the days when Lukwago and Nambooze were moving together as if they were husband and wife or brother and sister. We have been reliably informed that currently when Nambooze brings an argument […]
Most people would expect that Mukono Municipality MP, Betty Nambooze must seek re-election as MP of the same area during 2016 general elections. Others would think that perhaps Nambooze could contest as Mukono district woman MP or LC5 chairperson. But this is not true. We have been told that the flamboyant Mukono Municipality MP is […]
There is an old adage that ‘God made man, man made money and money made man mad’ as Bobi Wine sings in his Mr. Money song. Many in the Uganda’s leading opposition party Forum for Democratic Change are living out this adage. Some of the party’s youth leaders have split over money they think their […]
The Shadow minister for Kampala Capital City Authority Betty Nambooze has cautioned the Authority’s Executive Director Jennifer Musisi over what Nambooze terms as illegal awarding of the contracts going on. Nambooze said although currently there is no legal contracts committee under which the City Authority is mandated to award contracts, so far 49 contracts have […]