President Museveni’s political party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) on Wednesday lost Butambala county MP by elections to DP’s Muwanga Kivumbi. Muwanga Kivumbi polled 14,754 votes against his closest challenger NRM’s Faisal Kikulukunyu who polled 12,792. Uganda Federal Alliance’s Ibrahim Tomusage polled third with 150 votes while Independent candidate, Shafiq Sentamu came fourth with 124 […]
The newly elected MP for Butambala County, Muwanga Kivumbi has a lot to do in his constituency. Butambala is so remote, people still stand on anti hills to get telephone network, and the roads in this constituency are hell. Muwanga defeated NRM’s Faisal Kikulukunyu with a margin of over 800 votes. The seat fell vacant […]
In Butambala parliamentary by elections this Wednesday, two candidates, Muwanga Kivumbi of DP and Faisal Kikulukunyu of the ruling party NRM finished casting their votes. But there was drama when Kikulukunyu and Muwanga Kivumbi met and each accused the other of sponsoring irregularities in the electoral process. Kikulukunyu accused Muwanga of using DP politicians, […]
The National Resistance Movement (NRM) leaning independent candidate in Butambala parliamentary by elections, who is also Butambala district Deputy Speaker, Faridah Nakiboneka has withdrawn from the race after president Museveni reportedly telephoned her today morning telling her to stand down for Kikulukunyu. Sources privy to this information told us that Museveni promised her to […]
Butambala County parliamentary by election nominations starts on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. The electoral commission is done with updating the voter’s registers and the registers are being displayed in the constituency to remove the names of the dead or people who shifted from Butambala. The Butambala district returning officer, Mark Muganzi is […]
The Electoral Commission (EC) has rejected the Democratic Party demands to extend the number of days for campaigns in the Butambala parliamentary by-elections. Addressing a press conference on Wednesday in Kampala, the party DP Secretary general Mathias Nsubuga demanded the commission to extend the period saying that the time allocated for the exercise is […]
Butambala district has asked Reynolds Construction Company (RCC) to pay it for the quarrying mines it has in the area. The Butambala district Chief Administration Officer, Joseph Byaruhanga says that they wrote to the RCC head offices asking for payment for the gravels but the company has declined to respond positively. According to Byaruhanga, RCC […]