By Gerald Businge on March 26, 2012
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More than two years after Aswa MP Reagan Okumu raised the issue of top UPDF officers being from one region, western Uganda on the floor of Parliament, the top leadership of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces as well as the Special Forces Group, formerly the presidential guard brigade, remains dominated by officers from western Uganda. […]
By Gerald Businge on February 3, 2012
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In our first news report we told you that FDC has branded some of its MPs in the Uganda ninth parliament as rebels. The rebel MPs in FDC we are told are those FDC members who criticise the party president Col. Kiiza Besigye whenever he goes wrong. Like in NRM, Besigye doesn’t want people to […]
By Gerald Businge on February 3, 2012
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It seems in Uganda whoever disagrees with the policies of his or her political party becomes a rebel. In Uganda’s ruling party NRM, the MPs such as Mohammad Nsereko for Kampala Central and Theodre Sekikubo who have been challenging the dictatorial practices of president Museveni and NRM have already been branded rebels. For the Democratic […]
By Gerald Businge on January 17, 2012
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Members of Parliament have asked the electricity Regulatory Authority to withdraw the statement issued yesterday, defying an order to halt the charging of new tariffs. The board of the Electricity Regulatory is appearing before the probe committee into the energy sector that has been overshadowed by reports of corruption. Members of the committee yesterday questioned […]
By Gerald Businge on December 21, 2011
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A source in FDC told our informers yesterday that the main opposition party in Uganda wants to start selling all its members interested in running for president to the public. Although the next presidential elections will take place in 2016, FDC says it wants to begin the process so early such that by the time […]
