Security personnel, including soldiers and police officers, spent several minutes calming tensions at the Kampala District tally centre located at Makerere University Business School (MUBS), where candidates and their agents protested against some of the results being read. Error on Ballot Papers Forces Voting Suspension in Mukono Ronald Nsubuga Balimwezo of the National Unity Platform […]
Muyanja expressed dismay that an exercise geared at identifying upright citizens to help in provision of desired services to the people like safe water, good roads, schools and other necessities of life, is being conducted with involvement of guns. Mukono National Unity Platform (NUP) candidate for the district chairman’s seat, Johnson Muyanja Ssenyonga has decried […]
He was appointed as a judge of the High Court of Uganda in 2016. He was then assigned as the Resident Judge of Mbarara High Court Circuit, the largest circuit in the country. While serving in that capacity, in December 2019, he was appointed the principal judge. Ssewungu’s Win Hangs in Balance as Court Orders […]
Charles Muyimbwa of the National Unity Platform (NUP) was assigned a symbol (watch) that did not belong to him, while independent candidate Hannington Ssebadda assigned umbrella. Justice Zeija Appointed Chief Justice The Electoral Commission has cancelled voting for the position of Direct Councillor in Nyenje and Seeta wards following an error in the placement […]
President Yoweri Museveni has appointed Justice Flavian Zeija to serve as the next chief justice of Uganda, succeeding Alfonse Owiny-Dollo who retired this week. The Appointments Committee of Parliament, chaired by Speaker Anita Among, convened Thursday morning to vet Zeija following the presidential nomination. The move marks a transition at the highest level of the […]
Muhammad Muwanga Kivumbi, the Member of Parliament for Butambala County, has been arrested and is currently in police custody. Kivumbi’s arrest is in connection with recent incidents of political violence in the area, according to Lydia Tumushabe, the Police Public Relations Officer for Katonga Police Region. Kivumbi is expected to be arraigned before court soon. […]
Ssewungu, a vocal opposition MP, had won the seat with 10,106 votes, while Ssemakula garnered 10,069 votes. The fate of Andrew Gonzaga Ssewungu’s victory in Kalungu West constituency hangs in the balance after a court ordered a recount of votes. Ssewungu, a National Unity Platform (NUP) candidate, had been declared winner with a narrow margin […]
Kaddu said that the accident occurred at around 11:00am. Namanda has been the Mukono district fisheries officer and she has been residing in Nama sub-county. Fear has gripped the Mukono district staff following the untimely death of one of them, Josephine Namanda who passed on today’s morning. According to Mukono district communications officer, Derrick Kaddu, […]
NRM polling agents refused to sign the declaration forms, and scuffles broke out between NRM and NUP members, leaving several people bleeding. In a dramatic turn of events, National Resistance Movement (NRM) youth candidates in Mukono Municipality protested the results of the youth elections, claiming the process was rigged in favor of the National Unity […]
Without mincing words, Gen. Nalweyiso disclosed that she plans to approach the relevant authorities to influence tabling of a mission seeking to revise the presidential, parliamentary and local government leadership term from five to ten years, to cut down on the undue costs incurred by the state in organizing elections, reasoning that five years is […]