Just hours after the Electoral Commission (EC) had gazetted National Unity Platform’s (NUP) Kawempe North by-election winner, Erias Luyimbaazi Nalukoola, the NRM’s candidate, Faridah Nambi has filed a petition at the EC demanding for vote recount. Our Ref: ADA/EC-1/2025 21/03/2025 To: The Chairperson, Electoral Commission RE: MISCELLANEOUS CAUSE NO.22 OF 2025: NAMBI FARIDAH KIGONGO […]
Nalukoola’s victory has been today published in the Uganda Gazette Vol. CXVIII No. 24 under the Parliamentary Elections Act Cap 177 Sec. 781. After a silence of over two weeks since national Unity Platform’s (NUP) Erias Luyimbaazi Nalukoola won the Kawempe North hot contested parliamentary by-elections, the Electoral Commission (EC) has finally succumbed to demands […]
“Martha’s Killers Must Pay Dearly”, Says Seth Murari, Her Father Kawempe North MP-elect, Elias Luyimbaazi Nalukoola, accompanied by National Unity Platform (NUP) Secretary General, David Lewis Rubongoya and party lawyer George Musisi, has petitioned the Electoral Commission (EC) over the delay in gazetting his victory. Nearly two weeks after winning the by-election, Nalukoola has yet […]
The mother, Margret Nabirye popularly known as Maama NUP in Iganga said that she has already written to Kyagulanyi over the matter but that no reply is forthcoming. Relatives of a dead supporter of the National Unity Platform (NUP) in Iganga who perished in a motor accident in 2022 as he travelled to Omoro County […]
Bashabe mysteriously showed up at NUP offices on Tuesday morning from the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) where they have been held since arrest. Peaceful Handover of Power is Not Weakness but Honourable-Katikkiro “We have been subjected to 12 days of daily physical and psychological torment; amid the flogging, they have been asking especially me, […]
H.E THE PRESIDENT’S STATEMENT ON KAWEMPE NORTH BY-ELECTION Fellow Ugandans, especially the Bazzukulu, greetings. It is good that we are getting the rains after a very hot season. Stop damaging the environment, please, wherever you are. In this piece, I am writing to inform you that an electoral and criminal investigation has started in the […]
As Ugandans are grappling with how to reconcile with the aftermath of the short lived but hard-to-forget March 13th Kawempe North parliamentary by-election, members of the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party have rejected the by election result released by the electoral commission. It has been reliably learnt that during the […]
Kiwanda noted that the artistes’ compositions awoke Ugandans to President Museveni’s achievements, which he said has gone a long way in reminding the country where they came from and where they are destined. In the final campaign round for Kawempe North by-elections, local artistes under their signature campaign music logo titled ‘Museveni Awooma’ organised a […]
Bulambuli District National Resistance Movement (NRM) party office has summoned the three sub-county registrars over the inflation of voter registers. Last week, members from four villages in Sotti sub-county, Bulambuli District, specifically, noticed that the displayed voter numbers were significantly lower than the actual numbers in the register. For instance, in Namagude village, the displayed number […]
The five activists were arrested on February 19, 2025, in downtown Kampala on Ben Kiwanuka Street while wearing blue and white T-shirts with the inscription “Kill me but spare Besigye.” The Buganda Road Magistrates Court has granted non-cash bail of sh500,000 each to five women activists from the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Katonga faction, […]
