Security officers at the Parliament of Uganda were on Wednesday taken by surprise as a National Resistance Movement (NRM) cadre set himself on fire. The angry and frustrated young NRM supporter has been identified as Benjamin Agaba. He set himself ablaze near the main entrance to the Parliament of Uganda. Agaba alleges that his property […]
Police have started investigating circumstances in which a yet to be identified man set himself on fire near the main gate of the Parliament of Uganda on Wednesday. According to an eyewitness, the man who is in his 30s soaked himself with petrol before igniting the flames a few meters from the parliament entrance. Raid […]
A heated exchange unfolded in Parliament on Tuesday, as Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja openly criticized Leader of the Opposition Joel Ssenyonyi. The tension began when Ssenyonyi notified Parliament about the release of seven National Unity Platform (NUP) leaders who had been abducted by security forces. Ssenyonyi expressed concerns about the raid on the NUP headquarters, […]
Speaker Anita Annet Among has asked the Prime Minister, Robinah Nabbanja to consider including a provision in Parliament’s budget to cover medical treatment abroad and burial expenses for former MPs, saying the demands for these items are overwhelming Parliament. She made the remarks during yesterday’s plenary sitting while reacting to a request by Phyllis Chemutai […]
Whether out of desperation, inability to cope with the commoners’ lifestyle, missing the red carpet type of lifestyle, or genuinely responding to voters’ outcries for the mistakes they (voters) made in dropping former National Resistance Movement (NRM) ‘darlings’, the now undoubted (and almost official) stand is that over ten former ministers are determined head-over-heels to […]
The government has admitted that the situation of the former presidential candidate, Col. Dr. Kizza Besigye is alarming. This was during Tuesday’s plenary sitting in which the Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among questioned the government side about steps taken to comply with the Supreme Court directive of 31st January 2025, regarding the unconstitutional trial of […]
A man identified as Alfred Byamukama has spent 28 years at Luzira prison without appearing before courts for trial. Parliament’s Human Rights Committee has said his long stay on remand has exposed the persistent pre-trial detention crisis blamed for congestion in Uganda’s prisons. The parliament committee also found that more than a half of the population of […]
The former Koboko Woman Member of Parliament, Margaret Baba Diri is dead. The news of her passing was delivered on Thursday on the floor of Parliament by the Koboko County MP, James Boliba Baba. “Rt. Honourable Speaker, thank you for the privilege and Honorable Members. I regret to inform you that our old colleague, a […]
The management of Rubaga Hospital has finally confirmed the death of Kawempe North Member of Parliament, Muhammad Ssegirinya. In a statement stamped by the hospital, Ssegirinya died on Thursday January 9, 2025 at 12:10pm. Bank Manager Dies in Bathroom “OFFICIAL STATEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PASSING OF HON. MUHAMMAD SSEGGIRINYA 9th January, 2025 With deep sorrow, […]
Rubaga Hospital has refuted the allegations that Kawempe North Member of Parliament, Muhammad Ssegirinya is dead. However, the hospital has said that Ssegirinya is “brain dead” and “all his organs have shut down!” The acting executive director for Rubaga Hospital, Sr. Dr. Grace Nannyondo said that though Ssegirinya is brain dead and all his organs […]