National Unity Platform (NUP) has today unveiled the Butambala Member of Parliament, Muhammad Muwanga Kivumbi as the new deputy President for Buganda Region, replacing Mathias Mpuuga. Mpuuga, the Nyendo-Mukungwe MP fellow out with NUP following the sh500m service award which he received from the parliament after his service as the Leader of Opposition in Parliament […]
The family of Muhammad Ssegirinya, the Kawempe North Member of Parliament, has been granted permission from Muslim leaders to lay his body to rest on Sunday. This is to allow time for Parliament, family members abroad, and constituents to pay their respects. Ssegirinya died today at Rubaga Hospital in Kampala. According to the first communicated […]
Sources close to NUP boss disclosed that in a period of only one week, four MPs and other party executives outside parliament have made attempts to ‘smile’ at Kyagulanyi to win his favour for the post, while some have allegedly ‘begged’ a top NUP legislator at the whims of the boss to throw in a […]
The Member of Parliament for Nyendo-Mukungwe, Mathias Mpuuga has said that the National Unity Platform (NUP), activists have discarded the struggle to oust President Museveni and the National Resistance Movement and must be replaced because they have outlived their usefulness as far as the struggle is concerned. Mpuuga said they (NUP activists) have now resorted […]
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has Pardoned 19 supporters of the National Unity Platform who have been serving a three-month jail term handed to them by the General Court Martial in Makindye on charges of Treachery and unlawful possession of ammunition. Those pardoned are, Rashid Ssegujja, Robert Christopher Rugumayo, Muhydin Kakooza, Simon Kijambu, Abdul Matovu, Olivia Lutaaya, […]
Supreme Court Justice Dr Esther Kitimbo Kisaakye is currently living in exile, fearing for her life due to ongoing threats, according to documents obtained by Uganda Radio Network (URN). The documents, including a series of emails, written by Washington-based law firm Covington & Burling LLP outline the situation in which Kisaakye is living. “Justice Kisaakye […]
Leaders and supporters of the National Unity Platform (NUP) have condemned the Police for blocking the mobilization tours of the Party President in Migyera town council. On Friday, the Police and Uganda Peoples’ Defense Force (UPDF) in Nakasongola district blocked the mobilization tours of Robert Kyagulanyi. Kyagulanyi was supposed to address his supporters at Migyera […]
The High Court in Kampala has directed the government and eight soldiers to compensate two journalists who were assaulted while covering an event involving National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, who was petitioning the United Nations Human Rights Office four years ago. Each journalist, New Vision, reporters Timothy Murungi and Henry Sekanjako, will […]
The National Unity Platform (NUP) Principal, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has mobilized food to feed the starving government sponsored students of Makerere University. Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine has today served over 300 students with a befitting meal and on top of that packed for them at least ten kilo grams of maize floor and […]
The National Unity Platform (NUP) has announced plans to appeal a High Court ruling that dismissed its petition seeking accountability from the Ugandan government for the disappearance of 18 party supporters. NUP President Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu, also known as Bobi Wine, disclosed this during an emergency press conference held at the party headquarters in Makerere Kavule on Wednesday. […]