By Obed K. Katureebe & John Njoroge Museveni grills security chiefs Just a few hours before President Yoweri Museveni flew out for a two-day state visit to Nigeria on November 20, he called all the security chiefs to an emergency meeting at State House Entebbe. In attendance were Inspector General …
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By The Independent Team Abel Katembwe May 1998: NSSF board dismisses demands by parliament to send Katembwe on forced leave. NSSF initially resists and board chairman Sam Rutega defends him before parliamentarians as a hard working manager. But eventually Katembwe is sacked. Katembwe’s woes started after he bought a house …
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By Patrick Kagenda Big money, greed, poor policy causing shortages Uganda’s petrol czar, Mr. Ivan Kyayonka, possibly does not know how it feels to drive into a fuel station and find no fuel. He has been the chairman of Uganda’s top fuel dealership, Shell, for around two decades and refills …
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By Melina Platas Traitor or a survivor? Many believe that Ssekandi will not be remembered for his objectivity, as Nsibambi suggests, but rather as the Speaker who made the most controversial decisions. Get me the Speaker,’ Prime Minister Apolo Nsibambi demands, and then hangs up the phone. A few …
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By Independent Team On the evening of Wednesday October 29, Adolf Mwesigye, the minister of State for General Duties in the Office of the Vice-President, led a group of MPs to Buziga Country Resort in Kampala. The MPs had earlier attended a meeting at Security Minister Amama Mbabazi’s Akii-Bua Road …
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By The Independent Team When embattled Security Minister and NRM secretary general John Patrick Amama Mbabazi gave his first media interview amid allegations of misconduct in the Shs 11 billion NSSF-Temangalo land deal involving himself and business partner Amos Nzeyi, the minister warned his detractors [read political vultures] that their …
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By John Njoroge Two schools demolished Soldiers harass villagers Land title and transfers contested Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Lt. Gen. Aronda Nyakairima is at the centre of a dispute involving over 1,000 acres of land in Kyerere village, Gayaza sub-county in Kiboga district in which close to 100 families …
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By Agnes Asiimwe Workers’ Fund to finance new 20 storeys building in Nakasero This NSSF – Temangalo land purchase scandal could spoil the fortunes of some, especially those who were a heartbeat away from getting their hands on their own chunk of the workers’ fund, like the Uganda National Farmers’ …
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By The Independent Team When Parliament’s committee on Commissions, Statutory Bodies and State Enterprises winds up its public hearings of the Mbabazi-NSSF Temangalo land purchase scandal, it will be expected to produce a report in three weeks. This will cap nearly two months of public debate and political acrimony that …
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By Independent Team He appointed friends to board Temangalo money Used to pay loan The parliamentary investigation into the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) purchase of land belonging to Security Minister Amama Mbabazi continues to raise dust. Now, sources within the Parliamentary Committee on Commissions and Statutory Bodies say the …
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