Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The elections for division mayors and councillors started late at several polling stations in Kampala city visited by our reporters. According to the Electoral Commission guidelines, voting was scheduled to start at 7 am and stop at 4 pm. However, by 7 am, voting had …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two National Unity Platform (NUP) party candidates contesting to become Division Councilors in Kampala, will not vote in Monday’s local government council elections. They were arrested in Kalangala district in December last year on the campaign trail with former NUP Presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Phiona Nyamutoro is the new Female National Youth MP. Nyamutoro of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party, polled 296 votes, and was followed by Prima Tukamushabe who got 66 votes. The race attracted 12 candidates who included Amongin Prisca Nangiro, Busomoke Marcelina, Kaija Doreen, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Resistance Movement (NRM) mobilisers in Mukono district have asked the party leaders not to attribute the party’s loss to Buganda. Following the poor performance of the NRM in Kampala for Presidential and MP polls, President Museveni said in a televised national address …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Aruu County Member of Parliament Samuel Odonga Otto and Beatrice Anywar, the Kitgum Municipality Member of Parliament and State Minister for Environment were defeated in the recent parliamentary elections. Both Otto and Anywar are among some of the longest-serving legislators in Acholi sub-region who suffered …
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📌 NRM’s Sh60 billion budget for their candidates’ campaigns ✳ SH40million each – MPs (353) ✳ SH50m Woman MPs (156) ✳ SH80m SIGs (4) ✳ SH80m Other SIGs (16) ✳ SH60m City Mayors (10) ✳ SH50m LC 5 (146) ✳ SH3m Refund NF (529) ***** ✳ SH1 million each – …
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Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A man with hearing disabilities has petitioned High Court in Kampala seeking to block the elections for male district councilors for persons with disabilities in Luwero District. The said elections are supposed to take place on January 27 2021. But Herbert Ssekabira wants the court to block the coming …
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How Bobi Wine is turning his moment of triumph into a missed opportunity for strategic leadership THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | Bobi Wine is without any doubt a great guy. His greatness does not lie in his thinking but in his character. And that could be the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Special Police Constables-SPCs who were deployed to provide security during the presidential and local council elections in Hoima city and Hoima district are grumbling over what they call delayed payment of their allowances. A large group stormed the Hoima city Electoral Commission offices in Kijungu, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The defeated Kasese LC V chairperson Sibendire Bigogo Geoffrey of the Forum for Democratic Change- FDC party says the defeat in the parliamentary and local government council elections will strengthen the party. Bigogo on Wednesday lost the LC V seat to NRM’s Muhindi Bukombi Eliphaz …
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