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By Julius Odeke Police and other security organs have for the last four days introduced a new system that has been reffered to as by the FDC members as meant to stop people from visiting their party leader. Philip Wafula Oguttu the FDC publicist also a legislator representing Bukholi Central …

By Julius Odeke Tororo County MP, Geoffrey Ekanya, who is vying for the presidency of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party in elections in November, spoke to The Independent’s Julius Odeke about his strategy. You have been praised for your brilliant ideas, but some say you are unsuited …

By Andrew M. Mwenda How false accusations have undermined the opposition and why Muntu is the best leader to resolve this dilemma As the opposition Forum for Democratic Change searches for a successor to Dr. Kizza Besigye,  its biggest challenge might be how to overcome a couple of myths about …

By Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi Money, NRM intrusion and jostling for Besigye’s chair rock the main opposition party The brush between Leader of Opposition Nandala Mafabi and FDC Members of Parliament reflects a deeper problem in Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), Uganda’s leading opposition party. The Independent has learnt that as …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Thus like many millenarian cults, many people supporting Besigye believed in their own self-righteousness and assumed everyone shared their outrage Last week, opposition leader Kizza Besigye, claimed to have won the February presidential election. He claimed that by the time his own party’s tally centre was …

By Andrew M. Mwenda An important feature of the recently concluded NRM election primaries was the violence and fraud that characterised the process across almost the entire country. This produced a large number of aggrieved NRM politicians who have declared they want to run as independents. This is intriguing because …

By Joshua Masinde For the second time round, the race for Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party flag-bearer is between Kizza Besigye and Mugisha Muntu. There have been claims that the contest is likely to divide FDC support, especially as it comes so close to the election year 2011. The …

By Joshua Masinde When Forum for Democratic Change President Kizza Besigye was nominated in absentia last week, some party officials criticised the party for allegedly relying on foreign funding. Besigye was away on a mobilisation tour in Europe. But FDC party Spokesman Wafula Oguttu told The Independent that government officials …

By John Njoroge Opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party’s decision to sue members of the Joint Anti-Terrorism Taskforce (JATT) and security minister John Patrick Amama Mbabazi for the torture and inhuman treatment of among others, Francis Atugonza; its secretary for industry and trade and mayor of Hoima town, has …

By Onghwens Kisangala The upheavals that preceded the FDC delegates conference over the partys suspension of Rubaga North MP Beti Kamya summed up one of Uganda’s core challenges: democracy and the question of Buganda.  The Independents Onghwens Kisangala discusses the issues with Prof. John Jean Barya, a top scholar in …