Tag Archives: Museveni

By Independent Team Museveni blamed as commission agents, government officials conspire to squeeze money out of project Deputy Registrar John Eudes Keitirima’s chambers in the High Court building in Kampala were on Sept. 6 the scene of an interesting spectacle. A construction company, Salini SpA, was seeking an order to …

By Haggai Matsiko Oil firms fear bankruptcy as President goes for biggest refinery in the region In October 2011, President Yoweri Museveni urged members of his ruling party to resist ferociously those “parasites who want to give away this resource (oil) for a morsel of food”. He was making a …

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 Andrew M. Mwenda Why the Western powers may keep financing Museveni even when some think he has passed his sale-by date My recent visit to Mogadishu and seeing what our troops have done there made me proud. Yet perhaps the greatest lesson from Somalia was not necessarily the good …

By Charles Onyango-Obbo Recently I was visiting with Andrew Mwenda, the Strategy and Editorial Director of The Independent at his Butabika home when he squeezed me for a favour. He asked that I write about what I thought President Yoweri Museveni was trying to achieve with his “reconciliatory” actions towards …

By Joseph Were Museveni’s schmoozing with Stiglitz bad news for Mutebile When President Yoweri Museveni spoke at this year’s Joseph Memorial lecture in Kampala of the desirability of a “hybrid” economy, he marked a retreat from the current free market regime to his mixed economy days of the 1980s.  Time …

By The Independent Team Museveni and Byanyima never had any major political differences, and now it seems they have resolved the personal ones One June 2011 day, about mid-day, a Toyota Land Cruiser drove through the gates of State House, Entebbe. There was nothing especially remarkable about the car, but …

The President’s reconciliatory visit to Miria Obote reveals a truth he has run from for more than 30 years When Museveni first came to power, he used to talk a lot about the NRM line being correct. He no longer does so. This is because the line has not only …

By Yoga Adhola The President’s reconciliatory visit to Miria Obote reveals a truth he has run from for more than 30 years When Museveni first came to power, he used to talk a lot about the NRM line being correct. He no longer does so. This is because the line …

By Andrew M. Mwenda If anyone wants a slice of the intimate life of the Museveni family, his wife’s autobiography delivers it I have spent eight months trying to shape my views on Mrs. Janet Museveni’s autobiography, My Life’s Journey. An autobiography is an attempt to tell others that:  “This …