Kampala, Uganda | URN | President Yoweri Museveni has defended the anti-corruption inspection tours being conducted by Local Government Minister Balaam Barugahara and State Minister Justine Nameere, dismissing concerns that the ministers could be “Kutomera” or blindly searching for wrongdoing. Museveni says the inspections are responding to longstanding complaints from …
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Kampala, Uganda | URN | Kabweri County MP, Dr Patrick Godfrey Wakida, has challenged the methods being used by the Minister of State for Local Government, Justine Nameere, in her campaign against corruption. He argued that aggressive inspections and arrests could undermine the very principles of governance the government …
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New ministers, old questions, and Uganda’s unfinished state-building project. COMMENT | ANDREW PI BESI | It is to the late John Nagenda (RIP) that I owe my introduction to Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, an intriguing literary figure of 19th-century France. From his modest but enduring body of work emerged one …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawyers have asked Acting High Court Judge Simon Peter Kinobe to excuse himself from hearing the application for judicial review against the contested Masaka City Woman MP election vote recount. National Unity Platform’s candidate for the Masaka District Woman Member of Parliament, Rose Nalubowa, petitioned the High …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
