Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform (NUP) candidate for the Bundibugyo district Woman Member of Parliament seat has pulled out of the race. Harriet Musumba was to contest against NRM’s Josephine Babungi and independent candidate Harriet Ntabazi in next year’s general elections. Musumba communicated her withdraw in …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform-NUP presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has asked residents in Nakaseke and Luweero districts to take lead in voting out President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni for failing to live to their expectations. Luweero and Nakaseke districts were the epicenter of the National Resistance …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | National Unity Platform (NUP) party presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine will tonight speak nationally on Facebook and Youtube on the state of his campaign in what seems to be a competition with the Head of State President Museveni who will as well be addressing …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | National Unity Platform (NUP) leaders in Kigezi sub-region are up in arms against Captain Peter Mugisha, the Kisoro Resident District Commissioner for intimidating their supporters. On Friday while campaigning for National Resistance Movement (NRM) party presidential flag bearer Yoweri Museveni at Nyakinama sub-county headquarters, Mugisha …
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Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | National Unity Platform-NUP Presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has said that the struggle he is leading to liberate Ugandans from bad governance is real. Kyagulanyi says that although some leaders in the current regime are creating an impression that he cannot be President, it …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Four senior security officers in Masaka district are on the spot for allegedly torturing National Unity Platform- NUP leaders and coordinators in the area. Enoch Abaine, the greater Masaka Regional Police Commander, David Nyesigire Katunda, the Masaka District Police Commander, Majid Owepukulu, the in-charge Masaka …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Wednesday, November 18th, 2020 started as a normal day for 15-year-old Amos Ssegawa who had started working at his mother’s shop in Kisenyi, a Kampala suburb a fortnight ago. Ssegawa’s mother, Hajara Nakitto had asked him to work with her at the shop because of …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform-NUP has accused police and other security agencies for the continued arrests of their supporters in the country on accusation of being involved in protests last week. Since last week’s protests around some towns, security personnel have been carrying out operations and …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi has pledged to establish cocoa processing factories in Bundibugyo district. According to statistics from the district commercial office, more than 85% of the population in Bundibugyo is directly dependent on cocoa. The crop also fetches …
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Bundibugyo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Bundibugyo District has denied the National Unity Platform – NUP a venue for campaigns in Bundibugyo Town. NUP’s presidential candidate Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine was expected to address a rally on Tuesday in the district at Buhundu in Bundibugyo Town council …
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