Mayuge, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform-NUP president, Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi, has asked the government to withdraw the Uganda People’s Defense Forces- UPDF marine officers from Lake Victoria for allegedly mistreating fishermen. Speaking to his supporters in Mayuge town council Monday, Kyagulanyi asserted that UPDF officers have …
Read More »BOBI WINE: Elections not enough to cause change
Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform – NUP President Robert Kyagulanyi has said that election are not enough to cause political change. Kyagulanyi said that Ugandans must do whatever it takes legally to change the current system. The NUP President who was speaking in Kasese on …
Read More »Investigations into terrorism charges against 11 NUP suspects incomplete
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The prosecution has said that investigations into the charges of terrorism against 11 suspects are incomplete. The suspects who are supporters of the National Unity Platform-NUP are Abdul Katumba, a businessman from Nabweru North One Zone, Nansana Municipality, Abdallah Katumba, a resident of Growers …
Read More »Bobi Wine announces nationwide mobilization campaign
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine, the president of the National Unity Platform-NUP party has announced a nationwide tour starting next week to open his party offices and mobilize support. Speaking to the media in Kampala Wednesday, Kyagulanyi said unlike Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the president’s son …
Read More »The tragedy of Uganda’s opposition
Why our country needs creative politicians who can sequence ultimate goals and penultimate aims THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | The opposition in Uganda claim to have a broad strategic objective: to end dictatorship, incompetence, corruption, human rights abuses and build political institutions and implement public policies that can create a …
Read More »NANDALA MAFABI: I am trying to save FDC from NUP
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Nathan Nandala Mafabi, the Forum for Democratic Change-FDC Secretary General, says that he is the one trying to save the party against efforts to merge it with the National Unity Platform, now the leading opposition political party. This comes a few hours after the …
Read More »Kamuli NRM caucus chairperson sacked over links to NUP
Kamuli, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | National Resistance Movement (NRM) councilors in Kamuli district local government have sacked their caucus chairperson, Chris Wabwire over what they claim is his newfound allegiance to the opposition National Unity Platform (NUP)-party. Wabwire is the Mbulamuti sub-county male councilor. Led by Maxwell Kuwembula, the …
Read More »Uganda’s politics of frustration
How Besigye’s failure to inspire Ugandans out of Museveni’s failures led to Bobi Wine’s narrow ethnic base THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | The government of President Yoweri Museveni is old and exhausted. It has no zest for anything new or imaginative. Lacking its own project of national transformation, it now …
Read More »Kyagulanyi receives new recuits from NRM and FDC
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Robert Kyagulanyi, the President of the National Unity Platform (NUP) has urged all NUP supporters not to confine themselves solely to the party, but rather focus on the overarching core goal of changing the leadership of the country. Kyagulanyi was speaking on Tuesday while …
Read More »Bobi Wine: Mpuuga’s electoral reforms push cannot work
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, the leader of the National Unity Platform (NUP), has urged opposition supporters not to bank on any electoral and constitutional reforms that are championed by the opposition leader in parliament Mathias Mpuuga, to bring about change in Uganda. Last week, Mpuuga through …
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