Betty Nambooze

I disliked Abiriga, but I cry tears for him – Nambooze

I disliked Abiriga, but I cry tears for him – Nambooze

One great writer said that, to the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth but when death comes more so abruptly and in such a gruesome manner like it happened to my Honourable brother Col.Ibrahim Abiriga, truth ceases to matter but the fact that a life is lost. I […]

Makindye MP Sewanyana wants secret ballot for LC elections as citizens demand public hearings

Makindye MP Sewanyana wants secret ballot for LC elections as citizens demand public hearings

The Member of Parliament for Makindye West, Allan Sewanyana, has suggested that a review of the Local Government (Amendment) Act 2014 whose provisions for lining up behind candidates while voting village council leaders be changed to secret ballot. He says that the law is impractical since many villages have a sizeable number of voters and that […]

DP wants government to extend dates for LC elections

DP wants government to extend dates for LC elections

The Democratic Party has demanded that government extends the dates of elections to village councils to allow fresh registration of voters at village level. The Democratic Party officials led by the party deputy secretary, Gerald Siranda, and the party vice president in charge of Buganda, Betty Nambooze, while appearing before the public service and local […]

MPs give Otafire a 2 weeks ultimatum over LC1 elections

MPs give Otafire a 2 weeks ultimatum over LC1 elections

Parliament has given the Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister, Kahinda Otafire an ultimatum of two weeks in order to furnish the house with the status of the elections of village councils. The directive was issued by the deputy speaker of parliament after opposition MPs who included; Mukono municipality MP, Betty Nambooze ,Busiro East MP Medard  Segoona […]

9th Parliament should not approve new counties – Nambooze

9th Parliament should not approve new counties – Nambooze

Shadow Minister for local Government who is also Mukono municipality Member of Parliament Betty Nambooze appealed to colleagues in parliament to throw out the proposal by Government to create more counties. Yesterday the Minister of local Government Adolf Mwesigye tabled before parliament over 39 counties seeking parliamentary approval. However, Nambooze says that it should not be […]

FDC, DP and Justice Forum call for the return of presidential term limits

FDC, DP  and Justice Forum  call for the return of presidential term limits

Three political parties FDC, DP  and Justice Forum  have  tabled their constitutional amendment and electoral reforms before the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs committee of Parliament  calling for the return of presidential term limits,  a running mate for any  presidential candidate standing for presidency and appointing electoral commission by Judicial Service Commission The  group consisted of  FDC party leader Major General Mugisha Muntu , Democratic […]

Why Betty Nambooze split with Mayor Erias Lukwago

It is hard to believe that Mukono Municipality MP, Betty Nambooze and Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago are no longer friends. Gone are the days when Lukwago and Nambooze were moving together as if they were husband and wife or brother and sister. We have been reliably informed that currently when Nambooze brings an argument […]

Betty Nambooze prepares to contest for Lord Mayorship

Most people would expect that Mukono Municipality MP, Betty Nambooze must seek re-election as MP of the same area during 2016 general elections. Others would think that perhaps Nambooze could contest as Mukono district woman MP or LC5 chairperson. But this is not true. We have been told that the flamboyant Mukono Municipality MP is […]

Money given to Erias Lukwago, Betty Nambooze splits FDC

There is an old adage that ‘God made man, man made money and money made man mad’ as Bobi Wine sings in his Mr. Money song. Many in the Uganda’s leading opposition party Forum for Democratic Change are living out this adage. Some of the party’s youth leaders have split over money they think their […]

Betty Nambooze warns Jenifer Musisi over illegal contracts, extravangance

The Shadow minister for Kampala Capital City Authority Betty Nambooze has cautioned the Authority’s Executive Director Jennifer Musisi over what Nambooze terms as illegal awarding of the contracts going on. Nambooze said although currently there is no legal contracts committee under which the City Authority is mandated to award contracts, so far 49 contracts have […]