The speaker of parliament Rebecca Kadaga has gained more support from Karamoja members of parliament to retain her seat for the 10th parliament. Karamoja members of parliament announced their support for Kadaga, promising to vote her 90% as they have been doing to president Yoweri Museveni. A group of 16 MPs from Karamoja led by Mathenico […]
Two independent members of parliament joined the race for the deputy speakership for the 10th parliament this week. Kampala central member of parliament Mohammed Nsereko and west Budama south member of parliament Jacob Oboth Oboth say that they have the required experience to deputize the speaker and chair parliament. Mohammed Nsereko says that he will look […]
Busoga sub region Members of parliament have officially announced their unanimous support for the speaker of parliament Rebecca Kadaga to extend her term of office as the speaker for the 10th parliament. 34 members out of the 37 MPs from Busoga unveiled by the Kadaga campaign taskforce chairperson Rapheal Maghyezi at parliament. Busoga MPs described Kadaga […]
The member of parliament representing Lwemiyaga county Theodore Ssekikubo has attacked the electoral commission for locking out his bid for deputy speakership in the 10th parliament. According to the NRM road map for speakership primaries only gazzeted NRM members are eligible to vie or vote in these primaries which puts Ssekikubo in a tricky position to […]
The NRM electoral commission has set May 5th as a date on which NRM caucus MP-elects are going to select their candidate for speakership and deputy. This comes after, according to sources, NRM CEC sitting last night at Entebbe failed to come out with a sole candidate for speakership between Rebecca Kadaga and Jacob Oulanyah who […]
A section of leaders of trade unions have petitioned the High Court seeking for a nullification of the elections for the 5 representatives of the workers members of parliament in the 10th parliament. The petition before the court was signed by more than 10,000 workers challenging the workers MPs elect for the 10th parliament. Addressing a […]
MPs from Buganda are sharply divided on whom to back between speaker Rebecca Kadaga and her deputy Jacob Oulanyah for speakership. Whereas last week a group of 25 MPs nationwide led by Buganda caucus chairperson Godfrey Kiwanda came out backing Oulanyah, this morning another group specifically from Buganda led by Benny Bugembe [Mubende woman] addressed scribes […]
A report released by European Union Observation Mission (EU EOM) indicates that the Electoral Commission lacked independence and transparency during the just colluded general elections 2016. They note that elections were full of violation of human rights and freedoms by the security personnel especially police which used excessive power which created fear for the electorates hence […]
Members of parliament on legal and parliamentary Affairs committee have demanded the Electoral commission to issue out the road map for elections of chairpersons for village (LC1) and parish (LC2) levels. The MPs’ demand came after they realized that in the Electoral commission budget 2016/17 there is only 7 billion shillings allocated for L.CI and L.CII elections […]
NRM parliamentary flag bearers who lost in the just concluded 2016 general polls are calling for an agent meeting with the party chairperson president Museveni, who doubles as the 2016 presidential party flag bearer to iron out some hard issues to have a smooth run of the party in this term. The over 87 losers […]