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The proposed seven year term that is now gaining popularity that was endorsed by the NRM party caucus has attracted resistance from opposition MPs on the basis that its frontiers have selfish interests and are seeking compensation for supporting the current controversial presidential age limit bill . The move to extend the term of elective […]
The speaker of parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, in Tuesdays parliament sitting issued new security guidelines at parliament that will ensure members of parliament are protected against unauthorized security personnel ordering the withdraw of other security agencies other than police from parliament. The speaker also closed one of the presidential entrances into parliament on the fourth floor […]
There was drama at parliament this afternoon when two MPs from West Nile fight over age limit talk. Arua municipality MP Ibrahim Abiriga popularly known as yellow man was first heard telling journalists how Bernard Atiku of Ayivu County had tarnished his name and that of investment minister Evelyn Anite in their area for supporting […]
The deputy speaker Jacob Oulanyah’s team seeking for his election for the 10th parliament speakership 2016-21 has been unveiled. The taskforce is headed by the chairperson Buganda parliamentary group and also the member of parliament for Mityana north Godfrey Kiwanda. A-team of 23 members of parliament was announced by its chairperson Godfrey Kiwanda Suubi at Serena hotel […]
Late Nelson Mandela, the former president of South Africa one day said ‘you can’t know a country until you visit its prisons.’ Our reporter Walakira Nyanzi and his two other friends, Kaija Harold, the private secretary of Col. Kizza Besigye and former MP Augustine Ruzindana went to Luzira prison to visit former Arua […]
Former Arua Municipality Member of Parliament, Godi Akbar being a Lawyer, is asking the Supreme Court that he represents himself in case in which he wants to get out of prison. The Procesution is saying they are not ready to proceed with the case. The High Court in Mukono in 2011 sentenced Akbar […]
Kilak County MP in Amuru District Gilbert Oulanya says so Many people are stranded in Juba where there ongoing fighting they have no way out back to their country and sacred of their families. The MP raised the issue during a season of Parliament Chaired by Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga The Minister of Defense […]
Lawyers representing former Arua Municipality MP Godi Akbar Hussein have today asked court to acquit him on charges of murder. Lawyers led by Henry Kunya told Justices of the Court of Appeal that the High Court judge that convicted Godi, did not properly evaluate the evidence on record. He says the judge disregarded the evidence […]
Today our informers trekked to Luzira Upper Prison to check on some of the inmates on remand and others who are already convicted. They met with former Arua Municipality MP, Godi Akbar and former Toro Prime Minister John Katuramu and veteran journalist, Tedy Sezi Cheye among other prisoners. The inmates mentioned were in Great Spirit. […]
The days the suspects in John Bosco Ariong’s death stayed in Luzira Upper Prison looked shorter than those I spent with Dr. Col. Kiiza Besigye in Nakasongola Prison because from day one prison official in Nakasongola switched off the electricity and Water. We would spend the nights on the watch therefore not sleep because […]