The Democratic Party (DP) candidate, Norbert Mao has castigated the heavy deployment of the police and army in Kasese district ahead of Wednesday’s woman MP by elections. Mao says that the deployment is meant to intimidate voters who cast their votes in favour of opposition. But he urges the voters in Kasese to follow […]
There was drama in Kasese, western Uganda today as the police and UPDF soldiers arrested Forum for Democratic Change youth including Col. Kiiza Besigye’s body guards on Tuesday. The police rounded up the FDC supporters and Besigye’s body guards on Tuesday whom FDC had taken to Kasese to monitor the Wednesday’s Woman MP by […]
Security has started its (dirty) work in Kasese district woman MP by election campaigns. The news our reporters in Kasese send to us have it that Police and soldiers in plain clothes have arrested local council Councilors from Busongora North. The security network blames the councilors (most of them members of Forum for Democratic […]
The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) may lose Kasese district woman MP race to the ruling National Resistance Movement if the negotiations FDC is involved in with the Democratic Party (DP) doesn’t yield fruits. The Kasese woman MP race is largely between FDC and NRM. But signals have started indicating that FDC is destined […]
Uganda’s leader of opposition, Ms Winnie Kiiza (FDC) claims that president Museveni’s government is plotting to rig Kasese district woman MP by elections. She says FDC is aware of the propensity to rig Kasese woman MP, intimidate, harrass, maim, and bribe voters. But Ms Kiiza says that considering the high mobilization the opposition in […]
The Democratic Party (DP) could have performed better in the recently concluded parliamentary by elections in Bukoto South in Lwengo district in greater Masaka, but it has been challenged to front a candidate in Kasese district where another MP by elections are due to take place and see how it would perform. The DP […]
ALL roads lead to Kasese district for the nominations of Hon Winnie Kizza, the Opposition Chief Whip (FDC) in Uganda parliament. The nominations are slated for Thursday next week. Our reporters in Kasese report that the political temperature is very high. According to the programme Ms Kizza will be escorted to the nominations by the […]
There are reports being circulated in town that UPDF budgeted 2.5 billion shillings to organise the 31st Tarehe Sita week. The week is marked annually in remembrance of the first armed attack when Yoweri Museveni and his NRA rebels launched a guerrilla war on February 6, 1981. The climax of the week is always February […]
Reports of increased HIV/AIDS prevalence in Kasese district have sparked off concern among health care activists in the district who say little has been done to render vital services. HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in Kasese stands at 11.3% where above the national prevalence rate which stands at 6.5%. The district bi-statistical Dr. shadrach Bakulirahi told a […]
Land wrangles between Basongola pastoralists and Bakonzo cultivators in Kasese have resurfaced. Trouble stemmed from cattle herdsmen who raided a maize gardens belonging to the farmers in Kabukolo village Karusendara sub-County and slashed them down. About 5 acres of maize, 1cre of Banana plantations and ½ acre of ground nuts were uprooted. The destroyed gardens […]