Dr. Ian Clarke Busulwa, the LC3 chairperson of Makindye division has quit active politics. Busulwa says he will not seek reelection as LC3 chairperson for Makindye division after his term of office in 2016. Ian Clarke has quit politics at a time when the ruling NRM party was persuading him to accept to contest on its ticket in 2016.

Dr. Ian Clarke was declared the winner of the LC3 seat in Makindye, after he received 26,000 votes in the polls in 2011 general elections. Moses Kalungi, the incumbent, got only 11,000 votes. Rashid Biruma of NRM, FDC’s Livingstone Kizito, and DP’s Deo Kijjambu also competed.

Clarke was the first European to become an LC3 local official inUganda. Dr. Clarke holds both Irish and Ugandan citizenship.

To win the polls, Clarke campaigned largely on a development agenda, focusing on health and public service issues namely water, pit latrines, and roads maintenance.

Clarke was born inNorthern Ireland’s Armagh, but he has lived inUgandafor over 20 years. He is among the founders ofKampalaInternationalHospital.

By James Okello

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Shock and grief befell on patients as most of Uganda hospitals faces a shortage of tuberculosis drugs, an insider in Uganda’s ministry of health told our news informers today.

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 The FDC President Col. Kiiza Besigye has told members in this closed door NEC meeting that on 8^th November this year the FDC chairman for Kampala , Livingstone Kizito told him that spies had penetrated into the party. Day after, other members of FDC also from Kampala wrote to him that it was Kizito who was a government spy and that he frequents statehouse.

A source in FDC has told us that the party NEC has resolved Kizito is no longer responsible for presiding over any matters concerning FDC affairs in Uganda

 The FDC national executive committee has also accused Kizito of attempting to close the FDC Kampala office.

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The members of FDC are now divided into tribal factions with the northerners accusing the Baganda and Banyankole of being spies in FDC while the Baganda are accusing their counterparts from Rukingiri (Bakiga) of being spies.

 One of the FDC activists in FDC Kampala office, Janny Nakasolya was over heard yesterday quarreling with her colleagues in the party that she is tired of being branded a spy. Nakasolya says that when FDC leaders from Rukungiri organise parties and they invite RDCs orUgandagovernment ministers as guest of honour, no one calls them spies but when the party supporters in Buganda and northern Uganda do the same the party president Col. Kiiza Besigye and his closest cohorts in the party calls them spies.

Another FDC activist, Farida Nakabugo says that when recently Nakasolya visited the former Vice President, Prof. Gilbert Bukenya she was branded a spy yet there are many FDC leaders who secretly meat state officials at night and they are not called spies.

Recently the FDC leadership inKampalasuspended the party chairperson ofKampala, Livingstone Kizito on allegations that he and the woman MP forKampala, Nabilah Sempala ‘sell’ the party youth to statehouse. Both Nabilah and Kizito deny the allegations against them.

The FDC official in charge of the youth inBuganda, Sheikh Ibrahim Kasozi says that the problem with some FDC members is that when a lower party cadre gets known in government circles that person automatically becomes a spy but when a senior FDC official befriends the state that relationship becomes normal.

He explains that this is the reason why most FDC youth inBugandasupports Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu instead of Besigye because Muntu doesn’t believe in reports of spies. Kasozi says that Muntu has been telling them that even spies have a right to be FDC members.

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Kampala former Mayor, Hajji Nasser Sebaggala has revealed that president Museveni used him to fight DP promising to make him great in the country’s politics.

In a shocking revelation to his supporters on Saturday at his Bugolobi home, Sebaggala said he was not happy with president Museveni. “He used me to fight DP and later wooed me out of DP promising to make me a minister but instead used parliament to block my appointment,” one of his supporters who attended the meeting quoted him as saying.

Sebaggala has started saying that president Museveni is a traitor. He says that the president can give you something with the right hand and takes it away with the left hand. Sebaggala likens Museveni with the former DP President John Sebaana Kizito. Sebaggala says Sebaana persuaded him to pull out of the 2006 presidential race promising to support him for mayorship but instead supported his rival, Hajji Takuba Kibirige. Fortunately Sebaggala won the race.

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Kizito was suspended from the post of FDC Kampala district chairman pending investigations. Following the dismissal of Kizito, the FDC officials have warned the members of the public against dealing with Kizito on matters pertaining the affairs of FDC.

However Kizito says that no one in FDC has the powers to suspend anybody from the party. He says that the only body in FDC with powers to suspend him is the party’s delegates conference which has not sat since last year.

By Walakira Nyanzi

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