Buhweju county MP Francis Mwijukye.

MPs have angrily attacked the Uganda communication commission for the continued suffocation of media houses which is costing government billions of revenue. The matter was raised by Buhweju county MP Francis Mwijukye who said that continued closure of media houses is a move gagging the media.

He described the raid on Red Pepper on 21^st November 2017 where five directors and three editors were arrested and company sealed off saw phone and computers taken by Police as a move aimed at intimidating media and journalists at large.

He noted that when they raided Red Pepper, 370 phones were taken from staff, 100 computers confiscated and over 5000 people lost jobs.

Hon Medard Lubega Sseggona, the Busiro East MP   noted there is a high level of impunity among Uganda communication commission that should not be allowed to be implemented amongst Government institutions.

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Sseggona revealed that UCC has refused to renew licenses of almost all media houses in the country, saying Government is using the method to gag media houses when it comes to critical issues and this is denying government revenue.

Mwijukye said that the attack on the media houses cannot be seen as an isolated case noting that even the editor of Monitor Charles Bichachi and the Editor of New Vision Felix Wasike are out on bail.

However, Busia municipality MP Geoffrey Macho rubbished Mwijukye’s concern wondering if it was in order for Parliament to discuss a matter that is before courts of law.

The Speaker of parliament Rebecca Kadaga asked Mwijukye to stick to matters that aren’t before court like the confiscation of phones and computers and asked the MPs to table the issue as a substantial motion for Parliament to debate and take a position on the whole sector.

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The Executive Editor of Daily Monitor, David Sseppuuya announced on Tuesday that he was leaving the media house after serving it for more than two years. While communicating his decision to the Daily Monitor staff on Tuesday, Seppuuya reportedly said that he was quitting the company for personal reasons and that he was returning to his private work.

But we have been told by the sources in the Daily Nation, the mother company for the Daily Monitor that though Seppuuya is a consummate professional in journalism, the top most managers of the Aghakan foundation where Daily Monitor dwells were not so thankful for his contribution to the company’s growth.

Sources say that Aghakan foundation is not happy that Daily Monitor is no longer breaking up stories the way it used to do in the past. According to sources, Aghakan wonders how the government owned newspapers: The New Vision and Bukedde could break powerful stories which Daily Monitor can no longer break. The same sources further told us that even the new media houses in Uganda like the Daily Red Pepper (Uganda’s fastest growing tabloid), the Weekly Observer plus on line media houses such as weinformers.net and ugpulse.com can break up powerful stories daily than the Daily monitor thus the cause for dismissal of some of the Daily Monitor staff. The same sources told our informers that Aghakan wants Daily Monitor to be one of the media houses in East and central Africa that could break up powerful news stories and the rest of the media houses in the region sneezes.

The managing editor of the Daily Monitor in charge of weekend editions, Fredrick Masiga is also leaving the company in a month’s time perhaps due to the same reasons pushing Seppuuya out of the media house.

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The two rivaling Muslim factions are the Kibuli Mosque based faction headed by Sheikh Zubair Kayongo and the Old Kampala Muslim leadership led by the Mufti of Uganda, Sheikh Shaban Mubajje.

Museveni says that fanning and inciting violence between the two wrangling Muslim factions could degenerate into bloodshed. So the head of state warns media houses and individual journalists that continue to incite violence among the Muslim groups saying that such media houses risk punitive action from his government.

Museveni, according to sources, says that two newspapers in Uganda, The Red Pepper and The Daily Monitor, are deliberately exaggerating the wrangles among Muslim factions and inciting Muslims to go for war.

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This is surely some good news for supporters of MP Brenda Nabukenya. The rumour we have got now is that she could be two months pregnant.

Nabukenya won the recent Luweero district woman MP by election polls. Her close pals in DP rumored to us that she could be pregnant and the man responsible if it is true she is pregnant is not yet known to the press.

We are not confirming that the legislator is pregnant. But it is only rumoured that she could be pregnant. DP insiders tell us that if it is true the legislator is pregnant, the man responsible could be one of the vibrant and loaded men in the Democratic Party.

Some of the vibrant and loaded men in the democratic Party include Deputy Lord Mayor, Sulaiman Kidandala, DP Legal advisor and Mukasa Mbidde. Our investigation team is going on to investigate whether really the MP is pregnant. Remember Brenda is not yet blessed with a baby.

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Following the publication of a photograph of a woman who the editorial team of the New Vision Group believed at the time to be the mother of the new born Buganda prince, Richard Semakookiro, the Kabaka of Buganda Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II has asked all people in Uganda and across the world to stop the talk on the new born prince.

Speaking through his Katikkiro (prime minister), Eng. John Baptist Walusimbi, the Kabaka said that the full details about the new born prince and its mother would be revealed at the right time.

The Kabaka says that since the Katikkiro announced the birth of the new prince, several media houses, radio panelists and people on social networks like facebook have written literature and uttered statements that belittle the traditions, norms and virtues ofBugandakingdom. The Kabaka says that although he is a king a remains an individual who has a right to privacy. He says that it is improper for news publications like the New Vision, Bukedde Newspaper, Bukedde TV and all their sister organisations to write lies and belittling stories about the Kingdom of Buganda and the royal family in Buganda.

On January 24, 2012 the Chief Executive Officer of the New Vision Group, Robert Kabushenga authorised the publication of a photograph of a woman, and stated that she was the mother of Prince Richard Ssemakookiro.

Kabushenga apologised to the audiences across the country and the world at large for the mistake and regreted any inconveniences caused to the woman in the picture.

He stated that this was an error of judgment for which he took full responsibility. The Kabaka through his Katikkiro has said that all the information the New Vision and her sister media houses have been publishing concerning the looks of the mother of prince Semakookiro are false.

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She says that the government is going to explain pornography in both print and electronic mediums. Karooro also says that the government is drafting a bill that will stop the usage of pornographic materials in the Ugandan media.

Section 166 of the Penal Code Act forbids trafficking of pornographic materials in both print and electronic media. Currently Ugandan media houses are specializing in producing pornographic materials with a claim that they are so selling to the Ugandan young generation.

Karooro has also remindedUganda’s media managers that Ugandan cultures in diversity don’t accept promotion of pornography.

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Pulkol told the media that he and other party officials used the money to run party activities. He threatened to sue media houses that would continue publishing defamatory stories about him.

Pulkol says that publishing such stories destroys his name in the public. The media houses that published stories against Pulkol quoted the UPC President Dr. Olara Otunnu who told a press conference that David Pulkol had stolen 250 million shillings.

Otuno told journalists that UPC had already alerted Deepening Democracy Program -the NGO which provided the party funds to investigate the loss. Otunnu sacked Pulkol last month over reported mismanagement of the above funds.

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The scribes want to storm UMEME offices demanding an explanation for the persistent loading shedding. The scribes through their head, Aliga Issa say they work 24 hours a day but the increased load shedding in Masaka has hampered their operations.

Aliga has told our informers that Masaka town has been in darkness for the last two weeks and that it is increasingly difficult for them to file stories on time due to shortage of power in the town.

Efforts to get a comment from UMEME’s boss in charge of Masaka branch, Kivebulaaya Kirunda Magoola were futile. But other media houses last week quoted him as saying that UMEME was experiencing technical problems which he promised would be resolved soon.

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The Kanyamas have been put at all the club entrances to ensure that no person enters into the rouge with a camera. Some of the media houses that had been made it a habit to get pictures from the club include Red Pepper, Daily Onion and Bukedde, a Luganda newspaper.

We are told that the club banned cameras because some of the photojournalists would take pictures of half naked women from the club and print them in newspapers.

A source at the managerial level of the club told this informer that ‘we have banned cameras indefinitely because some of our customers have complained that negative reporting was tarnishing their names and image.’

By James Okello

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She says that the government is going to explain pornography in both print and electronic mediums. Karooro also says that the government is drafting a bill that will stop the usage of pornographic materials in the Ugandan media.

Section 166 of the Penal Code Act forbids trafficking of pornographic materials in both print and electronic media. Currently Ugandan media houses are specializing in producing pornographic materials with a claim that they are so selling to the Ugandan young generation.

Karooro has also reminded Uganda’s media managers that Ugandan cultures in diversity don’t accept promotion of pornography.

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