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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Sebaggala told the media while eating food on the same plate with a vendor that he feels great when he eats with poor people.

The vendors in the market hailed Sebaggala and asked him to seek reelection asKampalamayor.

Sebaggala cracked jokes with his supporters whom he calls Seyas. Many people gathered to have a glimpse of Sebaggala.

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Leading the anti hot air crusade is Ivan Semwanga Ronald, a top critic of MP Khiddu Makubuya in Luweero district.

Semwanga, a councilor in Katikamu South says that Makubuya has never attended any council meeting or fulfilled any of the promises he has been making in parliamentary campaigns since 2001.

Semwanga told our informers in Luweero that when the residents of Katikamu South recently demanded for accountability of the 10 million shillings which are given to MPs to develop their areas, Makubuya reportedly told them that the money in question is given to him as a person.

Semwanga says he is now shopping for a person who will contest against MP Khiddu in 2016 parliamentary polls. However, Khiddu has also not announced whether he will seek reelection.

By James Okello

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Article 81 (4-5) of the Constitution requires every person elected to parliament of Uganda to take oath of allegiance and the oath of Member of Parliament before assuming office.

Uganda laws further provide that no person shall sit or vote in Parliament before taking and subscribing the oaths. Brenda Nabukenya, who is a member of the Democratic Party, will take oath at 10:00am and she is only allowed to come along with only five people.

Nabukenya was elected MP during the recently concluded Luweero district woman MP by elections in which Ms Rebecca Nalwanga, of the ruling National Resistance Movement lost her reelection bid. The seat fell vacant after the High Court nullified the election victory of Nalwanga citing voter bribery.

By Walakira Nyanzi

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