security

Police deploys 5,000 policemen in Kampala

Police have deployed over 5,000 troops in Kampala district to keep law and order during the ongoing three day traders strike. The strike started today across the country. The deployment follows intelligence information that members of opposition were reportedly planning to cause bodily harm to NRM supporters during the strike. Sources in Uganda police force […]

Uganda police beefs up security in Kampala

A recent grenade explosion in Nairobi Kenya which killed one person and wounded over eight others, has forced Uganda to beef up security in its capital cityKampala. The Inspector General of Police, Lt. Col. Kayihura has instructed all Officers in charge of police stations inKampala and across the country to beef us security at all […]

‘Spies’ steal DP computers containing vital information

 Suspected spies on Thursday night opened the head offices of the Democratic Party (DP) and stole party computers suspected to contain vital party information on party funding, cohorts in the diaspora, and communications from NRM members to DP and Vice versa. The legal advisor of DP Mukasa Mbidde says that the party members suspect that […]

Tamale Mirundi’s girlfriend fights waitress

  A pompous gal believed to be touchy to president Museveni’s press secretary, Tamale Mirundi last night engaged in a fight with a waitress working at Casabianca bar on Acacia Avenue . It all started when Mirundi reportedly entered the club with a woman and the two sat at the counter. The woman whom Mirundi […]

Opposition recruits rebel groups

The army and police are probing reports that FDC and other opposition parties are secretly recruiting people into rebel activities. This follows intelligence reports last week that led to arrest of two opposition cadres in Nansana who had been reportedly recruited into rebel activities. Sources in CMI have told us that they have recruited some […]

Col. Kiiza Besigye, the president of Forum for Democratic Change says Uganda may have regime change in 2012

    The outgoing president of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), Col. Kiiza Besigye has said that Uganda may have a regime change in 2012. Addressing members of FDC in Kampala at City House building in Kampala Central division, Besigye encouraged all his supporters no matter of their cultural, religion, economic or education background to […]

President Museveni of the Republic of Uganda uses two security planes

  It seems president Museveni security is growing from big to big all the time. Incapable sources at statehouse tell us that the president is now using two euro planes whenever he goes to areas like northern Uganda where his support on ground is questionable. We hear that the president is using his usual presidential […]

Andrew Kanyegirire appointed communication’s governor in Geneva

  Former Makerere University lecturer in the school of Mass communication, Andrew Kanyegirire is now in Geneva, Switzerland to head the communication’s department at the council on health research for Development. Kanyegirire has been in charge of communications and advocacy at New Partnership for African Development in (NEPAD) Johannesburg, South Africa. In Geneva Kanyegirire is […]

Police threaten to de-register buses

Police have threatened to de-register the buses that will not comply with the festive season transport guidelines requiring them not to over speed, over load or do return trips. The Kampala Metropolitan Police commander Felix Kawesi says they have already issued guidelines indicating that no bus is allowed to make a return journey of over […]

Democratic Party organising secretary Sulaiman Kidandala swears in as Kampala Deputy Mayor

The Deputy Lord Mayor of Kampala Capital City Authority, Sulaiman Kidandala has been sworn in today despite complaints from the minister for Kampala Kabakumba Masiko. The KCCA Executive Director Jennifer Musisi and other council technical officers failed to block his swearing in ceremony. Kidandala was sworn in amidst heavy police deployment and harassing of his […]