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Daily Monitor Wednesday January 13 2021 The ill-fated and shockingly violence-marred 2021 election is tomorrow. In the heat that it has generated, two weeks ago, First Son Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the commander of the Special Forces, put his foot in it. In a post on Twitter that caused outrage, forcing him to delete it, Muhoozi tripped in his choice of words to criticise National Unity Platform (NUP) party candidate Robert Kyagulanyi (Bobi Wine).  Bobi Wine, who has given President Yoweri M...

Ten years ago, ragga singer Bobi Wine, sporting dreadlocks and oversized black sunglasses, regularly appeared in music videos surrounded by women, driving a Cadillac with a joint hanging out of his mouth.

The hashtag #WeAreRemovingADictator has spread on social media among the supporters of his National Unity Platform (NUP). – Fight against injustice – Wine grew up in one of Kampala’s biggest slums, Kamwokya, where thousands of Ugandans struggle to get by and feel forgotten by Museveni’s government. While he went on to study music and drama at university and now lives in a better neighbourhood, he still sees himself as the “ghetto president”, a nickname he earned through his songs de...

Uganda is one of the youngest countries in the world, with a median age of 15.9 years

Daily Monitor Tuesday January 12 2021   The charade of this week’s so-called election, whose official result we already know, should not distract us from one obvious reality. At 77, Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Museveni will soon yield to biology and a need for long-deserved retirement.  As usual, the ruling regime has employed violence, death, arrests and other forms of harassment against legitimate opponents. Silencing the Opposition has been the central drive in the motions of make-believe democra...

Daily Monitor Monday January 11 2021 Yosamu Lukwago Salongo holds the Vocational Award awarded to him by Rotary Club of Mengo on February 15 last year. PHOTO/ MICHAEL J SSALI Summary Rev Canon Gaster Nsereko, the sub-dean of St Paul’s Cathedral, Kako, who presided over the funeral service, eulogised Lukwago as a man who had a pleasant character, was a forgiving person and ever smartly dressed. Advertisement Yosam Lukwago, who is believed to be one of the country’s oldest teachers,  is dead...

General Idi Amin Credit: Keystone/Getty Forty years after his downfall, General Idi Amin remains high on the list of Africa’s most notorious dictators. His record as president of Uganda, after seizing power in 1971, includes mass killings, chaotic administration, economic collapse and the murder of scores of prominent Ugandans, including the chief justice and an archbishop. In the West, Amin is still a byword for brutality and buffoonery. His interventions on the world stage were bizarre. He ...

When Bobi Wine upstages Kyagulanyi on the campaign trail January 10, 2021 Bobi Wine attends mass at Kitovu cathedral, Masaka on December 27 There is an English adage that goes, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. This fits well into Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu’s presidential campaigns that I have been following for weeks now. Kyagulanyi, better known as Bobi Wine – his music stage name – among all the presidential candidates has met mor...

Daily Monitor Saturday January 09 2021 A statement authored and issued by the Uganda Joint Christian Council (UJCC) called on the government to postpone the January 14 elections. They even gave it some detail: Elections should be postponed for a period of three years.  During the three-year interim period, Mr Museveni would remain president. The Constitution should be amended to provide for this. The statement of UJCC has very little to offer and has come very late. The idea of postponing elec...

By Prossy Kisakye Buganda Premier, Charles Peter Mayiga has blamed the current challenge of Ugandan leaders on the failure to