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Daily Monitor Saturday March 06 2021 Summary The ruling party has sent out teams to find out why President Museveni and its candidates performed poorly in the recently concluded election and how they can attract more support for the future.   Advertisement   Different sources from within the NRM say President Museveni and the NRM secretariat have turned their focus on why support for the President drastically declined, especially Buganda and Busoga areas in the recent election and how to plug...

Daily Monitor Saturday March 06 2021 Summary Kampala tabloids and other observers have hinted at ongoing efforts by the victorious party to lure some old men and women from their retirement back into Cabinet for this purpose. Advertisement After what has gone down as Uganda’s most chaotic and bloody election period, the Ugandan political leadership faces two stark choices: To follow Tanzania’s President John Magufuli’s example, who after a relatively shambolic election, wasted no time in ...

Daily Monitor Thursday March 04 2021 National Unity Platfrom (NUP) party members and private bodyguards of former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, in an army truck at the court martial for the hearing of their bail application on 8 February, 2021. PHOTO | KELVIN ATUHAIRE Summary Poll result. On January 16, Justice Byabakama declared President Museveni winner of the presidential polls with 58 per cent of the total 9.9 million votes casts while Mr Kyagulanyi, who had been ...

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Daily Monitor Sunday February 28 2021 Summary Despite the Mitala and Bisoko chiefs joining the Busoga Lukiiko, their petitions to the colonial government did not stop. As a result, Governor Philip Mitchel decided to visit Busoga and hold an open baraza in Bugembe. Advertisement As ZK Sentongo’s Baganda Youth Association (BYA) – founded in 1919 – was folding in 1922, the Young Basoga Association (YBA) was being created.  Though BYA was radical in nature and in 1921 it demanded the departu...

Daily Monitor Sunday February 28 2021 Summary In his book Sowing the Mustard Seed, President Museveni talks about Abbasi Kibazo several times. On January 25, 1971, the day president Milton Obote was ousted in a military coup, Museveni, Kibazo and others left Kampala for exile in Tanzania because they would not be safe in Uganda. Advertisement Abbasi Kibazo, President Museveni’s comrade-in-arms, was arrested in 1981 and has never been seen again.  Kibazo was arrested by security operatives on...

Daily Monitor Tuesday February 23 2021 Bobi Wine’s lawyers consult during the hearing of the application seeking to file additional affidavits in the Supreme Court last Friday. PHOTO/ABUBAKER LUBOWA. Summary His lawyers will still have to put together the required paperwork and file a notice before the Supreme Court.  Advertisement Bobi Wine yesterday announced that he would be withdrawing a petition he had filed to overturn Yoweri Museveni’s January 14, 2021 re-election. Under section 61 ...

The stark fact is that the National Resistance Movement regime headed by President Yoweri Museveni uses the military as its pillar of strength whenever politically pressed: whether it’s disorder on the floor of parliament, such as during the debate to remove the presidential age limit, or civil action on the street, the army jumps into the fray. In this scheme of things, martial law seems to have taken centre stage and the military court is increasingly drawn upon to settle political disputes...

Kyambogo University and Buganda kingdom are claiming ownership of about 407 acres, housing the main campus of Kyambogo University located in Banda, Nakawa Division, and Kampala District. Meanwhile, Kampala District Land Board (KDLB) is claiming ownership of Kyambogo University link land (part of the 407 acres) amounting to about 60 acres while the Ministry of education is claiming 10 acres of land, part of which is being claimed by KDLB. The letter dated February 18, KFM has seen summons the V...

Daily Monitor Sunday February 21 2021 Worshipers at the shrine in January last year. Inset, are artifacts at Embuga ya Mukasa (god of water and fish) shrine. PHOTOS/MORGAN MBABAZI Advertisement  When I arrived at the ancient traditional religious shrine archaeologically known as the Tanda Pits, on a cool morning in Tanda Village in Mityana District, there was a beehive of activity as some pilgrims went about with their prayers and smoking pipes, while others were chatting, cleaning or preparin...