Daily Monitor
Saturday April 03 2021
A file photo of President Museveni (right) and his vice Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi at an event. PHOTO/ FILE
Summary
The position of vice president gives a person high hopes of being a heartbeat away from the apex of power while languishing in the political doldrums.
Derrick Kiyonga writes that the recent battle over the post of Speaker gives an indication as to why no one seems to be interested in being President Museveni’s Number Two.
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John Adams, the pioneer vice-president of the United States of America, says the post he held between 1789 and 1797 is “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived”.
Daily Monitor
Sunday January 31 2021
President Museveni (with hat) hands over jet washers to Mulago car washers in Kampala after the 2016 general election. PHOTOS | FILE
Summary
Though Section 167 of the Penal Code Act, which criminalises wandering persons, has never been repealed either by a court of law or by Parliament, Mr Museveni thought such decrees of his would please the urban youth and vote for him.
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President Museveni had just secured his victory in 2016, but as usual, he never wasted time as he immediately started strategising on how he woud win the 2021 elections. He visited Kawempe, one of the five divisions that constitute Uganda’s capital Kampala, to launch a scheme aimed at increasing jobs for market vendors, a demographic that he believed was behind his woes in the capital.