Kalungu East MP-elect runs to court to block Minister Ssempijja’s vote recount
Tuesday January 26 2021
Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries Vincent Ssempijja (left) lost Kalungu East MP seat to Mr Francis Katabaazi Katongole (right) of NUP.
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Kalungu East MP-elect, Mr Francis Katabaazi Katongole has filed an application seeking to block recounting of votes in contested 25 polling stations.
Masaka chief magistrate Charles Yeteise on Monday granted an application seeking for a vote recount filed by Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries Vincent Ssempijja who lost the seat to Katabaazi of the National Unity Platform (NUP).
Mr Ssempijja told court that his agents at the 25 contested polling stations were dismissed from the polling stations which gave a chance to Katabazi s camp to rig votes in his favor costing him victory
Daily Monitor
Monday January 25 2021
People wave at President Museveni during his victory drive on Masaka-Kampala highway last Thursday. Critics say the victory drive was a testament of the President’s fading halo in Buganda as the population overwhelmingly voted his rival Robert Kyagulanyi. PHOTO/KELVIN AYUHAIRE
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President Museveni’s victory drive last Thursday from his countryside home in Rwakitura, Kiruhura District, through rural central Uganda en route to Kampala was, to political observers, a testament of his fading halo in Buganda as the population overwhelmingly voted his rival Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine. As he embarks on another five-year term later in May, he will need consummate political skills to win back the sub-region that is the economic nerve centre and whose resistance has historically turned into an encumbrance for leaders, writes
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Wednesday January 13 2021
Government is encouraging farmers to use modern irrigation as a solution to changing weather patterns. PHOTO/FILE.
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The project was initiated in the early 1940s but failed to take off due to inadequate funding from the government.
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Government has handed over a multi-billion irrigation scheme to farmers in Lira District.
The Shs47b Olweny Irrigation Scheme was on Tuesday handed over to more than 15,00 beneficiary farm families in the three sub-counties of Barr, Agali and Itek.
The project was initiated in the early 1940s but failed to take off due to inadequate funding from the government.