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You have no right to lecture us about democracy, Museveni tells foreign leaders

Daily Monitor Tuesday May 11 2021 Tomorrow President Yoweri Museveni will swear in for another term in office. For a person doing it for the sixth time after being at the helm for an unprecedented 35 years, one may assume that it is nothing to fuss about. But this may not be business as usual. The just concluded January 14 election, which Museveni officially won, came with its own complications.  Museveni and NRM in general were battered in the Central and Southern regions of Uganda  going by the results in the past elections.  Yet as we know, these are some of the most populous areas in t...

JOINING BOBI WINE In 2017 when the Kyagulanyi political wave first washed over the country –triggering a violent backlash from government – Lule was one of the first youths who picked keen interest. Even when he flew to Chad in 2018 at the invitation of the US Embassy to work with a team constructing a base for the visiting former US President Jimmy Carter (head of the Jimmy Carter Foundation), he actively kept tabs on Uganda’s politics. He claims nobody invited him and his fellow Kawempe youths to join the struggle. He laughs at suggestions that the youth are paid by foreigners to supp...

Daily Monitor Saturday April 10 2021 Summary Mr Simon Sejjaaka says: Foreign dignitaries bearing trinkets have found their way into the courts of our kings. Advertisement Last week, a one Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam came calling. Akon, as he is famously referred to, is according to Wikipedia, a Senegalese-American singer, rapper, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, philanthropist and actor from New Jersey. Many of us came to know about his presence in Uganda when VVIPs posted photos on social media of themselves with the visiting ‘dignitary’. Mainstream media also picked up t...

Bobi Wine amends election petition February 8, 2021 Robert Kyagulanyi National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine has amended the election petition challenging the outcome of the just-concluded presidential race.  According to results released by the Electoral Commission, Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni, the incumbent and candidate of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party, a 58 per cent majority, against Kyagulanyi's score of 35 per cent in a race that attracted 11 candidates. But in th...