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Views: Visits 6 Ugandan Presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, has defended the decision to ship out his children after his critics questioned the move saying it was a sign of cowardice. Mr Kyagulanyi, who is the National Unity Platform presidential candidate in next week’s presidential election, said he was forced to take his children out of the country after he received credible information that there was a plan by his opponents in the ruling party to kidnap them as part of a scheme to coerce him out of the race. “I received credible information of pending phy...

The East African Friday January 08 2021 John Katumba got nominated seconds to the deadline, having jumped from the rickety jalopy that broke down as his team approached the nomination centre. ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGA Summary Katumba is from a humble, disadvantaged background who has made it through college courtesy of well-wishers who liked his good character and they kept giving him odd jobs. Advertisement In Joseph Heller’s World War II classic Catch 22, a puzzled US fighter pilot asks, “Why do they shoot at me when I go to drop my bombs on them?” In Uganda’s electoral campaigns th...

Daily Monitor Wednesday January 06 2021 Summary We in the Opposition (or what is left of us) would make the necessary noise, but it is very likely that some of us would cash in on the money. Mr Patrick Amuriat Oboi and Mr Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, would cry foul and say ‘the man’ is running away from a bloody fight they were visiting on him. Advertisement 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.

Daily Monitor Sunday January 03 2021 Mr Saif-llah Ashraf Kasirye, a Radio One journalist and an online Ghetto TV cameraman, is carried to hospital after he was allegedly shot in Masaka on December 27. PHOTO | DAVID LUBOWA Summary Unlike the security officers trailing Patrick Amuriat, UJCC, led by Archbishop of Kampala, plunged into the political swamp by asking the government to postpone presidential elections for three years, writes Jacobs Odongo. Advertisement At the time of writing this, Ashiraf Kasirye was said to be in a stable condition at Rubaga Hospital. The cameraman of National Unit...

How Bobi Wine is policed December 30, 2020 Hooded men on Bobi Wine’s campaign trail. PHOTO: INTERNET As presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu began his 200-kilometre cross-country campaign run on December 26, he was shadowed every kilometer by at least 12 police pick-up trucks, two water cannon trucks and an equal number of armoured personnel carriers (APCs) - commonly known as Mamba. The monstrous security detail also includes two other pick-up trucks and the infamous police mobile prison - fitted with software and gadgets, which di...