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    Court Summons Busiro North MP Nsubuga’s Mother, UPDF To Testify On Who His Rightful Father Is In Election  Petition…

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    MP Paul Nsubuga

    High Court Judge Dr. Winfred Nabisinde has issued summons against the mother of controversial Busiro North legislator Paul Nsubuga and UPDF authorities.

    Busiro North concerned voter, a one Edgar Lubadde petitioned Court accusing Nsubuga and Justice Simon Mugenyi Byabakama’s Electoral Commission of fraudulently nominating the accused and declaring him winner of the 2021 parliamentary elections.

    Through his lawyers of Tayebwa Sserwada and Company Advocates, Lubadde insisted that MP Nsubuga was wrongly declared winner. He added that his rightful name on his baptism card since childhood is Peter Mukalazi.

    Lubadde told Court through his affidavit that Nsubuga attended St. Charles Lwanga primary School in Bukerere Kakiri Wakiso district in 2002 using Peter Mukalanzi as his name but he was surprised to learn that he was declared winner by EC as Paul Nsubuga.

    He further explained to Court that Nsubuga’s father was called Mathias Kibuuka, a peasant farmer in Wakiso.

    Lubadde stated that MP Nsubuga fraudulently used his elder brother’s academic papers.

    He divulged that the original Nsubuga is willing to testify against his brother who took his bright future away from him and relegated him to a life of misery and drunkenness.

    However, Nsubuga through his lawyers of Lukwago and Company Advocates denied all the allegations arguing that his political opponents have resorted to using Lubadde to snatch his win and humiliate him.

    Nsubuga also based his defense on the affidavit sworn by his mother, a one Agnes Nabawanuka who explained to Court how Nsubuga was baptised by his step father as Peter Mukalazi.

    Nabawanuka told court that before meeting Mathias Kibuuka who the community of Bukerere thought was the father of Mukalazi (now MP Nsubuga), she first had a relationship with Kibuuka’s elder brother a one Charles Mbabali who was a rebel in president Yoweri Museveni’s NRA militia.

    She further explained to Court that by the time Mbabali left for battle, he left her pregnant with Nsubuga.

    When later on Kibuuka proposed to marry her, she just accepted but didn’t tell him her secret that she was pregnant with his elder brother Mbabali’s child.

    Nabawanuka upheld that when she gave birth, the baby boy was named Peter Mukalazi.

    However, when Kibuuka died, she informed the family that the father of his first born Mukalazi is not Kibuuka but his elder brother Mbabali.

    The family members accepted and changed the boy’s name to Paul Nsubuga.

    In his affidavit, Nsubuga also denied studying with Lubadde.

    He claimed that he sat his Primary Leaving Examinations in 2002 from Sentema Catholic primary School not Bukerere St. Charles Lwanga primary school.

    He further narrated that because his father was a soldier, he was given a scholarship by UPDF to continue with his studies after passing his PLE exams with flying colours.

    He later completed his Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) in 2007 from Nakasongola Military Senior Secondary School and his Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) from Mbarara Army Senior Secondary School still under UPDF scholarship.

    The presiding judge decided to summon army bosses and other potential witnesses from all parties involved in the matter.

    Earlier, she dismissed Lubadde’s application to file additional evidence to prove his case.

    According to Lubadde’s lawyers, the evidence which they wanted Court to put on record included an investigation report made by CID handwriting expert Pinning Nsubuga on forging nomination signatures.

    However, Nsubuga’s lawyers and EC’s Hamid Lugolobi protested the application insisting that it was filled out of time and it was introducing new grounds which were not indicated in the main petition.

    Justice Dr. Winfred Nabisinde also dismissed Nsubuga’s application to dismiss Lubadde’s main petition on the technicality that he didn’t serve them in time.

    The soft-spoken justice Nabisinde concluded that the respondent was properly served and should not waste Court’s time.

    He set 31/08/2021 as the kickoff date to hear the main petition.

     

    By Sengooba Alirabaki

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    Suspended Lubaga Division RCC Burora In More Trouble As Intelligence Kicks Off Plans To Resurrect Files Where He Is Cited In Fraudulent Deals…

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    Burora handing over office today

    Highly placed sources at police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have revealed that orders were issued to detectives to resurrect criminal files implicating suspended Lubaga Division Deputy Resident City Commission (RCC) Herbert Anderson Burora in the multibillion fraud scandal.

    Hajji Yunus Kakande the Permanent Secretary in the Office of the President confirmed that Burora was suspended and he is going to be subjected to further investigations on allegation of attacking the person of Annet Anita Among the Speaker of parliament.

    Borora was among the many Ugandans who condemned the alleged corruption and mismanagement of taxpayers’ money at parliament.

    Using his x handle, Borora compared Among’s alleged extravagancies to France’s flamboyant Queen Maria Antoinette.

    Kakande said that when Borora started attacking Among on social media, he was summoned by his bosses and cautioned but he continued hence his suspension.

    On Monday, Borora handed over Office boasting that he will continue fighting corruption in the country. He promised to brief the media on his next move on Thursday 21st March, 2024.

    “Today, I handed over The Office of the Deputy Resident City Commissioner in Lubaga Division. Five years and five months of my Service are worth bowing out honorably. It’s not about the office/Job as Madam Anita thought, It’s about the Service. I had all the options to choose the Job or to remain true to my conscience. I chose the latter. In my tour of duty, there are those that I didn’t satisfy for one reason or the other, but majorly, I served the way I was supposed to do,” he said.

    A furious Burora added, “I may not be able to measure my legacy, as a representative of the President, but I’m sure there is not a single day that I didn’t represent him to the best of my knowledge” confident speaking Borora said. He was also quoted earlier “My suspension emanated from my criticism of the Speaker’s expenditures and the affairs of @Parliament_Ug. How can a local radio station be allocated billions of shillings when UBC TV, a national television, is struggling financially? I would rather lose a job than bend low to corrupt officials in a country where corruption is becoming a new normal.”

    However, Kakande insisted that Burora abused his office because public servants like him have rules and procedures they have to follow when communicating on issues that involve their superiors, that is why it was wrong for Burora to attack a full Speaker of parliament who is number three in the country’s leadership rank on social media.

    Burora recently officially married his beautiful wife is facing a high hill to climb because of the number of enemies he has including those in the opposition led by Kampala Lord Mayor Ssalongo Erias Lukwago who wants him to be imprisoned on allegations of fraud.

    Highly placed sources at CID told theGrapevine that detectives are currently studying the criminal allegations on pending files opened against Burora since he was still Nakawa Division Deputy RCC.

    Source disclosed that among the allegation against Burora is that he sold a piece of land meant for KCCA Youths a long Success Motors Ltd, opposite Pepsi Cola along Nakawa Jinja Road at Shs1bn.

    Detectives are also studying a criminal file where Burora is alleged to have been involved in a land scandal where he attempted to evict youths who are dealing in flowers from their land around Wankonko in Bugolobi after promising to sell it to one of the tycoons in Kampala.

    Burora was also dragged in the fraudulent land transaction in Mutungo zone 4 Nakawa Division and was later forced to compensate the owners of the land.

    Lukwago is also spearheading the fight against him to make sure that he is jailed. He accuses him of fueling divisions in Kampala city by creating parallel cliques against his boss the Resident City Commissioner (RCC) Amina Lukanga and sabotaging government programs.

    He is also being accused of sabotaging government programmes like when he suspended the Parish Development Model (PDM) operations insisting that KCCA officials included ineligible people.

    Burora’s enemies also accuse him of halting the operations of National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) and the Community Driven Development, citing ghost beneficiaries.

    However Burora looked determined today to fight back and threatened to expose opposition leaders who are in Among’s pockets.

    He gave Lord Mayor Lukwago up to Tuesday to explain himself on the multi million deal he sealed with Among.

    “You have up to Tuesday to declare your Affiliation with Anitah Among.  Short of that, we shall be forced to declare you as an affiliate in her ongoing subversive activities. It’s high time we weed out all corruption weeds,” Burora stated

     

    By Sengooba Alirabaki

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    Hoima Sugar, Bunyoro Kingdom Bosses In Trouble After Environmentalists Threaten To Petition M7 Expose Their Multibillion Dirty Deals On Bugoma Forest Land…

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    Dickens Kamugisha

    Environmental activities under their umbrella Save Bugoma Forest Campaign have threatened to expose the multibillion dirty deals sealed off by Hoima Sugar Limited and Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom bosses on the forest land that covers 41,000 hectares.

    Speaking to journalists at Hotel African Kampala, environmentalists led by Dickens Kamugisha revealed that they are going to petition President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to intervene and save the natural forest from being grabbed by money minded members of the public who don’t think about the future of the country.

    Kamugisha thanked Museveni and his cabinet for directing the Ministry of Lands in 2019 to open boundaries for Bugoma forest to determine whether Hoima Sugar Limited encroached on the forest land a move that was meant to resolve the other pending boundary verification exercises as ordered by courts of law to ensure the conservation of forest lands.

    He revealed that their umbrella body consists of members of the Civil Society, Private Sector and the forest host communities.

    He added that they petitioned the Ministry of Lands Housing and Urban Development’s department of Surveys and Mapping to also participate in the exercise of opening boundaries by sending their private land surveyors but they were sidelined and didn’t participate in the entire exercise which resulted into producing a half-baked report on the matter.

    Kamugisha said that the report does not provide definitive findings on whether Hoima Sugar encroached on the forest land but it instead relied on illegally obtained certificate of land registrations, the illegal Environmental Social Impact Assessment certificate, the search statement, court judgments to reach findings that the sugar company is utilising the leased land legally.

    He alleged that Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom illegally leased the forest land to Hoima sugar claiming ownership which is not true because the forest land was gazetted as a Central Forest Reserve land.

    “Corruption must be rooted out to protect our forests. Those illegally obtaining land titles must be held accountable to preserve Bugoma forest because it is vital for our environment and any attempts to encroach upon it must be stopped to protect our ecosystem,” Kamuhisha said.

    He pleaded with the concerned government authorities to with immediate effect prosecute all individuals involved in corruption which resulted in giving up of the forest.

    “We want to know who took the timbers, wood and materials from the trees which were cut down to plant sugarcane. Money was in billions of shillings and Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom officials, Hoima Sugar bosses, should explain to the country,” Kamugisha said.

    He urgently asked President Museveni’s government to address the gaps in the survey report on Bugoma forest and make positive recommendations for the conservation of the forest.

    He also asked the Ministry of Lands to cancel all illegal and fraudulent land titles in the forested areas and protected reserves.

    Kamugisha requested government to tell the public whether Bugoma forest land still exists, if not, where part of the forest land is.

    He asked the concerned authorities to stop intimidating activities challenging the illegal giveaway of forest land with trumped-up charges to silence them.

     

    By  Hadijjah Namagembe

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    TEMPERS FLARE! MP Ssemujju In More Trouble As Ssekikubo Exposes Him On How He Sealed A Deal With M7 To Weaken Parliament And Turn It Into A Clearing House…

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    Lwemiyaga county legislator Theodore Ssekikubo (R) and Kira Municipality's Ibrahim Ssemujju (L)

    Tempers flared as Lwemiyaga county legislator Theodore Ssekikubo narrated how fellow Kira Municipality legislator Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda sealed a deal with president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to weaken parliament and turn it into a clearing house for dealers.

    A furious Ssekikubo revealed that in 2021, he reached out to Ssemujju and pleaded with him not to allow to be compromised by writing his name in the book of people who are being used by president Museveni to weaken parliament.

    Ssekikubo told Semujju that without a strong parliament, the country’s democracy, Rule of Law and governance will be threatened; but he did not listen to him.

    Ssekikubo a senior legislator disclosed that it is unfortunate that Ssemujju was among the legislators Museveni used to fight Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga because he was very sure that he cannot deliver his son Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba to the office of the presidency when there is a strong speaker of parliament who will ask tough questions of why a serving military officer was participating in a partisan politics.

    He revealed that Museveni was very aware that the former Speaker of parliament Jacob Oulanyah was sick and even if he was voted Speaker of parliament, his health was going to fail him but he had no option because he was the best candidate to counter Kadaga.

    “President Museveni lied to us that he was not aware that Oulanyah was sick. He was aware because he was receiving intelligence briefing whenever Oulanyah flew out of the country for treatment abroad. Even when he received medication here in the country, he knew but he wanted to use him to defeat Kadaga,” Ssekikubo alleged.

    However, it should be remembered that Museveni told mourners at Kololo airstrip that if he was aware that Oulanyah was sick, he would have advised him not to contest for the speakership slot where he defeated Kadaga.

    Ssekikubo claims that Oulanyah’s illness weakened him because of the serious campaigns for the office of the speaker and by the time he was rushed to the hospital, it was too late.

    Appearing on Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi’s CBS radio, Ssekikubo claimed that Museveni saw the voting of Annet Anita Among as the speaker of parliament as a gift because he was very sure that she will not challenge him by standing on the independence of parliament like Kadaga did.

    He boasted that he showed it earlier and pleaded to Ssemujju not to de-campaign Kadaga to the extent of publicly humiliating her.

    “I openly tell Ssemujju that it was Kadaga who stood her ground and defied Museveni and former Prime Minister John Patrick Amama Mbabazi who was also the Secretary General of the NRM party to allow us stay in parliament even though our party had issued a resolution to remove us from the parliament as legislators. Kadaga created a special seat where me, my friends Muhammad Nsereko and Winfred Nuwagaba sat during the plenary. By now, Ssemujju would also be out of parliament because if Kadaga allowed the precedence to be set, it would be easier now for the FDC to remove him from parliament. Nobert Mao also wanted to do the same to DP legislators who were challenging his party leadership,” Ssekikubo said.

    He added that he looked at Ssemujju when he was celebrating Among’s win and inside him, his heart was bleeding because he was very sure that Ssemujju, a legislator with a bright future, had joined the group that weakened parliament.

    He noted that Ssemujju should be among the legislators responsible for the embarrassment that parliament is going through.

    Ssekikubo wondered how former Leader Of Opposition in Parliament Mathias Mpuuga Nsamba, a good friend to Ssemujju is going to look when his political party the National Unity Platform (NUP) recalls him from the Office of the parliamentary Commissioner and he refuses.

    He pleaded with legislators in opposition to check what president Museveni’s government is doing instead of siding with his people when it comes to eating taxpayers’ money.

    However, in response to the allegation, a furious Ssemujju blasted Ssekikubo noting that he has no reputation to place him and other members of the parliamentary leadership in bad light because he has been severally cited in corruption scandals in parliament.

    Ssemujju narrated that when he was still practicing journalism in 2005, Ssekikuubo was the first to reveal the news that legislators were given Shs5m to lift term limits from the constitution after legislators Anifah Kawooya and Hope Mwesigye refused to give him money which the legislators picked from Al-Hajji Moses Kigongo’s Mosa Courts.

    He wondered how Ssekikubo is praising Kadaga when she was the one who ordered SFC Commandos to fight them out of parliament because they were protesting the move by parliament to lift the Age Limit from the constitution.

    “For me I was forced out of parliament and lifted by male commandos but Ssekikubo was lifted by mean looking female commandos and when they threw him inside the vehicle they even sat on him, imagine that humiliation when a young girl sits on top of the head of a respected legislator! Ssekikubo has nothing to tell us,” Ssemujju said.

    Ssemujju is among the legislators who have been exposed by the ongoing social media parliament exhibition that he was paid tax payers money on questionable travels.

    He is also a close friend to Speaker Among since their hustling days in FDC before Among joined NRM.

    She even tried to save him when Nathan Nandala Mafabi the FDC Secretary General mooted a move to remove him from the Office of the FDC Chief Whip in parliament after the party’s top organ woted to remove Ssemujju from the office of Chief Whip and replaced him with Mawokota South’s Yusuf Nsibambi.

     

    By Hadijah Namagembe

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