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My President Step Down, How Can They Compare You To Obote – Former Kampala RCC Warns

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5 years ago

August 21, 2018

Former Kampala Resident City Commissioner (RCC) has asked her party chairman president Yoweri Museveni to step down.

“In good faith I ask my president to step down, how can Baganda compare him to Obote! When we were growing up, our parents used to tell us that Obote was the worst leader Uganda has ever had, now Baganda are saying that Obote didn’t do some things that my president is doing,” Aisha Kabanda said during a radio talk show.

The former Butambala district woman Member of Parliament (MP) contestant said that that since Museveni came to power, the Baganda have been praising him for being a good leader but if it has now reached an extent where they are comparing him to a bad leader like Milton Obote, who they accuse of killing their Kabaka Sir Edward Muteesa II, then it’s better for him to step down in good faith.

Kabanda was replying to senior journalist Ahmed Katerega Musaazi who supposed that the president is doing things that make Obote look a better leader despite the hatred people previously had towards him.

Katerega said that what happened to Bobi is a test which other politicians have sat and failed. He added that when FDC strongman Kizza Besigye was attacked at Mulago Round about on May 11 during the walk-to-work protests, he was beaten and rushed abroad. When he came back, he changed his ways of attacking the government and he is now nolonger that deadly Besigye.

Katerega said that if Kyagulanyi comes back with that strong opposition spirit, then Ugandans will embrace him as their new redeemer. Kabanda also wondered why her president cannot control his communication, she said that the president has released contradictory statements on the Arua fracas.

She however sympathized with him saying that maybe the handlers of his social media pages were infiltrated by people who want to soil his name and reputation.

NRM leaning Kabanda, who commiserates with embattled Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi’s People Power movement said that the Arua municipality incident targeted Bobi Wine. She said that the people who killed Bobi Wine’s driver Yasin Kawuma thought that he (Bobi) was the one seated in the co-driver’s seat.

She also cautioned that it might be that the people who killed Kawuma were sending a warning signal to Bobi Wine that if they can kill his driver, they can also kill him. Kabanda later wondered how the president’s car was attacked in the city centre and SFC operatives decided to go to Pacific Hotel looking for Bobi who was allegedly not present during the incident where the president’s car was attacked.

By Jamil Lutakome

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Commonwealth Lawyers Caution M7 On Dismissal Of Justice Kisakye

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4 days ago

March 17, 2023

Grapevine Uganda News

Lawyers under the Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA) have protested the removal of Justice Esther Kisakye from office.

In a written statement by the association, the Commonwealth Lawyers have called upon president Museveni to carefully consider the implications of Justice Kisakye’s dismissal.

The lawyers say that judges should only be subjected to suspension only when they are incapable or if they misbehave.

“Judges should be subject to suspension or removal only for reasons of incapacity or misbehaviour that clearly renders them unfit to discharge their duties,” part of the statement reads.

The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) last month recommended the removal of Justice Esther Kisakye from office and have her probed over her misconduct and attack on chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo.

Justice Kisakye’s troubles began following the 2021 election petition by National Unity Platform president Robert Kyagulanyi in which she gave a dissenting opinion from other judges.

Justice Kisakye in her ruling said Kyagulanyi had not been given enough time to present his case.

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Karamoja Iron Sheets Scandal: Speaker Among Returns 500 Iron Sheets

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6 days ago

March 15, 2023

Grapevine Uganda News

Speaker of parliament Anita Among has revealed that she has bought 500 iron sheets to compesate those meant for the vulnerable in Karamoja that were misallocated by the minister of Karamoja affairs Hon. Goretti Kitutu.

Among told parliament on March 15th that she bought the iron sheets because she does not want to be accused of grabbing iron sheets that were meant for the vulnerable in Karamoja.

Speaker Anita Among is among the government officials who were cited in the Karamoja iron sheet scandal. Among is reported to have received 500 pieces of iron sheets. However, Among claimed she did not request for the iron sheets but admitted that she saw them in her district Bukedea.

Other government officials that received the iron sheets include vice president Jessica Alupo, minister Rose Akello, Agnes Nandutu, prime minister Robinah Nabbanja, minister Amos Lugolobi, finance minister Matia Kasaija, Minister Maria Goretti Kitutu, government chief whip Denis Obua among others.

The Karamoja iron sheet scandal sparked off when family members of minister Goretti Kitutu were found in possession of iron sheets meant for the vulnerable in Karamoja region. Minister Kitutu told the committee on presidential affairs, during the probe, that she was not guided thus misallocating relief items meant for Karamoja.

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Opposition MPs To Boycott M7 Address

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6 days ago

March 15, 2023

Grapevine Uganda News

Members of Parliament from the opposition have announced a boycott of president Museveni’s address slated for Thursday this week.

Members of the opposition say they will not attend Museveni’s address because his government has failed to address their concerns.

The legislators say the regime has continued to arrest political opponents, failed to fight corruption, violated rights of members of Parliament and incarcerated innocent citizens without trial.

President Museveni is expected to address Parliament and the nation at large tomorrow March 16th, 2023 at Kololo ceremonial grounds.

There is high anticipation of what president Museveni’s address will look like with some legislators hoping that he will address the issue of his ministers involved in the Karamoja iron sheets scandal.

Forum for Democratic Change’s Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda on Tuesday during plenary protested the change of venue of Thursday’s plenary from Parliament to Kololo.

Ssemujju said there is no need for legislators to move to Kololo yet Parliament purchased a big tent to host sessions with high attendance.