Month: August 2022

The Speaker of Parliament Anita Among has threatened to start writing warning letters to legislators who continuously abscond from Parliament. In a terse statement yesterday, Among said it is “embarrassing and unfortunate to see that some legislators neither attend parliamentary sitting nor do they attend committee sittings.” Such legislators according to speaker are neither present in their constituencies of representation. She said she is going to start issuing warning letters to legislators who skip the House. Among also directed all legislators to start clocking in and out on the biometric system of Parliament and implored committee chairpersons to start registering all legislators that attend sittings Some MPs said the speaker’s move was ill advised while others welcomed it. Meanwhile...

Emphasizes Peace as a prerequisite for growth in the four sectors of Commercial agriculture, Industry, Services, and ICT. President Yoweri Museveni was on hand to witness the graduation of the 1st batch of the necessary unified forces of the Republic of South Sudan as UGANDA is one of the guarantors of the South Sudan peace deal. This follows the Entebbe Tripartite agreement of November 2019 in which a cessation of hostilities & a transition process towards general elections within South Sudan was set in motion. The graduation of cadets is a very symbolic will of the leadership and the people of South Sudan to work together in bringing stability and lasting peace to South Sudan. Speaking at the graduation, President Museveni placed emphasis on the need to have peace in order to develo...

August 30, 2022 By Nation Times Reporter The Supreme Court has ordered a recount of presidential votes in 15 polling stations across the country. The exercise is scheduled to begin this afternoon at an undisclosed location and will take 48 hours to scrutinize the votes. The exercise is expected to end on Thursday at 2 pm and a report filed in court. Each party shall be represented by two agents during the exercises and they shall at times be under the supervision of the Registrar of the Supreme Court and her staff. The Registrar shall file her report by 5 pm on September 1, 2022, and avail copies to all parties. The polling stations include Nandi Hills and Sinendeti Primary School in Nandi, Belgut, Kapsuser and Chepkutum Primary Schools in Kericho County; Jomvi, Mikindani and Ministry of ...

By Muhimbise George Following the death of Gen Elly Tumwine, a section of Ugandans on social media celebrated his death, many of which have been attributed to baganda. This may not be necessarily true as no study has been undertaken to prove it but neither can it be swept under the carpet! Fast forward, it is unethical, immoral & backward for one to celebrate the death of the other. This is because the dead even when condemned doesn't have the means to defend himself, even when you attack him, tomorrow you could follow and when you celebrate the dead you hurt the family & friends who were not party to his deeds while alive. That's why culture doesn't allow celebrating death! Assuming it's true that baganda celebrated the death of Tumwine, why them? Are they uncultured or immoral? D...

Children of the recently deceased, Gen Elly Tumwiine, have begged the general public to pardon their father for any wrongs he had done during his time alive. “For all those he wronged, we ask for forgiveness,” one of Gen Tumwine’s children Cynthia Tumwine spoke on behalf of the children on Sunday. The children were addressing mourners at the home of the deceased on Sunday night where they asked for a clean slate for the deceased General in the public eye as he faces the afterlife. “While in hospital in Nairobi and while we were praying, one of the things we were convicted about was to seek forgiveness on his behalf. To ask God to forgive him for everything he did either knowingly or unknowingly. We seek forgiveness so that he is on a clean slate,” Cynthia Tumwine implored mourners. “I also...

President Museveni has described as naysayers who are wasting their time, members of the public who are insulting former Security Minister and NRA bush war hero, Gen Elly Tumwine who died last week. Speaking while eulogizing Gen Tumwine at Kololo independence grounds on Monday, Museveni, who led the five year NRA war described the deceased as a patriot. “Don’t worry about those Ugandans. When we were fighting Amin, many were calling us vagabonds(when we went to the bush) because we had left jobs. A job of working under Amin and you call it jobs? For us we were despising them. For us we decided to fight .By the time we came, we were no longer vagabonds but Moses. We had become David who killed Goliath. Don’t think about those fellows talking nothing. They are wasting their time and talking ...

The state minister for trade and investment, Evelyn Anite warned National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) against evicting investors at gazetted industrial parks. Anite was meeting hundreds of local and foreign investor doing business at Namanve industrial They said taxes, constant power outages and poor roads are their problems and therefore they are asking for these to be addressed so that they too can volunteer in their jobs. "Hon. Minister, we invest a lot of money in our machines and they cannot withstand the dust from the bad roads in the park, and NEMA is another big problem to us they always halt our construction works". Investors cried out. They also raised concerns over the national environment management Authority's actions of sabotaging their developments and UNBS'...

Dear Jolly,Daudi and family, His Excellency the President and Commander in Chief of the UPDF Members of the High Command ,Officers,men and women of UPDF,fellow citizens,ladies and gentlemen. On behalf of my family Please accept our deepest condolences on the passing of Afande Elly Tumwine. My brother,my friend your death was unbearable. Writing this Eulogy was a daunting but welcome responsibility. Dear mourners when all is said and done there comes unwelcome but sure death and so it has been with Gen.Tumwine. Born in 1954 in Burunga,Kazo district, son of Ruhondeire and Ednasi Kazigirye evangelists who got saved during the East African revival. He named his daughter Edna after his mother. He went to Kitovu Secondary school and Makerere University in 1974 to graduate in fine Art and Educa...