2021 General Election – Page 6

Jul112020 by Our ReporterNo Comments

UCC Orders All Owners Of Radio Stations To Renew Licenses Ahead of 2021 Elections

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By Elite News Reporter As the 2021 elections loom nearer, the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has ordered al radio broadcasters in Uganda to submit fresh applications for radio broadcasting licenses of their choice following revision of the licensing framework. The revised licensing regime reclassifies radio broadcasting services into two categories: commercial broadcasting services and communal broadcasting services. The new regime also introduces a license for online radio broadcasters. It provides for a five-year commercial and communal broadcasting license as opposed to the previous one, which was only valid for one year. Online radio broadcasters, on the other hand, are to be granted authorisation for one year. The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) Execu...

Jul102020 by Our Reporter1 Comment

Electoral Commission Short Of Money To Hold 2021 Election, Offices To Be Demolished

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By Keefa Nuwahereza The Electoral Commission is short of money that it needs to effectively hold the 2021 general election, which included voting for the president, Members of Parliament and local government positions. According to a report by the Auditor General compiled for the Financial Year 2018/2019, the Justice Simon Byabakama led Commission received very little funding from the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MoFEP) compared to the amount they had budgeted for the 2020/2021 Electoral Roadmap. As a result of the underfunding, the Auditor General John B. Muwanga is of the view that the Commission is not in position to successfully hold the forthcoming elections unless government injects more money into the EC. AG Muwanga’s report reads in part thus; “The ...

Jul92020 by Our ReporterNo Comments

FDC Party Closes Nomination Window For 6 MPs Over Party Wrangles

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By Elite News Reporter The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) office in Kasese District has closed the nomination window for three Members of Parliament (MPs). The three MPs include Winnie Kiiza, Robert Centenary and Jackson Katika. The three, according to Saul Maate the Party District Chairperson, have failed to sort out their issues with the party office. For Robert Centenary and Winnie Kiiza, Maate says “The two have allegiance issues with the Party and that they only picked forms of interest to participate in the party primaries but haven't returned them to the party office.” Maate also said his office has been instructed by the party head office in Najanankumbi not to nominate Mbaju Jackson Katika even if he had already picked forms of interest from Maate's office. H...

Jul72020 by Our ReporterNo Comments

MPs Mwiru, Karuhanga Join Gen. Muntu’s ANT Ahead Of 2021 Elections

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By Keefa Nuwahereza As the 2021 elections loom nearer, several politicians are defecting from their parties while others are joining political blocs so as to garner support from voters ahead of the elections. This website has learnt that two legislators who include Hon. Paul Mwiru, of Jinja Municipality and Hon. Gerard Karuhanga, of Ntungamo Municipality have Tuesday officially joined Rtd. Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu’s Alliance for National Transformation. The two are legislators with a clean record who bring to the Alliance Values and those are the leaders the party intends to shall keep attracting In his welcome message to Hon. Mwiru Hon. Karuhanga to the ANT, George Muhimbise, a member of ANT, wrote thus; “I interacted with Hon. Mwiru Paul in 2010 when he accompanied ...

Jul72020 by Our ReporterNo Comments

Chameleone Faces Arrest Over Assault, Accused Of Using Juju To Frustrate Musicians

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By Elite News Reporter Randy musician Joseph Mayanja aka Jose Chameleone, of the Leone Island group, is in deep trouble after allegedly fighting at famous Producer Diggy Baur’s Cyclone Studio in Makindye, where he allegedly beat one of the studio managers. It is alleged that Chameleone stormed Diggy Baur’s studio over the weekend, demanding for a song he had asked them to produce, but they hadn’t finalized it. Chameleone, who is said to have been dead drunk, allegedly started quarreling and causing commotion. However, when the studio managers tried to show him out, the singer lost his cool and instead of going out peacefully, he started fighting. During the scuffle, he allegedly destroyed studio equipment and damaged Diggy Baur’s car, before he was finally thrown out of the st...

Jul72020 by Our ReporterNo Comments

29 Presidential Candidates Battle For Museveni Seat Come 2021

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By Keefa Nuwahereza The Electoral Commission reveals that so far, at least 29 presidential aspirants have declared intentions to run for president in 2021 polls against President Yoweri Museveni. Few of the aspirants are publicly known with the most recognisable faces being Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine (MP for Kyadondo East), Lt Gen Henry Tumukunde (former security minister), Elton John Mabirizi, Norbert Mao (DP President), Maureen Kyala, Moses Byamugisha, Ruhinda Maguru, Darlen Kamusiime, Grace Kabarungi, Joseph Kabuleta, Charles Rwomushana, Mugisha Muntu among others. However, more and bigger names are expected in the race as political parties have not yet convened their national delegates’ conferences to elect their presidential flag bearers. While Bobi Wine has already...

Jul32020 by Our ReporterNo Comments

Constitutional Court Dismisses MP Sekikubo’s Petition Challenging Museveni Sole Candidature

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By Elite News Reporter Theodore Sekikubo, the Lwemiyaga county Member of Parliament, has landed in trouble after the Constitutional court dismissed a petition he and other 10 MPs they filed in court, challenging the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Sole Candidature resolution. Sekikubo, Monica Amoding, John Baptist Nambeshe, Barnabas Tinkasimire and other NRM rebel MPs petitioned the Constitutional court Vide CP No. 9 of 2019, challenging the NRM party’s resolution to have President Yoweri Museveni contest for presidency as a sole candidate during Party Primaries, without anyone contesting against him. Others are; Patrick Nsamba, Samuel Lyomoki, Sylvia Akello, Susan Amero, James Acidri and Moses Adome Bildard.. The Petitioners (NRM Rebel MPs) argued that it was unconst...

Jul12020 by Our ReporterNo Comments

Scientific Elections: Opposition Throwing Away Huge Opportunity

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By Patrick Odongo Lango Many new political parties that sprung up to ride on the democratisation waves that swept the world in the late 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, invariably had a single agenda: to end one party rule and dictatorship. Those who succeeded, like in Zambia, Kenya and Ghana, to mention but three, changed their fortunes forever; but those who failed, like in Zimbabwe, Uganda and Tanzania, have been struggling to stay alive. That is the risk that all one-issue agenda parties face; lacking ideological coherence to define broad policy agenda; once their single objective eludes them for long, their members get disillusioned, they fragment and diminish. In contrast, parties with clear ideological moorings and broad policy agenda tend to be more resilient and adapt...

Jun282020 by Our Reporter1 Comment

Stalemate: NRM CEC Meeting Hits Snag, Museveni Appointees Not Approved After Lumumba Clashes With Nankabirwa

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By Elite News Reporter The ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) meeting held Saturday June 27, 2020 hit a snag, after it ended without anything being concluded. One of the key matters that were expected to be handled was the approval of the new bureaucrats President Yoweri Museveni unveiled during the last week session, who are set to run the official work at party headquarters along Plot 10 Kyaddondo Road, in Nakasero. But the meeting was unable to progress on that agenda item of approving the new party secretariat bosses after Government Chief Whip (GCW) Ruth Nankabirwa, renowned for having a cold war with powerful SG Kasule Lumumba, raised strong objections disputing the suitability of some of the new officials meant to tak...

Jun252020 by Our ReporterNo Comments

Opinion: Malawi’s Normal Presidential Election Re-Run Vs Uganda’s Scientific General Elections

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By Mulindwa Walid Lubega Yesterday, over 6 million registered Malawians thronged in huge numbers to polling booths across the Country to re-elect the next President of Malawi marking and end to a full year political showdown between Government, Opposition and civil society. The re- run of May 2019 Presidential election was ordered by Malawi Constitutional court in February 2020 after judges found widespread irregularities with the original ballot. The election saw the 80 year old President Prof. Peter Mutharika narrowly re-elected for the second term by less than 159,000 Votes with a 38.6% share of the votes cast against his erstwhile political nemesis the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader Lazarus Chakwera with 35.4% and President Mutharika's Vice President Saulos Chi...