National Resistance Movement

Sep172020 by Abel kawereNo Comments

‘Useful Idiot’ Balaam Barugahara Thanks Nambooze For Recognition

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By Our Reporter City businessman Balaam Barugahara, who is the proprietor of Balaam Events, Radio4 FM and several other companies, has thanked Mukono municipality Member of Parliament for referring to his as a Useful Idiot. Nambooze described Balaam, who is a National Resistance Movement (NRM) mobiliser, as Useful Idiot, because he is allegedly being used by the Party as a conduit for fulfilling ulterior motives. Ever since Nambooze used the derogatory statement, the hashtag #Useful Idiots has been trending on social media. Balaam Barugahara's tweet in reply to MP Betty Nambooze However, in reply to Nambooze’s utterances, Balaam has since replied her in a tweet, thanking the Mukono MP for recognising his skill at marketing the NRM party and harnessing more supporters...

Sep152020 by Abel kawereNo Comments

Pallisa woman MP Faith Alupo Dies

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By Keefa Nuwahereza Pallisa Woman MP Faith Alupo is dead. Alupo passed on today Tuesday from Mulago hospital. Alupo lost in the recently concluded ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party primaries to Kevin Kaala Ojinga. Jacob Opolot the Pallisa County MP said that they are yet to find out the cause of death. He says that her death is a shock since she hasn’t been sick. Hellen Kawesa the assistant director communication & public Affairs of parliament says that parliament will issue a statement regarding Alupo’s death. She says the cause of death is still being investigated. Alupo came into parliament in June 2018 after the former Forum for Democratic Change's (FDC) Woman MP candidate for Pallisa, Catherine Achola was disqualified by the Electoral Commission from...

Sep42020 by Our ReporterNo Comments

President Museveni Talks About Retirement

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By Our Reporter His Excellency President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, who has been in power for over 30 years, has finally come around and talked about retirement. President Museveni broached the subjected during one of his interactions with thousands of immunized Bazukulu who follow him on social media. He wrote thus in his latest missive to his Bazukulu; “Museveni should retire? There is no problem with Museveni retiring. My family never joined the modern religion until 1947, almost 50 years from the coming of the Europeans. In my family, prior to my taking up a temporary teaching job in 1965, after our O – levels, nobody had even ever been a Muruka chief. My father and a number of my uncles died recently, all of them in their 90s. None of them ...

Sep32020 by Our ReporterNo Comments

‘Basoga Leaders Have Declared War On Me -’ Speaker Kadaga

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By Our Reporter The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga has revealed that there is a group political leaders from Busoga region who are viciously fighting her and have reached the extent of maligning her before President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. Kadaga, who recently got involved in a bitter contest with State Minister for Lands Persis Namuganza over the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Second Vice Chairperson seat, asserts that the group of Basoga leaders that want her out include among others State Minister for Karamoja Moses Kizige, who is the ringleader of the clique. Some of Speaker Rebecca Kadaga's tweets about her enemies from Busoga The Speaker contends that Kizige and others recently penned a scathing document to President M...

Sep12020 by Our ReporterNo Comments

“NUP Is a Cult and a Platform of Homosexuals Not a Political Party” Basajja Mivule

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Senior journalist and political commentator Basajja Mivule after weeks of hurling insults at leaders and supporters of the National Unity Platform (NUP) decided to join the ruling National Resistance Movement. On August 4 2020, Mivule was unveiled by Bobi Wine as a fully accomplished member of the NUP and handed a membership card in the full glare of press cameras. However, the self-styled critic will now be a member of the ruling NRM and is being unveiled by Events Promoter and NRM ardent follower, Balaam Barugahara. Mivule according to sources is said to have been in contact with several big wigs in NRM who wooed him into accepting to switch sides. The TV host came to the fore when he was arrested last month following a video in which he lambasted westerners and seem...

Aug242020 by Our ReporterNo Comments

NRM Electoral Commission has released the list of Nominated Canidates in 2020 Primaries

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Chairperson, NRM Electoral Commission Dr. Tanga Odoi with his colleagues at the NRM Secretariate has released the nominated Canidates for position of Consistuency MP, District Woman MP, SIG MP and Chairperson/Lord Mayor/ City Mayor. NOTES TO CANIDATES 1,THIS IS A LIST OF NOMINATED CANDIDATES CONTESTING IN NRM PRIMARIES FOR POSITION OF: DISTRICTWOMANMP&CONSTITUENCYMP,SIGMP&LCVCHAIRPERSON/LORDMAYOR/CITYMAYOR (IN THAT ORDER). 2,CHECK YOUR PARTICULARS ON THE LIST i.e. REGION, DISTRICT, CONSTITUENCY, NAME & CONTACT. 3,WRITE TO THE NRM ELECTORAL COMMISSION PLOT 13 KYADONDO ROAD TO REPORT ANY MISSING INFORMATION. 4,AN UPDATED LIST WILL BE RELEASED AFTER COMPLETION OF NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR THE NEWLY-CREATED CONSTITUENCIES/CITIES & OLDER PERSONS MP...

Aug212020 by Our ReporterNo Comments

Kadaga wins as Maj Gen Matayo Kyaligonza Loses in NRM CEC Election.

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The national delegates conference of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) was held at each of the district headquarters to approve endorsement of President Museveni as national chairperson and presidential flag bearer. The elections, held by circular resolution where delegates voted by signing or thumbprinting in a book against the photos of candidates also confirmed Mr Al-Hajji Moses Kigongo as first national vice chairperson. The conference also elected the second national vice chairperson (female) and the six regional vice chairpersons for Karamoja, eastern, northern, western, central and Kampala region. The highly competitive process attracted a total of 26 candidates vying for the different positions in the party’s top leadership. Of all the other positions, it...

Aug202020 by Our ReporterNo Comments

Why is People Power So Popular in Buganda?

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By Timothy Kalyegira I've not in a long time seen Baganda, elite and ordinary, feel so motivated, so filled with conviction and an uplifting of their spirit, as during this political phenomenon called People Power. It's something refreshing to witness. The region had in recent years started losing all sense of hope and self-belief. Baganda felt their area was fading into humiliating inconsequence. On Sunday Jan. 26, 2020 during a political discussion on 94.1 Bilal FM in Kampala, the opposition politician Michael Mabbike made a statement that has stuck in my mind all year. Mabbike warned that in the next ten years, Baganda will find themselves the first people in Uganda to have no land of their own. That statement cut through me. It crystallised the underlying fe...

Aug142020 by Our ReporterNo Comments

Face Off: Speaker Kadaga Defies NRM CEC Offer For Namuganza To Step Down, Vows To Beat Her Hands Down

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By Our Reporter A bitter competition is raging on between Speaker Rebecca Kadaga and Minister for Persis Namuganza, for the 2nd National Resistance Movement (NRM) Vice Chairperson seat. We have established that Speaker Kadaga on Wednesday turned down the move by NRM CEC to force Namuganza to stand down for her. Our Moles reveal that the NRM Chairman President Museveni had decided to talk to Namuganza to leave the race but Kadaga said there is no need for that, because she is assured of 70% victory and that ‘small fish’ like Namuganza might not even get 10%. However, political pundits intimate that Namuganza's candidature is a direct importation of village hatred or beef from Busoga to the national politics. It all started when Namuganza disagreed with the Busoga kin...

Aug112020 by Our ReporterNo Comments

Aspiring Mukono LC 5 Chairman Hajji Ssemakula Vows To Give People Clean Water, Eelctricity

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By Keefa Nuwahereza Hajji Haruna Ssemakula, a renowned businessman who is the proprietor of Hill Mineral Water, has vowed to ensure that residents in Mukono District get clean and safe water, electricity and better roads. Hajji Ssemakula, who is vying for the Mukono District LC V Chairperson seat in the 2021 general election, has revealed that he is ready to construct 62 boreholes, ensure roads and other infrastructure are improved to acceptable standards, on top of helping all families in villages around Mukono to have access to electricity. It should be noted that although he has since decided to join elective politics, Hajji Ssemakula is not only the proprietor of Hill Water Ltd, one of the leading mineral water brands in Uganda, but he is also a successful large...