Author: John Kamau

A group of well-facilitated supporters of Serere woman MP Acom Esther, who are based in the diaspora and more especially in the Middle east countries, have declared a war on PLU politics in Teso. They are operating under the following Tik Tok accounts-Vero.ug0, Kueen633 & ben.alvaro.dzeko. The trio is closely collaborating with another social media bully by the names of Ikilai Jessica who is always damaging General Kainerugaba and his PLU brand on Teso WhatsApp platforms. Being supporters of Kyagulanyi and NUP at presidential level, these Esther Acom’s self-declared supporters have generated a lot of public anger towards general Kainerugaba…

On 7th August Mr Kasirye the director clerks affairs at Uganda’s parliament put out an internal memo shuffling and redeploying a total of 43 committee clerks. These are people who manage committees and control the budgets. They head secretariats of committees of parliament. Transferring clerks from one committee to another is common and expected practice in common wealth. The new speaker Oboth Oboth Markson is a reformist who wants efficiency and a corruption-free parliament to clean up the mess of his predecessor Anita Among’s days. And redeploying clerks is one way Oboth hopes to improve efficiency and minimize committee level…

Ugandan foreign affairs minister Haruna Kasolo wanted the president Yoweri Museveni to attend his victory and thanksgiving party in Kyotera. The event is slated for this coming Sunday 20th September in Kyotera which he represents as the area MP. Kasolo defeated the opposition national unity platform candidate Paul Mpalanyi during the last January elections. It was a hard win, not an easy one. That is why he is celebrating the hard win he got. He had invited the Ugandan president as his guest of honor but state house sources say that the veteran Pan-African leader, who doesn’t like attending public…

A growing debate is emerging in Uganda’s Lira City following what residents describe as a sharp contradiction between political promises made to vulnerable youth and the reality now facing them. Residents recall assurances surrounding youth training at Arova Reality in Elwa Cell, Barapwoo Ward, Lira City west, where Betty Amongi presented the initiative as an opportunity for young people to access skills training without payment. The message created hope among many vulnerable youth who believed that the programme would give them practical skills to improve their livelihoods. However, an advertisement now circulating on social media indicates that Arova Reality is…

The recent anomalous article circulating on social media, attacking the political fortunes of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) in Lira City social media activists like Ayeny Angulu, clearly aimed at consoling Betty Amongi, deserves a factual and sober response. Political debate is healthy in a democracy but deliberate distortion, personal attacks, blackmail and attempts to rewrite electoral history cannot replace the voice of the people expressed through the ballot as is being portrayed by the Amongi camp. The message from the people of Lira City through the recent electoral results is clear: the NRM has made significant political gains in…

Under opposition MP Nkunyingi Muwadda, Ugandan MPs are investigating scandals at the government’s microfinance support center. The center had been dodging coming to Cosase for a long time but their days have run out. Muwadda has started investigations into MSC and Haruna Kasolo, who for long was their line minister, isn’t going to be safe at all. The MPs have lined up a long list of questions which they are planning to put before Kasolo. Being NUP MPs, they already have vendetta against him. Sources say that the MPs will be asking Kasolo to explain why the money MSC lent…

Technocrats inside Uganda’s ministry of foreign affairs are quietly grumbling after state minister Haruna Kasolo disregarded professional advice and traveled to Turkey with a large group of slay queens. The minister has been away in Turkey on official work since Friday. He officially traveled with one of his wives singer Princess Amirah, who took advantage of the trip to get visas and travel with 5 other girlfriends of hers. Its not clear whether Kasolo used personal or government money to facilitate the large number of girls who jetted into Turkey besides him. The technocrats at the ministry say this reckless…

NRM Sironko chairman Suleiman Mafabi Lumolo has petitioned the president of Uganda Yoweri Museveni asking him to take action against Denis Sekabira, a NUP opposition MP who he says is sleeping with his woman Barbara Nekesa. Lumolo who fell out with Nekesa at the beginning of this year and was chased from his own home, says that Museveni should punish Nekesa and remove her from the job of being the treasurer for the ruling party because it’s not safe to have a person who uses NRM money to fund her NUP boyfriends. She is also accused of mistreating her junior…

Ugandan junior minister Justin Nameere has banged the tables, making it clear that her fellow minister Haruna Kasolo is low-grade and not the type she can do. In a viral video Nameere, who has been at war with Kasolo for years and believes he too has been fighting her every day and night, says its not true that she has ever behaved seductively towards the NRM CEC member. In the same video, the outspoken minister says she is aware that Haruna Kasolo, a self-professed polygamist with more 14 documented and many more undocumented women, craves sleeping with every nice looking…

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni who just started a new term which he dubbed Kisanja No More Sleep” with focus on fighting corruption has reportedly ordered an investigation into alleged financial irregularities surrounding the recruitment of Assistant Resident District Commissioners (A-RDCs) and Assistant Resident City Commissioners (A-RCCs), placing Minister for the Presidency Milly Babalanda under intense scrutiny over the management of the exercise. The directive follows the submission of a detailed whistleblower dossier alleging that approximately Shs15 billion may have been lost during the recruitment process, with additional claims that billions more allocated for salaries and allowances remain unaccounted for. The investigation which will be conducted by the Internal Security Organisation…