Author: John Kamau
While the 2027 general elections remain a year away, the race for Webuye West is already being defined by more than just campaign posters. For businessman and parliamentary hopeful Lendrix Waswa, the strategy for transformation begins not on a podium, but in the classroom. Over the weekend at Sirisia Bok Primary School, Waswa moved beyond political rhetoric to tangible action, overseeing the distribution of school uniforms and essentials to over 5,000 learners. The initiative specifically targets Grade 1 through Grade 6, a demographic Waswa identifies as the “vulnerability gap” in the current education system. Waswa, who rose from a humble…
World Health Organization recently, in writing, raised a red flag about the governance loopholes at National Drug Authority, which in Uganda, is charged with regulating the manufacturing and importation of drugs and all medicines into the country. The WHO was concerned with the obvious conflict among some top leaders of the organization, which is the very same thing which the inspector general of government detectives, supervised by deputy IGG Ann Muhairwe, have gratefully started investigating. The WHO was prompted by an earlier incident which involved technical staff at UNDA being put between a rock and hard place when they had…
DAR ES SALAAM: RUSSIA and Tanzania continue to strengthen their longstanding diplomatic relationship, expanding cooperation in defence, education, trade and political engagement. The partnership, which dates back to December 11, 1961, has evolved over more than six decades and remains grounded in mutual respect and shared strategic interests. The Russian Federation has reaffirmed its commitment to supporting Tanzania in the modernisation of its defence forces through military-technical cooperation and professional training. Speaking during celebrations marking Defender of the Fatherland Day in Dar es Salaam, the Russian Ambassador to Tanzania, Andrey Avetisyan, emphasised the depth of collaboration between the two nations. “Russia…
Johana Ng’eno Kipyegon was a Kenyan politician who served as the Member of Parliament for the Emurua Dikirr Constituency in Narok County. He died on February 28, 2026, in a helicopter crash. The plane carrying six people crashed and caught fire in Mosop, Nandi County. He has been representing this constituency since 2013, was re-elected in 2017 and 2022, and is currently serving his third term. Before entering politics, he served as a Director at the Agricultural Development Corporation (ADC) from 2008 to 2012. Johana Ng’eno Age and Early Life Johana Ngong Ngeno Ole Kisiara rose from a life of…
Leila Katusiime, a former lawyer at NDA, risks arrest after it came to the IGG’s attention, through whistle blower info, that her written directive was ignored and the NDA former board members organized a secretive ceremony at four points hotel in Kololo and defiantly swore themselves in. The IGG got angry on realizing that even after several written reminders directing a halt, the NDA outgoing board members went ahead to have an illegal swearing in ceremony and inauguration on Monday at the Kololo hotel. The IGG has been asked by a whistle blower to expand on the ongoing investigations to…
Former Mbarara MP Medard Bitekyerezo has refused to accept the fact that his tenure as Uganda national drug authority NDA chairman ended on 20th February when his contract expired, along with that of the other 19 members of the board. He has for instance continued holding on to the NDA vehicle, a double cabin, which the Authority Asiimwe Dandasi continues to use to deliver stuff to the boss’ farm in Rukungiri. Through this same driver, a request has been made to a powerful general in the Ugandan security to provide personal security to the former NDA chairman Bitekyerezi, just in…
In her latest letter, dated Monday 2nd March, the IGG makes it clear that former Mbarara MP Medard Bitekyerezo is no longer the board chairman of National Drug Authority (NDA) yet the cantankerous former legislator has continued convening controversial meetings holding himself out to be exercising NDA powers, which he doesn’t have anymore. His contract as board chairman ended on 20th February and it hasn’t yet been renewed effectively. His purported reappointment to serve for another three years was put in jeopardy on 26th February when the IGG exercised her powers under article 230 of the constitution and directed the…
The Ugandan judiciary on Monday indifferently disregarded a written directive by the country’s inspector general of government (IGG) by deploying a senior magistrate to go and swear in the new board for Uganda national drug authority. In her 26th February letter addressed to the NDA top management, the IGG, as mandated under article 230 of the constitution, directed that the swearing in of the reappointed board members be HALTED until her investigations are completed. The IGG had weeks earlier received a complaint that the board members especially board chairman Medard Bitekyerezo and the dental association representative Dr. Muhammed Mbabali had…
In Uganda, things aren’t good at all following leaked information showing that several directors and Authority members of Uganda national drug authority (NDA) are on the verge of being arrested over willful refusal to obey lawful orders and directives issued by the country’s inspector general of government-IGG. The looming arrest follows the obstinate decision of the top leaders at NDA to insist on going ahead with the 9am newly reappointed board members’ inauguration ceremony on Monday, in total disobedience to the written directive by the country’s inspector of government (IGG) directing the halting of the inauguration. This is something the…
Flights across the Middle East were being cancelled on Saturday as several countries slammed their airspace shut after the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran. Iran, Iraq, Israel, Syria, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates all announced at least partial closures of their skies in the hours after smoke began rising over Tehran and Iran began retaliatory attacks in the region. Iranian missiles hit capital cities around the wealthy Gulf region, killing at least one, as witnesses reported seeing warplanes and projectiles streaking through the skies. Carriers including Air France, Air India, Turkish Airlines, Norwegian, Air Algérie and…