28.06.2010
By Samantha Seruyange
Grief on 21 June filled the residents of Kisenyi 11 zone Kamwokya; a Kampala slum when a boy, Khan Kakama who went missing on 8 June, was found dead. Police discovered the body in a bush near a water channel in the slum. According to detectives, the body was found wrapped in three sacks with the head tied in separate polythene bags on a rubbish pit. (more…)
28.06.2010
She is very well known within FDC for her hot-headedness, boldness, and frankness. And it seems Anne Mugisha’s return to Uganda is causing minor tremors at the very heart of NRM HQ in Nakasero too. The grapevine has it that as soon as Anne Mugisha returned to Uganda after 9yrs in exile, a tactical decision was taken by NRM strategists not to send the “usual attack dogs” after her in the hope that she will simply become an ordinary FDC activist after a few weeks or at best, a few months. The NRM, we are told, is quietly worried about Anne Mugisha’s aggressive e-mobilisation and fundraising style that she got to fully appreciate while following US President Barack Obama’s journey to the White House.
28.06.2010
The senseless circumstances under which Khan Kakama, the innocent one-and-a-half-year-old toddler who was kidnapped from his home in Bugolobi and killed, must be condemned in the strongest possible terms. We join Kakama’s parents, family, friends and indeed the entire nation in moaning the loss of an innocent Ugandan child. Of course, it goes without saying that we condemn any crime, let alone such a senseless crime, in the strongest possible terms. Sometimes it takes a single incident for an entire nation to wake up. We hope this is it! In death, Kakama will have achieved what powerful Generals have failed to achieve in nearly 25yrs. (more…)
By Our Staff Writer
Kigali-Rwanda, June 24th 2010. Sources in the Rwandan capital Kigali say that police have today arrested dozens of opposition protesters as the country’s President Gen. Paul Kagame presented his nomination papers for re-election to the National Election Commission. Kagame, who has been in or around the centre of political power in Rwanda since 1994 when his RPF/RPA guerrilla force took power, is widely expected to secure a second seven-year term in the country’s forthcoming elections scheduled for 9th August 2010. (more…)
Col. John Ogole
Cometh the day, cometh the hour! This is it. Last week, we promised to start publishing a series of interviews with Col. John Charles Ogole; the man whose name has rightly or wrongly, been quite synonymous with the 1981-86 war in “Luwero Triangle”. In this truly exclusive interview series, Uganda Correspondent [UC] sounds out Col. John Charles Ogole about that Luwero war and a number of other issues affecting his motherland Uganda.
In this first part of the interview series, Ogole talks about how he left Uganda in huff at the time of the 1985 coup to start a new life as refugee. (more…)
By Charles Ochen Okwir
The subject of corruption in Museveni’s government and indeed in Uganda as a whole has hit the headlines once again after our “most beloved” and only visionary President Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni called for national prayers to heal the country from the vice. Great stuff! It reminded me of a TV documentary I watched several months ago and wrote about; simply because it had shaken me to the bone. The program, “Ross Kemp on Gangs”, had just been aired on a Sky TV channel. Ross Kemp, the so-called “Hardman” of British television, basically travels around the world talking to gangsters about their lives and what inspires their lifestyle. From Kenya’s Mungiki, to Somali pirates; he has talked to all of them. (more…)
By Nelson Wanjala
My Lords!
Allow me congratulate you all upon your appointment and ascendency to the Bench. For some of you, it may have come as complete surprise; while for rest, it may have been a long held career ambition or goal. Whatever the case, your elevation to the Bench opens a new chapter in both your private and professional lives. None of them, as you are well aware, will ever be the same again. (more…)
By John Patrick Wambi
I have been towing with the idea of responding to the Daily Monitor story [Army Trains 200 Banyala Youth] of April 27th 2010 for some time now. But every time I sit on the computer to write, something tells me “wait, someone out there will surely see that this is not right for our country and respond”. To date, I haven’t heard any comprehensive rejection of the militia training. Not even Buganda Kingdom, under whose nose all this is happening, has deemed it fit to challenge the blatant attack on its integrity and sphere of influence by Museveni’s government. (more…)
By C.D Rauxen Zedriga
Dear Editor, allow me to first salute you all at “Uganda Correspondent” for affording a timely opportunity for Ugandans, through focused debate, to discuss the unfortunate political underdevelopment of a people; the people of Uganda that is. My input in this instance is to do with the people of West Nile where I come from. (more…)
As a born again Christian, I was particular chuffed by President Museveni’s call for national prayers to seek God’s blessings in our country’s struggle against this most vicious cancer called corruption. Speaking from personal experience, I know that prayer can indeed cause miracles to happen. The lame can walk, the blind can see, the bitter can get God’s joy and glory, and the corrupt can easily see the folly of their ways with the power of the Lord.
So I would like to congratulate President Museveni on his visionary leadership on this matter; if for nothing else. Let us turn out in our thousands and praise the Lord for all the good things he has done for us as individuals and also ask him to forgive us for our transgressions against each other and our country’s wealth and morals.
Nantongo Juliet, Kampala
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