By George Murumba

25^th February 2013:

Museveni: Wants right to bail scrapped

President Yoweri Museveni has renewed his call for a change in the law to deny bail to suspects charged with corruption, terrorism, treason and defilement in the first 180 days on remand.

The president’s proposal has been sent to both the NRM caucus and the cabinet.  If the president’s proposal eventually becomes law, it would remove the discretionary powers that Judges have to grant bail to suspects for certain crime categories.

Museveni said the (more…)

By George Murumba

18^th Feb 2013:

PM Amama Mbabazi

The Swedish government has announced that Uganda had paid back a total of 2.8 million euros ($3.75 million) in Swedish aid that had been stolen from the scandal ridden Office of the Prime Minister John Patrick Amama Mbabazi.

The amount of stolen money paid back by Uganda is about (more…)

By Okello Lucima

18^th February 2013:

In the first part of this two part analysis, I noted that death is a mysterious, fearsome and terrifying spectre. And that, despite this, sometimes (more…)

By Beti Olive Kamya

18^th February 2013:

It has not been a good month for Speaker Rebecca Kadaga – what with backtracking on recall of parliament, expulsion of (more…)