Month: November 2014

Government has described as regrettable the decision by the East African Parliament to suspend its speaker Margaret Zziwa. Zziwa was suspended yesterday to allow investigations into accusation of abuse of office and incompetence that are leveled against her. UPC’s Chris Opoka has since taken over the speaker’s roles including entitlements […]

Former NSSF board chairman Mr. Geoffrey Onegi Obel is now a free man after he was acquitted by the Anti Corruption Court today. Anti-Corruption Court judge Margaret Tibulya said prosecution had failed to produce incriminating evidence against the accused Mr. Onegi Obel had been charged with abuse of office and […]

The compact document agreed upon on free and fair elections must be understood by ordinary Ugandans for it to be embraced. Yesterday the national consultative meeting on free and fair elections came up with recommendations to be presented to parliament next week. They include the requirement for an incumbent president […]

Members of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) have been advised to provide the leadership that aims at maintaining its focus. This comes a day after the assembly resolved to suspend Margret Zziwa from exercising the functions of Office of the Speaker pending the finalization of the investigations into the […]