Derrick Kiyonga

4 days ago | monitor.co.ug | Derrick Kiyonga

Give us the context in which you got to know about the allegations made against you by the National Unity Platform (NUP) principal, Mr Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, and Makindye West Member of Parliament Allan Ssewanyana... Incidentally, I was here in the office. I had so many people to meet: I had spent almost a week without being in the office, so when I came back to the office, I had a whole line of visitors. After seeing the second-to-last visitor, somebody sent me a prompt for the clip.

5 days ago | monitor.co.ug | Derrick Kiyonga

At the National Unity Platform (NUP) Buganda meeting, Mr Muhammad Muwanga-Kivumbi, the party’s deputy president in the region, made two confusing statements. He first declared vacant all seats of lawmakers who came to Parliament on an NUP ticket but have since fallen out with the party.

5 days ago | monitor.co.ug | Derrick Kiyonga

What you need to know:With consumer demand for coffee continuing to grow across the globe to the extent that smallholder farmers in Uganda are getting nearly five times as much for the bean as they would for the leaf, there is no question as to what is their cup of tea. But does it have to be an either/or situation? When Uganda’s black tea prices crossed the one-dollar mark in November last year, smallholder tea farmers, pluckers, and processors were somehow optimistic about the price recovering.

1 week ago | monitor.co.ug | Derrick Kiyonga

Ms Nina Kankunda, popularly known as Nina-Roz, has plunged herself into elective politics. Having buttressed herself in the politics of Uganda’s largest Opposition political party, the National Unity Platform (NUP), Nina-Roz decided to throw her hat into the ring of not just anywhere but a rural constituency—Sembabule District Woman parliamentary seat. Sembabule, which was carved out of Masaka District in 1997, is in the heart of Uganda’s cattle corridor.

1 week ago | monitor.co.ug | Derrick Kiyonga

What you need to know:From being an outsider of the Judiciary’s core, Justice Flavian Zeija has become the first Principal Judge under the current constitutional order to become Deputy Chief Justice. But as Derrick Kiyonga writes, the rise to the top has not been without controversy.