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1 week ago |
monitor.co.ug | Nicholas Sengoba
On a rainy morning, 45 years ago, Lt Col David Oyite Ojok went on Uganda’s only radio station; Radio Uganda and eloquently made a statement. “Fellow countrymen, I am Lt Col David Oyite Ojok. I bring you good news.
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2 weeks ago |
monitor.co.ug | Nicholas Sengoba
It was intriguing to hear Justice Simon Mugenyi Byabakama, the chairperson of Uganda’s Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), mooting the idea of ‘mandatory voting’. While appearing before the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs committee of the 11th Parliament, Justice Byabakama expressed his frustration. ‘Few people turn up to vote leading to the wastage of electoral material’.
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3 weeks ago |
monitor.co.ug | Nicholas Sengoba
Once again, Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), Uganda’s national army, has hurriedly rolled into South Sudan. The mission as usual is to prop up the perennially precarious government of president Salva Kiir Mayardit (73). If the government were a person, his legs would be unsteady like those of an ever-inebriated soul needing to hold onto support to remain standing. This, Uganda readily provides.
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1 month ago |
monitor.co.ug | Nicholas Sengoba
It is noticeable that most people holding public offices in Uganda today just don’t take the citizen very seriously. Or they don’t care what the latter thinks because they have gradually become powerless. In explaining the brutal involvement of the state in the messy Kawempe North by-election, a minister calls a press conference.
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2 months ago |
monitor.co.ug | Nicholas Sengoba
Those who lived in Uganda in the ‘70s know how tense the atmosphere in the country was in 1977. The government of Gen Idi Amin Dada was in siege mode. The international media used every opportunity to amplify the misdeeds of the regime of the day, reporting hundreds of people imprisoned and killed by soldiers for all sorts of reasons, including fights over women. Opposition to Amin from many Ugandans who had fled to exile, especially Tanzania, was mounting.
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