Daily Monitor
Wednesday December 23 2020
Summary
About Jinja City. On 1 July 2020, the government of Uganda awarded city status to about one half-a-dozen municipalities. Jinja was one of those localities. As part of the qualifications to become a city, Jinja expanded to include the former Jinja Municipality, Bugembe Town Council, Mafubira Sub-county and Budondo Sub-county. The estimated population of the new city, as of October 2020, is about 300,000.
Advertisement
All the 11 candidates nominated for the Jinja City Woman parliamentary seat have an equal chance of victory regardless of their political affiliations.
This is because they are all basing their campaign pledges on three issues of developing tourism, promoting health and women empowerment, leaving voters with limited choice.
Daily Monitor
Saturday December 19 2020
An old man reacts after tear gas was fired by Police in Jinja city during campaigns of FDC presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat, December 18, 2020. PHOTO/RACHEL MABALA.
Summary
Amuriat’s campaign team will trail through districts of Mukono and Kayunga on Saturday- before heading to Mityana and other districts.
Advertisement
Jinja city was Friday evening turned white-thick as police battled Forum for Democratic Change party presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat and his supporters during his day two , campaigning in Busoga sub-region.
At Lugazi municipality, police battled Amuriat and his defiant supporters for more than an hour. Several rounds of teargas canisters were unleashed at huge crowds that kept on surging. Police engaged the supporters in running battles for close to an hour until Amuriat exited the area.
Uganda: Bobi Wine On the Spot for Removing Officer s Mask allafrica.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from allafrica.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Daily Monitor
Thursday December 10 2020
NUP presidential candidate Robert Kyagulayi’s vehicle manoeuvre through the submerged Moyo-Obongi road en route to address a campaign meeting in Moyo District yesterday.
PHOTO/David Lubowa
Summary
Bobi Wine says he removed the officer’s masks because he wanted to identify those arresting his people
Advertisement
Presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, is seen in video clip that went viral on social media harassing a police officer on duty in Jinja District.
The National Unity Platform candidate who was campaigning in Jinja recently had not put on a facemask when he lost his cool and forcefully removed a facemask from a police officer, whom he wanted the public to identify as one of his tormentors.
Views: Visits 14
Presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, is seen in video clip that went viral on social media harassing a police officer on duty in Jinja District.
The National Unity Platform candidate who was campaigning in Jinja recently had not put on a facemask when he lost his cool and forcefully removed a facemask from a police officer, whom he wanted the public to identify as one of his tormentors.
The police officer had a facemask to protect himself and others from the deadly coronavirus. The virus has so far killed 219 people in Uganda.
However, social media has attacked Mr Kyagulanyi for not putting on facemask at a time when Covid-19 cases are soaring and pulling down the officers’ face mask.