Daily Monitor
Monday February 15 2021
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A senior presidential aide has asked the army for unmarked guns in order to conduct “covert operations” despite President Museveni’s June 2018 directive that all guns be finger-printed to stem abuse or use by criminals.
Maj Kakooza Mutale, the special presidential assistant for political affairs, made the demand - whose details this newspaper reveals for the first time today - in an August 10, 2019, letter to the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), Gen David Muhoozi.
This was 14 months after Mr Museveni ordered engraving of all firearms in the hands of security forces so that cartridges retrieved from crime scenes can, through ballistic analysis, be matched to the bullet discharge gun and user.
According to Kabuleta, political liberation is only possible after people are economically empowered not to sell their votes to politicians who offer peanuts in bribes
Daily Monitor
Wednesday January 20 2021
Soldiers and civilians line up to vote on January 14 during the general election at Mubarack, A-M Polling Station in Kampala. PHOTO/MICHAEL KAKUMIRIZI
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Insecurity
‘‘The war drums that had been sounded prior to the election, the events of November 18 and 19 [2020] scared away many people. People thought the election day was going to be bloodshed, so they stayed away from the polling stations,” Mr Crispin Kaheru of Independent Election Observers
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Nearly half of all registered voters did not show up to vote in the January 14 presidential election.
Of the 18 registered million voters, eight million did not appear at the polling stations to cast their vote.
President Museveni has pledged to retire numerous times, among which was the promise to handover to a civilian government four years after the National Resistance Army took over power in 1986.
Daily Monitor
Friday January 15 2021
A man casts his ballot at a polling station on Luwum Street in Kampala City yesterday. PHOTO / ERIC DOMINIC BUKENYA
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Ugandans yesterday flocked polling stations across the country to elect a president and Members of Parliament amid a total Internet shutdown.
The shutdown, which was ordered by government, crippled access to real time information about the voting process in different parts of the country.
During a press conference on Wednesday, the Electoral Commission (EC) chairperson, Justice Simon Byabakama, said the relaying and tallying of results would not be affected by the Internet shut down. He revealed that the commission would use other systems to transmit the results. Efforts to get a clear explanation from the Commission about the said system were futile.