Kadaga camp pushes to take fight to Parliament
Sunday May 23 2021
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Bugiri Municipality MP Asuman Basalirwa, who heads Ms Kadaga’s campaign media team, argues that CEC, which he described as “a handful of people,” cannot be making decisions on big issues like the job of Speaker.
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Unyielding supporters of outgoing Speaker Rebecca Kadaga say her name will appear on the ballot tomorrow as the 11th Parliament convenes for the first time since the January 14 elections to vote Speaker and Deputy Speaker.
Even though the NRM Central Executive Committee (CEC) meeting deferred declaring who they preferred last night, the Kadaga camp appeared resolute and had no kind words for those asking her to step down for Mr Jacob Oulanyah, her rival for the post.
Daily Monitor
Sunday May 02 2021
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Aruu County MP Samuel Odonga Otto lost his seat to Independent candidate Christopher Komakech in the just concluded elections. The long-serving MP has also been in and out of police cells since then, and blames his woes on Deputy Inspector General of Police, Gen Paul Lokech, who he says is trying to finish him off politically to protect his relative.
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At 6:36pm on March 30, outgoing Aruu County MP Samuel Odonga Otto tweeted: “Deputy IGP [Inspector General of Police] Paul Lokech is politically persecuting me having got his son elected MP Aruu. I wish to thank President Gen Museveni for his intervention that got me out after seven days in jail.”
April 8, 2021 IGP Martins Okoth Ochola engages minister Obiga Kania as they appear before MPs
The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Martins Okoth Ochola has backtracked on his statements in which he appeared to endorse police brutality against journalists.
Ochola, early this year, at a joint security press briefing said that police would continue beating journalists for their own safety. On the contrary, it is the media targeting security. It is portraying security as brutal and siding with the government. When we tell a journalist, don t go there and you insist on going where there is danger, we shall beat you for your own safety. I have no apology, Ochola said then.
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Roadblocks are being mounted everywhere, after 9 pm anyone stopped at the roadblock, that person must part with money…The curfew time is doing more harm to Ugandans than good. My prayer is that government should stop the police officers from extorting money from the community. Secondly, government should really disband the so-called curfew. Rt. Hon. speaker you are aware that big markets are open, workshops are going on in fact people are going on with their normal life. Why is this curfew time still being implemented, Olanya said.
Herbert Kinobere the Kibuku County MP says for violating the curfew, Ugandans are being tied with their hands at the back with ropes, bringing back memories of slave trade. He says the arrested persons are only released after paying money to the security officers.