Daily Monitor
Thursday April 15 2021
The former presidential candidate for Alliance for National Transformation (ANT), Maj Gen (rtd) Mugishu Muntu. Photo | File
Summary
Gen Muntu said the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party will disintegrate immediately if President Museveni relinquishes power since it is built on a weak foundation.
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The former presidential candidate for Alliance for National Transformation (ANT), Maj Gen (rtd) Mugishu Muntu, has said the country is currently in a mess due to poor governance.
“This country is in a total crisis because of bad governance by President Museveni. I don’t think he will leave a positive legacy,” Maj Gen Muntu told a post-election review meeting for former party candidates from Sebei, Bukedi, Elgon and Karamoja sub-region in Mbale District on Monday.
Daily Monitor
Saturday February 13 2021
Summary
Mr Asuman Bisiika says: If it were left to me, I would call for a review of UPDF representation in Parliament.
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Once again, we arrogate myself the right to write about the UPDF; this, in spite of accusations that I always poke our blunt noses in the wrong place. And we come with the question: What criteria should the UPDF use to select or nominate and elect its 10 Members of Parliament?
In 2016, I wrote in these very pages an article titled: ‘Why the UPDF should have Maj Gen Muhoozi as an MP.’ I proposed that Maj Gen Muhoozi Keinerugaba (now a Lieutenant General) should be a Member of Parliament. The following were my arguments:
Daily Monitor
Sunday February 07 2021
L-R: Opposition leaders Asuman Basalirwa (JEEMA), NUP’s Robert Kyagulanyi, Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago and former FDC president Kizza Besigye after they formed the United Forces of Change last year. PHOTOS | ALEX ESAGALA | FILE
Summary
In his acceptance speech on January 16, President Museveni indicated that he would be initiating talks with sections of the Opposition. But NUP, which is set to become the biggest Opposition party in Parliament, has yet to out any terms under which it might engage Mr Museveni. FDC’s position has always been that any dialogue must have a definite agenda and discuss a transition from Museveni/NRM.
Daily Monitor
Saturday January 16 2021
National Unity Platform party presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine (left atop car), and wife Barbara wave to the people of Kisoro during campaigns in the district on December 16,2020.Inset is Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba. PHOTO/DAVID LUBOWA
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After being in power for 35 years, President Museveni – at least officially – doesn’t show any sign that he is about to stop.
Mr Museveni, who has tweaked his name to add Tibuhaburwa during campaigns, laid out what he claimed was a vision he has for not only East Africa but Africa at large.
“NRM came to deal with historical problems of Uganda and Africa. We are not job seekers. They think I am here because I am looking for a job. They are lying [to] themselves,” Mr Museveni said while campaigning in the eastern district of Kumi last November.
Daily Monitor
Thursday January 14 2021
Electoral commission officials direct voters at a polling station in Kampala, Uganda as voting started on January 14, 2021. Yasuyoshi Chiba | AFP
Summary
Bobi Wine said his party was prepared despite the confrontations by security agents during the just-concluded campaigns.
Mr Emmanuel Dombo, the NRM secretariat’s director for communication, said they have deployed 57,984 polling agents.
Mr Museveni is seeking re-election for the sixth time.
Forum for Democratic Change presidential candidate Patrick Obio Amuriat urged his supporters to stand firm.
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Presidential candidates Wednesday said they were ready to cast their ballots and asked their supporters to go to their various polling stations and vote.