Prof Kamuntu, who is also a member of Bishop Stuart University Council, said most developed countries started as peasant and poor states but have transformed into industrialised and modern.
Daily Monitor
Saturday February 27 2021
Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah (left) and Speaker Rebecca Kadaga chairing plenary sessions of Parliament. Photo/ David Lubowa
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Among the teams canvassing votes for the two rivals for the Speaker of Parliament job are MPs who were defeated in last month’s election but are still considered influential.
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Underground work for the Speaker of Parliament job is fiercely going on, with Speaker Rebecca Kadaga and her deputy Jacob Oulanyah having already formed core teams to reach out to MPs-elect ahead of the election scheduled for May 20.
Sources at Parliament told Saturday Monitor that Ms Kadaga’s team is headed by her personal assistant, Mr Peter Busiku, Bugiri Municipality MP and Jeema president Asuman Basalirwa, Bugabula South MP (NRM) Maurice Kibalya, Kalungu West MP Joseph Ssewungu, and outgoing Mukono South MP Johnson Muyanja Ssenyonga.
Daily Monitor
Wednesday February 24 2021
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The unsuccessful attempt by Justice and Constitutional Affairs minister, Prof Ephraim Kamuntu, follows previous failed attempts by Finance Minister Matia Kasaija and former Deputy Attorney General Mwesigwa Rukutana.
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Government yesterday failed in its third attempt to block the Constitution Amendment Bill No 1, 2019, in which Mr Wilfred Niwagaba (Ndorwa East, Ind) proposes an overhaul of the Executive and restoration of presidential term limits.
The unsuccessful attempt by Justice and Constitutional Affairs minister, Prof Ephraim Kamuntu, follows previous failed attempts by Finance Minister Matia Kasaija and former Deputy Attorney General Mwesigwa Rukutana.
Mr Rukutana on August 1, 2019, when Mr Niwagaba sought leave of Parliament to introduce a Private Member’s Bill, raised objections saying the government was planning to handle all the proposals listed in the Bill in the Constitutional Review Commission wh
Daily Monitor
Tuesday January 26 2021
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As Uganda inched towards the 1980 general election, the Democratic Party (DP) was compelled to change leadership. The Military Commission warned, albeit subtly, that ousted former President, Prof Yusuf Kironde Lule would most likely be arrested if he dared return from exile. Dr Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere took charge.
It then became clear that the Uganda Peoples’ Congress (UPC), which had retained Apollo Milton Obote as it’s leader, and DP would be renewing a political rivalry that dated back to the pre-independence era.
UPC was however in an advantaged position. It had the backing of most of the men and officers of the Kikosi Maalum (special force), a fighting force of Uganda exiles that was formed by Obote and was under the command of former officers of the Uganda Army (UA), David Oyite Ojok, and Tito Okello, both of whom were very loyal to Obote.