UPDF, take hard look at 10-Point Programme
Wednesday February 17 2021
Summary
Our view:
For our leaders, this year’s national commemoration of Luwum Day, at State House Entebbe, can renew their solemn promise to secure lives of Ugandans and their property.
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The current human rights breaches of abductions, torture and illegal detention put to shame the founding mission of the UPDF.
At inception, the National Resistance Army (NRA), the forerunner of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), was founded on two golden principles of securing democracy, and security of all persons and their properties in Uganda. The NRA/M then rode to power on these promises of a political programme that pledged a better future for the country.
Daily Monitor
Saturday February 13 2021
Summary
Mr Moses Khisa says: We have to rise to the occasion and drive the agenda for the Uganda we want. . .
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In mid-2000s, I was involved in a research trip to northern Uganda, specifically in the broader district of Gulu before it was parcelled out. The LRA insurgency was only receding, but not yet over.
There was both hope and trepidation. Gulu Town had evident war scars and visible signs of resilience, resistance and fortitude.
The pangs of war had taken a toll but the people of Gulu, the sons and daughters of Acholi, remained determined to defeat the scourge and forge a new path, to turn the corner and muster the fuel for the future.
Daily Monitor
Friday February 12 2021
A Local Defence Unit (LDU) recruit whips a fruit vender downtown Kampala on March 26, 2020 as they enforced President Museveni s directive against the use of public transport and suspension of market for non-food markets. PHOTO BY ALEX ESAGALA
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Information and National Guidance minister Judith Nabakooba did not immediately respond to our repeated calls and messages for comment on the matter. Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials were not readily available either.
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The United Kingdom (UK) government has frozen about Shs206m (£40,909) in funding to Uganda Police Force, Uganda Prisons Service and Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) over human rights abuses and the Ugandan government’s increasing repressive behaviour.
PPDA raises red flags over parliament s Shs 39bn security system procurement
February 11, 2021 Speaker Rebecca Kadaga with other MPs inspecting the new chambers
The Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority (PPDA) has directed the Parliamentary Commission to halt the procurement process for the new chamber integrated security system citing irregularities.
PPDA says that it received a complaint from a whistleblower citing irregularities in the procurement of the integrated security system for the new parliament chamber worth Shs 39 billion. This is according to a letter dated February 8, 2021, by Benson Turamye, the PPDA executive director addressed to the clerk to parliament Jane Kibirige.
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