Archive for January, 2013

Flash-back: Col Ogole recounts Amin coup

By Col. John Ogole

28th January 2013:

Amin - Museveni: Who is worse?

On the 25th January 1971, the black cloud that had been hanging over Uganda from independence finally came down with devastating effects – effects that will haunt our country and its people for generations to come.

On this date, a fraction of disgruntled citizens in collaboration with some foreign exploiters toppled the democratic UPC government led by President Apollo Milton Obote.

It was a bloody coup that left horrors of utter destruction in its wake – horrors that the nascent spirit of patriotism and nationalism never survived.

The epicentre of these dastardly acts was where I worked as (more…)


Besigye rejects offer to be released

By George Murumba

28th January 2013:

Retired Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Party President Dr Kizza Besigye on Saturday stunned police officers at (more…)


Could Amin have toppled Museveni govt?

By George Murumba

28th January 2013:

Last Friday, January 25, was the 42nd anniversary of the day the then Maj. Gen. Idi Amin Dada staged the military coup that ousted (more…)


UN plans to fight M23 rebels in Congo

By John Stephen Katende

28th January 2013:

The United Nations has declared its intention to “…set up an intervention force to fight rebels fuelling conflict in DR Congo”, a UN official has said.  Meanwhile, (more…)


It’s lawful to resist coup plotters – let’s do it

By Elijah M. Tumwebaze

28th January 2013: In a powerful opinion article that (more…)


Our parliament only exists on paper

By M. Suleman

28th January 2013: Uganda is a country endowed with (more…)


Amin’s British adviser Bob Astles is dead

By Norman S. Miwambo

21st Jan 2013:

Deceased: Amin Adviser Bob Astles

Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin’s British born adviser Bob Astles has died.  Astles succumbed to cancer of the rectum on December 29, 2012 – just 20 days after his last email to this reporter.

It is thirty four (34) years since Bob Astles disappeared from the public arena, and not many people knew where he was, or what he has been up to.  The Hollywood movie ‘The Last King of Scotland’ starring Forest Whitaker tried its best to  (more…)


Museveni is right to call NRM MPs idiots

By M. Suleman

21st Jan 2013: In the drama that followed (more…)


Mukula conviction is persecution – Teso elders

By Timothy Nsubuga

21st Jan 2013:

Convicted of Embezzlement: Hon Mike Mukula (in suit and tie) heading to prison

A cross section of leaders, as well as ordinary people from the Teso sub-region in eastern Uganda, have reacted angrily to the conviction and (more…)


BOU denies role in 6billion NMS fraud

By Sharon Tibenda

21st Jan 2013:

The management of Bank of Uganda (BOU) has denied any wrong doing in the 6billion corruption scandal that recently rocked the (more…)


2013/3/24

I will throw a hot stone behind CJ Odoki’s back
By John Baptist Oloka 25th March 2013:

The media broke news of More... (0)


2013/2/26

The late Mzee Kaguta was a naughty boy
By Lawrence Kasozi

25th February 2013: This is totally out of More... (0)


2013/2/26

Museveni is pathological hypocrite
By Norman Miwambo

25th February 2013: I don’t believe Museveni was More... (0)


2013/2/17

Obote is crying for his beloved country
By M. Suleman

18th February 2013: Uganda’s late president Dr Apollo More... (0)


2013/2/3

Wake up fools: Army took over long ago
By Bernard Ddumba

4th Feb 2013: Over the last two weeks, I seriously More... (0)


2013/2/3

NRM revolution is eating its own children
By Charles Businge

4th February 2013: In 1986, the new leadership promised More... (0)


2013/1/27

It’s lawful to resist coup plotters – let’s do it
By Elijah M. Tumwebaze

28th January 2013: In a powerful opinion article that More... (0)


2013/1/27

Our parliament only exists on paper
By M. Suleman

28th January 2013: Uganda is a country endowed with More... (0)


2013/1/22

Museveni is right to call NRM MPs idiots
By M. Suleman

21st Jan 2013: In the drama that followed More... (0)


2012/12/18

Isn’t Museveni a deranged psychopath?
By M. Suleman

17th Dec 2012: An emotional, grief-stricken, and More... (0)


 

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