In what might put him in trouble with his boss President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni, a senior minister in government has punched holes in the results of the Soroti City East byelection, suggesting that the ruling party rigged the Thursday, July 28 poll.
There was drama and tension inside the NBS TV Frontline Show studio on Thursday night after Zephaniah Ofwono Opondo stood up to punch Kampala Lord Mayor and Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Vice President for Central Uganda Ssalongo Erias Lukwago.
President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni has fulfilled his promise to prosecutors and all other officials under Jane Frances Abodo’s Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) after these public officers’ salaries were increased by huge margins, according to the recently released salary structure for the current (2022-2023) Financial Year.
Reports of voter bribery, ballot stuffing and arrest of opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) polling agents have dominated the first half of voting time in some polling stations in the Soroti City East byelection where competition is said to be tight between Moses Okia Attan and Herbert Edmund Ariko of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM).
Uganda’s Ministry of Public Service has released the salary structure for the current financial year (FY2022-2023), showing how much each public (civil) servant or government employee will be earning starting July 2022.
Opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) President Patrick Oboi Amuriat has been arrested hours before voting in the Soroti City East byelection could start, officials from his party say.
There was chaos in Akisim in Soroti on July 27 night and early hours of Thursday, Juky 28, after suspected police and military officers broke into the home of Soroti City Woman MP Anna Adeke, arresting Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) officials and relatives of the female legislator.
Ugandan public servants will have to wait a little bit longer to receive their salaries for the month of July, the first in 2022-2023 Financial Year.
President Joe Biden has sent the US Representative to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield to Uganda after Russian foreign affairs minister Sergey Lavrov ended his trip to the impoverished East African country and delivered Vladimir Putin’s message to the nation’s longest serving ruler Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni.