The Supreme Court has allowed the runner-up in the January 14 presidential elections Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine to withdraw his presidential election petition seeking to overturn the victory of the incumbent President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. The decision by a panel of nine Supreme Court Justices led by the …
Read More »Ugandan opponent Bobi Wine ‘in trouble over armoured car’
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine is in trouble over an alleged bullet-proof vehicle in his possession, according to a report by the Daily Monitor newspaper. The vehicle has attracted the attention of the Ugandan authorities, with the Ugandan Revenue Authority (URA) saying its details had been misrepresented and thus undervalued. …
Read More »Uganda said US has no right to ‘lecture’ over its elections
Ugandan government spokesman Ofwono Opondo affirmes that the United States should “fix their own elections” rather than “lecture” Uganda about its elections. His comments came after the US said it was considering “targeted options” following elections in Uganda that were marred by “irregularities” and “abuses” by the security forces. In …
Read More »Owiny-Dollo directs Bobi Wine to gazette poll petition withdrawal request
Robert Kagulanyi alias Bobi Wine the leader of the Ugandan opposition filed an application withdrawing his electoral petition challenging President Yoweri Museveni’s victory. The National Unity Platform (NUP) president, through his lawyers on Wednesday, outlined six grounds that influenced him to lose interest in the petition. Mr Kyagulanyi argues that …
Read More »Bobi Wine withdraws election petition against Museveni
The leader of the National Unity Platform (NUP) Mr Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has instructed his lawyers to withdraw the presidential poll petition which he had filed in the Supreme Court, challenging President Museveni’s victory in the January 14 general election. “We are withdrawing from the courts but we …
Read More »Uganda: soldiers jailed for assaulting journalists
According to a statement of the Ugandan military, seven soldiers have been given jail sentences by a disciplinary committee for beating up journalists outside the United Nations Human rights office on Wednesday. They were given sentences of between two to three months at a military detention facility. The trial of …
Read More »The chief of the Ugandan army apologises for beating reporters
Gen David Muhoozi, Uganda’s army chief says the beating of journalists by military was neither sanctioned nor justified, and promise the army would pay their medical bills. The incident occurred outside the UN Human Rights office where the opposition MP and musician Bobi Wine was delivering a petition over human …
Read More »Assault of journalists by Uganda military condemned by United Nations
The UN has condemned an attack by the Ugandan security forces that left several journalists injured as they were reporting on the opposition MP the opposition leader Bobi Wine who was highlighting allegations of human rights abuses in the country. The police said security personnel were dispersing an uncontrolled crowd …
Read More »Ugandan reporters covering rights petition badly beaten
The security forces in Uganda have injured several journalists who were reporting on pop star-turned politician Bobi Wine delivering a petition to the UN highlighting human rights abuses in the country. Eyewitnesses said soldiers arrived in trucks outside the UN Human Rights Office in the capital, Kampala, and started beating …
Read More »Bobi Wine wants Uganda Chief Justice off poll petition
Ugandan opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, wants the chief justice to recuse himself from hearing a petition challenging the re-election of President Yoweri Museveni. Bobi Wine accuses Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo of bias because of his close association to the president. The opposition politician also wants two …
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