“Alliance does not mean I cannot field a candidate. When I choose to field a candidate, I will field my candidate and I do not need permission,” Akena said.

“I don't want to hear that there is poverty in homesteads that have land and yet money is there at the parish level. If you are a minister and I come to your village and people are still suffering, I will sack you. I want to inform everybody that I have been monitoring and I don't want to embarrass mature people. The money is there on the ground; let's use it to get our people out of poverty,” Museveni said.

From Rural Tororo to Uganda’s Top Parliamentary Office Freshly elected Speaker of Uganda’s 12th Parliament, Jacob Marksons Oboth-Oboth has emerged as one of the country’s...

The decisive victories reaffirm the dominance of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) in Uganda’s parliamentary leadership as the country ushers in a new legislative term.

“Mr. Mwenda, thank you for declaring me senile and incapable of judging right. You will, however, discover that at 82, I am still able to defend Uganda and myself with the Bible, the AK-47 and the pen,” Museveni said.

Speakers maintained that political corruption, including nepotism, cronyism, and vote-buying, is the principal source of Uganda’s governance crisis rather than bureaucratic theft.

The ongoing anti-corruption crackdown on the former speaker of parliament, who is accused of money laundering and corruption, is a trending topic of discussion and has attracted mixed reactions from the public, political analysts, and commentators. Among is currently undergoing an investigation, and so far six luxury vehicles have been impounded and taken to the police headquarters in Naguru.