Corridors of power

Jan 26, 2010

“I was surprised to see he had joined politics because he was not the type,” President Yoweri Museveni, commenting about the late Rukiga MP, Samuel Byanagwa Lwamafa.

They said it:

“I was surprised to see he had joined politics because he was not the type,” President Yoweri Museveni, commenting about the late Rukiga MP, Samuel Byanagwa Lwamafa.


“We searched him and he admitted getting only sh40,000 for air-time from Batwala. We later found two notes of sh20,000 with our serial numbers among the sh116,000 in his possession. We had to arrest him immediately,” Dominic Baru, from the IGG office after arresting the Jinja mayor’s assistant, Godfrey Ntale over soliciting a bribe.

“Ugandas problems are disunity, corruption, poor service delivery, lack of the rule of law and all these have nothing to do with whether I am married or not,” UPC presidential hopeful Olara Otunnu, answering questions about his marital status in Kabale.

“A patient groaning in pain does not stop neighbours from having a sound sleep. Similarly, poverty bites most of those who refuse to work to earn a living,” President Yoweri Museveni, sensitising residents of Mukono on why they have to fight poverty.

“I am happy the President pardoned and has met me. I feel like a newly- born baby or a first-time father, for living again with my family,” former soldier in Idi Amin’s government, Ali Fadhul, when he met President Museveni at a rally in Buikwe.

“This campaign is not about us. It is about our children, about their future, about the future of this country,” FDC presidential hopeful, Major General Mugisha Muntu, launching his FDC presidential campaigns.

“Your relatives honour you and sit in the tent all day, but you walk away before the ceremony ends. What message are you sending out there?” Makerere University chancellor Prof Mondo Kagonyera, during the graduation ceremony at Makerere last week.

“All parties will sign the memorandum of understanding on February 5, 2009,” country representative of the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy, Shawn Macky talking to The New Vision about the inter-party political dialogue.

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