In order to understand why human rights and constitutional lawyers have joined the masses to oppose the Ministry of Lands proposal to amendment of Article 26 of the Constitution, one ought to go back to the foundation of constitutional law and statutory legislations.
Yoweri Museveni
Introduction
The Prime Minister [Katikoro] of Buganda Kingdom was recently quoted as saying, “We are going to reject that law. Taking people’s land without their consent is an abuse of people’s rights on land, which we shall not accept”.
Tagged under Land & Environment Uganda Yoweri Museveni, Buganda KingdomThat the recent swearing-in of President Museveni for a fifth consecutive term as leader of Uganda garnered the biggest attendance of African Heads of State speaks to my thesis that Africa is still largely "Not Yet Uhuru".
Tagged under Pan-Africanism Pan-Africanism, Yoweri Museveni, Kiiza BesigyeIt is tear gas season in Uganda again. The reported black-out of news coverage notwithstanding, some videos are in circulation. One shows a shopping arcade in central Kampala being evacuated by mainly young people with their arms raised in surrender.
Tagged under Democracy & Governance Uganda Yoweri Museveni, Uganda, Uganda elections 2016Introduction
On 31 March 2016, in a unanimous ruling, all nine Justices of the Supreme Court (SC) upheld the declaration by the Electoral Commission (EC) chairman Dr Badru Kiggundu of incumbent Mr. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni as validly elected president of Uganda.