Kyadondo East Member of Parliament, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine, has petitioned the Inspector General of Police  Martin Okoth Ochola, seeking for clearance to hold a music concert at one love beech Busabala.

The show code named ‘Osobola ku independence’ is scheduled to take place on October 9, 2019, a day when the Uganda will celebrate its 57th independence anniversary. The show comes barely a week after the release of his new song dubbed Osobola. The word ‘Osobola’ loosely mean ‘you can’.

“I write this letter in accordance with section 5 of the Public Order Management Act of 2013, to notify you on the intentions to hold a music concert at one love beach Busabala in Wakiso district and am the proprietor of the venue” reads in part of the letter.

“I request for security for the said concert. On our part we are ready and will work with police to secure the venue as well as the revelers and we shall accordingly comply with any lawful guidelines that may be issued in this regard” he said

Bobi Wine, said the show will attract 10,000 people and it is scheduled to run from 10: am to 11: pm.

Police has previously blocked Wine’s music shows on grounds of lack of man power to provide security at the shows, failure to coordinate with the proprietors of the venues for concerts, failure to notify police among other reasons. On the recent blocked shows, Bobi Wine accused the police of sabotaging his preparations for the shows inconsistency and lack of transparency on the part of Uganda Police Force.

In May this year, two events promoters, Abtex Productions and Bajjo Events and Marketing Agency Limited dragged IGP Martins Okoth Ochola and the Attorney General, William Byaruhanga to court over the banning of Bobi Wine’s musical shows.

Through their lawyers led by the Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago, they are challenging a decision made by the police chief to indefinitely stop the applicants from organising Kyarenga Extra Concerts at One Love Beach Busabala, Lira, Gulu, and Arua.

Mr. Abby Musinguzi aka Abtex is the proprietor of Abtex promotions while Andrew Musaka, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Bajjo events, said they had entered into an agreement with Bobi Wine and his crew to provide entertainment at a nonrefundable cost of Shs230 million to entertain revelers during the Easter festivities this year but police could not allow them to hold a show that features Bobi wine.

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Internal Security Organisation Director General Col. Kaka Bagyenda might have released Paddy Sserunjogi aka Sobi from Luzira prison to help him track criminals causing havoc in the Kampala’s suburbs, but that hasn’t deterred them from coming onto the scene.

As we talk residents of the leafy Minister’s Village in Ntinda are the latest to be victims the ever growing criminality that has left police and other agencies seeking for solutions. Minister village is known for its top of the range residents and it prides itself to the fact that it is one big village with the highest number of cabinet members.

On Monday, a gentleman known as Henry Kahiire was attacked by thugs on Kyambogo view road in Minister Village at about 10 pm and beaten into coma.

Kahiire is currently on life support at Nsambya hospital. Crime along most Ntinda areas has increased with most of them using boda-bodas during peak hours.  The most notorious spot where these thugs operate from is Canon road. However, what makes it interesting is that Canon road is where Minister of Information Communication Technologies, Frank Tumuwebaze resides and also houses the home of late Maj. Gen. Levy Karuhanga. Both homes are guarded by counter terrorism officers of Uganda police and soldiers of military police but with the presence of such well-guarded homes, it hasn’t prevented thugs from attacking civilians on that road.

Eagle Online has also learnt that in a bid to monitor possible targets, thugs now operate outside and around the Old Timer bar waiting for party goers as they retire back.

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The chairman of Election Commission, Justice Simon Byabakama, has refuted claims that the commission issued ballot papers to the National Resistance Movement (NRM) members a head of the just concluded bye-election in Hoima district.

The hotly contested bye-election was won by the NRM candidate Harriet Busingye who polled 33301 votes against Forum for Democratic Change flag bearer Asinansi Nyakato who garnered 28789 votes.

Upon the declaration of NRM candidate as the duly elected Woman MP of Hoima, the patron of people power, a political pressure group who doubles as the Kyadondo East MP, Robert Kyagulanyi, said the bye-election was marred with violence and high levels of election malpractices. “Security forces have for past few days been deployed in Hoima, not to keep law and order but to help Museveni and his regime rig this election.” He said

However, according to Justice Byabakama, the Electoral Commission received a report of attempted ballot stuffing at only one of the polling station where two agents for Candidate Nyakato namely, Michael Kabaziguruka and Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu (Rtd) reported to the commission that a voter attempted to insert pre-ticked ballot papers of an NRM candidate into the ballot box, but was intercepted by the polling constable for that station.

“The pre-ticket ballot papers should have been handed over to police for further investigation  however,  Gen. Muntu insisted that they (ballots) be handed over to the Electoral Commission. The commission assigned one of our senior legal officers to receive them, and a total of 51 ticked ballot papers were handed over to us.” He said in a statement released earlier today.

Mr. Byabakama, said there were acts of suspected forgery by some FDC supporters who made counterfeit accreditation tags and distributed them to their agents for purposes of observing the by-election.

The suspects who include Hakim Kizza a member Democratic Party (DP) and one Walakira, have since been charged with forgery before the Magistrate’s Court at Hoima and are now remanded, as investigations continue.

He warned the general public, and particularly stakeholders in the electoral process that forgery of election materials is a criminal act.

“The commission also noted with concern the abuse of social media platforms by some individuals during the electoral process. This was particularly widespread during the tallying of elections results. A lot of falsehood was disseminated, for example, fictitious results from non-existing polling stations.” He said and condemned the behavior saying it misleads the public and other stakeholders and gives voters false hope about the results.

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