Those who were on the DP Presidential Campaign Trail in the 2011 elections in Jinja and most of Busoga must have noticed a man with a determined face riding ahead of the convoy. Covered with dust but still smiling he would instead be a source of encouragement for the rest of the campaign team. He […]

The Role of the Parliamentary Opposition By Norbert Mao The official opposition is the main non-government party in Parliament. It is the second biggest party or coalition of parties voted into parliament. The opposition is expected to provide an alternative to government policies or actions. The job of the opposition is thus to scrutinize the […]

What distinguishes civil servants from other government employees is one of allegiance civil servant serve the State (the central government) not the person who appoints them. They’re answerable to the government, not a political party. The question to be considered is whether in the discharge of their duties, RDCs conduct themselves in the manner civil […]

I convey my greetings to all the Youth in our party – the Democratic Party. Since 2010 theparty has been on a path to mainstream the Uganda Young Democrats (UYD) as the official Youth Organ ofthe party. An incessant and often divisive debate raged in the party for years with the aim of mainstreamingthe UYD […]

As law abiding citizens and peace loving Ugandans, it is our wish to see suspects oncharges of the attempted murder of General Katumba Wamala and the doublemurder of Brenda Nantongo and Haruna Kayondo arraigned before court and justiceserved. We however insist that due process and the constitutional presumption of innocencemust be adhered to at all […]

Tanzania’s main opposition party, the Party for Democracy and Progress, also known as Chadema, says police have detained their leader Freeman Mbowe.  Mbowe was arrested before he was scheduled to speak at a conference to announce demands for constitutional reforms. The statement from Chadema’s Communication Director John Mrema, shared on Twitter, says Freeman Mbowe and […]

We are forgeting the bigger picture, the problem of Uganda though being part of it, is not President Museveni but rather the system that he has built over time that is now sustaining him in power, this system can sustain another despot who can even be worse than the incumbent. My opinion is that, it […]

Today, we have sent off a member of the SDA Church and also a brother-in-law of our family in Osupa village, Pallisa Town Council in Pallisa District who succumbed to COVID-19 last night. Muko Samwiri would be living if we had an oxygen facility in Pallisa General Hospital but because the health workers were unable […]

The Democratic Party is concerned with the escalating public debt that the government has accumulated through borrowing from external development partners namely the IMF, World Bank and the government of China. The government has also borrowed from local banks through treasury bills. According to BoU, passing the budget proposals for the FY 2021/2022, Uganda’s outstanding […]