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Read about the lives of the people making news in Uganda, the region and the world in profiles in ‘People.’

Meet Robert Motoma, Bobi Wine’s Man Giving NRM MP Sleepless Nights Ahead of 2026

Political pressure is piling on Kasese Municipality MP Ferigo Kambale ahead of 2026 general election. One of the candidates keen on ejecting MP Kambale of President Yoweri Museveni’s ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM)  is Robert Motoma of Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine’s National Unity Platform (NUP), Uganda’s main opposition political party. 

CORRUPTION: LoP Reacts Furiously as Piglets Labelled ‘Joel Ssenyonyi’ are Dropped at NUP Head Office APOLOGIZE & RESIGN: Joel Ssenyonyi Told after He Returned ‘Excess Money’ for Ssegirinya Visit PROFILE: Who Exactly is Joel Ssenyonyi, the New Leader of Opposition in Uganda’s Parliament (LoP)?

Main opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) party has named Joel Ssenyonyi Beswekezi the new leader of opposition in Parliament a few days after the youthful legislator celebrated his 37th birthday. Born in 1986, the year President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni took power after years of a bush war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, Ssenyonyi replaces Mathias Mpuuga Nsamba, the Nyendo-Mukungwe MP. Mpuuga is now a commissioner of Parliament.

PROFILES: Who Exactly are the Five Former Speakers Who Got Posh Cars, Over Shs600m Each?

Five former speakers of parliament Prof Edward Rugumayo of the third parliament, Amb Francis Butagira of the fourth parliament, Alhaji Moses Kigongo of the fifth parliament, former vice president Edward Ssekandi of the seventh and eighth parliaments, and Rebecca Kadaga of the ninth and 10th parliaments have received posh SUVs, each estimated at nearly Shs650m. The cars is for the comfort of these former speakers – and perhaps to shield them from potholed roads government is struggling to fix.