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FDC Presidential Flag Bearer to Pay Shs 5m as Nomination Fee

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3 weeks ago

April 28, 2025

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The Forum for Democratic Change has announced that whoever would like to contest for the party’s presidential flag bearer position will have to cough up Shs 5 million. Parliamentary hopefuls, on the other hand, will have to part with Shs 100,000.

All this was revealed as the party announced its roadmap at their headquarters in Najjanankumbi ahead of the 2026 general elections.

Presidential candidates are expected to pick nomination papers on 30th April and 1st May, while they will be nominated on 5th and 6th August.

They will then hold campaigns between Monday, 19th May and Tuesday, 29th July 2025, and then a Delegates Conference on 31st July, where they will announce the successful presidential candidate.

Despite the fact that in 2021 the nomination forms for parliamentary hopefuls were free, the Party Chief Electoral Commissioner, Boniface Toterebuka Bamwenda, still insists that the choice of the amount of nomination fees is based on the need to make the party leadership positions accessible to many people.

“The position of Member of Parliament is seen by many as a lucrative position, but that doesn’t mean we hike the nomination fees. The small fee is just meant to cover a few administrative costs,” Toterebuka noted.

The nomination of Members of Parliament, LC5 Chairpersons, and Municipality Mayors runs from 9th June to 10th June 2025, while party primaries at all levels are slated for a period between 26th June and 5th July 2025.

Petition hearing and handling for primaries will then run during the period between 11th July and 20th July 2025.

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Bobi Wine’s Bodyguard Eddie Mutwe Charged

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2 weeks ago

May 5, 2025

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The opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) President Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu’s civilian bodyguard, Edward Sebuufu aka Eddy Mutwe, has been charged with two counts of robbery and aggravated robbery and remanded to prison despite his poor health condition resulted from days of torture in military detention.

Mutwe, who according to NUP President, was violently abducted by soldiers in Mukono district on April 27, has been under military detention since then.

Today, Monday, May 5, 2025, he was brought to Masaka High Court by security forces. He was limping and was supported by two individuals to walk.

Journalists were barred from capturing the proceedings.

As a result, journalists did not attend the court session, but Mutwe’s lawyer, Magellan Kazibwe, who himself was initially restricted from accessing court premises but later allowed to enter, revealed to reporters what transpired in Court.

“By the time we entered court, we found Mutwe being arraigned before His Worship, Abudallah Kaiza – Grade One Magistrate, who read the charges against him,” Kazibwe told reporters after the court session.

“Those are the same charges which were preferred against Achleo Kivumbi, Wakabi, and Gaddafi (other civilian bodyguards of the NUP President). The same charges of simple robbery and aggravated robbery, which allegedly occurred at Manja village in Lwengo district,” he added.

A few days after Mutwe was arrested, the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), General Muhoozi Kainerugab, posted a picture of him (Eddy Mutwe) with his beard shaved.

Today, Kazibwe said that his client has been badly tortured.

“Mr Edward Sebuufu has been over tortured for all the days he has been in illegal detention. He was tortured every day. He has told me and my colleague that he was tortured every day five times. And they were beating him using wires of electricity. They were electrocuting him; they were squeezing him, including his private parts. He is in great pain,” Kazibwe told reporters.

“He has not received any medication, he has not accessed any doctor up to now, and he was not being allowed even to communicate with his relatives. They confiscated his mobile phones and all the money. He has not been eating, and he is in a very bad and appalling state,” Kazibwe added.