By Spy Uganda
Bugiri: Bukooli County Central MP Hon Solomon Silwany is not happy with the Hon. Justin Kasule Lumumba Minister, Office of the Prime Minister (General Duties) for allegedly causing chaos in his constituency.
According to our reliable sources who spoke to Hon.Silwany on Thursday, he noted that he has credible evidence that Kasule is currently working so hard to foil his next bid for 2026-2031 general elections by watering down his physical achievements in Bukooli, which ca be seen even by the blind! Silwany adds that she is doing such with the aim of standing against him in 2026. “You see my brother, I didn’t malign my predecessor for me to win the election. If you want to stand, it’s not a crime, but don’t malign your colleagues, first of all we are all from the same party. So are you building the party or destroying it?” questioned Silwany who talked with difficulty as if he wanted to cry on phone.
These come barely few days after at least 39,000 voters from his Bukooli Constituency signed a petition to censure Silwany, over allegations of “misconduct, misbehavior, corruption, questioning Busoga’s integrity, and the arrest of some voters especially those from the National Unity Platform (NUP).”
Further, it’s worth noting that Silwany is among the commissioners facing censure for allegedly awarding themselves Shs1.7 billion in ‘illegal’ service awards payment bonanza, together with Hon. Mathias Mpuuga,Esther Afoyochan (Zombo Woman MP) and Prossy Mbabazi Akampurira (Rubanda Woman MP). The motion was fronted by Lwemiyaga County MP, Mr Theodore Ssekikubo.
In May 2022, the Commissioners approved a “one-time pay-off service award” of Shs 500 million for the Leader of the Opposition and Shs 400 million for the backbench Parliamentary Commissioners, a decision that sparked public outrage.
In response to all the above, Silwany says one, is being fought for being a loyal confidant of the ‘most hated’ speaker of Parliament Anita Annet Among who is accused by Ugandans of ‘watering’ the excessive corruption in parliament.
Two; Silwany says his support to the Speaker has since attracted for him dozens of enemies including Lumumba who has allegedly teamed up with the former Speaker Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga, among others also with another mission, of failing Anita from contesting in any Busoga constituency again.
Our repeated calls on Kasule’s known number for her comment proved futile.
The Electoral Commission (EC) has since released electoral roadmap, announcing the date for the 2026 presidential and parliamentary elections.
Nominations for the presidential and parliamentary elections will be held between September 17 and October 3, 2025, said Justice Simon Byabakama, chairperson of the electoral body.
Byabakama said campaigning will begin in the second week of October 2025, with the presidential and parliamentary elections to be held on January 12, 2026.
“We are going to begin the demarcation of electoral areas and reorganization of polling stations in August 2024,” the chairperson said.
The above roadmap has now invigorated the politicking on ground in Busoga and the entire country, but then Busoga’s politics is always full mudslinging. Watch the space…
