The radio will be accessible online through an app set to be launched this week. It will also be streaming live on Facebook.
Nambooze starts online radio station
Mukono Municipality Member of Parliament Hon Betty Nambooze Bakireke has opened her own radio station that she hopes will help amplify her political views and reach out more to her constituents.
MP Betty Nambooze in her home-based studio
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The 54-year-old built and fully furnished a studio in at her home in Mukono, where the station will be broadcasting from.
Details of the radio’s programming were yet to be revealed by the legislator.
But in a Facebook post on Sunday, Nambooze teased about the launch, sharing images of herself preparing for the online show.
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The Mukono MP is one of the most frequent guests on top-rated radio and television political talk shows in the country.
She has, however, had disagreements with show hosts and fellow guests, and at times been forced to walk off the set amid heated arguments.
Some of the MP's followers were pleased with her initiative and advised her to reach to Bobi Wine, the President of the National Unity Platform and encourage him to also set up his own online radio station at the party offices in Makerere Kavule.
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Uganda’s electronic media has flourished over the past decades and boasts now of hundreds of stations littered across the country.
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Uganda’s first two radio stations, Radio Sanyu and Radio Kampala Ltd, (which later became Capital FM) opened in 1993.
As of 2022 there were up to 218 radio stations approved by the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC)
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