Uganda’s Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Muhoozi Kainerugaba has forced the shutdown of NTV Uganda, Spark TV and Daily Monitor.
The media Outlets went off air in the wee hours of Sunday morning 28/06/2026 after an overnight security crackdown at the Nation Media Group (NMG) Uganda offices in Namuwongo, Kampala.
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The shutdown came after General Muhoozi, President Yoweri Museveni’s son, shared a series of alarming posts on X, vowing a crackdown on the aforementioned stations.
A similar dramatic raid was witnessed in Uganda in May 2013 when armed police officers raided Daily Monitor’s offices after a publication of a letter claimed to be authored by Gen. David Sejusa, then Coordinator of Intelligence Services, alleging a plan to prepare Muhoozi as his father’s successor.
