According to Bbossa, Kadaga's office filed a complaint alleging that the Daily Monitor had published "fake news" about her with the matter being investigated under a colonial-era defamation statute. By AFPMore by this AuthorKAMPALAUganda's communications regulator on Wednesday ordered the country's main independent newspaper the Daily Monitor to shut down its website. It accused the newspaper's parent company, Monitor Publications Limited, of providing an online news service illegally. As a result, the letter ordered the paper to "immediately suspend any further provision of online data communications services (online newspaper services) until Monitor Publications has applied for and obtained the requisite authorisation." The Ugandan government has previously targeted the Daily Monitor for publishing articles seen as critical of the authorities.

Source: Daily Nation February 06, 2019 17:26 UTC