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The Kampala Metropolitan Police commander Frank Mwesigwa praised the excellent performance of the organization. Speaking while appearing on NBS Television early this morning, Mwesigwa noted that police is on top of the security game as it had earlier done citing that even more is still coming. Mwesigwa also denied the fact that Uganda Police is conniving prostitutes noting that though Prostitution is illegal but when it comes to handling cases were they are victims, there is always need to bring them to your side. He adds that prostitutes have been giving police credible information and Sometimes used them to gather…
The Busiro Member of Parliament, Hon. Peter Ssematimba expressed his feelings towards the ongoing murder issues in his constituency. He referred to the murder issues as despicable, awful, sad and un- Ugandan and looks forward to their end. Speaking during the show, hon. Peter Ssematimba appreciates the way police is handling the issue in his constituency. He says that the police immediately responded to the call when the murders happened cooperating with the people in Katabi and deploying police officers in the area. However, he condemns the public and media for constantly throwing tantrums at the police force and yet…
The State Attorney Lilian Omara Alum from the Directorate of Public Prosecution has changed the initial charges Against Sheikh Amir Yahaya Mwanje of Murder of one Hajji Muhammad Kigundu at Buganda road chief Magistrate Court. The New charges for Sheikh Mwanje and four other Muslim clerics’ are terrorism which is can only be heard by the International crimes division of the high court. However the DPP advised court not to release Yahya due to having amended his charges and the new charge sheet is at the high court. In a related incidence, Amir Ummah Sheikh Muhammad Yunus Kamoga the leader…
President Yoweri Museveni has once again attacked the opposition and others Ugandan against the proposed compulsory land acquisition bill. Speaking while appearing on Voice of Tooro (VOT) a local radio station in Kabarole district last evening Museveni said that those delaying government projects are enemy to the youth unemployment. “The one who is fighting a factory is fighting youth employment and tax base, all those people to fighting the delay of government projects are enemies of development.” He said. He said most governments in Africa own all lands in their country and they just lease it to the people. “To…
President Yoweri Museveni has threatened to sue private radio stations over what he describes as promoting misinformation on land matters. Museveni made these remarks while appearing on Voice of Tooro(VOT) a local radio station in Kabarole district last evening on a countrywide tour in radio campaign to push for the setting up of a land tribunal and change of the current land laws and also defuse what he called toxic misinformation by his political opponents. He demanded for a list of radios so that he could sue them for hosting people he said have been peddling lies on land matters.…
The tripartite meeting held on 31 August by representatives of Burundi and Tanzanian Governments alongside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Dar-es Salaam concluded that approximately 12,000 Burundian refugees in Tanzania will be voluntarily repatriated by the end of December 2017. The delegation of the United Republic of Tanzania, the Republic of Burundi and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) were led by Mwigulu Lamerck Nchemba, the Minister of Home Affairs; Pascal Barandagiye, Burundi Minister of Interior as well as Chansa Ruth Kapaya, UNHCR Country Representative in Tanzania. On his twitter page, the Ambassador of…
Wafula Chebukati’s headache over repeat presidential election got worse on Wednesday after the Jubilee Party rejected nine individuals the IEBC chairman had appointed to deliver the poll. In a letter to the IEBC boss, head of Jubilee Party Secretariat and secretary-general Raphael Tuju accuses the nine officials of being partisan. THE LIST “After publication of the names of your election project team, we have received credible information that in the list are people known to be partisan,” the letter, date September 6, reads in part. But while President Uhuru Kenyatta’s party named nine people they said were part of the…
South Sudan’s government should focus on how to achieve peace and stability in the country, rather than reunification of the fragmented factions of the ruling SPLM party, a rights group said. The Centre for Peace and Justice (CPJ), a human rights entity in South Sudan, says more efforts are needed to achieve peace instead of wasting time on initiatives that will never fulfil citizens’ demands. CPJ’s Coordinator Tito Anthony said in a statement extended to Radio Tamazuj yesterday that the SPLM reunification can be implemented concurrently with the peace agreement if all factions of the SPLM party agreed to come…
The Uganda Police force yesterday intercepted a bus carrying government Medicine heading to Burundi. These drugs were confiscated in Mengo Rubaga North Kampala as it was being driven at alterable speed. According to National Medical stores, the medicine had been delivered to central region to help the Ugandans access better heath cervices. Police confiscated govt medicine in a bus heading to Burundi last night in Mengo.The medicine had been delivered to central region by us pic.twitter.com/hPm1tvzEob — NMS Uganda (@nmsuganda) September 6, 2017
The opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) postponed the elections of the party’s topmost position. According to the party’s deputy Secretary General Hon. Harold Kaija revealed that this was done to allow the Party engage in grass root of LC.I and LC II happening soon. The election for the party president has been pushed from 17th – 24th November during the delegates’ conference and the swearing in of the new president will be held on 25th November 2017. Apparently five candidates including encampment Gen. Mugisha Muntu, former Kumi County Member of Parliament Patrick Oboi Amuriat, Kawempe South MP Mubarak Munyagwa,…