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Airtel Uganda one of the leading Telecom companies in the country has availed the managing director VG Somasekhar – who is currently serving in the role of Director – Special Projects, Airtel Africa. This follows the departure of the Airtel Uganda managing director Anwar Soussa who is said to have gotten a “better offer” and decided to move on. Soussa joined Airtel Uganda in June 2016 and under his leadership, the telecom has won a number of accolades including Best performing OpCo in Africa, Best OpCo in data growth and Best OpCo in distribution excellence at the 2017 Dubai Conclave. Somasekhar began…
The National Super Alliance has demanded access to the electoral commission’s servers as a condition to accepting the outcome of the presidential election. The coalition announced its conditions on Friday after a three-hour meeting with the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission led by its Chairman Wafula Chebukati. 5 PAGES Nasa presidential candidate Raila Odinga attended the meeting at the Bomas of Kenya. James Orengo and Musalia Mudavadi, Mr Odinga’s agents at the National Tallying Centre, also said they had presented a five-page document to Mr Chebukati outlining their demands. “Give us access to servers where the results have come from,”…
Police officer Gilbert Arinaitwe Bwana facing rape charges has been granted bail. According to the Professional Standards unit (PSU) spokesperson Vincent Ssekate the forensic department has already carried out an investigation in Arinaitwe’s where the alleged rape case is claimed to have been carried out. He adds that the file has been submitted to the state attorney for perusal and legal advice adding that the suspect has been given police bond pending conclusion of the investigation. On Friday last week, Arinaitwe was arrested for allegedly raping a woman. Gilbert Arinaitwe Bwana, rose to fame when he pepper spayed opposition politician…
Liverpool say that Brazilian midfielder Philippe Coutinho is “definitively” not for sale. On Wednesday, the Reds rejected a bid of 100 million euros (£90m) from Barcelona for the 25-year-old. Barca’s second bid, which was rejected immediately, comprised an initial £76.8m plus £13.5m in add-ons. In a statement on Friday, the club’s owners Fenway Sports Group club said its “definitive stance” was that “no offers will be considered”. It added: “Philippe will remain a member of Liverpool Football Club when the summer window closes.” Coutinho, who scored 14 goals last season, signed a new five-year deal in January, which did not…
National Super Alliance flag bearer Raila Odinga has said he is disappointed with international election observers over their view that Kenya polls were credible. In an interview with CNN on Thursday evening, Mr Odinga said the observers concentrated on voting and tallying but not the transmission of the results. “I think that the observers have not helped Kenyans resolve this dispute, they have confounded it by giving basically an approval to a fairly flawed process…and therefore I am very disappointed with John Kerry and the other observers,” he said. Mr Odinga said Nasa does not want violence and appealed to…
Kenya’s electoral commission has warned the opposition that its claims of victory for its presidential candidate, Raila Odinga, could be deemed illegal. The opposition has published its own figures, putting Mr Odinga ahead of incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta. This contrasts with provisional electronic results giving Mr Kenyatta a clear lead in Tuesday’s poll. Electoral commission chairman Wafula Chebukati told the BBC it was the only body legally allowed to count votes. He accused the opposition coalition of basic mathematical errors. International observers have described the election as free and fair. However, many fear a repeat of the violence after the…
On Tuesday, August 8, Martin Kamotho Njenga queued patiently, waiting for his turn to vote at the Imara Primary School polling station in Kayole when suddenly, hunger pangs struck. He left the queue and asked those around him to ‘watch’ his position in the queue as he would be returning shortly. VIRAL Mr Kamotho emerged moments later with a polythene bag of githeri and munched his githeri quietly minding his business, occasionally craning his neck as if to check how long the queue was. Unbeknown to him, a hawk-eyed and a tech-savvy fellow voter was thrilled enough to capture the…
The self-proclaimed Ghetto Gladiator Bobi Wine has again thrown his weight in the preaching against the proposed 2017 constitutional amendment. Speaking while appearing on KFM Super Star Friday hosted by Brian Mulondo and Malaika Nnyanzi on 11th August, Bobi Wine said president Museveni is supposed to be thinking about transforming the Ghetto not amending the constitution. Bobi Wine added that the problem with African leaders concentrate on what benefits their families not the society. “These leaders are selfish, they want good things for themselves and their families leaving the Ghetto people in filthy backwardness forgetting that when your neighbours are…
The Police Professional Standards Unit (PSU) has arrested five police officers in Nansana and Wakiso for their alleged involvement in robberies in Nansana town council. The five officers whose identities have been withheld by police were picked up over the weekend together with two crime preventers identified as Ibrahim Tenywa and Safiq Kihumbi during operations led by the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kale Kayihura. The suspects are being held on tentative charges of neglect of duty, extortion, conducting unlawful arrests, failure to protect their weapons and aggravated robbery. Vincent Ssekate, the Police Professional Standards Unit spokesperson, says the arrest…
President Yoweri Museveni has paid tribute to veteran UPDF officer, Brig Geoffrey Taban Kyabihende who died last week. Speaking to the family members of the deceased soldier in Bunga, a Kampala suburb, Museveni described Taban as having contributed significantly to the struggle that liberated Uganda from tyranny. Brig Kyabihende 56 who at the time of his death was Uganda’s defense attaché in Democratic Republic of Congo died on Friday at Nakasero Hospital, due to natural causes according a UPDF statement. Kyabihende who joined the army in 1979 was among the NRA fighters who fought along Museveni in a guerrilla warfare…