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The International Criminal Court (ICC) Judges on Wednesday sentenced former Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) vice-president, Jean-Pierre Bemba to a year in jail and fined him 300,000 euros (R4-million) for bribing witnesses during his war crimes trial in an unprecedented case before the International Criminal Court. “The chamber imposes on you an additional 12 months, one year, imprisonment,” presiding judge Bertram Schmitt told Bemba, adding a “substantial fine” was necessary “to discourage this kind of behaviour”. Prosecutors had asked for eight years for Bemba,who is already serving 18 years after being convicted of war crimes by his marauding troops,…
Court has summoned Kampala Central MP Mohammad Nsereko for defaming the Forum for Democratic (FDC) Secretary for mobilization and iron lady, Ingrid Turinawe. According to summons issued by the High Court Civil Division Registrar Alex Ajiji, Nsereko is supposed to defend himself against allegations that he defamed Turinawe while appearing on NBS TV morning breeze show. ”That while on the talk show the first defendant (Nsereko) at all material times uttered the following remarks regarding the plaintiff; ‘who is going to stand surety for those activists who dropped the piglets at Parliament? Who? Ingrid Turinawe? In 2011, she was renting…
The owner of land on which Riham Cola plant in Kawempe sits has complained to dfcu Bank claiming Crane Bank connived with Riham todefraud him of this land. In a letter dated March 1, 2017 to the Managing Director dfcu which took over Crane Bank, Mr, Navinchandra Kakubhai Radia who is the managing director United Builders and Contractors Ltd accuses Crane Bank of helping the owners of Hariss International and Biplous Uganda Ltd to use fake loans to evade paying his USD240,000 over Shs861m balance for this land and now want the company evicted. “On October 18, 2004, judgment…
The Court of Appeal has confirmed the election of Mary Babirye Kabanda of the Democratic Party (DP) as Masaka woman MP. Three Justices of the Court of Appeal; Remmy Kassule, Richard Butera and Elizabeth Musoke yesterday confirmed Babirye’s election after finding that NRM’s Faridah Nanziri Mubanda who had alleged voter bribery and falsification of results had not proved her allegations to therequired standard. “The applicant (Mubanda) asserted that the first respondent’s agent (Babirye’s) Maria Naiga was arrested in Kyanamukaaka trading center with soap and money. Her witness Muguluma Vincent confirmed to have received a bar of soap and Shs10,000. A…
The European Union and the United States of America are reportedly pressing President Museveni to cut ties with the Peoples’ Republic of North Korea. Sources have intimated to us that a delegation of western powers have had several meetings and have kept in close communication with the President of Uganda over his close ties with North Korea. “Even early this month of March, the western powers have been in direct contact with the President Museveni pressing him to sever ties with North Korea”, the source said to us. Last year, Uganda hosted North Korea’s arch rival South Korean President Park…
A passenger plane has crashed at a South Sudan airport, reportedly injuring at least 14 people. Some 44 people are thought to have been on board the South Supreme Airlines plane when it came down in the northwestern town of Wau. State information minister Bona Gaudensio said: “Right now we have the ambulance which has just come out from the airport and we have received 14 patients being rushed to hospital in stable condition.” No information has been released on the condition of the other passengers. An aid worker told Reuters news agency: “No one died but there are…
The slain AIGP Felix Kaweesi has received a final send off from Kampala at Rubaga Catholic Cathedral. The requiem mass was presided over by Arch Bishop Cyprian Lwanga attracted hundreds of mourners including politicians from different political parties.
While the nation is still in shock and mourning the assassination of the AIGP, Felix Kaweesi, another National Resistance Movement (NRM) top official missed death by a whisker. The NRM Deputy National Treasurer, Dr Kenneth Omona has today (Sunday) evening survived death after an alleged ‘assassin’ hit his car, missing his head by inches. The incident happened along Tirinyi road on his way back to Kampala from official party work in the eastern town of Mbale. According to the NRM spokesperson Rogers Mulindwa, security is trying to establish to establish the motive and whether the actor intended to hurt the…
All is not well at Uganda Electricity Generations Company Limited (UEGCL), an institution charged with generation of Uganda’s electricity. A whistleblower has opened the lid and penned a dossier to the office of Speaker of Parliament, Inspector General of Government(IGG) the Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Treasury and to the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) for immediate investigations into financial impropriety, gross abuse of procurement laws, nepotism, embezzlement among others before the worst hits the institution hard. The dossier dated 9th November, 2016, in particular blames the rot on the former Board chair and currently the Permanent Secretary…
Former State Minister for Finance (General Duties) Fred Mandir Jachan-Omach, has been named on the new Uganda National Roads Authority board. Omach who last year lost the parliamentary elections of Jonam County in Nebbi district to Emmanuel Ongiertho of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), was on Tuesday in Kampala inaugurated as the roads body’s new Board chairperson by Justice Lawrence Gidudu, Omach, chairs the seven member board for UNRA. He replaces the team formally chaired by Angella Kiryabwire. Works and Transport Minister Monica Ntege together with her Junior State Minister for Works Gen. Katumba Wamala, oversaw the inauguration of the new board. UNRA, which tops the most heavily…