Court in Rukungiri has sentenced a 35-year-old man to 16 years in jail for killing his own mother. 

Victor Muhumuza was sentenced by Justice Moses Kazibwe Kawumi after he was found guilty of killing his mother identified as Jeradina in cold blood.

Muhumuza, a driver and resident of Kitanda cell Nyakaina Parish, Buyanja Sub County in Rukungiri district murdered his mother on July 31st, 2017.

While delivering the judgment Justice Kazibwe noted that the prosecution proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt. He argued that the court considered the gravity of the crime Muhumuza committed and sentenced him to 20 years imprisonment.

Justice Kazibwe however, reduced the 4 years he spent on remand and Muhumuza will spend 16 years in jail.

An applicant has dragged the Law Development Centre to High Court Civil Division for declining to enrol him for the bar course on grounds that he studied his bachelor’s degree online. 

Through his lawyers of Centre for Legal Aid, Daniel Adyera 30, contends that he studied his Bachelors of Laws-LLB from the University of London in 2014 through Long Distance learning and obtained a second-class upper degree, however, LDC has refused to admit him on grounds that he studied through long-distance learning.

To enroll as an advocate in Uganda, one needs to study the bar course at LDC leading to a Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice.  

Adyera now wants the High Court to declare illegal and unjustifiable, the refusal by the LDC to enroll in the bar course for nearly three years, and to order the respondents to pay him damages and costs for the inconveniences caused to him.

Justice Musa Ssekaana, the High Court Civil Division Judge has set February 10th, 2022 for the hearing of Adyera’s petition, and issued hearing notices requiring LDC and the Attorney General to prepare their defence.

Police in Bulambuli district has arrested the district Chief Administrative Officer, Leonard Tumusime over corruption and abuse of office-related charges.

Stanley Bayoole, the Resident District Commissioner ordered Tumusime’s arrest after he was accused of abuse of office, embezzlement of public funds, and corruption. 

Bayoole notes that police invited the CAO to make a statement but he was very adamant, which compelled him to order his arrest. 

Tumusime’s arrest follows the visit of the State Minister of Economic Monitoring, Peter Ogwang in the district.  Minister Ogwang discovered that the district had reported that they had constructed a non-existent toilet at Shillings 30 million. 

Story by Gladys Rukundo

Archbishop Paul Ssemogerere was born on 30th, June 1956 at Kisubi, in present-day Wakiso District in the Buganda region of Uganda.

He attended Kigero Primary School and later was transferred to Kisubi Boys Primary School. He studied at St. Maria Goretti Senior Secondary School Katende, where he completed his O-Level studies.

In 1976, Archbishop Ssemogerere and seven other young men became pioneer students at St Mbaaga Seminary in Ggaba. The school specializes in admitting men who are older to train them as priests without attending minor seminary.

In 1978, the late Cardinal Emmanuel Nsubuga sent Bishop Ssemogerere to the Saint Francis de Sales Seminary, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the United States, where he graduated with a Master of Divinity degree in 1982.

On 21st November 1981, while pursuing his Masters degree, he was ordained a deacon by Rembert
George Weakland, the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee.
On 3rd June, 1983, he was ordained a priest by Cardinal Emmanuel Nsubuga, the then Archbishop of Kampala, where he served in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kampala, until 4th June 2008 when he was appointed Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kasana-Luweero.

On 23rd, August 2008, he was consecrated as Bishop at Kasana-Luweero by the late Archbishop Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, who was the Archbishop of Kampala, assisted by Cardinal Emmanuel Wamala, Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Ugo, and Cardinal Emeritus of Kampala and Archbishop Paul Tschang In-Nam, Titular Archbishop of Amantia and Papal Nuncio to Uganda at that time.

On 8th, April 2021, he was appointed Apostolic Administrator of Kampala Archdiocese by Pope Francis after the sudden death of Dr. Cyprian Kizito Lwanga who was the Archbishop of Kampala.
On December 9 2021, Bishop Paul Ssemogerere becomes confirmed by the Apostolic
Nunciature to Uganda as the new Archbishop of Kampala archdiocese following his appointment
by Pope Francis.

He becomes the 4th Archbishop of Kampala Archdiocese after Archbishop Joseph Kiwanuka, Cardinal Emmanuel Nsubuga Wamala, and Archbishop Kizito Lwanga.

The Inspector-General of Police, Martin Ochola, has tasked the directorate of fire and rescue services to conduct countrywide sensitization on proper usage and handling of gas cookers and gas cylinders. 

Ochola, in his directive, wants Director Joseph Mugisa and his team to liaise with the ministry of energy to ensure information regarding safety is widely disseminated.

There have been incidents of gas cylinders and gas cookers exploding leaving scores of nursing injuries and others dead. The latest incidents have occurred in Mbarara and Mukono claiming the lives of at least four people.

Now Ochola had directed the inspection of gas cylinders and ensure all those that do not meet the specific requirements are pulled out of circulation.