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60 year old man kills son in Mbarara

Police in Mbarara District are investigating a set of conditions under which a 65-year-old man murdered his son over land issues.

Perez Tumwiine 65, a resident of Bitereko Village in Kariro Parish, Rubindi in Mbarara District is said to have murdered his son, Nickson Tweteise, 35. The incident happened in the night of May, 19th.

According to residents of Bitereko Village led by Dezi Mwombekyi ,the LC 1 chairperson, the deceased had been a threat to the village. He was involved in stealing of people’s property, beating people, and as well threatened to kill his father if he did not give him part of his land.

It is alleged that after murdering his son, Tumwine walked to Rubindi Police Station where he is now being detained .

ASP Amos Betungura, the OC Rubindi Police station, has confirmed the incident noting that Police visited the scene, took the body of the deceased to Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital for post-mortem.

RDC,Kateera commends the work being done at Bwizibwera Health Centre IV

The Mbarara District political leaders together with the district’s technical team led by the Resident District Commissioner,Emmy Kateera Turyabagyenyi have appreciated the construction works done on the Out Patients Department (OPD) block at Bwizibwera Health Hentre IV phase II estimated to have cost shs.89m inclusive of Value Added Tax.

A privately owned company, M/S Multiple Enterprises and Services Company Limited was contracted to carry out the construction works and was funded by the government of Uganda under the Primary Health Care (PHC) transitional grant.

As was reported by the contractors and observed by the leaders, the construction works at the site stand at the completion rate of 80% and the remaining percentage would be completed in a month’s time.

In his remarks, Emmy Kateera Turyabagyenyi revealed that according to what was assessed on the ongoing works, the work is close to completion and that the contractor has done it on schedule.

Kateera revealed that the OPD faced a challenge of delayed payment from the district local government, as well as lack of enough water. He went on to say that these challenges would be addressed .

Betty Tinka, the Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Mbarara District also commended the contractor for being co-operative with the political leaders and the technical team.

The chairperson for works and technical services sectoral committee who is also the LCV Councillor for Bukiro Town Council, Saverius Nuwagira appealed to the political leaders entrusted with responsibilities of monitoring government projects to always make proper follow ups on these works to ensure there is value for money.

He said, ” it is funny to find issues meant for discussion in the early stages of construction are raised at commissioning stage because monitoring was not done”. He further stressed that it is hard to find solutions to some of these construction errors since they are noticed at a late stage.

Bwizibwera Health Centre IV is the biggest health facility in Mbarara district and the local leaders in the district have been calling for its elevation to a hospital status.

60 year old man arrested for rape in Kazo

Police in Kazo district have arrested Christopher Karwani,60, for allegedly defiling two girls aged a six and four. He was arrested yesterday Tuesday May,14th 2024 after he was allegedly caught red handed raping and defiling a six year old by the residents of Nyabiherere 1,Nyarubanga Parish, Kanoni Subcounty.

Wilson Nabimanya, the area parish councillor, confirmed that the suspect is in custody at Kazo Central Police Station. He went on to reveal that Karwani has been sexually using the two minor sisters for quite some time. The victims are daughters of William Kariisa a resident of Nyabiherere 1 Trading center.

The area councillor further asked parents to avoid creating gaps in relationships between them and their children as a way of curbing such vices from the community. He also went on to request elders in to be good examples to the young generation.

Attempts by our reporter to reach out to the Kazo District Police Commander, SSP Joseph Nsabimana were futile as he was not in office and did not pick phone calls.

Mp hopeful remanded over defilement

A-35 year old man who is accused of defiling and procuring an abortion has been remanded to Nyamushekyera prison in Bushenyi District.

Kenneth Mugooha Akanduhura, a former Bushenyi-Ishaka municipality Mp aspirant,a resident of Rwenjeru ward,Nyakabirizi division, Bushenyi-Ishaka municipality is accused of defiling his 15-year old house girl and later procuring abortion after she got pregnant was remanded by the Bushenyi Grade one court magistrate, Halima Omar Ahmed yesterday 13th May 2024.

The accused was arrested on 18th April,2024 by the police after girl’s sad story was aired on media, in which the girl’s relatives said the suspect had defiled the girl in Kyeitembe West ward ,central division and aided abortion and there after abandoned the girl to rot.

The Victim developed complications after abortion and she was being forced to use pampers but the accused allegedly refused to assist the family. 

The magistrate Grade one noted that her court doesnot have authority to hear to his case and remanded him to Nyamushekyera prison until 19th June,2024 when he will appear in court for further mentioning of his case.

Minister Kabuye faults Civil servants for sleeping on the job

Civil Servant officials have been urged to always supervise contractors’ work done on projects brought in their areas of supervision.

The call was sounded by the State Minister for Kampala, Hon Kabuye Kyofatogabye during roads and markets benchmarking done by the Ministry of Kampala Capital City and metropolitan affairs under the office of the president funded by the World Bank in Isingiro District yesterday.

Minister Kabuye said there is poor supervision of civil works observed on the ongoing projects by the responsible civil Servant from the District, thus urging all civil servants to be kin on supervising contractors who attend to these projects for accurate and quality work.

The minister however revealed that the Ministry of Kampala Capital City and metropolitan affairs under the office of the president funded by the World Bank came up with the Greater Kampala metropolitan urban development program intending to create connectivity and solving jam problems, a project worth 619 Million dollars targeting to construct over 330KM of roads in the metropolitan areas, that is six Municipalities surrounding the City, three Districts plus the Capital City.

He urged political leaders in the District to also have time to benchmark for projects brought in their Districts.

AstraZeneca vaccine withdrawn after causing ‘unusual but rare blood clots’

AstraZeneca, a British-Swedish multinational Pharmaceutical and biotechnology company that manufactured a COVID-19 vaccine, Vaxzevria says the vaccine is being withdrawn worldwide. This comes months after the pharmaceutical giant admitted for the first time in court documents that the vaccine can cause very rare but life threatening injuries.

The drug maker has withdrawn the vaccine from European Union market and has gone an extra mile to voluntarily withdraw its “marketing authorisation”. The company’s application to withdraw the vaccine from the market was made on March 5th, 2024 and came into effect on Tuesday May 7th, 2024.

The decision to withdraw it brings the use of the jab, that was praised by former UK Premier, Boris Johnson who referred to its production as “a triumph for British Science” to an end. He went on to credit it for saving more than six million lives.

AstraZeneca said their vaccine, Vaxzevria was, however, being removed from markets for commercial reasons. It said the vaccine was no longer being manufactured or supplied, having been overridden by modified vaccines which are able to tackle new COVID-19 variants. 

Vaxzevria vaccine was first given a nod for usage in January,2021 and in few weeks, concerns arose about the vaccine’s safety. Following that, a number of countries halted the use of the vaccine after what was described as ‘unusual but rare blood clots’ were detected in a number of people who were immunised using the same vaccine.

Fragmentary results from Vaxzevria’s first major trial, used by Britain to grant permission to the usage of the vaccine were surrounded by a manufacturing mistake that was not immediately acknowledged by researchers. Some countries, worried about effects of the vaccine and how well it would protect older people, restricted its use to only younger people. This was attributed to insufficient data about the same vaccine but the course was later reversed so that the elderly also took jabs of the vaccine.

Vaxzevria has come under intense survey recently due to a very rare side effect, that causes blood clots and thrombocytopenia. AstraZeneca admitted in court documents lodged with the High Court in the UK in February 2024 that the vaccine “can, in very rare cases, cause TTS”.

TTS – which stands for Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome – has been linked to at least 81 deaths in the UK as well as hundreds of serious injuries. AstraZeneca is being sued by more than 50 alleged victims and grieving relatives in a High Court case.

AstraZeneca vaccine doses, in billions were given to third world countries through a United Nations coordinated programme and was considered cheap, easy to produce and distribute. However, studies later revealed that the more expensive messenger RNA vaccines manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna provided better protection against COVID-19 and its many variants. This compelled a number of countries to switch to other shots, leaving the one manufactured by AstraZeneca.

Give valid information during census-Kakyebezi

Robert Mugabe Kakyebezi, the Mbarara City Mayor has discouraged the population from providing misleading information to enumerators during the forthcoming National Population and Housing Census 2024.

Kakyebezi is also concerned about the unscrupulous characters that have been spreading baseless information about the intentions of the exercise. He said that there are some people who are creating baseless information to discourage others from participating in this nationwide activity.

He further revealed that some people are reportedly claiming that the data is intended to inform a future decision by the government to increase taxes. Kakyebezi asked the public to discard this information which he labelled ”ungrounded” .

The Mbarara City Resident Commissioner who is also the head of security in the city, Lt.Col.James Mwesigye assured the public of security during the Census exercise.

Lydia Tuhaise, Principal Statistician at Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) who also doubles as Mbarara City Census Commissioner asked every Ugandan to stand out and be counted during the forthcoming census exercise which will run throughout the country. She assured masses of secrecy to the information provided during the enumeration exercise.

The forthcoming National Population and Housing Census will be held under the theme “It matters to be counted” and it aims at including everyone from the homeless street children, prisoners and patients in health facilities to ensure comprehensive data collection.

Uganda is set to conduct its 6th National Population and Housing Census since independence. This year’s enumeration exercise run for 10 days starting on Friday 10th May, 2024 to 19th May 2024.

Travel ban,asset freezes slapped on Uganda’s Speaker

The Speaker of Uganda’s Parliament, Rt. Hon. Annet Anita Among, has been slapped with sanctions by the government of United Kingdom(UK). The UK government says that Among is a beneficiary of returns from the Karamoja iron sheets scandal; a scandal that saw a number of ministers spend nights in the coolers.

The Deputy Foreign Secretary for the UK government, Andrew Mitchell, in a statement released on April, 30th, said that the Bukedea Woman Member of Parliament together with the former Minister for Karamoja Affairs, Mary Goretti Kitutu and her deputy, Agnes Nandutu will be faced with asset freezes and travel bans.

The speaker of the 11th parliament has been accused of opening the wallet endlessly to splash the tax payers hard earned money. Social media activists like Dr.Jim Spire Ssentongo and journalist Agather Atuhaire unearthed her weekly spending figures which shocked Ugandans. She claimed that the duo and those who backed their campaign dubbed #UgandaParliamentExhbition were agents of foreigners who were against her for steering parliament into passing the anti-homosexuality law last year.

The UK government has used the Global Anti-Corruption Sanctions for the first time on individuals involved in corruption in Uganda as a way of forcing accountability amongst regime agents.

“Today, the UK is sending a clear message to those who think benefiting at the expense of others is acceptable. Corruption has consequences and you will be held responsible,” Mr. Mitchell stated.

The UK insists that the persons of Hon. Among, Hon. Kitutu and Hon. Nandutu, using their offices, denied services to Karamoja sub region. In this region, more than 60% of the people live in abject poverty culminating from drought and insecurity.

It is believed that these sanctions will aid in putting funds to the target beneficiaries deterring economic resources from going to the people who should actually be aiming at lobbying for more to uplift the status of needy persons and communities.

Under section 8B of the Immigration Act 1971, an affected person must be refused to leave or to enter or to remain in the United Kingdom.

Previously, the UK sanctions under the Global Anti-Corruption sanctions regime, targeted persons involved in corruption scandals across the world, including Russia, South Africa, Venezuela among other countries.

Parliament, in December 2021, passed a supplementary budget to support a number of programmes in the Karamoja sub region worth Shs39b meant to purchase 100,000 iron sheets, a number of relief items such as food among others. In 2022,the iron sheets were purchased but instead of delivering them to Karamoja ,it was established that 14,200 iron sheet pieces were shared among some ministers in the current government.

Amos Lugoloobi,Uganda’s state minister for Finance and Planning had used the iron sheets to roof a goat barn but to the surprise of many, when President Museveni made a mini shakeup in his cabinet, Amos Lugoloobi was kept in his portfolio, slashing the other two key culprits, Nandutu and Kitutu. However, the trio is still facing charges before the anti-corruption court.

“The Ugandan courts are rightly taking action to crack down on those politicians who seek to line their own pockets at their constituents’ expense,” Mr. Mitchell noted.

As a way of combating graft globally, these sanctions have been slapped on 42 entities and individuals since April, 2021 across the world. Uganda’s Speaker is a key figure in the current regime that has been sanctioned by a foreign nation over graft. It should also be remembered that last month, she was praised by the fountain of honour for putting up a multibillion health facility in her home district using what observers say is a tax payer’s money.

Guard your coffee plantations, farmers encouraged

The Mayor of Kazo Town Council, Mr.Mugarura Justus Muhimbuura, encouraged coffee farmers in  Ruzinga Village, Rwempiri Ward Kazo Town council, Kazo District to strengthen security around and within their coffee plantations.

This follows a surge in cases related to invasion of people’s coffee plantations and harvesting the ripe and unripe coffee cherries . This concern has severally been raised by the locals in the Villages that make Rwempiri Ward.

It has been observed that these acts have become a security threat that needs the intervention of the district security committee before the situation gets out of hand.

Mugarura  said that all these could be fueled by individuals who have refused to plant coffee even when the government gave out free seedlings to farmers. And more so, it is fueled by those who fail to report the thieves.

Edward Tumuhimbise , a coffee grower in Ruzinga Village,Rwempiri ward, Kazo Towncouncil, said that farmers have been forced to guard their plantations all the time to scare away thieves.

According to Tumuhimbise, the suspects are thought to be mainly vagabonds who do not work but have resorted to surviving on theft.

The Chairman LC1, Saturday Hillary observed that thieves have gone as far as using mosquito nets  for harvesting coffee or  cutting coffee branches off coffee trees . After cutting them off they disappear to the bushes close to the gardens and pick the cherries. They strike at night when human movement is minimal.

Ibanda University gets a new Guild President

The Ibanda University Electoral Commission Chairperson, Collins Ayesigye,yesterday evening declared Kenneth Kasasira as a winner of hotly contested Guild Presidential elections. The students chose their 9th Guild President in a tight race where two candidates sought the mandate of their fellow students. The contest was between Mr.Anderson Kasoro and Kenneth Kasasira .

Mr.Kasasira won the election with a margin of 46 votes having garnered 276 votes while Mr.Kasoro pulled 230 of the votes cast yesterday.

Ekitii Florence, the Returning Officer, congratulated the winning candidate and asked students to celebrate responsibly. She further implored them not to be separated by electoral exercise as students but to rather unite for a purpose if they are to achieve more as students.

The Guild president elect, Kenneth Kasasira expressed gratitude to those who trusted him with their mandate and pledged good service delivery to all university students regardless of whether they voted him or not.

Mr.Kasoro’s known phone numbers were not reachable and he was equally not physically traceable for any comments after the declaration of the outcomes the elections.

The University’s electoral body was commended for the effort in organising peaceful, free and fair elections.

Elone Mwesigye, the outgoing Guild president congratulated the winner and tasked him to prepare for a transition to leadership. He also asked him to be pro-students’ binding decisions and work towards a better students’ welfare.

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