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The Bishop for East Ruwenzori Diocese, Rt. Rev. George Turyasingura has asked the youth to have hope in Jesus Christ if they want to be saved from sinning.
Speaking as the guest of honor at the 12th Annual Youth and Students convention at Kaaro high school in Kiruhura district, Bishop Turyasingura urged the youth to have unconditional love for one another, listen to the good advice from others as well as sharing problems for comfort.
The Bishop also implored the youth to change their bad morals to good ones.
Youth attend a session during the 12th North Ankole Diocese Annual Youth and Students convention at Kaaro High School.
Rev. Dr. Benson Tumuhairwe of Junamagara Ministries; Kampala noted that there is cultism, unreligious and ungodly acts that are happening in the world which youths should be careful of like homosexuality and incest among others.
Rev. Dr. Benson castigated the acts of wedding homosexuals by the church, adding that world and church need deliverance.
The Bishop of North Ankole diocese (host), Rt. Rev. Steven Namanya also emphasized that youth should do away with doing evil deeds like theft, sexual immorality, drug abuse and others asserting that sinning is the deliberate violation of God’s will.
The convention was held from 5th to 8th January under the theme; “…Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” John 1:29.
Ibanda grade one magistrate’s court has sentenced a 50-year-old man to four years in prison for beating and injuring his mother and sister.
John Bosco Bainomugisha, of Rukiri sub-county, Ibanda district, was convicted on two counts of causing bodily harm to his mother Restituta Kamazooba, and for assaulting his sister Leokadia Atwijukye on April 28, 2022.
Bainomugisha hit his mother five times with a piece of firewood, breaking her left arm moments after he had assaulted his sister at Ryamitamba trading centre, Mabonwa in Rukiri sub-county.
Court presided over by grade one magistrate Esther Murungi, on Tuesday found Bainomugisha, 50, guilty of the two crimes and sentenced him to two years in prison on each count, which will run one after the other.
The sentence is less the time spent on remand.
Kamazooba, 73, said the April incident was the sixth time the son was beating her, and pray to the court to jail her son for 20 years.
The convict also begged for leniency, requesting court for imprison him for four months only.
While sentencing the convict, her worship Murungi said although Bainomugisha was not remorseful and he denied the charges against him, evidence produced by prosecution and testimonies of five witnesses, including his mother and sister, placed him at the crime scene.
Her worship Murungi said both sides were free to appeal against the sentence if any of them was not satisfied with it.
Officials from the Ministry of Water and Environment ministry have assured the general public that water from the Nyabuhikye-Kikyenkye gravity water project will reach their homes in Ibanda and Kazo districts in March this year.
Speaking during the project tour by media personnel on Thursday, Engineer Moses Ebalu, the clerk of works at the UGX 20b project, said the works are scheduled to be completed by February 28 and the project handed over to the government.
Ebalu noted that about 1,000 residents of Keihangara and Kikyenkye sub-counties will, however, be the first beneficiaries of this water project.
The Nyabuhikye-Kikyenkye Water Supply and Sanitation System, a gravity flow water scheme located in Igorora town council Ibanda South, is funded by the African Development Bank and the government of Uganda.
The first phase of the project is targeting to serve 41,000 people in the two districts of Ibanda and Kazo.
The multibillion water project which started in 2017, was slated to take 18 months, ending in late 2018 is being undertaken by Mbarara-based Block Technical Services.
Duncan Kangwangye, the Block Technical Services supervisor at the project, said despite the numerous challenges, the change of project managers by the ministry and facilitating payments to the contractor, enabled them to do the work as per schedule.
Eng Ebalu attributed the project’s delay to challenges like government’s delay to compensate the landowners along the route of the raw water pipe, Covid-19 pandemic and low cash flow in government among others.
Eng Ebalu revealed that the landowners were paid by the government almost a year ago, enabling works to progress well as per new timelines.
Meanwhile, Godwin Muhumuza, the Ibanda district speaker, has appealed to the public to be patient, saying that the government has committed itself to delivering the water by March.
At least 19 people have been confirmed dead following a late night accident that occurred at Kamdini along the Kampala- Gulu highway in Apac district.
In a police statement released by Patrick Jimmy Okema, the North Kyoga police spokesperson, the accident involved a Roblyn Bus REG No. UAT 259P which rammed into a stationary trailer REG No. UAZ 381A/UBD 318C at Adebe trading center just 1km to Kamdini check point as it was moving from Kampala to Gulu.
Okema revealed in the same statement that 11 people died on spot, while 8 others died from Atapara Hospital where they had been rushed for medical care and some of the victims remain in critical condition at the Hospital.
Okema added that the deceased are yet to be identified and their bodies have been conveyed to Anyeke Health IV for postmortem examination.
Okema further noted that the cause of the accident is yet to be established but preliminary findings indicate wrong parking by the trailer driver with no warning signs.
Police in Sheema district are hunting for unknown assailants who allegedly strangled a 57 year old woman to death.
Martial Tumusiime, the greater Bushenyi region police spokesperson confirmed the incident and identified the deceased as Kajungu Jane, a resident of Kigimbi cell, Nyanga ward, Sheema central division in Sheema district.
Mzee William Kajungu, the father to the deceased alleges that after having supper at around 9:00pm, he left the deceased in the sitting room watching television and went to sleep and at around 11:00pm, Kajungu woke up and found the television on and the deceased was not in the sitting room.
Kajungu added that he thought the deceased had gone to sleep since the door to the house was locked. He switched off the lights and the TV and he also entered his bedroom to sleep.
Tumusiime revealed that during morning hours on Sunday, Kajungu found the deceased was not in her bedroom, a search was mounted and the body of the deceased was found lying in a trench of water in their banana plantation around 70 metres away from their main house.
Tumisiime also noted that police found both hands of the deceased were tied from her back with dry banana fibres and a piece of cloth tied firmly on the mouth of the deceased.
Residents of Rukinga, Bugarihe parish, Rwemikoma sub-county, in Kazo district are living in fear after an outbreak of a raging ‘strange’ disease that has caused the death of three people.
These residents from Rukinga led by their LC I Chairperson Mweteise David and their village health team leader, Bugarihe Parish; Esau Baigana confirmed the incidents saying that they are all in fear and urged the government together with district teams to intervene in the matter.
Taremwa Justus, one of the survivors narrated to our reporter that with this rare disease, you first develop a bruise on the arm (Akahere) and the arm starts swelling.
According to the residents, the rare disease was first reported in the month of November when it killed a 60-year-old farmer who was from Rwomuhoro.
He developed the same signs and symptoms of painful swellings on the arm spreading to the chest, he died within five days and was buried in Rukinga.
The latest victim is Bamutunga Yonasani, also a resident of Rukinga Bugarihe parish, who is currently in a critical condition.
Bisaba Imana Benon, the health assistant in the Rwemikoma sub-county confirmed the outcry noting that they are working hand in hand with the district health teams to have some samples taken to the laboratory for proper diagnosis.
Leaders and residents of Buremba town council are crying foul accusing their former LC III chairperson; George Ruyondo of grabbing over 4 acres of Sub-county land.
Ruyondo who is the current head of laity at Kyabahura Church of Uganda, was the chairperson of this Sub-county currently Buremba town council for over 17 years before he was replaced by Nicholas Murisa and later replaced by James Matagaizi, now as mayor of this town council.
These leaders and residents accuse Ruyondo of using his position to mislead other leaders to grab this land in 1995 by getting the title of more than 4 acres and yet he was given only one plot.
Joseph Ndibalema, the then chairperson of lands committee, said that they were called to confirm the land which they couldn’t recall adding that it is likely that the chairperson LC III used his position in a way they didn’t understand and he got much more land that he was given.
Ruyondo in response argued that he followed procedure to get this land title adding that whoever wants to challenge the title should go to high court but not stop developing his land.
On his intervention, the Kazo Resident District Commissioner (RDC) Al-Hajji Umar Mawiya Lule directed Ruyondo to stop the on-going clearing of the land in question before the district and Sub-county intervene.
The over 4 acres of land that was claimed borders Buremba town and is near the road that joins Bigutsyo and Kabingo.
President Yoweri Museveni has told the people of Kiruhura and Kazo to stop lamenting about bad roads in the districts as the cause of their poverty but instead focus on doing things that will improve their household incomes.
The president accompanied by the First Lady, Janet Kataha Museveni was meeting farmers and leaders of Kiruhura and Kazo districts on Wednesday at Nswerenkye Primary School, Kiruhura where he called on leaders at all levels to dedicate their energies on income-generating activities that will improve the livelihoods and families of the people they lead.
President Museveni made the remarks in response to Jovanice Rwenduru, the Kiruhura District Woman MP who raised the issue of poor infrastructure such as the bad road network in the region.
L-R Hon Herbert Tayebwa (Kashongi constituency MP), Hon Wilson Kajwengye (Nyabusozi county MP), Hon Jennifer Muheesi, Woman MP Kazo district and Shadrack Nzeire Kagutaattending the meeting with the president on Wednesday.
Rev. Samuel Mugisha Katugunda, the Kazo LCV Chairperson informed the president that out of the 35,000 households in the district, 67% are involved in commercial farming while 33% in subsistence farming citing lack of land as the reason why they are still doing subsistence farming.
President Museveni advised those with small pieces of land to venture into activities like poultry and zero grazing that do not require much land.
Re-echoing the danger associated with land fragmentation which he said is part of the hindrances to prosperity of Ugandans, president Museveni advised children to venture into collective investment and share what they get from the land instead of subdividing the land amongst themselves especially when the owner dies noting that subdividing the land cannot support commercial agriculture which is the backbone of Uganda’s economy.
“When I go to heaven, I don’t want God to blame me for not getting you out of poverty. He will at least know that I did my part but you did not listen.”
Alluding to Matthew 6:33 in the Bible, the President said: “Seek ye first homestead incomes (Entasya y’amaka), the rest will be added unto you.”
He noted that good roads have been constructed in many parts of the country to ease transport of goods and services but they’re instead being misused to dry cassava and maize.
“We shall work on all the roads but they should find stable families with improved household incomes. Tarmac roads will not take away poverty,” said the president adding that he bought land in Kisozi, Gomba with a vision to create wealth despite the fact that the area had poor road network.
Dan Mukago Rutetebya, the Kiruhura District LCV Chairman appreciated the president for setting up a regional hub for skilling youth in different fields to fight unemployment.
In response to a request by Mukago to have a general Hospital in Kiruhura district and Katugunda who asked that Kazo Health center IV be elevated to district hospital status, the president encouraged leaders to focus on disease prevention through behavior change, improved hygiene, immunization and nutrition so that the country can save money and use it for other priority areas.
The meeting was also attended and addressed by the Minister of State for Animal Industry, Lt Col (Rtd) Bright Rwamirama, the Members of Parliament for Kazo, Kashongi and Nyabushozi constituencies, Gen. Sam Kavuma, the Chairman Board of Directors of Wazalendo Savings and Credit Cooperative Society (WSACCO), District Councillors, LC V and LC III Chairpersons, Women leaders from Kazo and Kiruhura and religious leaders among others.
Six people have been confirmed dead while thirty others are nursing injuries following an accident that happened this Friday morning at Satellite Hotel, 2km from Muhanga trading Centre along Rukiga-Kabale-Ntungamo high way.
Elly Maate, the Kigezi Region Police Spokesperson told our reporter that the accident was a head-on collision involving two buses; one from Rwanda REG No. 798B of Volcano RAD CO while the other belongs to a Kenyan bus company, Oxygen REG No. KCU 054L.
Maate, added that the drivers of the two buses are among the victims.
An eye witnesses told our reporter that the victims have been evacuated to Lotom Health center in Muhanga town council by ambulances and police patrol cars and there is fear that the death toll may rise.
Maate intimated to our reporter that preliminary investigations indicate that the cause of the accident was too much fog whereby the drivers couldn’t easily see what was ahead of them.
Five people have died in a nasty accident that happened at Kibukuta Swamp, Kayabwe along the Kampala-Masaka highway today morning.
According to a statement released by police, the accident involved a taxi, Toyota Hiace REG No. UBM 489B, and a Mercedes Benz REG No. UAM 445B as both vehicles were moving from Kampala headed towards Masaka.
Faridah Nampiima, the Traffic Police spokesperson attributed the accident to over speeding by drivers of both vehicles who tried to overtake each other.
Nampiima said the over speeding Mercedes Benz attempted to overtake, but lost control and hit the Toyota Hiace forcing it off the road.
After veering off the road, both vehicles overturned with the Toyota Hiace killing its occupants.
According to the police statement, the deceased whose identities have not been established include; three female adults and two male adults who were passengers in the Toyota Hiace, while five other unknown victims from the Mercedes Benz were rushed to Nkozi Hospital for management.
