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Ankole private sector promotion center limited (APROCEL), a non-governmental organization operating in Bushenyi district has donated items worth UGX 25m to inmates at Nyamushekyera government prison to improve their welfare.
Deogracious Twinomuhangi, the CEO Ankole private sector promotion center limited said they donated items that included saloon equipment, furniture, carpentry, sewing machines, tailoring workshops as well as entrepreneurship skills to enable them attain a skill which will help them out after their release.
Benon Karyaija, the Mitooma district LC V Chairperson who officiated the handover ceremony appreciated APROCEL for their move towards promoting hands-on skills which is one of the ways for easy rehabilitation and smooth community integration of prisoners.
Karyaija also asked the government to consider allowing these inmates to exercise their rights as this will prepare incarcerated individuals to live a positive life while in prison.
High court sitting in Bushenyi district has today withdrawn charges of aggravated defilement against a one Joram Nuwagaba.
Court presided over lady justice Joyce Kavuma dismissed charges the state slapped on Nuwagaba after the state failed to produce the credible evidence to court.
It is alleged that on 28th May 2018 while at Nyarwanya village Bushenyi performed a sexual act with a 14 year old girl.
Prosecution led by Partson Baguma told court that Nuwagaba called the victim into his house to give her a phone to take to his neighbor for charging but when the victim entered, the accused grabbed her onto his bed and forced her into sexual intercourse.
Lady Justice Kavuma said that even though the state produced evidence that the victim was underage, it failed to produce credible evidence that the accused person really had performed the sexual act with the victim.
Accordingly, Lady Justice Kavuma dismissed charges against the accused due to lack of actual evidence.
Robert Rwakandare, the Director for political Mobilization in the office of the president of Uganda in state house has asked parents to take over the role of protecting their children against any danger while at home just like government has been protecting them at schools.
Speaking to our reporter during an exclusive interview, Rwakandare noted that parents should not allow children especially girls to wander around places where they can encounter problems during this 2-months holiday.
Rwakandare also urged the children to respect, listen and obey to parents as well as learning domestic chores that will help them in future.
Kamagara Godfrey, the district councilor representing Kagongo division in Ibanda district also asked parents to protect the children, teach them credible skills and make them busy during the holiday.
Mugisha Augustine, an Ibanda-based media activist also noted that parents should start early saving for school fees of next year instead of spending extravagantly during the Christmas season.
The Kiruhura District Veterinary officer, Dr. Asiimwe Grace has insisted with affirmation that there is an outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease-FMD in Kitagi cell Kenshunga sub-county Kiruhura though cattle keepers in areas oppose the confirmation.
Dr. Asiimwe revealed this on Tuesday during a meeting between district authorities and cattle farmers and traders at Kiyonza catholic primary school grounds where it was said that there is a case on one farmer’s farm in which the health of one of the cows has deteriorated severely.
According to Dr Asiimwe, blood samples were taken from six cows on this farm and that five came positive after two days which these farmers oppose asserting that the cow is suffering from unknown disease but not FMD.
Kiretwa Philimon, one of the cattle keepers said that the said sick cow is not suffering from FMD.
Dr. Asiimwe was seen unhappy because of being taken as a liar by farmers of Kitagi about blood sample results.
Addressing the same meeting, Dan Mukago, the Kiruhura District LC V chairman ordered veterinary doctors to treat the sick cow.
Matsiko Mujwani, the chairman for Kenshunga Sub-County also insisted that there is no FMD in his sub county.
According to World Organization for Animal Health, FMD is a severe, highly contagious viral disease of livestock characterized by fever and blister-like sores on the tongue and lips, in the mouth, on the teats and between the hooves leading to severe production losses.
A three year old child has been confirmed dead and two others injured following an incident in which a house collapsed on them on Sunday night in Mpasha, Rukiri sub-county in Ibanda South County.
The deceased identified as John Byamugisha, was only three and a half years born to Peninah Kasande.
His three-month-old sister survived together with the mother who both sustained minor injuries from falling debris.
Following a heavy downpour on Sunday afternoon, the family’s wattle and mud house collapsed on the occupants at around 8.30pm.
A section of neighbours said the rains could have further weakened the house’s last anchor points and it came down in one big thud.
According to the neighbours, John Turyajuna, the father to the deceased was away at work in Nyabuhikye at the time of the horrible incident.
Marcelino Turyahabwe, an uncle to the deceased, was the first to arrive at the scene. He said the boy was removed from the debris after about 30 minutes and rushed to the nearest clinic in Mpasha trading centre.
Unfortunately, he died as they were approaching the trading centre.
Stella Maris Kansiime, the area LCI vice-chairperson, attributed the incident to the negligence of the victim’s parents saying the boy could not have died if the parents took time to safeguard the house by digging trenches to divert the water from reaching the foundation of the house.
Police in Kamuli district are investigating circumstances under which a GM sugar weigh bridge cashier was allegedly robbed of UGX 95m by unknown armed thugs.
According to police, Kobil Goswami alias Hash, the cashier, at GM Sugar weigh bridge premises located at Luzinga central 1 zone, Luzinga parish, Wankole sub-county, Kamuli district was attacked, shot and injured before he was robbed of UGX 95m on Sunday.
Micheal Kasadha, the Busoga North Region Police spokesperson, confirmed the robbery and shooting, saying they have so far arrested five people to help with the investigations.
Kasadha said the five people arrested on suspicion of robbery include Moses Kiirya, Alex Waibale, Malicana Kiirya, Adam Baliruno, and Painedo Ojole.
“The attackers shot Kobil in the left shoulder while demanding for money. They allegedly searched the house which yielded access to UGX 95 million, before they fled the scene,” said Kasadha.
According to police, the victim was rushed to Nile international hospital in Jinja city where he is currently admitted for better management.
Police visited the scene and managed to recover some exhibits and investigations into the matter continue.
Ibanda chief magistrate’s court has sentenced a man who escaped from Police twice in Ibanda to five years in prison at Nyabuhikye.
Benedicto Baryaija, a resident of Katongore in Ibanda South County, Ibanda district, had been arrested on charges of threatening violence and harassment against his wife Generous Kadesemba.
It is said that the convict however drilled a hole in the wall of his cell at Katongore Police Station and escaped. He was rearrested and transferred to Ibanda Central Police Station, but on November 20th, he escaped again after he was taken out to reportedly wash the Police vehicle.
Ali Ssemakula, the prosecutor told court presided over by his worship Aloysius Natwijuka, that Baryaija was rearrested hours later from his mother’s home in Kafunjo, Katongore, and charged with two counts of escape from lawful detention and malicious damage to property.
With evidence weighing heavily against him, Baryaija pleaded guilty to all the crimes while appearing before the Ibanda chief magistrate on November 23. He was accordingly convicted and sentenced by court.
Natwijuka handed the convict a two-year jail term on the charge of threatening violence. He will serve another two years, one for each counts of escaping from lawful detention, while he got one year in prison for malicious damage to government property.
Ibanda chief magistrate’s Court has charged and remanded Paskazia Ahumuza, 24, to Nyabuhikye Prison on charges of human trafficking.
Court presided over by his worship Aloysius Natwijuka heard that the 17-year-old tailoring trainee was rescued by Police from one Kwirrino’s house in Rwenkobwa town council.
Prosecution led by Ali Ssemakula told court that on November 19th, Ahumuza, a resident of Rwenkobwa town council in Ibanda North County matched and introduced the victim,17, to one Kwirrino for the purposes of sexual exploitation.
The victim had earlier disappeared from Catherine Ahebwa, a tailor and tailoring instructor at Kyereta in Ibanda town, who she was staying with.
Ahumuza (the convict) leaves the court room after she was remanded to Nyabuhikye prison until December 19th, 2022.
The victim was later traced to Paskazia, but by then she was already at Kwirrino’s house in Rwenkobwa allegedly ‘married’.
The suspect was arrested by Police and charged accordingly.
The victim, who hails from Kamwenge district, confessed to Police to having slept with the said Kwiriino all the two days she stayed with him.
Ahumuza will reappear in court on December 19 when her case will come up for hearing.
The convict contravened section 8(e) of the prevention of trafficking in persons Act of 2009.
The offence carries the death penalty, on conviction, as the maximum sentence.
The Ibanda chief magistrate’s court has sentenced two men to jail terms at Nyabuhikye Prison for stealing bananas.
Court presided over by his worship Aloysius Natwijuka sentenced Asaph Tumusiime, a resident of Kitwe in Ibanda Municipality to three months in prison by for stealing a bunch of bananas from a neighbour’s plantation while Paul Baryakaijuka, another banana thief was handed six months behind bars by the same court.
Appearing before the court on Wednesday November 23rd , Tumusiime and Baryakaijuka confessed to stealing the bananas which contravenes sections 254 and 261 of the Penal Code Act.
Prosecution led by Ali Ssemakula said that Baryakaijuka stole two bunches of bananas worth UGX 40,000 from Innocent Mugizi’s banana plantation on November 18th.
The convict was arrested with the help of a sniffer dog, which was introduced at the crime scene and led the Police to Baryakaijuka’s home.
He was arrested and taken to Ibanda Police Station and charged accordingly.
Court was told that the other convict (Tumusiime) was caught in the act of stealing one bunch of bananas from Ruth Natukunda of Kitwe in Ibanda Municipality on November 19th and arrested by a guard employed by the plantation owner.
Tumusiime also admitted to the crime before court.
While sentencing the two individuals, his worship Natwijuka said they did not waste court’s time, handing Tumusiime a three-month jail term while Baryakaijuka got six months.
Prosecution had prayed for deterrent sentences, saying banana thefts were rampant in the magisterial area of Ibanda.
Bushenyi district woman Member of Parliament Annet Katusiime Mugisha has asked Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) to work on the Mbarara- Ishaka road which is in poor state and due to its condition, it has become a death trap for the users with a lot of accidents.
The woman legislator who doubles as the district roads committee chairperson said this during a pre-site handover ceremony of the 3km Nyaruzinga road at a function held at Meridian hotel in Bushenyi.
The tarmac road that connects from Mbarara-Kasese highway to Nyaruzinga was constructed by M/S Networld construction company limited on a tune of UGX 7.3bn and was officially handed over to the district and municipal users on Wednesday.
Katusiime asked UNRA to consider rehabilitation of the road along the PIBID swamp which has developed a manhole in the middle of the road and it has become difficult for users to navigate through.
Rachel Ngonzebwa, the UNRA regional manager-Mbarara cluster commended leaders of Bushenyi district for their oversight and supervisory role in ensuring that there was no shoddy work by the contractor adding that as UNRA they have identified some few technical errors and defect liabilities which the contractor accepted to work upon exigently.
Ngonzebwa noted that by Early December this year, they will start on Katarumwa road near Ishaka town and it will be graded, compacted and surfaced for users to use as they await the government to release money for it’s construction.
Jaffari Bassajjabalaba appreciated Government of Uganda through UNRA for the 3km road at Nyaruzinga where he asked the contractor to work on the small defects they identified.
