Police in Kanungu is hunting for a 40-year-old man who allegedly cut two innocent toddlers to death.

Elly Maate, the Kigezi region Police spokesman has identified the suspect as Edward Birungi, a resident of Kagarama cell Nyarutojo parish Kambuga sub county, who allegedly cut two children identified as Tracy Nabasa(8) and Ian Owembabazi, (3) both children of Kato Frank of the same village.

Maate explains that today 17th/02/2022 at around 4:00PM the police received information from Augustine Mutabazi; the area chairperson that two children had been murdered.

The suspect suspected that his neighbor, Kato, the father of the children was having an affair with his wife who had divorced him two weeks ago. He reportedly picked a panga, found the children alone at home when the father had gone to the garden, chased and hacked them to death, after which he disappeared.

Maate said that when the Police was informed, they immediately visited the scene, recovered the bodies and conveyed them to Kambuga Hospital for postmortem examination and joined the residents to hunt for the fugitive suspect.

The case of murder has been registered at Kanungu District Central Police Station under reference number CRB 110/2022 to help in investigations.

Uganda’s former Prime Minister John Patrick Amama Mbabazi has been appointed to head a new regional security outfit tasked to provide security to member states.

Following his recent travel with President Museveni to Congo Brazzaville and Senegal at the invitation of President Macky Sall, the current chairperson of African Union, the duo witnessed the launch of the Africa Global Security Foundation on February 13 in Dakar, Senegal.

Appearing at his first media briefing at Kololo-Kampala on Wednesday, Mbabazi said the Foundation will primarily focus on security, international affairs, and how to improve safety of member states of Congo-Brazzaville, DR Congo, Togo, Mauritania, Senegal and Uganda.

Mbabazi who will be deputized by Jean-Yves Ollivier, the champion of backchannel diplomacy said after the meetings with several African heads of state and other regional players, he has the confidence of the leaders who currently subscribe to the organization.

“The Presidents of the member states, including President Museveni, have confidence in me. My Pan-Africanism is known, and I have been consistent in my support for African liberation. My pedigree on security is self-evident,” Mbabazi said.

Ollivier is most famous for his role in the Brazzaville Protocol in 1988 which ended South Africa and Cuba’s involvement in the Angolan war.  

Mbabazi revealed that the foundation remains open to all African states that subscribe to its objectives and are willing to participate in it. 

“This will hopefully contribute to the shaping of member states foreign and security policies in the increasing dynamic environment and help build a safer and more stable region and world,” he said.

Several countries in Africa, including Djibouti, Mali, Madagascar and Guinea, Central African Republic (CAR), Burkina Faso and many others have been hit with attempted and successful coups.

In renewed ties President Museveni also appointed Mbabazi as a presidential envoy to the Great Lakes Region (South Sudan and Ethiopia) in October 2021.

“So he offered me (the job) and I accepted to be the special envoy on the Great Lakes Region, South Sudan. And I agreed because I believe in peace, I believe senseless war is something all of us must bring to an end and I am happy to play my part in that effort,” said Mbabazi.

A Kenyan man identified as Kelvin Waweru, 36 collapsed following an unexpected romantic union between him, his wife, and 4 girlfriends.

His wife identified as Eunice Nkirothe, said she approached the four women whom her husband had been cheating on her with and they agreed to host Valentine’s lunch date for him.

“We contributed ksh 10,000 each to make him happy and proud as his women but after seeing the 3 of us approaching their table, he fainted,” Nkirote narrated.

The women made an agreement that whoever between them who will be contacted by Mr. Waweru will inform them the venue and they will join them.

Waweru is reported to be currently undergoing medical examination at the St. Joseph Medical Center in Westlands Nairobi to recover from this shock.

Crane Bank Limited was closed by Bank of Uganda (BOU) on October 20, 2016, after it failed to comply with a capital call on July 1, 2016. After selling the defunct bank assets to DFCU, Bank of Uganda filed a suit under Crane Bank in Receivership against Sudhir Ruparelia and Meera Investments seeking to recover over Shs379 billion and 48 land titles.

In 2019, Justice David Wangutusi of the Commercial Court ruled that Crane Bank was a non-existent entity since it went into receivership three years ago and dismissed the case Bank of Uganda had lodged against Sudhir Ruparelia seeking to recover the Shs 379 billion from him.

After losing the case, BOU ran to the Court of Appeal to challenge the lower court’s decision but again lost the case prompting them to run to the Supreme Court.

However, shortly after filing an appeal, BOU sought to withdraw it before it could be heard, a decision Sudhir through his lawyers of Kampala Associated Advocates objected.

Today, five justices of the Supreme Court including Rubby Opio Aweri, Percy Tuhaise, Ezekiel Muhanguzi, Prof. Tibatemwa Ekirikubinza and Faith Mwondha have dismissed the appeal by BOU and directed that the Central Bank pay costs in the terms found by the Court of Appeal ending a five year battle.

“For avoidance of doubt, the Court of Appeal upheld the finding of the trial court which ordered that the costs of the suit were to be borne by the Bank of Uganda since it was behind the filing of the suit and other subsequent actions. That order shall stand,” the Supreme Court directed.

The five justices also reasoned with the Court of Appeal that management of Crane Bank should be returned to the shareholders including Sudhir Ruparelia and Meera Investments Limited since receivership had ended in 2018.

“We equally considered this aspect in our ruling and found that indeed, receivership of the appellant (Crane Bank in receivership) had ended on January, 20, 2018. The implication of that finding in our view is that the management of the appellant be reverted to shareholders after the January, 20, 2018,” the court directed.

Sudhir reacted with relief and gratitude saying; “I want to thank the judiciary and the courts for giving me justice. It has taken more than five years to fight this case and it has impacted on our businesses. I want to thank all the lawyers for their time. Honestly BOU stole money in the name of Crane Bank and even Auditor General has said so. The legal department of BOU is so corrupt and is misleading the board. BOU legal department should go and appeal to God”.

President Museveni, the NRM party chairman says he met a group of youths popularly known as Kikankane, formerly supporters of the National Unity Platform (NUP) at State House Entebbe and took them through an NRM ideological lecture and disabused them of violence and destruction.

Ssebugwawo Ahmed, the Kikankane group leader said that they were happy that they have finally reached heaven which they were constantly promised by NUP’s president Robert Kyagulanyi yet they were never taken.

President Museveni said: “I am happy that they have seen the light, they now have the right spectacles & speak the language of Patriotism, Pan Africanism, and Social-Economic Transformation.  If we work and there is looting and riots, how shall we develop?”

President Museveni urged the converted youths to ensure that there is no crime and added that the NRM from the onset has been emphasizing the prosperity of all Ugandans without segregation or destruction.