Uganda Police Force together with sister security agencies have arrested and detained Ronald Bagyenda a social media blogger from Kabale Town over allegations of breaching the Computer Misuse Act. Bagyenda was arrested in the wee hours of Wednesday April 29, 2020 and transferred to Criminal Investigations department headquarters Kibuli for interrogation. According to an Insider…
The ministry of health confirmed two cases of coronavirus infections on Wednesday evening. According to Dr. Henry Mwebesa, the director-general of health services, the cases are of a 24-year-old Ugandan national and a 21-year-old Burundian refugee. Both are males. Both had been in contact with a Burundian refugee who had tested positive earlier. This brings…
The European Union (EU) has petitioned the justice and Constitutional affairs Minister Ephraim Kamuntu over the way the government has handled efforts to fight coronavirus where some people had urged that rights of citizens are being violated especially those in prisons. In a petition dated April 24, 2020 we’ve landed on, EU requested Government to…
High court judge Micheal Elubu has ordered Members of Parliament to return the contentious Shs10 billion they allocated themselves to reportedly help in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic in their respective constituencies. The order follows a consensus reached in court this afternoon by the parliamentary commission, Attorney General and Ntungamo Municipality MP Gerald Karuhanga…
Members of Parliament (MPs) who have taken the sh20 million given to them as part of the COVID-19 supplementary expenditures might be in trouble. In his update address on the Coronavirus pandemic on April 28, President Yoweri Museveni condemned MPs for seeking to divert Ugandans from the current war. “I’m very thankful with Ugandans they…
