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Covid-19:Court Martial Convicts Seven LDUs Over Brutality In Lockdown
At least seven Local Defence Units- LDU personnel have been sentenced to two months in military prison for brutality. Uganda People’s Defence Forces -UPDF First Infantry Division court-martial on Tuesday heard, convicted and sentenced seven LDUs and one civilian at Kakiri Division headquarters. The accused who appeared before a five-member court team under the chairmanship of Col…
Uganda Running On Reserved Power Supply – What Next?
The Chief Executive Officer of Electricity regulatory authority-ERA, Ziria Tibalwa, has said that power generation agencies are exhausting the reserved power sources to ensure that, there is the constant power supply in the whole country. Turbines at the three main power supply plants of Nalubaale, Kiira, and Bujjagali were blocked by a floating island on…
Covid-19 Crisis: Museveni Advises Banks To Reschedule Loan Repayments
In a way of emphasis on bank loans, President Yoweri Museveni has said banks must not count days when people have not been working to service active loans. Millions of Ugandans in both the formal and informal sectors are currently not working as a result of the government’s measures to control the spread of coronavirus-COVID-19.…
IGP Ochola Reshuffles Police Again, Kiira Rd CID Boss Moved
The Inspector General of Police Martins Okoth Ochola has made an impromptu reshuffle to Jinja Road Police Criminal Investigations Department D/ASP Godwin Agaba Boss amidst Covid-19 bloodbath debacle. This website understood that Easter meals didn’t go well when Agaba learnt that his top bosses had quashed off his fat deal of joining the statehouse under…
Covid-19 Crisis: You’re Ashaming Me! Hon. Jacklet Blasts Sheema Women For Quiting Marriage In Easter
Sheema District Woman MP Jacklet Atuhaire has called for God’s intervention and repentance to women who quit their husbands and marriage during Easter holidays for failing to buy them meat and new dresses. The call follows increased cases of men complaining on how their wives harassly treated them during Easter holidays. “I have so far…
COVID-19:Four OPM Officials Involved In Relief Food Scandal Remanded
Four officials from the Office of the Prime Minister; permanent secretary Christine Guwatudde, Martin Owor, the commissioner in charge of Disaster Preparedness and Management, Joel Wanjala(Accounting officer) and Fred Lutimba( Assistant Commissioner in charge of procurement) have on Tuesday been remanded by Court to Kitalya Prison. They are accused of colluding to commit a fraudulent…
URA Busts Yaket Mineral Water Fraudsters Flouting Digital Tax Stamps In Covid-19 Lockdown
The URA Domestic Taxes Enforcement Unit, working on solid intelligence moved in on Yaket International Limited, the manufacturers of Yaket Mineral Water and found the company producing and packaging unstamped water at their premises in Gayaza. The enforcement team also established that the factory was running two production lines churning out unstamped bottled water while…
Covid-19 Curfew: Shoot To Disable Not To Kill – Museveni Directs Security
President Yoweri Museveni has endorsed the use of live bullets to disable rowdy people who fight security officers during curfew operations. He made the announcement on Tuesday April 14, 2020 while addressing the nation on the status of coronavirus pandemic in Uganda. “The wanayinchi must know where to stop from. How do you beat a…
Col. Nakalema Clarifies, Denies Interest In OPM Food Procurement Scandal
The head of the State House Anti-Corruption Unit, Lt Col Edith Nakalema, has said that the arrest of senior officials in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) was on the orders of the President. Addressing journalists in Kampala on Monday, Col Nakalema dismissed as mere propaganda reports that she was involved in contracting of…
Covid-19 Crisis: President Museveni Extends Lockdown For More 21 Days
The president of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has on Tuesday announced least three more weeks in lockdown commencing tomorrow April 15 upto May 5, 2020 to assess the situation and determine the next course of action for the country in regards the deadly coronavirus pandemic. He made the announcement on Tuesday April 14, 2020 while…