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Trouble Looms As District LCV Slaps RDC Over Gov’t Vehicle
Police in Bunyangabu District arrested and detained the area LC V Chairperson James Ategeka Mugarama after disciplining the area Resident District Commissioner Jane Asiimwe Muhindo with deadly slaps over a government double cabin. According to reports, Ms Muhindo had gone to pick the Chairman’s official car, which is a government given vehicle, as per presidential…
COVID-19 Crisis: BobiWine Criticizes M7 For Ordering Police To Charge Opposition Leaders With Attempted Murder For Distributing Relief Items
Kyadondo East Member Of Parliament Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobiwine,leader of People Power pressure group,has trashed president Museveni’s directives to police banning politicians, business persons from distributing relief items like ambulances, face masks, sanitizers , food and drugs saying such restrictions put in place will make lives of most Ugandans unbearable due to high poverty…
Museveni Announces Curfew, More Deterrent Measures Against Spread Of COVID-19
The President Of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has on Monday March, 30, 2020 evening announced more deterrent measures against the spread of COVID-19 in Uganda after three more people tested positive for coronavirus. This has been Mr Museveni’s sixth address since the outbreak of the virus was reported in Uganda. Below are key highlights from…
Coronavirus Effect: Crime Rate Increase As Thugs Kill Security Guard To Steal Food
Uganda Police Force in Tororo District is hunting for a yet to be known thugs that broke into a residence and killed a security guard. The thugs also stole a 50kg bag of rice stocked by a tenant to take his family through the period of coronavirus partial lockdown. As soon as the country reported…
MP Anifa Kawooya Refutes Escaping COVID-19 Quarantine, Donates Testing Machine
Honourable Anifa Bangirana Kawooya aka ‘Yellow Girl’, who is the Sembabule District Woman Member of Parliament and Mawogola South aspirant, has heartily donated a double testing machine for respiratory and other illness, as a way of supporting the ministry of health in the fight against Coronavirus. The machine is to be dispatched to the office…
M7 Fires Traffic Boss Dr. Kasiima, Renews Contract Of Five Police Directors
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni , the command in chief of armed forces has renewed the contracts of five police directors I.e AIGPs Asan Kasingye, Andrew Sorowen, Joseph Mugisa, John Ndungutse and Erasmus Twaruhukwa President Museveni has renewed contracts of five Assistant Inspector Generals of Police including two who had handed over office to their deputies…
Attorney General To Appeal Constitutional Court Ruling Against Public Order Management
Uganda police through the attorney general have vowed to appeal against the Constitutional Court after the ruling that the police have no powers to stop or disperse public gatherings as it annulled the contentious Section 8 of the Public Order Management Act (POMA). Last week, a panel of judges; Kenneth Kakuru, Geofrey Kiryabwire, Elizabeth Musoke…
Pastor Yiga Remanded To Prison For Misleading Public On Coronavirus
City Pastor Augustine Yiga Alias Abizaayo of Revival Church Kawaala has been remanded to prison by Mwanga II Magistrate’s Court where he appeared and was charged for allegedly doing an act likely to spread coronavirus. The controversial pastor was arrested by Police on Saturday when he used his television station to tell the public that…
Blessed Hands! Ruparelia Foundation Donates Relief Aid To Ms Aloyo Who Was Brutally Beaten By LDU’s
The Ruparelia foundation a charity arm of Ruparelia Group in a goodwill gesture amid the lockdown has on Monday March 30, 2020 donated food items to Ms Aloyo Hadijah a vendor who was beaten by LDU’s in Kampala on Wednesday March 26, 2020. Among the items given to Aloyo a resident of Kamwokya were Rice,…
Coronavirus Effect: BoU Governor Mutebile’s England Specialized Treatment Cancelled, Operated At Nakasero Hospital With Blood Clot
The Governor Bank of Uganda, Prof. Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile has been diagnosed at Nakasero Hospital, Kampala with an arterial blood clot. A close family source revealed that the longest-serving BoU Governor was supposed to be airlifted to the United Kingdom for specialized medical treatment but due to coronavirus pandemic, he decided to have his medical…