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FULL LIST: Here Are Contacts Of All RDCs Who Must Clear Your Movements In The 14-day Countrywide Lockdown!
President Yoweri Museveni on Monday said people with expecting mothers or very sick people will first need to get permission from their area Resident District Commissioner (RDC) in order to use private means of transport to take them to health facilities. The President issued the directive while announcing new stringent measures to control the spread…
Government Set To Distribute Relief Food To 1.5m People In Wakiso, Kampala
The Government of Uganda will on Saturday March, 4, 2020 launch the distribution of relief food to at least 1.5 million vulnerable urban poor affected by the virus lockdown in Wakiso and Kampala districts. This was revealed by the Prime Minister Of Uganda Dr. Ruhakana Ruhunda while appearing before Parliament. According to the Prime Minister,…
Breaking! Rwanda Cries To Uganda After Burundi Closes Its Borders, Blocks Cargo Trucks
The Government Of Rwanda through its Foreign Affairs Ministry has cried to the the Government Of Uganda to block relief trucks heading to Burundi. In a statement traced by this Website, Rwanda authorities stated that the government of Burundi is no longer allowing cargo trucks transiting through Rwanda to enter Burundi’s territory despite the decision…
Chinese Firms, Gen Saleh Donate Shs 98m To Nakaseke District For COVID-19 Fight
Nakaseke district has received a boost of Shillings 98 million from Chinese firms in Kapeeka Town council to finance the activities of the Corona Virus Task Force. The money was handed over to Nakaseke district by General Salim Saleh, the Chairperson of the 16 Chinese firms under Namunkekera Rural Industrial Center to help operationalise the…
Errant Bodaboda Rider Shot In Buttocks for Defying Curfew
Police in Wakiso District shot and injured a defiant motor cyclist in Kisimbiri trading centre for riding during quarantine hours. The Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, Patrick Onyango only identified the injured Boda boda rider is 30-year-old Vincent. According to a statement dated April 1, 2020, the boda boda rider identified as Vicent who is suspected…
Shock As Security Gets More Money Than Health Ministry For Corona Virus Fight
Government has proposed to allocate the security sector more money compared to the Health Sector as it seeks Shillings 284 billion in supplementary funding to deal with the Corona virus pandemic. Although the Finance Ministry is seeking Shillings 284 billion to mitigate the corona virus pandemic impact, Shillings 81 billion is going to security while…
COVID-19 Crisis: Choir Didn’t Mix With Congregation – Watoto Church
Leading Pentecostal based Watoto church has refuted allegations that choir members who returned from UK and Canada mixed with Congregation upon arrival. According to Church, its congregation is safe in the wake of the news of 11 of the choir members returning from a trip in the UK and Canada testing positive for the Coronavirus.…
M7’s Directives On Coronavirus, Government LockDown Are Sheer Illegality,Must Be Challenged In Court-Lawyer Gawaya Tegulle
On March 30, 2020, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni delivered yet another COVID-19 address, declaring ‘total lock-down’. Everybody must stay indoors, except a few ‘essential’ service providers. And that would have probably have been okay, till you begin raising issues of law and strategy. And basic human decency. The following day, bankers, medical workers and journalists…
Fighting Erupts At KCCA As Recruitment Of New Staff Kicks Off
Power wrangles, Corner quarrels and ideological differences has erupted in Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) after the Human Resource directorate internally advertised over 200 Jobs which some staff have protested the criteria of recruitment. TheCapitaltimes has established that the advert which was sent to all staff on June 6, followed a directive from the Public…
Distributing Food To A Group Of People Equates To Attempted Murder, Museveni
President Yoweri has sternly warned local leaders and politicians against giving out food items to people during the two-week lockdown. The President said that much as it may be a good act, some politicians are simply taking advantage of the current delicate situation to play what he termed as “cheap politics”. He noted that this…