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Kanyamunyu Brothers Murder Case Flops, Pushed To 2020
Hearing of a murder case against the Kanyamunyu brothers in the High court has been scheduled to start next year in January. Mathew Kanyamunyu and two others are accused of murdering child activist, Kenneth Akena in November 2016. Kanyamunyu is jointly charged alongside his Burundian girlfriend Cynthia Munwangari and his elder brother, Joseph Kanyamunyu. Today Wednesday,…
NRM SG Lumumba Remarries Embattled Husband
Justine Kasule Lumumba, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Secretary General, has today renewed her marriage vows with husband Patrick Lumumba. Our Spy reveals that the Lumumbas renewed their marital vows at a magnificent ceremony that was held at Rubaga Cathedral on Wednesday afternoon. After the ceremony, they treated their guests, who included Forum for Democratic Change…
Preserve NRA Bush War Liberators Achievements -Gen Muhoozi Cautions Soldiers
The UPDF Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Gen David Muhoozi has re-echoed the joint commitment to preserve the achievements of the country’s security agencies. This was contained in a speech read for him by Maj Gen Sam Kiwanuka who represented the CDF as chief guest at this year’s edition of the CDF Cup at Masaka…
Brig.Charles Okidi Takes Over Mantle As Air force Chief Of Staff
Brig Gen Charles Okidi has taken over the office of Chief Of Staff of Uganda Air Force from Maj Gen Paul Lokech who has been assigned special tasks in South Sudan. The ceremony was Presided over by the Commander Air forces, Lt Gen Charles Lutaaya. In his speech, Gen Lutaaya acknowledged the distinguished services rendered…
Clerics Storm Kadaga’s Office Over Rearrests And Torture Of Muslim Suspects
Muslim leaders under the Kampala District Council of Imams have sought Speaker Rebecca Kadaga’s help in having an end to re-arrest of bailed Muslim suspects. The leaders, in a petition presented by their spokesman Mr Ali Kinobe, said Muslim suspects are highhandedly re-arrested even when they are granted bail by court. “The Imams of Kampala…
LDU Official Guns Down A Colleague In Kisekka Market Operation
Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) is investigating a case in which a Local Defence Unit (LDU) personnel reportedly shot dead his colleague in Kisekka Market. The LDU Spokesperson, Major Umar Katamba, said the LDU personnel, whose identities haven’t been disclosed was killed in a scuffle on Tuesday evening. According to Katamba, the LDUs had gone…
FDC Starts Filling Vacant Grass root Positions For 2021 Elections
Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has launched a campaign aimed at mobilising its supporters countrywide to fill all vacant positions in the FDC party grassroot structures ahead of the 2021 General Election. The former FDC national treasurer, Mr Jack Sabiiti, told Daily Monitor in an interview on Monday in Kabale Town, where FDC party leaders…
Uganda’s First Black Health Minister Passes On At 103
Uganda first indigenous Health Minister, Dr Emmanuel Bijugo Ssajjalyabeene Lumu is dead. Dr. Lumu breathed his last at his residence in Bakuli in Kampala on Wednesday morning aged 103 years. His daughter, Vivian Kityo, says her father died in the early hours of the morning from a suspected pneumonia attack. “Mzee has been unwell for…
Scandal As NWSC Managers Share Billions In Procurement Of Fake Water Billing Meters
Officials of the National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) have come under fire after allegedly procuring a large consignment of water supply meters which have since turned out to be fake, yet they cost government hundreds of millions of Shillings. According to documents seen by this website, the Prepaid meters were procured by the Contract…
Ugandan Man Rwamirama, Whose Farts Can Kill Mosquitoes Paid Millions By Mosquito Repellent Company
Joe Rwamirama from Kampala, Uganda is cashing in on his unique and deadly farts that kill mosquitoes instantly. Two big mosquito repellent companies are paying Joe millions to study his farts so they can convert them into a mosquito repellent product. Joe’s good fart can drop all flying insects not bigger than mosquitoes dead within…