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Covid-19: Uganda Lawyers Launch Self-Help Emergency Relief Fund
A section of Ugandan advocates led by Counsel Isaac Ssemakadde the Executive Director of Legal Brains Trust has launched a campaign to collect relief fund for lawyers who are struggling and yet they have no one to run or turn to amidst Covid-19 unprecedented times. In a statement this website has landed on, Counsel Ssemakadde…
Covid-19: Ugandan Lawyers Participate In Emergency Relief Fund To Assist Colleagues Struggling In Lockdown
A group of lawyers led by counsel Isaac Ssemakade last week launched an emergency relief fund to help fellow lawyers who suffering due to Covid19 partial lockdown. Advocate Ssemakade revealed that since lawyers were not listed as essential workers in the country, many are going through untold suffering and are starving because government did not…
Mp Zaake Arrested For Distributing Covid-19 Relief Food
Police alongside military have arrested Mityana Municipality MP Francis Zaake for allegedly distributing food to his constituents. Zaake said on his Facebook page Sunday that the military had broken into his home and was looking for him. “…they are breaking every door of my house searching to arrest me for the crime of sharing food…
Covid-19: Govt Shuns Bobowine’s Offer To Repatriate Ugandans Suffering In China
The government of Uganda has rejected Kyandondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine to plans of flying back Ugandans stuck in China. In a letter dated April 15 and addressed to Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda, Bobi Wine, said he has partnered with an American media owner and businessman Neil Nelson to evacuate 285 Ugandans…
M7 Applauds UPDF,NEC Engineers For Speedy Work On Clearing Nalubaale Dam Floating Island
President Yoweri Museveni inspected the Nalubaale and Bujagali power plants in the Eastern district of Jinja that were last week choked by the floating islands of water hyacinth and papyrus at the Nile bridge that blocked the turbines resulting to a national power blackout. He applauded the great work of engineers from National enterprise corporation…
Wife Stabs Makindye Royal College Head Teacher To Death Over Unborn Baby
Katwe Police are investigating a case of suspected murder by stabbing in a domestic brawl. Kampala metropolitan police spokesperson Patrick Onyango revealed that on 18.4.2020 at Makindye Police Station,in Kirundu Zone, Luwafu Parish, Makindye Division, Police officers at the Counter heard a woman calling for help. “The law enforcement officers immediately rushed to the scene…
High Court Orders Military To Produce Political Activist Kakwenza Dead Or Alive
High Court has ordered Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI), Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF), Police and Attorney General to produce City Lawyer and activist Kakwenza Rukira in court on April 27, 2020, at 11 am without fail. Kakwenza was reportedly arrested from his home in Iganga on Tuesday, April 14, by security agents, citing cyber…
Covid-19: Emergency Relief Fund For Lawyers Rescues Ailing Advocate Moses Kuguminkiriza With 1.56M,Launches Sleek Application Form
The chairperson Advocate Assumpta Kemigisha Ssebunya and Treasurer Adv Sylvia Namawejje Ebitu have released the COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund for Lawyers and exceptionally contributed Shs 1.56 million in partial fulfillment of a request for Shs 2.8 million submitted on behalf of Advocate Moses Kuguminkiriza who is currently hospitalised at Mengo Hospital. This milestone is largely…
Uganda Set To Discharge 10 More Coronavirus Patients Today
Uganda is set to release ten people today, Monday April 20 from Entebbe Grade B hospital after recovering fully from coronavirus, Their discharge today will bring the total number of recoveries to 38, against 17 active cases. The new recoveries include five Watoto choir members, according to reports. Uganda on Sunday April 19 discharged six…
Jubilation As Uganda Discharges 10 More Covid-19 Patients
Eight members of Watoto Church choir who had been sick from covid19 have recovered from the deadly Coronavirus. These were discharged today April 20, 2020 at a function officiated by Joyce Kaducu, the minister of state for Primary Health Care. The team, which included 5 children and 3 attendants, was being treated from Entebbe Grade…