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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…
Court Issues Warrant Of Arrest Against Ex-MP Nusura Tiperu Over 83M Debt
The former Arua Municipality Parliamentary Aspirant Nusura Tiperu is in trouble following a warrant of arrest issued against her by the High Court in Arua for failure to pay election petition costs worth 83 Million Shillings. The warrant of arrest which is signed by the Assistant Deputy Registrar of Arua High Court indicates that the…
MPs Order Govt To Scrap Off All Taxes On CCTV Cameras
Legislators have adopted a motion urging government to review taxes on procurement of closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras and automotive tracking devices. The MPs, while debating the motion during plenary sitting on Wednesday, 5 December 2019, agreed that the prices on the market for CCTV cameras were too expensive for ordinary citizens to afford. Hon.…
Tensions Escalate As Rwanda Snubs EAC Inter parliamentary Games Organized By Uganda
Uganda has been left sole organiser of the East African Community games after Parliaments in Rwanda and South Sudan boycotted the games, choosing not to send delegates and to further rub salt into the wound, the two nations didn’t explain why they boycotted the games. The 10th edition of the annual East African Community Inter-Parliamentary…
IGP Ochola,Gen.Sabiti Are Incompetent To Investigate All Pending Murder Cases-MP Kivumbi
The Shadow Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon Muwanga Kivumbi has accused his opposite in government, Hon. Obiga Mario Kania of reluctance and inefficiency by the Uganda Police to investigate high profile criminal cases. Kivumbi, who is also the Butambala MP, highlighted several murder cases where suspects have not been committed to court for trial for…
M7 Commissions 9 Factories At Namunkekera Industrial Park
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on Thursday commissioned 9 factories operating in the Namunkekera Industrial park, in Kapeeka, Nakaseke district. The factories, which produce various assorted products and have created lots of employment opportunities for people in Kapeka, Nakaseke district, Luweero Triangle. President Museveni poses with some of the investors and security minister Elly Tumwine (2ndR)…