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Lawyer Ssemakadde Asks Court To Free Mabirizi Pending Appeal
Jailed lawyer Hassan Male Mabirizi, has asked the Court of Appeal to have him released pending the hearing of his appeal challenging the 18 months jail term. Mabirizi was arrested on Monday near Kyambogo University following last week’s directive by High Court Judge, Musa Ssekaana, after finding him guilty for contempt of court for the…
Lands Min. Nabakooba Intervenes In Kuwe Land Grabbing Saga, Asks IGP Ochola To Investigate Errant Police Officers
The minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Planning Hon. Judith Nabakooba has intervened in Wakiso land grabbing saga. The matter is between Kuwe foundation and suspected land grabbers led by a one Kassimu Bainomugisha. In the letter to the Inspector General of Police Martin Ochola, Min. Nabakooba has decried of unprofessional conduct of some police…
Butabika Hospital Calls For Reopening Of Regional Mental Treatment Units
The National Mental Referral Hospital in Butabika has tasked the Ministry of Health to reopen regional mental treatment units that were turned into Covid-19 isolation and treatment centres. Prof Kinyanda, the chairman board of trustees, said reopening regional mental care facilities will relieve them from the overwhelming pressure from the big numbers of patients. Prof…
Man Sentenced To Four Months Imprisonment For Disrupting Mutebile’s Burial
A resident of Kekubo village in Kabale municipality has been sentenced to a four months imprisonment for disrupting the burial service of the fallen Bank of Uganda Governor, Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile. Mutebile, 72, was buried on January 30, at his ancestral home in Muruhita-Rwakatojo village in Northern division, Kabale municipality. However, chaos ensued when a…
Wakiso DPC Fired Over Kuwe’s Land Grabbing Saga
The Inspector General of police Martin Okoth Ochola has reshuffled Asp Abraham Tukundane who has been Wakiso District Police Commander to Pader over allegations of conniving with land grabbers. The Police Chief has with immediate effect transfered Asp Tai Ramathan, DPC Paderw to Wakiso as new Police boss. Tukundane has been in spotlight after being…
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UMEME Suspends Electricity Connections Policy Programme Over Lack Of Enough Funds
Power distribution company, Umeme Limited has suspended the Electricity Connections Policy (ECP) over lack of enough funds to implement it. This was was revealed in a statement issued on Wednesday July 2020 where Umeme noted thus; SUSPENSION OF NEW CONNECTIONS UNDER THE ELECTRICITY CONNECTION POLICY (ECP) PROGRAMME 29, JULY, 2020 The Government of Uganda launched…
UNBS Boss Dr. Ben Manyindo Quits Agency After 22 Years Of Service
The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has confirmed that its long serving Executive Director, Eng. Dr. Ben Manyindo has retired from the standards agency with effect from 1st November, 2020. “Accordingly, Mr. David Livingstone Ebiru, the Deputy Executive Director in charge of Management and Financial Services at the Bureau has been appointed as the…
UNBS Does Not Have Capacity To Protect Ugandans Against Fake Products On Market: MPs
The Tourism, Trade and Industries Committee of parliament has slammed the Uganda National Bureau of Standards-UNBS for failing to protect consumers against the proliferation of fake goods on the market. UNBS is mandated to enforce standards in the protection of public health, safety and the environment against dangerous, counterfeit and substandard products. The Bureau also…
UNBS Employees Cautioned Against Corruption, Unauthorized Releases
The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has cautioned clearing agents and consolidators against unauthorised releases and corruption tendencies, which frustrate UNBS efforts of curbing substandard imports on the market. The remarks were made by the UNBS Imports Inspection Manager, Mr Martin Imalingat, during a sensitization meeting with clearing agents and consolidators held at the Entebbe International Airport. “A good number of clearing…
UNBS Officers Raid City SuperMarket For Selling Rotten Products
Operatives from the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) conducted a CHRISTMAS OPERATION, during which they busted Bonjour Supermarket at Total fuel station, opposite Corner House in Ntinda, which was found storing rotten meat in the same deep freezer with ice cream. The raid, which was conducted following complaints from concerned shoppers, ended with both…
Unearthing Rot In BoU: How BoU Continues to Waste Taxpayers Money on Fighting Sudhir
City businessman Sudhir Ruparelia, who is the proprietor of Ruparelia Group of Companies, is having the last laugh after five Supreme Court judges dismissed its application challenging a High Court ruling in favour of Sudhir Ruparelia. The defeat at the Supreme Court comes as the latest blow in a myriad of cases that the central…