Christmas Day in Sembabule has ended in tears for one family after a truck rammed into a happy crowd killing two instantly leaving five admitted in critical condition. The fatal incident occurred at Bulakati-Nyange trading centre, Nakasenyi sub-county in Sembabule at around 5 pm. The deceased have been identified as Winnie Naluswaata, 20, and her brother…
Livestock farmers in Sembabule district are demanding for the increased mass vaccination against Foot and Mouth Disease-FMD. Last week, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Animal Industry allocated Sembabule a total of 20,000 doses of FMD vaccines to carry out vaccination of animals against the virus, but farmers are complaining that the exercise is benefiting…
The officer in charge of Kyera police post, in Kyera Sub-county, Lwemiyaga County, Sembabule district survived being lynched by an angry mob after he badly beat a woman in the area. We’ve learnt that Gaston Bogere narrowly survived lynching on Thursday evening after he pounced on Juliet Tumwesigye, a resident of Kyera cell A, in…
Zaituni Yahaya Babikola, the National Unity Platform (NUP) candidate for the Sembabule Woman parliamentary race has withdrawn from next year’s general elections. Babikola who is also the NUP Sembabule district coordinator communicated her withdraw from the race in a letter to the party secretary-general, David Lewis Rubongoya. The letter is copied to the Electoral Commission…
There is heavy deployment of police and the army in Sembabule district ahead of Wednesday’s National Resistance Movement (NRM) party primaries. Armed security personnel are already patrolling the different areas of Mawogola East and West to avert any cases of violence. We’ve learnt that the Deputy Inspector General of Police Sabiiti Muzeeyi has also expected…
Nayebale David the Sembabule District Aspiring Youth Chairperson has congratulated Winners in the past National Resistance Movement (NRM) flag bearer elections and called for unity amongst party members. “I thank and congratulate everyone who participated in these NRM primaries especially the youth. To winners, it’s been a hard fought election but well-done comrades”. “It’s a…
The Sembabule District (NRM) Youth Chairman who is also the aspiring District Youth chairperson Nayebale David has urged residents and youths to stay indoors to prevent an “overwhelming” spread of coronavirus, taking his strongest stance yet against the pandemic that has killed over 50,000 worldwide and infected nearly 100,000 so far. “This is a deadly…
Honourable Anifa Bangirana Kawooya aka ‘Yellow Girl’, who is the Sembabule District Woman Member of Parliament and Mawogola South aspirant, has heartily donated a double testing machine for respiratory and other illness, as a way of supporting the ministry of health in the fight against Coronavirus. The machine is to be dispatched to the office…
Police in Sembabule District have arrested a Local Defence Unit (LDU) officer for shooting dead a police officer. Jamada Luwaga, a resident of Rugusuulu Sub County in Sembabule District, allegedly shot dead Corporal Gerald Olweny, 32, a police officer attached to Rugusuulu Police Station on Wednesday night. The two had gone to Rugusuulu trading centre to…
By Mbabazi Hanning Gonzaga Sembabule: Unprecedented levels of political hysteria have gripped Sembabule district as usual, following two major controversial political developments. One has to do with the shocking decision by the State Minister For Transport in the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development Joy Kafura Kabatsi to declare ambition to unseat long-serving Lwemiyaga…
