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PICTORIAL: As It Happened During Kampala University’s 19th Graduation Ceremony

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Linda Njoroge
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Well a total of 2415 students graduated from the Capital’s Chartered University Kampala University at the 19th graduation ceremony which took place at the shores of Lake Victoria at the University’s main campus.

The event which was graced by the Vice president of the republic of Uganda represented by Lands Minister Judith Nabakooba and the University’s Vice Chancellor Prof Badir Ddungu Katerega was on point as graduands donned beautiful and trendy fashions.

In the pictures, we bring you what our snoops were able to capture on camera.

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Over 2000 Graduate from The Prestigious Kampala University

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Linda Njoroge
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Kampala University the Capital’s Chartered University yesterday passed out over 2000 graduates from different faculties at their 19th graduation ceremony held at their main campus in Ggaba.

Presided over by the University’s Chancellor Hon.Prof.George Mondo Kagonyera , Vice Chancellor Badru Ddungu Katerega and graced by the Vice-President of the Republic of Uganda H.E Rtd. Major Jessica Rose Epel Alupo as the Chief guest, the colorful function saw many walk away with certificates, diplomas, degrees and masters.

Out of the total graduating figure, 1419 are male representing 59% while 996 are female representing 41%, 42 graduates managed to pass with first class degrees.

1855 graduates were Ugandans representing 76.81%, 119 are Kenyans representing 4.93%, 115 are Tanzanians 4.76%, 04 are Burundians representing 0.17%,  153 are Somalis 6.34%,  23 are Nigerians representing 0.95% ,  129 are South Sudanese 5.34%,   18 are Rwandese representing 0.54%,  02 are Ethiopians representing 0.08%,  01 Congolese representing 0.04% and 01 Malawian representing 0.04%.

The graduates are from the faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Arts and Social Sciences, Education, Industrial Art and Design, Natural Science and school of post graduate studies.

All graduates have been studying at our Main Campus in Ggaba, Luweero Campus, Masaka Campus, Jinja Campus and Mutundwe Campus.

In her message at the graduation, the Vice president Jessica Alupo assured of government’s commitment to extend more grants to both public and private Universities to boost research and innovation

“Unfortunately, majority of the private universities are incapacitate to access and benefit from this fund. I therefore encourage all private universities to create local and international networks to gain technical and financial assistance needed to rebuild higher education and research capacity”- Alupo Said.

Alupo further appealed to the graduands to remain focused and embrace government programs

“I appeal to you to remain focused and help promote government programmes like the Village Parish Development Model (PDM) in your respective communities through training and executing any other consultancy services highly needed for it’s implementation”- Alupo Said

In his speech, the University vice chancellor Prof Badru Ddungu Katerega lauded government or providing loans to needy students to study in chartered institutions like Kampala University.

“These loans do not only provide needy students with access to equitable higher education but add a decent academic value to them”- Prof Katerega said.

He also expressed concern over the declining number of loan scheme students, a trend he said has been visible over the last three years

“For the last three years, universities are witnessing a scarily continuous decline in the number of loan scheme students as far as their selection and consideration by the authority is concerned. The government should consider steadily increasing on these numbers rather than the contrary”- Said Prof Katerega

Katerega further called called upon government to consider supporting Kampala University owing it’s contribution to the country’s workforce and development  in it’s 23 years of existence.

“Over 30,000 have gone through the gates of this institution and majority of them are well placed. This is a clear manifestation that Kampala University is in the basked of institutions that deserve support especially in the fields of research, innovation and infrastructure development”-said Prof Katerega

He also at the same ceremony to reaffirm his earlier stance that the Kampala University Juba branch had been closed because of failure by the authorities in Juba to offer the institution requisite license and accreditation.

Prof Katerega said this in reaction to a recent saga involving a section of South Sudanese Students who rose up in arms protesting against Kampala University’s failure to graduate them.

“Kampala University sought to extend it’s operations in South Sudan and we heavily invested in infrastructure and other services but the authorities in South Sudan declined to give us a license. We took painful decision to suspend our operations there” Prof Katerega noted

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Government Resolving Bottlenecks in Older Persons’ Payments

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Linda Njoroge
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Minister of State for Elderly Affairs, Hon. Gidudu Mafwabi Dominic (left) interacting with older persons in Soroti on Thursday

The Minister of State for Elderly Affairs, Hon. Mafwabi Dominic Gidudu, has reassured older persons that Government is taking all necessary steps to eliminate the challenges excluding some older persons from receiving the Social Assistance Grants for Empowerment (SAGE).

While on a monitoring and supervision visit of SAGE payments in Mbale and Soroti districts on Thursday, Hon. Gidudu noted that the Ministry had gotten wind of a number of issues including the lack of National Identity Cards, errors in details on the Cards, infirmness and hiccups in the payment system, which are disfranchising would-be beneficiaries of the monthly payments.

“The Ministry is woke to these challenges and we are working with, for example, the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) to resolve issues on registering older persons to get National IDs and correcting the errors in existing IDs.” Hon. Gidudu said.

Older persons in Mbale observed that the NIRA field teams had wrongly captured the ages of some older persons, especially of those who only estimated their ages based on historical events.

“The registration officers were young and had no grasp of the historical timelines. They ended up underestimating many of the ages and now this has returned to eliminate some older persons from the Senior Citizens Grants,” they reported.

The Minister expounded that while changing details on IDs is a legal process which is cumbersome for older persons, the Ministry is partnering with NIRA and local governments to institute sub-county vetting committees that will work with Commissioners of Oath (Magistrates) to verify the correct age of the affected older persons.

“To test this approach, the exercise will begin with ten districts of Agago, Iganga, Lwengo, Budaka, Kakumiro, Maracha, Bundibugyo, Kotido, Ngora and Sheema and later rolled out to ensure that all affected individuals are covered.” Hon. Gidudu said.

He promised that once the errors are rectified, the beneficiaries would be immediately enrolled onto the Programme to start receiving their payments.

He revealed that the migration of beneficiaries from Post Bank to Centenary Bank, which is the new payments service provider, is almost getting completed, having experienced a few challenges at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hon. Gidudu revealed that the Ministry and NIRA have since February this year been conducting a joint residual registration of Older Persons to acquire National IDs, which exercise had resulted into over 12,000 new National ID holders. He promised that the outreaches would continue to get onboard more older persons.

Under the grant, older persons receive Shs. 25,000 every month with the direct costs of transactions born by government.

Bugisu sub region, covering the districts of Mbale, Bududa, Manafwa, Namisindwa, Sironko, Bulambuli and Mbale City, has a total of 14,407 beneficiaries, 8,442 of whom are female and 5,965 male. Up to Shs. 10.105 billion has been paid out to beneficiaries in the region.

Shs. 1.388 billion has been paid out in Bududa, Shs. 1.517 billion in Manafwa, Shs. 1.910 billion in Mbale District, Shs. 1.035 billion in Namisindwa, Shs.2.682 billion in Sironko, Shs. 1.306 billion in Bulambuli and Shs. 265 million in Mbale City.

Meanwhile Soroti, which is one of the most recent districts to join the programme following the roll out in the Financial Year 2019/2020, currently has 2,074 beneficiaries who have since received Shs. 1.093 billion.

The Senior Community Development Officer, Aguti Esther, informed the Minister that beneficiary payments in Soroti have been successful with minimum complaints and maximum compliments to government.

“The Programme has not only empowered the older persons to live more dignified lives but has also improved on the livelihood of their dependents through the trickledown effect of the cash transfers.” Aguti said.

She added that the older persons can now contribute to schools fees of their grandchildren, medical bills and some have opened up businesses, which directly contributes revenue to government and consequently contributes to attaining Sustainable Development Goal 1 on poverty reduction and Sustainable Development Goal 10 on reducing income inequality.

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JUST IN: Art Teachers Trash Gov’t Directive To Return To Work, Vow To Continue Striking 

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Linda Njoroge
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Teachers under their umbrella Uganda National Teachers Union (UNATU) have defied government’s directives and strict orders issued to them to return to classes immediately or they lose their jobs.

In her letter to the UNATU secretary General, Catherine Bitarakwate the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Public Service issued several directives to the striking teachers among which included returning to classes by 24th June 2022 or else be deleted from the payroll, those not contented with the directives to go to court.

Bitarakwate further ordered Chief Administrative Officers in every district to report any teacher who doesn’t return to class by 30th June 2022. In her letter which communicated government’s position on the strike, she also warned teachers against illegally closing schools.

However, in a turn of events and response to the government threats which has categorically said they’re no salary increments for arts teachers, UNATU General Secretary has ordered teachers to continue with their strike and not succumb to threats.

UNATU reiterates their industrial action is legally supported by the law and no teacher will be fired as threatened by the government and UNATU leaders haven’t yet been called for further negotiations.

According to Baguma, teachers will continue strike until their concerns are addressed. Arts teachers announced a sit down strike on one week ago after government increased salaries of science teachers to UGX4million and left art teachers without pay rise of less than UGX800,000.

UNATU leaders met president Museveni on Friday last week but failed to agree and decided to continue with their industrial action.

UNATU Letter

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BREAKING: NUP Secretary General Rubongoya Arrested.

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Joseph Kafuko
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The National Unity Platform Secretary General David Lewis Rubongoya has been Arrested at Natete Police Station together with his driver Gordon Agaba.

According to the Statement posted on Lewi’s official social media handle, first, they were detained at Wandegeya police station on an allegation of having been involved in violence in the recently Concluded by-election in Omoro.

“Today morning while driving via Wandegeya with my driver Agaba Gordon, a traffic officer stopped us and claimed that my car is wanted on allegations of having committed a crime during the recently concluded by-election in Omoro. We were briefly arrested at Wandegeya Police station and later I was released and proceeded to attend Hon Ssegirinya and Sewanyana’s court”. Lewis states.

Rubongoya was later released and his driver taken to Natete police station. Later on, Rubongoya went to Natete to check on the status of his driver, he was once again arrested.

“However, Gordon was later driven to Natete Police Station for reasons best known to the police. After court I passed by Natete Police Station to follow up and surprisingly I’ve also been re-arrested”.

We shall keep you posted about this story

ORDER FROM ABOVE: “Return to Classes Or Be Fired”- Gov’t Warns Striking Teachers

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Government of Uganda through the ministry of public service has issued a directive through Uganda National Teachers Union (UNATU) to all striking teachers’ country wide to call off their strike and resume classes before 24th June 2022.

On 15th June, arts teachers under the directive of their umbrella body UNATU laid down tools in protest of what they termed as discriminatory salary enhancement by government to a section of teachers (science teachers) which is going to be affected in this financial year 2022-23.

In a letter addressed to the Secretary General of UNATU Filbert Baguma, Public service has reiterated it’s commitment to enhancing salaries of all public servants but focus has been put on science teachers who are most needed at this material time and has also informed striking teachers that their demands won’t be worked upon in this financial year 2022-23.

“We have no doubt that you agree that we need an educated work force in all aspects of life but more in the sciences. This in our view will attract and retain the crucial skill that is required by the country at this material time”- reads part of the statement

According to government, the current strike by Arts teachers is illegal and it contravenes several laws and mechanisms of negotiating particularly Sections 7(2)(a) and (b); and 8 (1) and (3) and the Public Service Negotiating, Consultative and Disputes Settlement Machinery Act, 2008 and the Recognition Agreement

“The current Industrial Action by the members of UNATU is illegal and in breach of the principles and spirit of the law and particularly Sections 7(2)(a) and (b); and 8 (1) and (3) and the Public Service Negotiating, Consultative and Disputes Settlement Machinery Act, 2008 and the Recognition Agreement signed under this Act because neither has UNATU given a notice to strike nor had the Dispute Settlement Machinery been exhausted”-government further claims.

Government has also accused UNATU and it’s members of illegally closing down schools when they are not mandated to do so and has ordered all Chief Administrative Officers (CAO) to report any teacher absent from schools by the 30th of this month.

In light of all this with no immediate solution to the striking teacher’s demands, government has ordered the arts teachers to immediately return to classes or else they will be considered non employees by government and those not comfortable by the order can proceed to court.

“Any Government employed Teachers who does not comply to this call will be regarded as having abandoned duty and resigned from the Public Service in accordance with Section A-n (17) of the Uganda Public Service Standing Orders, 2021”- ordered Catherine Bitarakwate

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BIG OFFER: Kinzi Apartments Lowers Accommodation Rates By 20%

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The Ultimate Editor
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Have you been looking for that secret place you would wish to go with your loved ones, a place where privacy is key, a place where there’s no noise but with a cool silent environment?

Look no further, Kinzi apartments is the place to be with all that meets your needs for that secret but nice plans you have for your loved ones.

With their current 20% discount on all their apartments, you will remain with some ka money in your wallet and enjoy this luxury place and get memories for a life time.

According to management, a single occupant would pay as little as UGX136,000 for a night and enjoy a self-contained apartment with everything they year for.

“Enjoy our rooms this month with the 20% discount off our rooms for the next three weeks to experience new adventures and moments to cherish. Make reservations today by calling or WhatsApp +256705533833 for a comfortable stay or via our website https://akkinzi.com/ “-said Kinzi Management while speaking to this publication.

Kinzi Apartments offers accommodation that defines the new face of luxury with stunning bedrooms, living rooms, kitchen fitted with modern installations and appliances, it’s just a home away from home.

With designer inspired interiors, Kinzi offers discerning beauty and all the modern conveniences you desire.

The Sitting Rooms In The Apartments

According to management, residents can decide to prepare their own food while in the apartments or eat and from their restaurant and bar that’s just with in the confines of this beautiful place.

Kinzi apartments also lowered accommodations rate for a couple at UGX160,000 from the UGX200,000. Three occupants from UGX220,000 to UGX176,000 and four occupants from UGX250,000 to UGX200,000.

Kinzi Restaurant Hosting a Party

Kinzi not only offers apartments for both short and long stay, but also offers gardens for your parties, events and concerts with a modern restaurant preparing both local and foreign foods.

They’re also offering a 20% discount on all bookings for their gardens for parties like weddings, birthday parties, anniversaries, tea parties, meetings, concerts among others, rush as offer lasts shortly. Check out their Facebook Page, Instagram Page for more.

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Karamoja Warriors Kill Another Man In Napak District

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Linda Njoroge
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The karamoja warriors have reportedly killed another man in Napak district as insecurity in the area remains unstable following president Museveni’s trip to the area two weeks ago.

The has been identified as Okwi Solomon 29 years old, a resident of Ariamet village, Acucudu parish, Apaitolim sub county in Napak district.

According to our correspondent in Napak district Raymond Okello, Okwi met his death when he moved out to check on his kraal after his wife who had moved out for a short call informed him that a man was standing near their other house.

Upon moving out where approached the stranger who failed to identify himself but instead  grabbed him by the hand, took him to where other warriors were who beat him, pierced him spears to death.

Okwi leaves behind 6 children already schooling with one in primary six, one in primary three and two in primary two at Acucudu community primary school.

Acucudu Community Primary School

There has been renewed fighting between UPDF and the Karamoja warriors since last year and several people have lost their lives as the army fights to disarm rustlers and restore peace.

The rustlers killed an ISO operative prior to president Museveni’s visit to Karamoja but they still dared the president when they killed a boda boda rider two kilometers from the Morulinga state lodge where Museveni was giving out goats to former rustlers.

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TOP STORY: Uganda Shines at The Future Play Design Challenge Grand Finale

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The Ultimate Editor
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Waiswa Ronald Mirondo

Uganda last week featured and shined at the Future Play Design challenge and made it to this year’s grand final in Denmark.

Represented by Waiswa Ronald Mirondo who was born and raised from the Eastern parts of Uganda a fresh graduate of Civil engineering from Makerere University, the project from Uganda is the only one from Africa representing at this prestigious I.T innovation challenge.

This project from the budding Engineer emerged third among the five projects that made it to the final stage with others coming from different continents namely: Sustain Mini team – Merve Özhan and team from Turkey in the lead, followed by Zero C team – Amit Priyadarshan and team from India, Boat Project team – Waiswa Ronald and team from Uganda came third, and E-children team – Cessi Heredia and team from Spain and Litterbugs team – Gabriella Cammarata and team from U.S came 5th.

This year’s is “Ethically co-creating the next generation of sustainability & climate play together with children and families” and the purpose of this year’s program is twofold: first to invite startups and entrepreneurs within playful learning around the world, to develop a concept of a play that can help children and families learn about sustainability & climate change issues; and secondly to offer collaborative training for the five selected finalists.

Since the climate is changing, which is a crisis also impacting children’s life and world, according to UNICEF. It is important that children understand this issue and they need to be involved to be prepared now and in the future.

Involving children in the design of play by listening to their voices of what matters can help ensure a positive impact of the product solutions on children’s life, and doing it with an ethical approach can help make the design process more meaningful to children.

The Future play design Challenge is a program which also engages the youth and companies to design and create solutions to engage children into climate change awareness.

Waiswa exhibited his idea dubbed “the Boat project” which is aimed at “Navigating the changing times: – developing culturally rooted, and place-based primary climate literacy curriculum for African children.

According to this fresh Engineer, the project will also motivate and quantify behaviour change towards a sustainable lifestyle by inviting children to learn, play together and play for our future. He further this publication that him tells him and his team make the challenges of climate change relevant and solvable.

Learn more about this Year’s Challenge through this link 2022 Design Challenge.

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Kinzi Luxury Apartments Slash Their Accommodation Rates By 20%

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The Ultimate Editor
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Kinzi apartments, a luxury cool place in Jinja city has slashed their accommodation rates by 20% for the month of June to make it easy for their customers to enjoy their full time secure and silent residences.

Located just 5 kilometers from the busy Jinja city business district along Buwekula road in Bugembe with a variety of services for your convenience from apartments to gardens for your parties and events.

Given the current financial hardships in Uganda, as other businesses are increasing prices and charges to meet the costs, Kinzi apartments sought it prudent to slash the prices for their luxury houses by 20%.

For example, a single occupant would initially pay UGX170,000 per night but this has been reduced to UGX136,000 to fit your pocket. A couple that was paying UGX200,000 will now be relived and pay UGX160,000 in this month of June.

Three occupants in a single house with two bedrooms would part with UGX220,000 but this has been slashed to UGX176,000 and four occupants which is the maximum will pay UGX200,000 instead of the UGX 250,000.

With such fair and friendly prices on their apartments, a Resident at Kinzi would enjoy their self contained rooms with a fully installed kitchen for self catering, a spacious sitting room, two bedrooms, DSTV, WiFi, a refrigerator in every room all located in a cool and quiet secure place.

Kinzi is a home from home because it offers a cocktail and blend of other services including a bar, gardens, restaurant which are all to standards to meet your needs.  Check their website, Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp to make a booking at these luxurious apartments for you to enjoy and your loved ones.

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