Pastor Augustus Yiga alias ‘Abizaayo’ has swallowed his pride and apologized to the Ugandan Moslem community especially Sheikh Muzaata who accused of imitating Islam.
Sheikh Muzaata came out and attacked Pastor Yiga for putting on a Moslem attire which he claims was offensive an unacceptable.
Yiga has responded by apologizing and advised Sheikh Muzaata to watch the video instead of jumping into conclusions
Makerere University is currently under siege with the military brutalizing students, many are incarcerated up to now even with a court order that ordered police to release all detained students unconditionally.
It’s a shame and
risk to the rule of law where court orders are defied waiting for one person
give orders and that’s none other than president Museveni who is currently out
of the country for the Russia-Africa summit in Sochi.
As Makerere university students are striking against the 15% tuition increment,
it should come to our notice as Ugandans that students are 100% right given
that Makerere university is a public institution. All parties concerned should revisit
the aims of education in Uganda one of which is “To eradicate illiteracy
and to equip the individual with basic skills and knowledge to exploit the
environment for self-development as well as national development, for better
health, nutrition and family life, and the capability for continued
learning.”
The student’s protests are mainly a manifestation of failure of education managers to relate their services with the status of the students. They should forget that we are in Africa. The riots are an illustration of frustration with poverty.
There is no way our aims will move from basics to advance with costly education services among extremely poor African students. Self and national development is impossible with unaffordable tuition. While speaking to the media, Makerere vice-chancellor Prof Barnabas Nawangwe said students should cherish and not de-campaign the tuition increment because it was passed by the university council.
Why does the vice-chancellor think, decisions from the university council can’t be recalled, cannot be resisted? The same decisions according to insiders, it’s the president to give an order for such decisions.
Low tuition in public universities is a necessity in order to address inequality in accessing educational services between the poor and rich. The poor should also be in position to access the top university so as to have social mobility.
All Ugandan students should stand against this hot issue of the 15% tuition increment at Makerere. We have a fear that it might spread to all public universities. Students like me may not be in position to continue with studies. Salute to all who can stand for us all.
Julius Domba The Author is second year science student at Mbarara University of Science and Technology
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Uganda police has failed unconditionally to release detained Makerere University students despite court ordering police to release 46 out of the 67 arrested students.
Kyadondo East Member of Parliament Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine has revealed on his official twitter handle that police is waiting for orders from above on whether to comply with a court order.
According to the legislator, most of the students have been in detention now close to 4 days in very dirty cells.
Yesterday Friday 25th court ordered police to unconditionally release 46 Makerere university students.
The court order follows an application by students’ lawyer Eron Kiiza before Buganda Road court to force police unconditionally releases them from its custody at Wandegeya police station.
The detained 46 students were reportedly arrested on Wednesday this week during a strike in which they are opposed to a 15% tuition increment by the Makerere University administration.
On Wednesday, Makerere University students took to the streets protesting a 15% tuition increment which they claim it’s unfair to their parents and colleagues who pay their own fees. The demonstrations ate still on-going.
— BOBI WINE (@HEBobiwine) October 26, 2019
Currently Uganda is heavy rains in most parts of the country including the dry lands of Karamoja, these rains have caused traffic gridlock in the city, destroyed houses, property, lightning and thunderstorms that have led to loss of lives.
However following complaints of the destroying rainy season that is unprecedented, Uganda National Meteorological Authority has today issued a statement highlighting areas expected to flood.
“Heavy rains with lightning and thunderstorms are expected to prevail over most parts of the country wit in the next five days, starting Saturday 26th October to Wednesday 30th October 2019. These rains are expected to bring about flooding especially in the urban areas and low lying areas, mudslides in the mountainous areas and lighting strikes coupled with with”-Reads part of the statement.
This comes just a day when rains destroyed Kamengo police quarters in Mpigi district leaving the police officers in a miserable state that sparked social media trolls.
A 17-year-old heavily pregnant South African pupil was on Friday rushed to hospital after she had endured “excruciating” labour pains to complete writing her matric exam.
Gauteng education spokesperson Steve Mabona said the pupil from a secondary school in Tsakane, Ekurhuleni, started experiencing contractions while sitting for her Maths Literacy paper in the main exam room.
“After refusing to leave the exam centre for medical intervention, she was subsequently moved to a private office where she continued to write under excruciating labour pains.
“Fortunately, the paramedics promptly responded and waited for about 30 minutes for the said learner to complete her Maths Literacy paper.
“She was then taken to a local hospital, where she received the necessary medical attention and gave birth,” Mabona said.
Mabona said administrative processes will be facilitated by the department to ensure that the pupil writes all her outstanding papers.
“From our perspective, young people should delay their first sexual experiences. It is not our wish that they give birth while still at school because the responsibility of parenthood impacts negatively on their ability to continue with their studies. Policy allows learners to stay at school while pregnant and return after giving birth,” Mabona said.
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Incumbent president Mokgweetsi Masisi on Friday won a five-year term in Botswana’s elections which saw his ruling party secure more than 51 percent of parliamentary votes, the chief justice said.
“Dr. Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi is elected President of the Republic of Botswana,” chief justice Terrence Rannowane announced.
The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), which has ruled since independence from Britain in 1966, was declared the winner after attaining the minimum 29 parliamentary seats required to form a government after Wednesday’s vote.
Counting for the remaining seats was still underway, the chief justice said adding that “sufficient” results had been declared to announce that Masisi the winner.
“Although counting is on-going, the numbers declared as winners allow me to determine which presidential candidate has obtained the required minimum support of Members of Parliament to be declared president of the republic,” added Rannowane.
The BDP retained key constituencies in the western and northern parts of the country, while the opposition made inroads into the central districts, which were previously the ruling party’s strongholds.
The burial site of Kenya’s fallen freedom here Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi Waciuri has been identified after tense struggles of tracing where he was laid to rest.
Dedan Kimathi was executed by the then British government on February 18th, 1957 which effectively ended the Mau Mau war of independence. After the hanging he was interred in an unmarked grave at Kamiti Maximum prison in Nairobi.
This happens with just six days to his would be 99th birth day, a letter that’s making rounds on social media confirmed the development and that they are just waiting for the chief justice David Maraga to allow the family to exhume the remains for decent burial.
Following sustained pressure from human rights lawyers, the Ugandan Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) has transferred at least 35 Rwandans previously held in ungazetted facilities to police stations.
According to available information, the 35 Rwandans have been transferred to police stations in at least seven districts of Ntungamo, Mbarara, Kakumiro, Mubende, Kanungu, Kisoro and Mityana.
The lawyers, Eron Kiiza and Anthony Odur of Mugisha and Co. Advocates who represent several Rwandans illegally held in Uganda, had last week said that over 100 Rwandans were being held in CMI dungeons in different parts of the country.
“We are glad to announce that God finally answered our prayers and 35 Rwandans were produced by CMI after the pressure we put on them,” the lawyer revealed on Thursday,” the lawyers said in a statement Thursday.
The lawyers said that those released have been scattered across police stations in different districts, which makes it difficult for them and their relatives to track them.
“But we’re doing everything possible to link up with them wherever they are detained.”
Some of the Rwandans that have been located by the human rights lawyers include Rogers Mufashe, Vincent Habimana and Muhammed Sebukire, who have been transferred to Mbarara Police Station.
Others are Emmanuel Rukundo, Jimmy Niyonshuti and Jean d’Amour Mutware who were transferred to Ntungamo Police Station, while Eric Kagenze, James Tumusiime and Alex Sejusa have been transferred to Kanugu Police Station.
“What we want is for CMI to allow police do their job. If these people have crimes to answer, let police present them in court, instead of being detained illegally and tortured by CMI,” Odur said.
He added that although the 35 had been transferred by CMI to police, there are dozens of Rwandan nationals still in CMI Safe Houses and other military detention centres.
“We demand their immediate and unconditional release, because they are being illegally detained. Our clients should be immediately released unconditionally because they were illegally arrested and no evidence has been provided against them,” said the advocate.
The lawyers added that they will continue providing legal services to the detainees, although it’s now bound to be tricky since they are detained at different police stations in various districts.
Odur however said they are coordinating with their fellow lawyers in the respective districts who have interacted with detainees and learnt that they were being compelled to confess to charges of illegal entry into Uganda.
The lawyers said that they are now left with no choice but to apply for habeas corpus order, such that court can force CMI to produce all the other Rwandans languishing in their various detentions.
The law firm had last week called for the immediate release of the over 100 Rwandans whom they had managed to establish were being held incommunicado at different CMI facilities.
Here, they are not being accessed by their lawyers, relatives or even the Rwandan High Commission in Uganda.
“CMI has a history of torturing detainees. All the clients we have been able to rescue form CMI complain of physical and psychological torture,” a statement from the law firm released last week reads in part.
They said that even the few who have been brought before courts, they have been charged in military courts, despite them being civilians.
“We urge CMI to let police do its work and hand over all the 100 Rwandan detainees to police which has gazetted detention centres and is legally empowered to investigate crimes,” they said in the statement.
The government of Rwanda has previously complained to their Ugandan counterparts over the harassment of Rwandans on the Ugandan territory.
This led to a travel advisory issued in March this year during which the government warned Rwandans against unnecessary travel to Uganda where their safety could not be guaranteed.
During a meeting held last month in Kigali between Rwandan and Ugandan officials, the former presented a list of grievances to their counterparts, which they asked should be addressed before a next meeting is to be held in Kampala.
The Kigali meeting, which was also attended by ministers from DR Congo and Angola in the two countries’ capacity as facilitators, was held under the auspices of the Memorandum of Understanding signed by Presidents Paul Kagame and Yoweri Museveni, in an effort to normalize relations.
The MoU was signed in Luanda, Angola in the presence of the heads of state from DR Congo, Congo Brazzaville and the host president.
Other grievances Rwanda has presented to Uganda include the continued support offered by the latter to negative forces with an aim of attacking Rwanda.
Several reports, including a report by the United Nations have accused Uganda of working very closely with Rwandan dissidents including Kayumba Nyamwasa’s Rwanda National Congress, in their campaign to distabilise Rwanda.
Several accounts, including confessions by terrorists captured in action either in Rwanda to neighbouring countries like DR Congo have since corroborated this where Uganda’s CMI has been championing the recruitment drive.
SOURCE: THE NEW TIMES RWANDA
By Kiggundu Ben
JINJA: Early this week we reported a story of a grisly accident that occured in Buwenge Town Council in Jinja district where a lorry carryingsugar cane registration number UAK 344V failed to go uphill at Walumbe junction and rolled back and overturned.
As police and residents were trying to remove the truck and clear the road, another speeding lorry registation numer UAK 996Z also loaded with sugar cane failed to break and rammed into them killing seven instantly.
After the ordeal, police rushed the injured in the different hospitals for medical attention and bodies were taken to Buwenge General Hospital for postmortem.
However, the aftermath of this traggic accident has taken another dimension as residents claim hungry dogs stormed the mortuary were the bodies were being kept and feasted on the dead bodies.
The hungry residents further allege some of the dead bodies were found with missing parts, they also reveal the mortuary is in a sorry state and when it rains, the water flood through the small room and they have threatened to bring it down if nothing is done.
However, Dr. Stephen Baligeya the in charge Buwenge Health Centre IV says they have nothing to do about it because they already passed the budget to build a new mortuary but the Jinja district council has remained reluctant.
Latest reports reaching our news desk indicate that military and unknown gunmen have stormed Makerere student’s residence halls Lumumba and Merry situate. Its alleged that students are being thrown out their rooms and badly beaten in the absence of journalists.
It’s also alleged that the ugly scenes started by switching of electricity, then security operatives started breaking into the students’ rooms.
On Tuesday this week, Makerere University students started protesting against the 15% tuition increment, over 40 students since then have been arrested, some given police bonds and others still in police custody
Some students have even been expelled from the university while other got warning letters.
We shall keep you posted.
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