Shock and grief gripped residents of Namayonjo village in Nakasongola district today early morning as a Kitgum bound bus rammed into a parked track killing seven and leaving 11 critically injured.
The traffic directorate spokesperson Mr. Charles Ssebambulidde briefed media about the details of the accident in which a bus Reg No: UAQ 643W belonging to Roblyn coaches swerved off the road and rammed into a track Reg No: UAX 001Y and witnesses attributed the accident to reckless driving.
However, Mr Christopher Ssendijja the officer in charge of Nakasongola police station revealed to this website that five people died on spot and the two died as they were being rushed to hospital and the number may increase since some of the survivors were critically injured.
UHRC boss Meddie Kagwa Being Questioned On Human rights
After being denied access to the said safe houses that
house torture chambers where human rights violations take place, the furious
legislators who sit on the Human rights committee invited the Uganda Human
rights commission (UHRC) boss and his team and the Internal Security Organization
(ISO) chief Col Kaka Bagyenda for questioning.
MPs on have however criticized the Uganda Human Rights Commission led by Chairperson Med Kaggwa, for what they say is an apathetic response to human rights violations. MP Raphael Magyezi said Parliament should hold the Commission to account for “abetting crime”.
MPs Blocked At The Kyengera Safe House
Legislators including Kyadondo East MP Kyagulanyi Robert, Mityana’s Municipality Francis Zaake, Raphael Magyezi, Bwino Kyakulaga and Simeo Nsubuga eloquently said the UHRC is toothless because it’s always reluctant on matters of human rights violations in the country.
The UHRC boss found hard time to explain his intervention in curbing this sky rocketing human rights violations which lies in his mandate. “Your commission is impotent, you can’t bite”- said the Legislators
MPs on the Committee on Human Rights critisise the @UHRC_UGANDA led by Chairperson Med Kaggwa, for what they say is lukewarm response to human rights violations. MP Raphael Magyezi said Parliament should hold the Commission to account for "abetting crime". pic.twitter.com/Jv6vsJJgz5
Yesterday Tuesday 10th September was dominated
with headlines of legislators attempting to visit the said safe houses which
are believed to be housing torture chambers where people are caged to taste the
valor of the Internal Security Organization (ISO).
However as earlier warned by the defence minister General
Elly Tumwine that no one legislator will ever step a foot in any of the safe
houses, indeed it came to pass as they were bounced back from all the four safe
houses in Kampala in areas of Kyengera, Nakasero and other places.
The MPs were led by the chairperson of the Human rights
committee and Buvuma women Mp, Hon Jennifer Egungu and other prominent politicians
like Kyagulanyi Robert Ssentamu, Latif Sebagala of Kawempe North and Mityana
municipality MP Francis Zaake.
In a shocking revelation by motor mouthed veteran journalist Andrew Mweda, one of said safe houses belongs to his uncle whom he didn’t name in a tweet.
“Yesterday Bobi Wine led a group of MPs & journalists to my uncle’s home in Kabowa claiming it is a safe house. I know govt of Uganda has safe houses where security forces torture people but my uncles is not one of them. He lives in it. Can these politicians get facts right?”- tweeted Andrew Mwenda
Yesterday @HEBobiwine led a group of MPs & journalists to my uncle’s home in Kabowa claiming it is a safe house. I know govt of Uganda has safe houses where security forces torture people but my uncles is not one of them. He lives in it. Can these politicians get facts right? pic.twitter.com/CiuQZURVJB
Former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe died last Friday at the age of 95 at a Singaporean hospital on Friday. Since then, mixed tributes have been pouring in from around the world for the fallen long serving president in Zimbabwean history.
A fearless leader, Mugabe led the country to liberation and away from white rule in 1980 after a fierce war against Rhodesian prime minister Ian smith’s forces.
He died a
bitter and powerless man after being deposed by longtime ally president Emmerson
Mnangagwa in the 2017 military coup after ruling the country with an iron fist
for 37 years.
Mugabe’s body
is flown back today to the divided Zimbabwe, he recently asked to be buried in
his home village of Kutama in Mashonaland west and not in the hero’s acre in
the capital Harare, though other sources suggest he will be buried at Hill top shrines.
In quite a shocking revelation is that he will be buried on Sunday which is president Mnangagwa’s 75th Birth day and it’s revealed while approaching his last days, Mugabe gave instructions that Mnangagwa should never attend his burial.
However ED president Emmerson Mnangagwa said he can’t celebrate his own birth day due to the death of Zimbabwean founding president RG Mugabe and will give him a special send off on his birth day.
"Mugabe to be buried on Mnangagwa's birthday"@NewZimbabweCom 9/9/19
What's this "King fallen, Prince rising" crap all about? The pfeemaniac who is deepthroating the media with the crap is really sick. Mnangagwa ought to be embarrassed by it!https://t.co/YVaxbU9emp
President Museveni who doubles as the commander in chief of the defence forces in Uganda has furiously blasted police officers deployed to monitor the CCTV camera centres.
The Policemen in the camera centres were asleep, only waking up to “retrieve” pictures from the memory of the cameras. Rubbish. You are not only supposed to retrieve pictures that happened some hours ago. https://t.co/ayx3WoxqCg
Reacting on the spate of kidnaps and killings with in Kampala and her environs, Museveni said in a tweet that policemen in the camera centres were asleep during the time they were most needed to alert the patrols for quick reaction and only woke up to retrieve pictures from the of the cameras.
You are supposed to watch live and tell the patrol vehicles to act promptly. All these have been arrested. I have directed that all involved must be tried, sentenced, punished and dismissed from the Police. https://t.co/ayx3WoxqCg
The president further reveals that he has directed that all negligent police officers involved as ‘pigs’ kill Ugandans be tried, sentenced, punished and also be dismissed from police.
The government spokesperson and director Uganda media
centre Ofwono Opondo has expressed his disappointment with the country’s
national broadcaster Uganda Broadcasting Cooperation (UBC) over late coming of
their journalists to cover issues of national importance.
Opondo posted on his tweeter account with dissatisfaction that “Today we have BOU depositor protection agency, cabinet briefing at Uganda Media Centre but UBC Uganda isn’t here”-Says Opondo.
He urged the Minister of ICT hon Frank Tubwebaze to
take drastic change and tame UBC journalist who have made it a habit of
arriving late to cover events at Uganda Media centre
A Uganda police officer has sent internet in frenzy
mode after busting a couple having sex in a car, the curious police officer is
heard asking endlessly questions to the couple as he threatened to drag them to
police for doing bad manners in some place not yet identified.
In a video that’s making rounds on social media a 35-year-old
woman of Acholi origin confirms to the cops that she was not engaging in any
sexual activity despite being caught pants down with a bottle of Smirnoff. She
further narrates that she has four children and the boy was just escorting her
home.
The boy is ordered to call his father or bring his
number since the car he was using belonged to his father, he’s asked why his
clothes were off and looked angers.
The curious police officer is seen cautioning the woman why she decided to engage in coitus interruptus with a young boy of 18 years, in the same manner the cop cautions the boy on sleeping with old women which risks his life to HIV/HIDS
Word on the street has it that city Pastor who owns
House Of Prayer Ministries Aloysious Bujingo has been dragged to court by his
embattled wife Teddy Naluswa Bujingo for neglecting her, failure to provide for
his children and domestic violence
Whoever
thought the battle is about divorce and sharing church property only is wrong
since the longtime lover to Bujingo has re-ignited the struggle either to have
her man back from Suzan Makula or sharing portion of Bujingo’s love.
It’s reported that Bujingo abandoned his marital home and settled for his wife to be Teddy Naluswa denying his wife conjugal rights and above all neglecting his own children reads part of the suit.
This is evidenced in a leaked audio recorded after court in which Pastor Bujingo was recorded allegedly beating up his children calling them “Emizimu” because they had been recording the court proceedings. The audio has since gone viral on social media and his daughter is heard crying and begging her mother and others who has escorted them to enter the car and leave as the Musumba (Bujingo) is heard beating her
President Yoweri Museveni has said that the Government of Uganda has lifted the ban on the export of raw sugarcane to Kenya for a period of only three months effective next week. The move, he said, aims at allowing Ugandan farmers sell the surplus sugarcane that is not consumed locally.
“Mature sugarcane that doesn’t have ready buyers from local millers, should be exported,” he said.
The decision to export sugarcane was reached during a meeting chaired by President Museveni at State House, Entebbe that brought together sugar millers and sugarcane farmers from Busoga Sub-Region.
Ugandan farmers, for the last few months, have grown too much sugarcane resulting in a surplus supply on the local market in Uganda. The decision to lift the ban will see Uganda export raw sugarcane to allow Kenya-based factories that are willing, to buy sugarcane from Uganda.
The meeting emphasized and agreed that only mature sugarcane should be exported adding that an Agricultural Officer should determine sugarcane maturity and its fitness for export.
The meeting also resolved that if a farmer had credit with a miller, the miller is obliged to buy all the mature sugarcane within the agreed contract period. If not, the miller should compensate the farmer for the loss.
President Museveni directed that all bond warehouses should be banned with immediate effect in order to harmonize the price of sugar and root for the expansion and growth of the sugar industry.
The President also asked sugar millers and farmers to work together adding that the two players need each other in order to ensure the survival of the sugar industry.
He, however, cautioned sugarcane farmers about the low returns from sugarcane production saying that the venture will not get them out of poverty mostly those who have small pieces of land. He, therefore, called on them to diversify their production ventures and concentrate more on crops like coffee, poultry, piggery and fish farming, among other enterprises that can yield good income for their homesteads.
Trade, Industry and Cooperatives Minister, Hon, Amelia Kyambadde, said her Ministry will allow Uganda sugarcane farmers to export excess sugarcane to Kenya for only 3 months.
She revealed that her Ministry is doing all that is possible to secure licences for farmers to sell their raw sugarcane to avert incurring losses.
She strongly advised sugarcane farmers to form a consortium in transportation of their sugarcane to ensure realization of tangible benefits.
President Museveni and his counterpart, Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, met on the sidelines of the 8th TICAD Conference in Japan last month and discussed issues related to the sugar business in their neighbouring countries. They agreed to fast track the process of enabling traders in Uganda and Kenya to access each other’s markets with ease.
Buikwe Woman MP Judith Babirye is one of the troubled MPs after Minister Nantaba who fled the country and settled in Canada this year 2019. The troubled legislator exiled herself in the US where she seems to be having good time.
The BuliUzziah hit maker early last year got engaged in an office romance with her fellow MP Hon. Paul Musoke Ssebulime Ssalongo who she married in a high level lavish wedding held at a swanky reception in Kampala.
News made rounds early this year that their marriage had hit a dead end with issues stemming from adultery, death threats among others that prompted Judith Babirye to flee the country to the US though rumors had it that she had gone to deliver a baby and called it quits with Paul Musoke.
Since the old adage says that “A new broom sweeps but an old broom knows all the corners”, MP Musoke made a switch back to his long time wife Nalongo Lukia who he has 3 kids, he was re-introduced and had his sins forgiven.
Judith Babirye seemed not bothered by the developments and dropped a brand new song titled Buli Uzziah Affe which left her fans asking whom exactly she was referring to in her song.
She’s getting back to the music scene though from a foreign land and she’s set to release another new song in a space of just one month titled OMWOYO tomorrow Wednesday.
