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The Singer-songwriter Has Turned His Guns On Anita Fabio
Museveni Spends Shs27b On Campaigns In 2 Months
Museveni Can No Longer Rescue Uganda.mbabazi
38 Ugandans Rot In DRC Military Prison
Electoral Commission Stranded As Donor Pulls Out
Editorial A NEW DAWN FOR UGANDA
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welcome you to the first edition of AfricaWorldNews Uganda. We are happy to present an independent newspaper for all in the 'Pearl Of Africa'. A thousand kilometres journey begins with a step, as such, we have more associated with our arrival in Kampala. We are a group of pan-Africans inspired to report Uganda to the wider-world. The vision of AfricaWorldNews Uganda is to lead in news, opinion and showcasing Uganda. This publication shall celebrate the unique culture of Uganda and the beauty of its people. More so, the business and political life of East Africa will feature prominently for the benefit of our readers. As this new dawn unfold, we ask for your support in our community development program and readership. Our values remain loyalty, truth and commitment. Above all, AfricaWorldNews Uganda is here to serve and inform. The privilege is ours Ukachukwu Okorie Editor-at-large
Sembera Andrew Bureau Chief Uganda
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Politics MUSEVENI DISAPPOINTED WITH ABSENCE OF POWER
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resident Yoweri Museveni has expressed disappointment over absence of power in some parts of Masindi. While addressing his first rally at Kikingura Primary School in Bujenje, Mssindi, Museveni said he will ensure the area is connected to the national grid, saying electricity is a major component of development. He pledged to extend the power lines to Bujunjura, Kiyingi and Kabalye. National Resistance Movement (NRM) presidential candidate, President Yoweri Museveni started his
campaigns in the oil-rich Bunyoro sub-region on Friday, holding four campaign rallies in Kibaale district. Top on his priorities list for the region was the work on roads and electricity, as well as his wealth creation campaign through a host of special funds for women, youth and agriculture. At his ?rst rally, held at Kisita Primary School grounds in Kisita sub-county, Bugangaizi East County, Museveni assured supporters that he would tarmac major roads connecting to the district. Moments before the rally, Museveni ?agged off the upgrade of 104 km MubendeKakumiro-Kibaale-Kagadi road. “I have commissioned works on that road and the tarmac will reach here (Kisita),” the NRM candidate announced to the excited crowd of
supporters clad in their trademark yellow t-shirts as they ?ared up in cheers.Construction of the road will cost sh484b and is expected to be completed within three years, with design by China Communications Construction Company, the ?rm currently building the KampalaEntebbe Express Highway. Speaking at the commissioning of the road, Museveni said the Government had developed capacity and funds, from sh500b to over sh13 trillion, which has enabled the country to build more roads.
Allen Kagina, the executive director Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA), said Government had obtained funds for the national roads development and maintenance plan. She revealed that part of the funds will be applied for payments for design and build for upgrading of MubendeKagadi road from gravel to bituminous paved road. Kagina said works on the new road would act as an alternative route from the capital Kampala to Albertine graben region. Finance minister and Buyanja county MP, Matia Kasaija said the road is key for the development of the area that is an agricultural hub, making it easier for farmers to access markets.
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Electricity At the rally, Museveni said he felt proud to ?nd that the sub-county had already been connected to the national power grid. Having cast glances at two nearby schools that have sprung up in the area, Museveni noted that Kibaale district alone has 900 schools, signifying progress in education in the district. Museveni later held three campaign rallies at Nyamarunda Primary School in Buyanja County, Kagadi town council grounds in Buyaga county East and Mpeefu subcounty in Buyaga county West. Unveiling the NRM's manifesto, Museveni said the NRM has achieved incremental progress by promoting unity, irrespective of one's tribe or religion. “If anyone whispers to me about doing things on the basis of tribe, I consider them the devil and I chase them away because sectarianism does not help anyone,” he told supporters. Wealth creation Museveni also said the Government will increase funds for micro?nance institutions from sh53b to sh180b, so that more Ugandans have access to start-up funds. “Kibaale district has 1,250 villages. Each of the villages will have at least sh2m credit fund for people to borrow and start an income generating activity,” Museveni said amidst cheers from excited supporters. He also promised to multiply the budget for the Youth Fund from sh44b to sh234b and set aside a sh234b fund for women for wealth creation. Museveni further promised to boost the NAADs programme budget from sh200b to sh1 trillion annually to ensure that within two years, all households have access to farm inputs including seeds, cattle or pigs. The NRM presidential ?ag bearer assured supporters they were no longer required to present security for micro?nance loans. “I do not want to hear about security for micro?nance loans from Government AfricaWorldnews Uganda
Politics institutions. Instead, the institutions give character loans, where community trust is the security,” he said. Corruption “I have been told that some rats are here in Kibaale. The responsibility of catching thieves in your district lies with the chief administrative of?cer (CAO),” Museveni stated. Museveni paraded Robert Mutungi, the deputy district CAO for Kibaale before supporters to explain what he was doing about taming corruption. “Whenever we get the funds, we use it for roads, schools, health centres,” Mutungi explained. Museveni told Mutungi that the voters were most likely not informed about service delivery programmes, leading to perceptions among citizens that funds sent to districts are stolen. Museveni vowed to 'look for cats to catch rats' but asked voters to be proactive and exercise oversight over service delivery programmes through their immediate elected leaders. Gurama Forest Reserve land Museveni also promised to consult on the land row involving residents who settled in Gurama Forest Reserve.
Over 1,000 families settled in the forest reserve and the National Forestry Authority attempted to evict them in vain. The entire forest has been depleted. Kibaale district has 16 central forest reserves and is one of the ?ve districts situated in the oil and natural gas endowed Bunyoro subregion. Museveni vowed to resolve the land row involving a group of families evicted from Mpocha Forest Reserve, who were later resettled in Kisita subcounty. Each of the families was allotted about 10 acres by the Government and promised compensation of about sh12m each, although the compensation was halted by the President. “Some people are telling you lies. I know about your demands for compensation and the money is there, but I put the process on hold until I resolve complaints from the Banyoro community,” Museveni said. “When we gave land for you to settle, it created envy. I resolved to ?rst do something for the Banyoro”
Museveni stated, entreating the claimants (Bakiga) to live in harmony with the Banyoro. The resettlement of the claimants on the land has its origins in an agreement between Sir Tito Winyi and the Omugabe of Ankole,
Museveni explained. In an interview with the New Vision, Samuel Kisembo Araali, the Kibaale resident district commissioner, said the compensation process was halted partly due to irregularities that cropped up during the exercise. “The number to be compensated shot up from sh6.5b to sh12.5b,” Araali revealed, prompting the President to stop the exercise until the Auditor General and Solicitor General verifies the claims.
“MUSEVENI CAN NO LONGER RESCUE UGANDA” MBABAZI
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BALE: Independent presidential candidate Amama Mbabazi yesterday responded to remarks made by President Museveni in Ntungamo on Sunday that it is not yet time for him to go because he still wants to rescue Uganda from a 'forest' where the impatient people pushing out left him.” Mr Mbabazi while talking to journalists in Mbale, said all along 'we' [the country] has been living in the bush and any possibly of rescue means “going forward” to change leadership. “I have seen a headline of [Sunday] Monitor, I haven't yet read the story but I read on social media someone saying the President has said he cannot
leave without liberating people from the bush; but precisely we have been in
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the bush for so long and no one has the confidence that he will take us out,” a laughing Mbabazi noted. The former Prime Minister who was canvasing the ni region at the weekend also for the umpteenth time also vowed to deal with rigging the February 18 presidential poll results, a vice synonymous with previous elections, which he likened to a “coup.” “It is one thing to rig and it is another to announce different results. Remember we had cases recently in NRM, for example in my constituency in Kanungu; the guys that won were not declared winners and those who were defeated were declared winners-so AfricaWorldnews Uganda
Politics that's the new NRM style,” he added. “Something like that might happen, but you see that is like a coup and we have to handle it according to the attempt of nature they make. So as you have seen I have been giving people confidence telling them to go and vote.” President Museveni, also the ruling NRM party candidate told journalists on Saturday he cannot leave power now because what he “planted has started bearing fruits.” He added “we can't be in the middle of the forest and want the old man to go. This is not right. We must concentrate on development; my time will come and I will go.” The President who took power by gun in 1986 is seeking a fifth elective term in office until 2021. In 2005 Parliament removed the two term limit clause from the Constitution to allow him stand again, a move that was voted in favour by 222
MPs at the time, who each received a Shs5m reward. Mr Mbabazi who was among the MPs that supported removing the term limits in his campaigns has regretted the decision and said it was wrong to think only one man can lead a country. Mbabazi also expressed optimism about the Opposition working together to dislodge the NRM's near-to a half century rule. He said much as earlier they, together with several other stakeholders, had signed The Democratic Alliance Protocol (TDA) on opposition parties fielding a single candidate but disagreed to power sharing, they can still find middle on key working points in the struggle. Mbabazi also prided in gatherings of his rallies which he described as genuine. “We have not ferried any single person. We have not even sent in bicycle to ferry anyone. They come
Electoral Commission Stranded As Donor Pulls Out
MUSEVENI SPENDS SHS27B ON CAMPAIGNS IN 2 MONTHS
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he Electoral Commission is turning to the government for funding to procure a results transmission kit, 26 days to Election Day, after a major donor pulled out. This, after the Democratic Governance Facility (DGF) withdrew from an earlier commitment to provide UGX4.5 billion of the UGX9 billion needed to procure the Electronic Results Transmission and Dissemination System. During the 2011 elections, EC relied on a similar system to transmit results from tally centres at the district level directly to media houses and observers. The transmission is credited for increasing transparency.
voluntarily, they are genuine. Compare us to others who ferry people from all over presenting purported massive crowds---that is a sign of fear. Why would I ferry people? If I come and you attend I know that fine, and if ten people are interested in me that is still fine or I device a way of getting to the people in that area. But I want to have a real picture of how I stand.” Later, he addressed rallies in Bulambuli, Sironko and Mbale where he likened himself to the Biblical Moses who is going to rescue Ugandans “from bondage” and deliver them to the Promised Land. Once elected to State House he pledged to address land grabbings in the area, fix roads, schools and hospitals and as well fight the steadfast poverty levels in the area which he attributed to bad government policies.
he NRM presidential candidate, Yoweri Museveni has spent Shs27 billion on his 2016 campaigns in two months, 12 times more than his two closest challengers combined, according to results of a preliminary study about campaign financing released yesterday. In the 16 districts reviewed, Mr Museveni spent Shs4.8b in November and Shs22.2b in December, 2015 representing 91.6 per cent of the 29.6b spent by all the candidates in total. Independent presidential candidate Amama Mbabazi, who followed, in terms of spending, spent a total of Shs1.3b or 4.6 per cent in the same period. Dr Kizza Besigye, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) candidate spent a total of Shs976m or 3.3 per cent. The other candidates, Dr Abed Bwanika, Prof
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Venansius Baryamureeba, Ms Maureen Kyalya, Maj Gen Benon Biraro and Mr Joseph Mabirizi spent less than 1 per cent of the Shs29.6b combined. Prof Baryamureeba spent Shs95,732,000 while Abed Bwanika used Shs34,311,000 and Joseph Mabirizi Shs26,486,000. Maureen Kyalya used Shs5,692,500. The expenditure of Gen Benon Biraro was not reviewed in the study. The study was funded by Democratic Governance Facility (DGF) and conducted by Alliance for Campaign Finance Monitoring (ACFIM), a loose coalition of CSO activists advocating increased transparency in the practice of financing political parties and election campaigns in Uganda, including Transparency International and Anti-corruption AfricaWorldnews Uganda
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Coalition. Out of the Shs137.6b spent, NRM accounted for 87.9 per cent or Shs121b in November and December. FDC followed at 2.1 per cent, Go-Forward at 1.1 per cent, Democratic Party at 0.5 per cent and Uganda Peoples Congress at 0.3 per cent. The rest accounted for 0.3 per cent of the total expenditure. “...As European Union Observer Mission, we shall try to get all financial reports from the Electoral Commission and issue our findings after the elections,” said Dr Jurij Toplak, the EUOM, Campaign Finance Analyst while reacting to the report. Mr Ofwono Opondo, the deputy NRM spokesperson, says their huge expenditure is justified. “No other party or organisation has held activities such as NRM has done. Tasked to explain the source of the money, Mr Opondo said “the party received money from the electoral commission. We also fund raise and get support from volunteers.” The report faults political parties and candidates participating in the 2016 campaigns of being “poor at keeping records of expenditure.” It also noted that candidates were engaging in voter bribery and misuse of government resources. The report cites materials such as hoes, sugar, sauce pans, seeds and salt distributed by campaign agents to potential voters. “On 9th November, 2015, a number of government vehicles were used on candidate Museveni's rally held at Kasana Playground. Some of the vehicle registration plates observed in action at the rally included UG 2183C, UG 0178H, and UG 0187D,” an excerpt from the report reads. Section 27 of the presidential elections act (as amended) 2005 makes it illegal to use government resources for campaigning for
election. Mr Opondo said only the president, the vice president and the Speaker are allowed to use government property in campaigns. “If there are ministers and government officials taking advantage of their positions,
amend legal provisions on voter bribery in both the Presidential and Parliamentary Acts of 2005. Further, the report appeals to all Ugandans to fight the commercialisation of politics and embrace the practice of ordinary
we would be glad if someone gives us evidence,” Mr Opondo, who doubles as the Government Media Center Executive Director, said. FDC party spokesperson Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda says the president is exorbitantly sponsored by the State against his opponents. Jothan Taremwa, the Electoral Commission spokesman, said: “It is extremely difficult to track campaign expenditure because in the first place we don't know how much someone has budgeted to spend.” The report makes three recommendations including relevant government institutions such as the Inspectorate of government, Police and the Electoral Commission investigating further the breaches of the electoral laws. It also appeals to government through the Justice Ministry to
citizens making donations to candidates of their choice. ACFIM monitors used scientific tools to collect data on campaign expenses, voter bribery and misuse of government resources for campaigns at constituency level. Filled campaign expenses tools were then submitted to district supervisors who moved between constituencies for data quality assurance. A team of experts at ACFIM secretariat frequently carried out data quality control checks across the 16 districts. Collected data was then entered into a web based database. Also, monitors submitted data on campaign events observed directly and indirectly. Critical incidents were transmitted to supervisors in real time by the use of phone calls or SMS.
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Politics MUSEVENI PLEDGES WELFARE TO UGANDANS. Bunyoro. President Museveni has promised better welfare to Ugandans if he is re-elected. “The welfare of Ugandans is number one. We have many programmes that are aimed at wealth creation. We shall increase funding for efforts aimed at creating wealth for citzens,” the NRM presidential candidate told a press conference on Sunday.
Mr Museveni said the NRM has pacified the country and is now concentrating on prosperity and wealth creation. He promised a technical institute in each constituency and to increase the the number of nursing institututions. Job creation He said it is not exactly true that there is a shortage of jobs in Uganda. “We have many vacancies for doctors, nurses and
He said besides increasing funding to Naads, youth, women and Saccos, government will increase the innovation fund, which currently has Shs170 billion to S h s 5 0 0 b i l l i o n . He said the innovation fund is currently being used by scientists in producing new products.
engineers but there are a few people with skills to fill those vacancies,” he said. He said more efforts will be made to skill Ugandans and make them job creators rather than job seekers. “Agriculture, ICT and industries
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have many jobs. We shall increase on job creation through wealth creation programmes, he said at a press conference which he held at Masindi State Lodge. He cautioned leaders against dividing people using religious, cultural and other social differences. The press conference was also attended by Defence minister Crispus Kiyonga, the State minister of Primary Education Dr Kamanda Bataringaya and Privatisation State minister Aston Kajara. Mr Museveni attributed the raging
conflicts in Congo, Central African Republic,Somalia and Burundi to opportunists who are thriving of the bloodshed of Africans. Mr Museveni said the NRM government will continue to pacify the country and initiate projects that improve the welfare of the citizens AfricaWorldnews Uganda
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MBABAZI DISSOLVES CAMPAIGN TEAM OVER ALLEGED NRM INFILTRATION. IGANGA
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ndependent presidential candidate, John Patrick Amama Mbabazi has dissolved his initial campaign team in Iganga district and constituted a new one amid claims that some of the members had been compromised by the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM). The team led by Mr Atim Mpata was dissolved on Friday and replaced by one led by the Speaker of Iganga District Council, Mr Herbert Kisaame during a meeting presided
Musisi Isabirye (Vice Chairman), Mr Alex Kiwanuka (Logistics Officer), Mr Paul Buyinza (in Charge Youth Desk), Mr Omar Gandi ( Publicity), Mr Geofrey Musobya (Electoral Affairs) and Ms Rebecca Suubo (Women Affairs). T h e G o F o r w a r d Te a m ' s Coordinator in Iganga Municipality, Mr Peterson Wambuzi, told Daily Monitor that the decision to replace the old team was reached by the former premier and NRM Secretary General following his campaign
have deliberately failed the team's mobilization efforts after reportedly being reached by some leaders of the ruling NRM. “We got information that Mr Mpata and his group were compromised and have been holding meetings with NRM officials,” Mr Wambuzi said. However, Mr Atim Mpata who was not present during the meeting denies having been compromised. “First of all I am not aware of my sacking and the dissolution of my
over by a member of the Go Forward National Campaign Task Force, Dr Waiswa Kibumba. Soon after being named Chairman, Mr Kisaame pledged to rejuvenate Mr Mbabazi's fortunes in the area. “We are going to work tooth and nail to see that our candidate wini in the forthcoming election,” he said. Others on the new team are; Mr
sojourns in the area on January 17. According to Mr Wambuzi, Mbabazi was not impressed with the level of organization and public turn up at his rallies in Busembatia Town Council and Iganga Town, a scenario which was blamed on Mr Atim Mpata, who is believed to
team, but that is not an issue. The issue is that I am still a supporter of Mr Mbabazi and I have never defected to the ruling NRM or even worked with any of its officials to undermine my own candidate,” he told Daily Monitor.
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Elections MUSEVENI PLEDGES WELFARE TO UGANDANS Kampala. The Electoral Commission says they have already procured results transmission kits for the February 18 polls despite a major co-sponsor for the project denying the commission funding. The Democratic Governance Facility (DGF), which had earlier committed to support half of the Shs 9 billion procuring of Electronic Results Transmission and Dissemination System (ERTDS), pulled out citing irregularities in the procurement process of the project.
“Government of Uganda fully funds our budget. However, if a development partner decides to supplement government and provides the Electoral Commission support, it's always welcome. What I want to confirm is that EC has already procured ERTDS,” EC spokesman Jotham Taremwa said in an interview with Daily Monitor. In an interview with Uganda Radio Network (URN), Mads Mayerhofer, the chairperson of DGF's Steering Committee, said their decision was prompted by EC's cancelling of the contract that had been awarded to
Cytel in favour of Avante, under suspicious circumstances. “After careful consideration, DGF decided that the last-minute decision to change provider raised concern as to the transparency of the procurement process as well as the timely implementation of the ERTDS itself,” Ms Mayerhofer told URN. However, Mr Sam Rwakoojo, the EC Secretary, told Daily Monitor yesterday that EC had cancelled Cytel's contract after it failed to
follow the agreed on procedure. “When the company came here, they failed to adhere to what was agreed on in the contract. Their proposal was to send the results to some central location before sending them to us in Namboole and we couldn't allow that,” he said. Mr Rwakoojo said that the support from DGF and other developing partners was welcome but maintained elections were a business of the Uganda government. Then called Deepening Democracy Programme, DGF in 2011 funded the programmme which enabled
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Returning Officers send the results of each particular candidate to the National Tallying Centre in Kampala within the 48 hours specified by the law. With just 24 days left to the February 18 presidential, EC's preparedness for the exercise has come into question with several activities being done at the last minute. Just last week, the commission unveiled a biometric system to verify voters during the presidential elections and subsequent polls amid concerns by stakeholders about its timing and applicability. EC officials, however, maintain they are more than ready to execute the job. How it works After completion of counting at polling stations, results forms are delivered to District Tally Centres (DTCs), either by polling station Presiding Officers or by sub-county supervisors. At DTCs, Returning Officers oversee the tallying of election results. Tallying is then carried out through the Electronic Results Transmission and Dissemination System (ETRDS), according to which data is double-entered for each election and Declaration of Results Forms scanned. Both results and scanned forms are then transmitted electronically to the National Tally C e n t r e ( N T C ) . According to the EU EOM report, although the ETRDS enabled swift transmission of results once entered, party agents and observers had difficulty viewing the data entry process in one third of cases and the process took several days in many cases. In 40 per cent of cases, EU EOM observers assessed the process at DTCs to be poor or very poor, and good or very good in 60 per cent of cases. AfricaWorldnews Uganda
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ampala. A total of 38 Ugandans are languishing in military detention in DR Congo, with some having spent as many as five years in jail. Saturday Monitor has established that none of them has ever been charged or been informed of the offence for which they were arrested. Highly placed sources in the DR Congo who leaked the information to Saturday Monitor claimed the Ugandans were detained with the knowledge of the Ugandan security
agencies. Repeated attempts to reach army spokesperson Lt Col Paddy Ankunda were unsuccessful. However, government spokesperson Ofwono Opondo denied the claims of government complicity in the detentions. “They should demonstrate to the public that Ndolo Military Prison is under the jurisdiction of Uganda or we are occupying Congolese territory illegally. I don't think those arrested are such a threat to Uganda.”The list, a copy of which we have obtained, was compiled by detainees in the Ndolo Military Prison, a facility with a bad human rights record and internationally reported cases of suspected extrajudicial killings of detainees. The Congolese authorities hold up to 2,000 suspects and convicts of varying offences at the prison. As of Wednesday, four of the detainees at the Ndolo Military Prison in the capital Kinshasa, were said to be terminally sick without any treatment in jail. Some of them are suspected
members of the Ugandan rebel group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), Congolese rebel group M23 and other illegal entrants or suspected “dangerous” opponents of the Uganda government. When contacted, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Sam Omara suggested an even worse situation for Ugandans. He said the number of Ugandans detained in foreign prisons could be higher, suggesting up to at least 3,000 Ugandans being in different detention centres in the USA alone as of 2014. The issue, he said, was a t o p i c a l discussion point during the ambassadors meeting in Kampala about two weeks ago. “ W e h a v e U g a n d a n s detained almost in every country. At the recent ambassadors' conference, emphasis was laid on facilitating the embassies to negotiate for them to serve their sentences here so relatives can visit them,” Dr Omara said. Families aware The FDC party member and former Ugandan envoy to the Scandinavian countries, Mr Sam Makokha, who has established contact with the Ugandan detainees in DRC, told Saturday Monitor that he had also informed their families about their plight. Of the 38 detainees, 19 are from the eastern part of the country with 12 of them from Busoga sub-region. Twelve are from western Uganda including Nyabushozi County in Kiruhura, President Museveni's home district. The other six are drawn from parts of central Uganda (Buganda sub-region). Thirty are indicated as Muslims. In an interview with this newspaper on Wednesday at Ndolo, Dr Kizza
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Besigye's aide Sam Mugumya said a one Musa Sudaisi from Bugiri District who was shot in crossfire between ADF and Congolese forces a year ago leaving a bullet stuck inside his body had deteriorating kidney, was increasingly becoming anaemic and they were “expecting the worst” to happen. Three others are battling tuberculosis, hernia and paralysis with the only medicine they get being pain killers provided by prison warders. To get some treatment, one has to pay at least $100 (about Shs350,000) which the detainees do not have. “Some of the people here were thrown in this prison for allegedly working with ADF. Others M23 and then some of us are FDC activists facing persecution. Uganda claims we were involved in rebellion though they haven't disclosed which rebel group,” M r M u g u m y a s a i d . Some of the detainees our reporter spoke to through an intermediary in the prison said they were arrested in DR Congo for illegal entry but when the Ugandan authorities were informed, they branded them rebels of ADF, a now demobilised dissident group that fought the NRM government between 1996 and 2002 with occasional attacks in the subsequent years before they seemingly fizzled out. The Uganda Media Centre executive director, Mr Ofwono Opondo, admitted the government had done little in contacting their Congolese counterparts to resolve the plight of the Ugandan detainees. “The issue should be if we have taken enough effort to have them brought here and ask why our people are being held illegally. As a matter of fact Ambassador James Kinobe was assigned six months ago to visit that place,” Mr Opondo said. Appearing before the Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament in May last year, Mr Kinobe revealed that DRC was illegally holding more than 300 Ugandans in their prison without trial with at least 100 of the suspects closely linked to rebel activity after Congolese authorities launched an offensive on remnants of the ADF in eastern Congo AfricaWorldnews Uganda
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testify in full view of their alleged molesters,” said Chief Justice Katureebe. Speaking at the opening of the New Law Year at the Kampala High Court, Justice Katureebe revealed that the Judiciary has installed information communication
design of an online filing system (efiling) of court documents and cases. “When this is finally implemented, advocates will file cases from their chambers without coming to the court. This will save time and eliminate unnecessary human contact that may result in unprofessional conduct from involved parties,” Justice Katureebe said. other new amendments Among other initiatives, the Chief
technology (ICT) systems to expedite court processes and ease public access to t h e c o u r t . Last Friday marked the beginning of another year for the wheels of justice to continue on their relentless journey of dispensing justice. Justice Katureebe said the Judiciary, with support from UNICEF, has commenced installation of closed circuit cameras that are connected to TV monitors in the High Court of Kampala, Gulu, Mbale and Fort Portal to receive evidence from children. He also said the Judiciary has initiated the analysis and
Justice revealed that they will expand plea bargaining to all the circuits of the High Court and magistrates court to provide timely justice to offenders and reduce on pre-trial remand for capital offenders, who do not have adequate protection. Other initiatives are Court of Appeal to hold sessions in Mbarara, Mbale, Gulu and Fort Portal to ease pressure on the court at Kampala, increase of magisterial areas from 39 to 81 in a phased manner and implementation of for payment of court fees like bail deposits by Mobile Money facility.
WITNESSES TO START TESTIFYING BY VIDEO, SAYS CHIEF JUSTICE. Kampala.
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rrangements have been finalised for courts to receive evidence by audio video link from witnesses who cannot physically appear in court due to infancy, old age, distance and cost. Chief Justice Bart Katureebe said a Practice Direction on Audio Visual Evidence to guide the taking of evidence
by audio and video link will soon be issued. He said the arrangement is to replace the old procedure where witnesses have to appear physically before court to give evidence. Adding that the Rules Committee had approved a Practice Direction on Audio Visual Evidence to provide for taking of evidence by audio and video link which they (Judiciary) shall issue soon. “Children who are victims of sexual gender-based violence shall appear in court by video link to save them secondary victimisation which they suffer when they physically appear to
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YOU COULD DEVELOP OROPHARYNGEAL CANCER IF YOUR ORIGINAL MOUTHWASH CONTAINS HPV-16
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esearchers found that people who had HPV-16 in their original mouthwash samples were as much as 22 times more likely to develop oropharyngeal cancer The research shows a strong
they were cancer-free. The researchers then examined the participants over the next almost four years, and found 132 cases of head and neck cancers. Each of those people who had head
connection between the human papillomavirus (HPV), which can be spread through oral sex, and head and neck cancer. The virus can raise the risk of getting head and neck cancer by as much as seven times, and maybe by far more, scientists say. ut the research also shows that the virus can be detected in a mouthwash. The virus can also be prevented with a vaccine. The study involved nearly 97,000 people in two studies, according to the researchers. Those people first provided mouthwash samples that verified that
and neck cancers were compared with three people who didn't. The researchers found that people who had HPV-16 in their original mouthwash samples were as much as 22 times more likely to develop oropharyngeal cancer. HPV accounts for 70 per cent of head and neck cancer, according to experts. It is so prevalent that by 2020 it is predicted to beat cervical cancer as the main cancer caused by HPV. Head and neck cancers were long thought to have been caused by
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smoking and drinking. But a sharp rise in the number of cases led doctors to speculate that there may be another cause, and the new study is the first to show conclusively that HPV-16 precedes the development of those cancers. The explanation gained particular publicity when actor Michael Douglas said that he believed he had contracted his cancer through oral
sex. The new study is proof of the strong connection between those two activities. The research, conducted by scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, was published online in 'JAMA Oncology’
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Entertainment The Singer-Songwriter Has Turned His Guns On Anita Fabio
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his guy is crazy one of these days. Well, we get it, he is trying to promote his song but the way he is using the beautiful and popular girls in this town has gone to another level. Now he has turned guns on the yellow Fabiola who became a household name after her nudes leaked online. A Pass is not about to calm down though. He took to Facebook and there he blubbered on “When I said I loved #Flavia the whole of Uganda and neighboring countries felt it spiritually but did not understand it which is sad, some understood it but refused to acknowledge that they did which is not my problem. I said I loved her as an example and i later on asked a question in the same post, this question was the real deal but it was omitted in the minds of many because of the first Love statement I made which was the juice bit to many. Some people came up with statements that i was wrong to say I loved her but if you come to think about it I was right to say I love her!!! The whole thing was a puzzle that many of you failed to figure out, but that's not my problem. If I had posted any other person that you didn't know maybe you would have answer my question. Why i apologized is something i will explain after 5 years. #GiveMeAkiss Anita Fabiola “ Dude, get your act together! Your music is good and you don't need to allude to any girls. You are good by yourself.
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