“You people and your Besigye, you only think about the town people. When the food prices go up, the town people get affected, but remember there are other citizens called farmers. When the food prices go up, the farmers are very happy. If prices have gone up, this is good,” President Museveni said while addressing the press at his country home in Rwakitura on April 17 about the opposition protests against rising commodity prices.
“We have video recordings and pictures of all these activities taking place and they are in safe custody. We shall utilise them at the right time. We shall take them to court,” the opposition A4C National Coordinator Mathias Mpuuga said in regard to the clashes between protesters and the police.
“Shs850 is charged on every liter of petrol, Shs 530 diesel and Shs 200 on paraffin,” Sarah Banage, the URA public relations officer said. She was reacting to opposition politicians who said that increased taxation has led to high fuel prices.
“My committee has even received information that he (police boss Kale Kayihura) has put most impartial police officers on forced leave while promoting those from western Uganda who adore him like a demi-god,” Reagan Okumu, the chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Statutory Authorities and State Enterprise. He was reacting to the “Data Form Cadet officers document 2010/2011” which shows that districts from western Uganda dominate police recruitments.
“While the sights and sounds that we heard were entirely Egyptian, we can’t help but hear the echoes of history - echoes from Germans tearing down a wall, Indonesian students taking to the streets, Gandhi leading his people down the path of justice. As Martin Luther King said in celebrating the birth of a new nation in Ghana while trying to perfect his own, ‘There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom.’ Those were the cries that came from Tahrir Square, and the entire world has taken note,” President Obama talking about the Egyptian civilian revolution that brought down Hussein Mubarak’s 30-year rule. (BBC, February 12, 2011)
“The kingdom officials are restrained from management of the kingdom property, selling or disposing of Toro assets until parliament (orukurato) is sworn in and commences business in accordance with the kingdom’s constitution,” Fort Portal High Court Registrar Cissy Mudhasi delivering a ruling in a petition filed by members of the royal clan. (New Vision, April 18, 2011)
“When the commissioner comes here and says ‘we’, he should include us,” Soroti Woman MP Alice Alaso reacting to the presentation by the ministry of Energy regarding transparency in the oil industry. Alaso said the public has been denied information about the oil sale agreements, which portends something fishy about them.
“It’s a matter of days before we see the East African region engulfed in protests because households are really suffering,’’ Stephen Mutoro, General Secretary for Consumer Federation of Kenya. The organization has warned it will collaborate with the central organisation of trade unions to mobilise workers and consumers to protest against runaway inflation and rising fuel and food prices.
Numbers
891,000,000
The amount of money that the Inspector General of Government received to prosecute chogm suspects by the close of May
30,000
The number of newborn babies who were infected with HIV/AIDS in Uganda last year.
70
Students who were injured in the Makerere University strike to protest increase of tuition fees from Shs3 million to Shs6 million a year.
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