Quotes
“My candidature is about healing. This country needs healing. We should not open the scars and old wounds,â€-Democratic Party President-General and Gulu LCV Chairperson Norbert Mao while addressing Gulu Municipality residents who welcomed him back to Gulu on February 28th.
“All people in Kabaruka have refused to register with the NRM, saying they have not gained from the town council services for a long time,â€-Kabaruka village councilor, Ms Mollen Kamugisha while addressing the Ibanda Town Council at the end of the ongoing NRM membership registration exercise. The residents have boycotted registering with the party until they are provided with clean water.
Numbers
81,000,000,000
The amount in shillings that civil servants who retire starting this year will get according to a new policy. The policy will affect 54,000 retirees.
14,000,000,000
The value in shillings of food items recently given to people in Karamoja by the US government. The items are intended to feed 266,000 drought affected persons.
2,500,000,000
The amount of money in shillings Shumuk group has paid to have 61% share holding in Alpha dairies, Uganda’s second largest dairy firm.
50,000,000
The amount of money president Museveni donated to St Paul’s cathedral Namirembe to renovate a leaking roof.
80,000
The number of students enrolled in tertiary institutions countrywide in 2009.
1,364
The number of cases that will be thrown out of the family division of the high court because they have failed to prosecute the accused persons since 2000.
30
The number of pupils the Uganda Peoples Defense Forces (UPDF) intends to sponsor from the Karamoja region for Secondary education this year.
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