Government has been urged to celebrate days that reflect Uganda’s history and abandon others that make little or nonsense.

Addressing a weekly news conference at the party head offices in Kampala today, Mathias Nsubuga the secretary general of the Democratic Party said days like March 1, every year should be marked on the national calendars and be celebrated.

Poor garbage disposal left four people dead and others injured in Makindye a Kampala Suburb after a heavy down pour blocked drainage and caused flooding which led to the collapse of a building killing four.

The Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) council members have today asked the Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago to call for a council meeting in the next 14 days to address them over what they have call a wrong procedure under which he sends out information to the public without their consent.

Council members say they get to know some issues happening at the authority through the media which is wrong. In the meeting they also talked about the attitude of the mayor towards the work that is done by the KCCA and also their implementations.

The Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) is organising a one day workshop for district leaders intended to prepare the officials for the 2012 National Population and Housing Census (NPHC) to kickoff in August this year, the bureau’s statement reads.

The census establishes the total population of a country and its distribution to help government plan for its population in terms of resource provision and distribution.