Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Officials at the Uganda Land Commission (ULC) have been accused of asking for bribes in order to pay out compensation for land. Geoffrey Mugisa, one of the registered proprietors and claimants of the Shs10.6 billion supplementary budget allocated to facilitate the land owners who sold …
Read More »Police commanders cautioned against slow response to crime incidents
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police Director for Human Resource Development, Godfrey Golooba, has castigated police commanders who delay to respond to crime incidents. Golooba who was speaking on Wednesday at the pass out of 37 senior police and prison officers at Bwebajja police college, said individual police officers who …
Read More »Court of Appeal quashes decision to nullify Museveni’s victory
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Court of Appeal in Kampala has set aside the decision by the High Court to nullify the victory of William Museveni Ndooli, as Buwekula South County Member of Parliament in Mubende district. In a majority decision of two Justices against one, Lady Justices Elizabeth …
Read More »Mubende hospital cleared of kidney theft allegations
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The State House Health Monitoring Unit-SHMU has cleared Mubende Regional Referral Hospital of allegations of kidney theft. This follows investigations into allegations that the hospital had illegally removed a kidney from Peragiya Muragijemana, 20, a resident of Lwemiggo village in Mubende district who had gone …
Read More »Ntoroko CAO remanded for two weeks over forgery
Ntoroko, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Fort Portal Chief Magistrates court has remanded the Ntoroko District Chief Administrative Officer Anslem Kyaligonza to prison for two weeks. The Chief Magistrate Kule Lubangula made the ruling after State Attorney Andrew Kasaija asked the court to reject Kyaligonza’s bail application on grounds that …
Read More »PDM beneficiaries task gov’t on coordination offices
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has been asked to set up offices at the lower local council to support the effective coordination and monitoring of the Parish Development Model-PDM program. The program comes in as the latest poverty alleviation scheme in which the government targets to directly support …
Read More »Bunyoro kingdom officials arrested over extortion of UGX 150M
Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two Bunyoro kingdom officials in Kikuube district are in police custody on allegations of extortion of up to Shillings 150million. The suspects are Gerald Baleke and Moses Busobozi, the chiefs of Buhaguzi and Kyangwali counties respectively under the Bunyoro Kitara kingdom. They were picked up …
Read More »Gunmen shoot motorcyclist dead in Gulu city
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Unknown gunmen have shot dead a motorcyclist in Gulu city. The gunmen shot the unidentified rider on Tuesday night at around 11:00pm near Manuel Primary School in Agwee cell, Pece-Laroo division in Gulu city along the Gulu-Kitgum highway. Nicholas Otim, the chairperson of Acholi sub …
Read More »Agago district council approves fines for charcoal dealers
Agago, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Agago district council has approved new fines for people dealing in charcoal and firewood. The resolution comes at a time the district is witnessing heightened destruction of trees for charcoal amid the failure of by-laws and ban on trading in charcoal and forest products. In …
Read More »Minister orders security stop arresting suspects without thorough investigations
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Internal Affairs, Gen. Kahinda Otafiire has directed security forces to stop arresting people without doing sufficient investigations. According to Otafiire, uncoordinated arrests had created fear among the population who would otherwise be willing to offer security useful information. He was speaking during …
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