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Lwengo district loses land to former MP over sh30million debt

Lwengo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |   Lwengo district has lost prime property over an outstanding debt of sh30 million it owes Hajj Abdul Kitatta, the former Bukoto West Member of parliament. The district council has resolved to allow Hajj Kittata to take over five out of the nine acres of land …

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Lwengo District risks losing land over sh60M debt

Lwengo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lwengo district risks losing prime property over an accumulated debt it owes to former Member of Parliament for Bukoto West Abdul Kitatta. Kitatta is threatening to repossess seven out of the ten acres of land on which the district constructed its headquarters in Mbirizi …

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Fear returns to Lwengo as life threatening leaflets resurface

Lwengo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tension is growing in Lwengo district following the re-emergence of anonymous life-threatening leaflets that are being thrown in the area. Aloysius Kibira, the LC2 chairperson of Kkingo sub-county, says that fear has returned in their communities because unknown people have started throwing around anonymous leaflets warning …

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Lwengo council leaders demand special audit of emyooga program

Lwengo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Village and parish council leaders in Lwengo district are calling for a special audit into the implementation of the Emyooga program, a presidential initiative aimed at wealth and job creation citing ghost beneficiaries. According to the lower local council leaders, many of the program beneficiaries appearing …

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Nine dead, 12 injured in Lwengo road crash

  Lwengo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Nine people have been confirmed dead following a fatal motor accident that occurred along the Masaka-Mbarara highway on Wednesday night. The accident involved a trailer truck registration RAF 168S/RL 1426, and passenger taxi registration number UBJ 084N, which occurred at the Kagganda junction in …

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Heads of departments on spot over financial impropriety

Lwengo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lwengo district lost an estimated Shillings 100 million last year in deceitful expenditure by heads of department, a report by the District Public Accounts Committee-DPAC has revealed. The report pins heads of departments for conniving to misappropriate public funds as well as falsifying accountability for …

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Local gov’t ministry rescinds censure of Lwengo service commission

Lwengo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Local Government has overturned the removal of Lwengo District Service Commission citing procedural flaws. In August, the district council, acting on the recommendation of the Executive Committee passed a vote of no confidence against the commission accusing members of corruption and gross …

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‘Uganda’s Crested Cranes face extinction ‘

  Lwengo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Wildlife conservationists are concerned by the continued use of naked electricity transmission lines, arguing that they are yet another hindrance to the protection of the Crested Cranes, The birds are on Uganda’s national emblem. Godfrey Mutemba, the Lwengo district Senior Natural Resources Officer …

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Journalist in custody over death of hotel receptionist

Lwengo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Haruna Mugerwa, a journalist with Vision Group’s Bukedde TV has spent the night in police cells in connection to the death of a guest house attendant in Lwengo district. Mugerwa is locked up at Mbirizi police station in Lwengo district, as a key suspect in the …

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