The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
NOVEMBER 2016: MAKERERE UNIVERSITY SHUTDOWN
November 01: President Yoweri Museveni ordered Makerere University Kampala to be shut-down as lecturers went on strike over unpaid allowances and students threatened to strike unless the lecturers returned to teach. On November 0 7, doctors pursuing Masters degree at Makerere University Medical School join the strike. On November 14 Museveni instituted a 9-man visitation committee to produce a report in three months in regard to Uganda`s oldest institution of learning.
November Passing
November 05: Maj. Gen. Julius Oketa, the coordinator of Operation Wealth Creation dies of a blood clot. He was aged 60.
NSSF takes control of Umeme
Nov. 05: The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) buys 121,820,850 shares of Umeme Limited from Umeme Holdings Limited for about Shs 59.4 billion pushing the fund’s total stake in the company from 15.5% (251,951,071 shares) to 23% (373,771,921 shares).
Trump wins U.S. elections
November 9: Unconventional Republican candidate Donald Trump is declared winner of the U.S. presidential election held on Nov.08. Trump’s win shocks the world as it shatters earlier campaign-long predictions that Democratic Party contender Hillary Clinton was in the lead.
November 10: Education ministry closes Bridge Academy schools
Lwamafa, Obey jailed for corruption
November 11: Former Minister of Public Service permanent secretary Jimmy Lwamafa, former principal accountant Christopher Obey, and former director research and development Stephen Kunsa Kiwanuka are found guilty in the Shs 88 billion pension scam and sentenced to a combined 22 years in jail. Lwamafa got 7 years, Obey 10 years and Kunsa 5 years and all three must return Shs 50 billion to government.
Kanyamunyu arrested over Akena shooting
Nov.13: News breaks of how businessman Mathew Kanyamunyu of Quantum Express Logistics allegedly shot Keneth Watmon Akena, a Community Development Officer, dead somewhere in the Lugogo mall area in Kampala.
Shs200bn for farming lost
November 14: Government announced that it had lost up to Shs200 billion released to buy seedlings, inputs and other agricultural related items as drought hit the country. The money was part of Shs360 billion released to finance the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS), Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) and Youths Livelihood Programme (YLP). The loss represents 85 percent of the agricultural inputs supplied to farmers in 50 districts according to the Minister of Agriculture, Vincent Ssempijja.
Nov. 17: President Yoweri Museveni named a new electoral commission to replace the Badru Kiggundu commission whose 14 year term ended Nov. 15.
