Police spokesperson Asan Kasingye has denied reports that the 13 suspects in the brutal murder of Andrew Felix Kaweesi were tortured while in custody at the Nalufenya Special Investigations Centre.
Lawyers representing the Pepper Publications Limited, a company that owns The Red Pepper say they will appeal judgment in which court awarded 425 million Shillings to retired Chief Justice Samuel William Wako Wambuzi in defamation damages.
Chief Justice Bart Katureebe has appointed Supreme Court judge, Justice Eldad Mwangusya to head Judiciary Internal Disciplinary Committee. Mwangusya replaces Justice Faith Mwondha who has been heading the committee for the past three years. In an internal memo dated May 4th and signed by Chief Registrar Paul Gadenya, the chief justice also appointed Supreme Court justice, Stella Arach-Amoko as the head of Judicial Training Committee replacing Justice Esther Kisakye.
The facility will be equipped with electronic database of essential information on majority of sectors of the countrys economy, online books, journals, policies and major research findings amongst others. Dr. James Nkata, the Director General of the Institute says access to the virtual library to members of the public will be by affordable subscription fees that will be decided by the institute.
General Elly Tumwine, one of the most senior army officers, has supported the re-appointment of General Kale Kayihura as Police Chief saying the appointing authority is in better position to gauge his performance. President Museveni in a March 14th letter asked the Parliamentary Appointments Committee to approve three-year contract extensions for General Kayihura and his deputy, Assistant Inspector General of Police Okoth Ochola.
At the time of sale of UCB, Dr. Ezra Suruma was the General Manager and he vehemently opposed the sale of the bank - first to Westmont in 1997, fronted by President Yoweri Musevenis brother Salim Saleh, and later to South Africas Standard Bank in 2001. According to Dr. Suruma, who later served as Finance Minister, the technocrats used the high interest rates excuse to push for the sale of UCB, then the biggest indigenous bank in East Africa, ahead of the likes of Kenya Commercial Bank.
Japan has provided 55 billion shillings to the Government of Uganda for rural water supply in eastern Uganda. The grant will provide water supply facilities to nine rural growth centres in five districts of Pallisa, Luuka, Kibuku, Iganga and Serere.
State Minister for Economic Planning, David Bahati, says he is pushing for reforms to reduce procurement process to 90 days. Bahati said that before he became a minister he had pushed for amendments to cap the procurement process but he was fought off by bureaucrats.
Talking candidly at a dialogue on the 2017/18 national budget, Ambassador Morgens Perdesen said corruption is so endemic in Uganda, warning that if nothing is done to deal with the vice the country should forget deriving real benefits from her oil revenues.
According to Dr. Ezra Suruma, the issue at hand should be how to plan ahead and respond to climatic factors like drought, adding that focus should be on how to mitigate the adverse impacts on individuals and families.
The Witness said he served as an intelligence officer in the Sinia Brigade that Dominic Ongwen commanded. He said the brigade had an estimated strength of 250 to 300 male fighters and 130 to 150 abducted women and girls, some as young as 14 years old.
