According to Oringa, he has severally called for the opening of a second police outpost in Ogonyo village in Apwor parish where the sub-county headquarters are found but his pleas haven’t yielded results.
Geoffrey Lakwonyero, the Labor and Gender Officer at Gulu City Council, says 70 of the cases registered with his office have been settled and leaving 15 cases.
In his first message, Bishop Baluku said his main focus will be on building an integrated ministry that shall address the spiritual, physical, emotional and social needs of the people with the expected results of transforming individuals, congregations and communities.
Trouble started after Nsereko, who was campaigning in Kamwokya on Sunday evening left his campaign agents with Shillings 7 million to share among voters, according to some of the residents. Each person was supposed to take home at least Shillings 5000.
Visibly disappointed, Amuriat said the police was being used to frustrate people working for change, adding that the Police Commission was a bottleneck to democracy in Uganda.
Kenney Alumwadi, who was driving the deceased, is also admitted at Victoria hospital. He told URN on his sickbed that they were returning from work around 9pm when the accident occurred. According to Alumwadi, they were sloping close to the northern-bypass when the truck lost control and rammed into them.
Muntu, who is currently campaigning in Bugisu region, says they don’t need plan B to oust Museveni from power but need to change the mindset of Ugandans about the incumbent regime.
Nalubega says that she reported the matter at Ddwaniro police station but the officers she found there treated the matter lightly and didn’t enter her case.
"In 2017, security agencies raided offices of a number of organizations and halted operations of their blank account. AT no point did these agencies provide any credible information regarding the allegations levelled on these organizations," said Ejoyi.
UJU notes that the Electoral Commission has always accredited journalists covering elections without any hitches and complaints. The Union questions why the Media Council is usurping the powers of the Electoral Commission and the “hidden agenda” the council “is peddling”.
Mathew Dengel, one of the youth told URN that although it’s good to always use condoms to prevent sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies, the available brands are short and small for them.
According to Prof. Wanyenze, it’s up to the population not to prove the model right. She says that a study has made a number of scenarios that would flatten the curve and bring down infections.
Kalangala Resident District Commissioner, Daniel Kikoola, says that he received several calls from health workers and patients about Damba’s torture by Police officers. He told URN that the conduct of the police officers was unbecoming.
Nelson Sadam Abili, the official NRM candidate, says some NRM party leaders in the district including the incumbent Kwania area MP Tonny Ayo have rallied behind his rival, Okello Onac, a charge the MP has vehemently denied.
George Emuria, the officer in Charge-OC Agule police station, says that after committing the offence, the suspect ran to the station asking officers to lock him up for killing his girlfriend. He told the officers that the body was still in his house, which prompted the officers to detain him
The group led by the incumbent Kyotera LC V Chairperson, Patrick Kintu Kisekulo and Magdalene Nasolo, a prominent NRM mobiliser and Mutukula NRM chairperson, says that they cannot work with Haruna Kyeyune Kasolo, the incumbent Kyotera County MP, who they accuse of fueling the internal party differences.
“UWONET’s election related work including working with women and youth from different parts of Uganda through the Women’s Situation Room to enhance peace building in our country during and after the elections, trainings in the remaining districts for women candidates including independents and those from all political parties and observation of women and gender issues in the elections has been affected,” reads a statement issued on Saturday.
Addressing rallies in Kapchorwa and Kween districts on Saturday, Muntu said Uganda has never seen a sitting president retiring peacefully arguing that time has come for Museveni to show this to the country.
An HIV testing and counselling camp organised by Kabale District Orphans and Vulnerable Children Living with HIV/AIDs –KADOLHA, a Nongovernmental organization offering health and livelihood support to the Batwa in partnership with Muko Health Centre IV, found that at least 50 members of the Batwa community contracted HIV between December 2019 and December 2020.
Tom Okello, the Executive Director of National Forestry Authority, says a scientific study that was conducted a few years back predicts that the glaciers may be no more by 2025 due to human activities.
