Prosecution led by Jacqueline Bbako told the court on July 16th while driving a Toyota Wish Registration Number UBG 517L, on Sembabule-Gomba road, Amiisi ran over eight pupils aged between 8 to 11 years, as they returned from attending the Catechism classes at St Gongaza Catholic Parish in Sembabule town council.
Gerald Mbuga Kalinzi, the Headteacher of St. Charles Lwanga Secondary School in Lwebitakuli sub-county, says that he is currently struggling to finance their operations because many parents are yet to complete paying the tuition of their children.
The authority issued a certificate of no objection to the State Minister for Health in Charge of General Duties Anifa Kawooya Bangirana, to utilize a part of Kafumu wetland in Mitete Sub County for agricultural purposes.
The disagreement, which has sucked in local leaders arises from the trio’s failure to harmonize their positions on the distribution of health facilities that the government earmarked for the district in this financial year.
Juliet Ndagire, the Lwebitakuli Sub County Female councilor for Manyama parish says that the increasing costs of feeds and other supplements are rendering both the poultry and piggery projects unviable hence forcing many people out of business.
Malik Mahaba, the Sembabule District Chief Administrative Officer says that the money will be used to fully operationalize the District Ebola Taskforce and Rapid Response Team; which are required in the coordination of case management and infection control in the area.
In Sembabule district, the program supervisors are struggling to recover the 2.24 billion Shillings which was lent out to the different beneficiaries in the initial stages of its implementation. According to records at the District Commercial Office, the district has only been able to recover 260 million Shillings from the 73 SACCOs that were funded.
When Sir Edward Muteesa and his guards reached Sembabule, he was received by the Mawogola County Chief Sebastian Kitayimbwa who alongside his men plotted on how to keep the Kabaka safe. Angelina Nabakooza was assigned the role of preparing meals for the Kabaka and providing him with shelter as a group of 11 men took charge of his security.
Charles Nsibambi, one of the affected farmers, who has lost three head of cattle in one week, says that they are worried because they are faced with a strange disease. He says that the disease is spreading very fast, adding that it has been reported on the neighboring farms.
A vast majority of farmers in Sembabule and other districts in the cattle corridor rely on natural pastures and sometimes include native elephant grasses to feed their animals. But many of them are scrambling for limited and already dried-up natural pastures and water sources, according to Karakure.
Lawrence Majwala, the General Manager of Masaka Cooperative Union narrates that besides what he describes as life-changing etiquettes and quality education he acquired, the college treated them with the real feeling of Uganda’s independence celebrations in 1962.
Muhammad Kiggwe, the Sembabule District Education Officer indicates the district is badly affected by the chronic habit of secondary teachers' seeking transfers as soon they access the government payroll.
Asuman Mwanje, the Kawanda LCIII Chairperson says that many Sub County and Parish Chiefs deployed in the area are rarely on their duty stations, hence failing to perform their responsibilities which deprives services delivery to the public.
Julius Ssebugwawo, the Secretary of the District Production Committee says that hundreds of residents in the area are living in fear of eviction by people who irregularly acquired land titles over big chunks of land and that as a result, the disputes are frustrating agriculture.
Through his lawyers Eliakim Kumumanya and Edward Mukwaya, Kabaka also sued the Sembabule District Land Board and the Commissioner Land Registration for erroneously facilitating the issuance of certificates of ownership on the disputed land.
According to Muhammad Nsubuga, the Southern Regional Police spokesperson says that the directorate has already received the case file for further management.
George Musheijja Bakulu, the Nyamiringa LCI chairman, was arrested on Wednesday last week after being caught red-handed defiling a 15-year-old girl. The victim now says she is too ashamed to go back to school yet she is a finalist.
The girl’s father Augustine Lutalo, says that Ntale defiled his daughter at the time she was staying with her grandmother during the COVID-19 induced lockdown.
