Gerald Kigundu, the Kalungu LCV Vice Chairperson says that they have received information about farmers who are faulting the natural maturity cycle of the maize by rushing to harvest it, such that they can sell the produce before the prices drop.
Fredrick Ssenyondo, the Secretary of the Busoga Farmers Society and a direct beneficiary of the project reports that the irrigation system broke down within a year of installation and has never been fully repaired.
Speaking during a stakeholders’ dialogue on Tuesday, Joseph Byomuhangyi, the Projects Coordinator at UCCA observed that out of their interactions with the different communities in Kalungu, they established that the leaders are much more inclined to protect the interests of the investors and businessmen over the inherent rights of the residents.
The school was constructed as part of the World Bank-funded Inter-Government Fiscal Transfers-UgIFT program to support the effective implementation of the Universal Secondary Education scheme in the country, especially in sub-counties that did not have government secondary schools.
According to Ssempala, the community has continuously demanded the suspension of the projects over the grievous effects they cause to the wetland’s ecosystem, but to their disappointment, the activities are instead expanding.
Issa Kugundu Lukusa, one of the labourers at the quarry narrates that the deceased, who had spent more than 20 years manually quarrying stones in the same quarry was buried inside the pit while collecting coarse aggregates for sale.
Hassan Katongole, the Chairperson of property owners in Kalungu town council, who owns a commercial building on Lukerere road, argues the assessments were unfair and imposed onto them exorbitant taxes they cannot afford.
The campaign will focus on counselling for learners to persuade them against using violence as a means of solving disagreements between them and school administrators.
The priests were ordained at Villa Maria proto-Cathedral in Kalungu district, by Masaka Diocesan Bishop Serverus Jjumba while he celebrated mass on Saturday. He also elevated 21 seminarians to the level of Deacons in the Catholic Church.
The farmers near the irrigation plants demand that the system is widely expanded to a wider coverage such that its benefits can be felt by the general public instead of limiting it to a few groups that are being served apparently.
Vincent Ssebayinda, a resident of Katungulu village in Bukulula sub-county is one of the thousands of people who failed to secure power connections to their houses when the contractors completed laying the main power infrastructures in 2019 and asked residents to apply for connection from UMEME, but charges frustrated them.
The leaders have petitioned the Executive Director of the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets; -PPDA, to take action against Mmacks Investments Limited, a firm that constructed Lukaya Seed secondary school.
The schools are Bukakata Seed school in Masaka district, Mbirizi seed school in Lwengo district, and Lukaya seed school in Kalungu district. They were each constructed at 2.125 Billion Shillings under the World Bank-funded Inter-Government Fiscal Transfer-UgIFT program.
Fr. Katabaazi explains that because elderly people get their body immunity compromised due to age, they usually get complications that require specialized healthcare, which the majority can not afford.
According to a section of NUP leaders, the new pressure group also known as Red Card Movement was recently unveiled by the Forum for Democratic Change- FDC former President Dr. Kiiza Besigye is recruiting some of its members for its activism activities.
But a row ensued after Kalungu Resident District Commissioner Caleb Tukaikiriza informed the chairpersons that the bicycles will revert to the government when the current leader's leave the office, even at the end of their term of office.
Alex Waiswa Mufumbiro, the Deputy Spokesperson of NUP used the platform at Kasanje Village in the Nyendo-Mukungwe division to castigate party leaders who obtained different leadership responsibilities in parliament and other levels. He said this was weakening their spirited political movement.
Muhammad Nsubuga, the Southern Regional Police spokesman, says that the CID Headquarters intervened following constant pleas from the victim’s family and the public to arrest the suspect.
