Bodaboda operations are restricted to 6 p.m. in line with the conditions for the partial lifting of lockdown restrictions, imposed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. But many of them are operating in total disregard of the restrictions.
Lt. Julius Ankunda, the Fisheries Protection Unit Commandant in Serere and Kaberamaido says they are going to restrict breeding grounds to areas near the army deployment for easy monitoring.
The Criminal Investigations Directorate –CID learnt about the scam after dozens of police officers and over 500 teachers complained that they were being forced to service loans they didn’t borrow.
EITI requires Uganda to publicly disclose information such as contracts, beneficial owners, revenues, and payments, including payments related to the environment. These disclosures can in turn promote public oversight and debate. Uganda is expected to make the first disclosures within 18 months after joining.
Peter Muliisa, the head of legal and corporate affairs at UNOC, said the company, which runs the business arm of government in the oil and gas sector, shipped in six million litres through Lake Victoria in the last one month. Each route carried one million litres of fuel.
The Church in question was demolished on Sunday night after a suit by the joint administrators of the estate of late Evelyn Nachwa, a Buganda Kingdom princess. The administrators accused the Church of fraudulently being registered on their land title.
The two institutional quarantine centres the district was operating in Nabigasa and Kakuuto sub-counties are currently closed; leaving the area with no facility where Covid-19 suspects can be admitted for monitoring.
Following the closure of the facility, the residents are struggling to access health services. They are now forced to trek long distances to the nearest health centres in Namisindwa town council which is close to 4 kilometres and Butiru health Center III in Manafwa district.
Edward Nyongesa, the Mbale District Surveillance Officer told Uganda Radio Network that the aspirant offered himself for testing in line with the directive by the National Resistance Movement-NRM Electoral Commission Chairperson, Dr. Tanga Odoi to all aspirants to test for Covid19 before nominations.
The confidence was raised after a four-hour meeting between NUP leaders and a delegation of Ambassadors from the European Union. The team led by the Head of the EU Delegation to Uganda Ambassador Attilio Pacific had paid a courtesy call to the NUP/People power secretariat at Kamwokya.
William Komakech, the Kitgum Resident District Commissioner told URN in an interview that Kitgum District will receive shillings 1.8 billion for groups in Chua East, Chua West and Kitgum Municipality constituencies.
Unlike other political contenders, Tumukunde says that he acknowledges the contribution of the National Resistance Movement [NRM] which he was part of until 2018 when he was sacked as the security minister. But he hastens to add that the task at hand requires new thinking.
