Zelda Kakayi, the party’s Youth Coordinator for the metropolitan region says their observation is that despite the numerical strength, many female youths are shunning away from political activism over recurring forms of sexual harassment that continue to make them more vulnerable.
Kyakulumbye is accused of trying to compromise a trial involving a 20-year-old man who is accused of impregnating a 16-year-old girl from his village. He was arrested on the intervention of Kyesiiga Sub County Speaker Mudashiruh Bbaale, following reports that he was conniving with the suspects' parents to frustrate the trial.
The principals and tutors of both public and private health institutions from across the country in their 12th annual scientific conference held in Masaka district have indicated that the current contents of their teaching curriculum have outlived the test the time hence a need for its review.
An interpreter in his case was sought after Glaser told the High Court in Masaka, that he could not comprehend the English language, and as such needed an interpreter in Flemish, a language that he was well conversant with before he can take a plea.
According to Byakutaga, church and village leaders had tried to mediate the conflict between the couple before Namwanje met her brutal death. Byakutaga also told court that Namwanje inherited the contested property from her mother.
Prosecution led by Amina Akasa told court that the duo after reaching Lukaya told Mukasa to stop at a nearby bush so that they can to ease themselves. She says that shortly after the car had stopped the duo strangled Mukasa to death.
The Deputy Chief Justice Alphonse Owiny-Dollo says the project is part of the efforts to eliminate deliberate and administrative ineptitudes that frustrate the delivery of justice in courts of law.
Justice Owiny-Dollo who on Monday opened the Court of Appeal regional session at Masaka High Court premises, noted that the available manpower cannot handle the overwhelming numbers of appeal files in the system in a timely manner, thereby asking attorneys to always be mindful of the underlying operational challenges and avoid overstretching the judges.
Fredrick Bombo, the Executive Director of Kalamba Community Development Organization notes that the underlying legal knowledge gap among the purported Human Rights Defenders is affecting the way they execute their mandate.
The government, through the Minister of Internal Affairs, announced a validation exercise of all NGO’s operating in the country starting from August 7, 2019. The one-month exercise ends on September 7.
Agnes Namusiitwa, one of the regional coordinators of the Citizens Coalition for Electoral Democracy-CEDDU in Masaka, says the committee hardly interfaced with 50 people in Masaka.
Shifah Kateregga the HURIDEM Executive Director notes that the increase in cases of mob justice is a result of loss of public trust and confidence in the criminal justice systems and the bureaucratic process of the law.
Justice Luswata, on the other hand, challenged women and girls to break the silence of violence against their rights and report cases to authorities such that their violators are decisively dealt with. She explains that studies have established that a lot of cases remain unreported in communities which somehow frustrates their efforts to eliminate abuses.
Speaking in Masaka, Sheikh Mwanje expressed concern over the growing extremism in prisons which he says instead breeds perpetual offenders among suspects and convicts.
Glaser is accused of sexually abusing girls placed under his care under his Ssese Humanitarian Service, a nongovernmental organisation based on Mwena landing site in Kalangala district.
Laben Mwigo, the Welfare and Rehabilitation Officer at Masaka Central Prison says that the facility, built more than 50 years ago, does not have enough space to create an isolation ward or unit for persons with mental health challenges who find themselves on the wrong side of the law.
Masaka district local government plans to occupy the centre located at Kijjabwemi in Kimanya-Kyabakuza division after they were served with an eviction notice from the Buganda Kingdom premises at Buddu County headquarters at Ssaza.
In his Easter message delivered at the diocesan home at Kitovu in Masaka municipality, Bishop Kaggwa indicated that police are falling short of their public expectation of being impartial while enforcing the public order management law, thereby suppressing rights and freedoms of some people.
