Brig. Byekwaso's appointment as chief of staff marks a significant milestone as she becomes the first female military officer to hold such a position within the UPDF.
Balimanya is reported to have exhumed the remains of Masasiro's brother, Patrick Walimbwa, who died in 2002 for rituals on Monday night. This prompted Masasiro to engage in a fierce brawl with Balimanya, who allegedly connived with Keyala to hit him in the head to death.
Francis Okiror, a survivor says that the suspects primarily targeted Ariebi’s phone before chopping his head. Okiror adds that they were only rescued by police intervention since the suspects were armed with machetes and they were taking advantage of the motorcycle to override them.
Justice Rwakakooko further stated that Gabula was in 2014 elected in the presence of 10 royal chiefs, making him the legally recognized king, since he was elected with the recommended quorum.
In their impeachment letter dated 3rd, January 2022, which was received by both the office of the Speaker of Parliament and officials from the Ministry of Gender, the chiefs say that Busoga Lukiiko members fraudulently approved a motion to allow Gabula to rule for life after his term expired in 2019.
Daniel Isabirye, a retail metal stall operator in Buwenge Sub County, was two weeks ago arrested and allegedly tortured by the police who were enforcing the curfew in Magamaga trading centre along the Jinja-Kamuli highway.
Weyeye was grazing cattle with five other children on Wednesday evening when an unidentified man showed up with a machete and chopped off his head before vanishing from the scene. One of the boys, who witnessed the incident, says that the assailants targeted Weyeye because he was grazing cattle ahead of them.
Speaking at the graduation ceremony of 64 officers who underwent a four months’ instructors’ course of intake 30/2019, at junior command and Staff College in Jinja district on Saturday, Byarugaba argues that, joint trainings contribute to brotherhood within the forces that will selflessly lookout for their neighbours when cases of insecurity arise.
The three were part of the team of nine royal chiefs who, in August 2014, elected the then Prince Nadiope as Kyabazinga of Busoga. During the elections, they acted as chairperson, secretary and seconder of the royal chiefs council that presided over the process. Gabula was consecrated on September 13, 2014.
Lawrence Bogere, a parent from Nakabango village, says he paid Kabangala Shillings 280,000 to register his four children. He wants the Education and Sports Ministry to intervene in the matter.
