The Karamoja region, which has historically struggled with food scarcity due to harsh weather conditions, experienced a bountiful harvest this season of crops like sorghum, maize, and sunflower. However, the joy over this harvest is now tempered by growing worries.
According to Cheptegei, Unity in fostering the charity course, will not only benefit those in need but it also gives Glory to God who gifted the athletes with Talent and excellence.
John Paul Kodet, the Napak LC V Chairperson says that some learners have been held back at home to help parents harvest crops in the gardens. “It’s the harvest season and some of our parents prefer keeping children at home to help them complete garden work,” he said.
According to Nakitanda, four masked thugs armed with pangas, sticks, and a hammer broke into her home in Kakookolo zone around 2:00 am on Sunday. They threatened to kill her unless she surrendered the money. Nakitanda added that the thugs cut her hand and aimed a heavy hammer at her head to force her to reveal where she kept the money collected on Saturday from her shop.
Rhoda Namwase, a resident in the area says that they heard a loud blast from Ngobi's house, and upon investigating, saw the roof was blown off and walls cracked in.
Speaking during the launch of the Iganga High Court Circuit on Monday, Justice Batema noted that being a native of Naibiri village in Namugalwe Sub County in the district, most litigants prefer approaching him directly at his private residence with the hope of compromising justice in their favor rather than enduring the court procedure.
According to Musisi, the plain-clothed gunmen forced their way into his home in Masese I village on Sunday and ordered his family members including eight children and his two wives to sit on the ground and went ahead to search the house without introducing themselves.
Nabwire and her five other family members, all residents of Bukamba village, in Idudi town council ate supper together on Monday but failed to move out of their house in the morning raising suspicion from the neighbors.
Mubarak Muwumba, a resident of the area, says that Kaudah and her child were last seen on Saturday night. Muwumba says that they alerted police officers who upon forcefully opening the door, saw Kaudah and her daughter lying lifeless on the ground.
According to Mariam Nangobi, her daughter was stolen from the bedroom where she had been laid to rest after dozing off. "I went with Namuganza in the garden, but I returned when she had already dozed off, which prompted me to lay her to rest inside the house and went on to prepare breakfast in our outside kitchen only to notice 10 minutes later that the child was missing," she said.
He reportedly staked Shillings 500,000 at Tofer bet house in Bukatuube sub-county that Morocco would defeat Croatia on December 17th, 2022 with the hope of earning Shillings 2 million.
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.
Moses Mpango, one of the area residents, says that they live in a very superstitious community. He says most of the residents link all manner of death to either witchcraft or food poisoning.
The area LC I Chairperson, Paul Musenero, says that the young couple has been seemingly living happily without any known history of domestic violence for the past five years.
