During a meeting called by Gulu district leaders on Tuesday afternoon to find solution to the strikes, the assistant lecturers who attended the meeting said that they too are planning to stage a strike over non-payment of their allowances. The leaders were shocked to learn that the lecturers have not been paid for the last eight months.
Charles Etuchu, one of the intended beneficiaries explains the machines were donated after six youths from Soroti underwent two months basic training in Gulu.
Makindye West MP Hussein Kyanjo suspects that the illness that he has suffered from for over a year now could be as a result of poisoning. Kyanjo says he has never experienced any of these other causes and no one in his family has suffered from the disease adding that poisoning wouldn’t be impossible in a country where he says you can produce a woman but be told it is a man .
Government has said it intends to increasingly shift its reliance on private companies to undertake major public service projects following the introduction of the Public Private Partnership policy.
Residents of Alebtong district are protesting the delay by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Animal Husbandry to lift a ban on the livestock market that was imposed early this year.
Bukakata-Luku ferry, which was relocated from Bukakata landing site in Masaka, is stuck in Entebbe after Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) failed to take it to Port Bell Luzira for rehabilitation.
Business people and travellers who use the Lira-Apac highway are being forced to use motorcycles to get to their destinations because of the dilapidated state of the road.
However, the management of Mpumudde home of the elderly cannot afford to pay its staff, clear utility bills and provide basic necessities such as food, clothes and beddings for the 20 elderly people living there. .
