Kampala, Uganda: The Anti-Corruption Court has remanded the Minister for Karamoja Affairs Mary Gorreti Kitutu Kimono to Luzira Prison for loss of public property, corruption, and conspiracy to defraud the government. Kitutu was arraigned before the Court presided over by Chief Magistrate Joan Achiro on Thursday. Kitutu was remanded alongside her brother, Michael Naboya Kitutu. According to the charge sheet seen by Uganda Radio Network, Kitutu allegedly caused a loss of public property between June 2022 and January 2023 by diverting 14,500 pre-painted iron sheets intended for the Karamoja Community Empowerment Program to her own benefit and that of third parties.…
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DRAMA: Available reports indicate that Mr Wilberforce Mbulamaye, whom relatives presumed had died and ‘buried’ on June 3, 2020, resurfaced on Tuesday (April 4, 2023) in Bugolya Village in Budaka District. Mr Mbulamaye, 54, a resident of Bugolya village, Nabugalo Parish, Kameruka Sub-county and a father of five left the village on January 3, 2015 under unclear circumstances after he was released from prison in Budaka, where he had been sentenced for assaulting a neighbour. Report by Monitor. He then relocated to Gomba District to work as a casual laborer on different farms. He, however, neither moved with his family…
HEALTH: The burden of Vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) and associated outbreaks remain a major threat to populations across Africa. Over 30 million children below the age of five are affected by VPDs and more than half a million of these die every year – representing 58% of the global VPD related deaths. Immunization is the cornerstone for controlling VPDs and has been impactful in averting over 4 million deaths every year associated with; Polio, Measles, Hepatitis B, Yellow fever and the likes (WHO AFRO report accessed at https://www.afro.who.int/health-topics/immunization) Quality and coverage of immunization campaigns in SSA, what is the gap? Countries…
NATIONAL: The bishop emeritus of Hoima diocese in Bunyoro sub region in western Uganda, Edward Albert Baharagate, is dead. Credit: KFM. Bishop Baharagate died at the age of 93 at Nsambya Hospital in Kampala where he had been admitted, the church said. “Dear people of God, the Bishop of Hoima Catholic Diocese, the Rt. Rev. Vincent Kirabo with deep sorrow announces the death of the Bishop Emeritus of Hoima Catholic Diocese, the Rt. Rev. Albert Edward Baharagate Akiiki” a statement released by Fr Dominic Ndugwa, Chancellor Hoima Catholic Diocese read in part. The Bishop has been sick for years, according…
By Julius Mugaga Tukacungurwa/Umoja Standard. Kampala, Uganda: According to the study conducted by Makerere University’s School of Public Health on a Community Based Cross-sectional study of Epilepsy Prevalence and Barriers to Epilepsy Treatment in Uganda 2022/23, the national rate of epilepsy is at 1.69 per cent. Speaking at the Epilepsy national Prevalence Study Dissemination and Dialogue meeting on Wednesday, Professor Fredrick Makumbi, the Principal Investigator from Makerere University School of Public Health said that the study showed that high prevalence was mostly high amongst the youths between the age of 18 to 35 years up to 2.37% and 2.33% for…
By Ethiopians in Diaspora. AFRICA: Ethiopians in the Diaspora, in support of fair and equitable use of the Nile River, call on Egypt to change its counterproductive posture and find mutually beneficial agreements on the GERD 3 April 2023. As Ethiopia prepares for the fourth filling of the reservoir of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), we, the undersigned organizations established by Ethiopians in the Diaspora, write this message to the Egyptian people and leaders to join us in the spirit of cooperation and work towards an agreement that is fair, equitable, and mutually beneficial for all people in the Nile…
Former president Donald Trump has now surrendered to US authorities and is formally under arrest in New York. This is the first time in US history a current or former president has been in this position. Despite being arrested, we have been told he will not be placed in handcuffs as per the request of his secret service detail. Watch video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GbN9Mg-GTs Donald Trump repeats resentments in first speech since arrest SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy notice On a historic and unprecedented day for America, former…
NATIONAL: Karamoja affairs minister, Mary Goretti Kitutu has been handed over to the joint team of the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) and State House Anti-Corruption Unit (SHACU) who are probing the mismanagement of relief items meant for the vulnerable in Karamoja region. Sources privy to the investigations noted that Kitutu was on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, handed over after she reportedly snubbed summons that had been served to her. This was after Parliament’s Presidential Affairs Committee probing the mismanagement of the relief items on Monday gave Kitutu until today to appear before the legislators or risk arrest. On Tuesday when…
Have you ever heard about love killing someone, well you might be about to hear about one if you haven’t yet. Leave alone the fictitious stories of the Romeos and Juliets, this one is right here in Uganda and it’s between none other than singer Chosen Becky and husband Dictator Amir. The Bankuza hit maker has always prophesied her too much love for her man. And it was the same case this time round as they appeared in a TV interview. She said that she loves him too much and his love will be the end of her. She then…
Former Police AIGP Asan Kasingye has come out to narrate his own series of ‘FEAR WOMEN.’ Kasingye while appearing in an exclusive interview with Galaxy FM’s Mr Henrie on Galaxy TV told of how his girlfriend cheated on him. Credit: Buzznation. In fact she had been cheating on him after he did ‘kwemakula’ on her handbag. Kasingye says that one day he checked his girlfriend’s bag and found an envelope in it. He read it and this woman was thanking a man for the money he had sent her. She went ahead to promise to visit him later and probably…