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MPs Karuhanga, Odur Petition Court To Block Shs10Bn COVID-19 Money For Parliamentarians

MPs Karuhanga, Odur Petition Court To Block Shs10Bn COVID-19 Money For Parliamentarians

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By Keefa Nuwahereza Gerald Karuhanga, the Ntungamo Municipality Member of Parliament (MP) and Jonathan Odur, the Erute North MP, have petitioned the High Court Civil Division to block Shs10bn allocated to MPs by Parliament last week, to help them fight the spread of COVID-19 in their constituencies. The legislators contend in their petition that giving the said contentious money to MPs during this COVID-19 lockdown is not only unfair but also illegal, because it is tantamount to corruption and looting state resources. Several sections of the media reported last week that Parliament secretly allocated Shs10Bn, from the COVID-19 supplementary budget, to facilitate MPs in the committees established by the House to join national activities in the fight against the pandemic. We est...
Journalist Mwenda Mourns Fallen Pal Who Succumbed To Lymphoma Cancer

Journalist Mwenda Mourns Fallen Pal Who Succumbed To Lymphoma Cancer

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By Elite Uganda Popular journalist Andrew Mwenda, of the Independent Magazine, on Monday published a heartfelt eulogy for one of his  friends identified as Phil Manzi, who passed away over the weekend due to lymphoma cancer. Here below is Mwenda’s touching eulogy  for his fallen pal; “Phil Manzi, A Lesson In Greatness By Andrew M. Mwenda Last night, Sunday 19th of April 2020, I lost a young friend, Phil Manzi, to lymphoma, cancer of the lymph nodes! He was only 19! I had organized to go visit him this morning and got the sad news just after midnight. Why does death suddenly rob the world of such a young soul whose future was ahead of him!? I met Phil January last year and was immediately struck by his boundless energy, free spirit, kind heart, intelligence and...
President Museveni Rejects Bobi Wine’s  Plane Offer To Evacuate Ugandans From China

President Museveni Rejects Bobi Wine’s Plane Offer To Evacuate Ugandans From China

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By Elite Reporter The President of Uganda Yoweri  Kaguta Museveni has rejected People Power leader Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine's proposal for a plane to airlift Ugandans stranded in China due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown. Bobi  Wine last week wrote to government through the Prime Minister  Dr Ruhakana Rugunda,  offering a plane to airlift Ugandans, after many of them shared videos on social media crying out, following the Xenophobia in China. In a letter dated April 15, and addressed to Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda, Bobi Wine, said he  partnered with an American media owner and businessman Neil Nelson to evacuate 285 Ugandans and other black Africans currently stuck in China. Some of the Africans stranded in China Bobi Wine in his letter...
EPHWOR   Rescues Vulnerable Rural Women With ARV Refills And Contraceptives

EPHWOR Rescues Vulnerable Rural Women With ARV Refills And Contraceptives

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By Elite Reporter Ever since the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic broke out in Uganda, several women and adolescent girls, plus people living with HIV/AIDS are suffering due to lack of access to contraceptives and Anti-Retroviral Drugs (ARVs) respectively. It should be noted that the government is currently undertaking a campaign to donate food and other social amenities to some Ugandans. However, whereas government’s efforts to donate posho and beans to Ugandans affected by the COVID-19 lockdown are appreciated, health practitioners observe that people with chronic diseases like cancer, HIV/AIDS, diabetes and others that need periodic refills for drugs have been neglected. EPHWOR members delivering medication to women in rural areas In the same vein, women and adolescen...