Day: November 21, 2022

A policeman in Kyenjojo district has been arrested for shooting at Kyenjojo court magistrate Babu Waiswa in an alleged case of mistaken identity. According to the Rwenzori West police spokesperson Vincent Twesige, it is alleged that on Friday 18, Waiswa was shot at by the police officer in charge of Mukunyu police post only identified as Turyanawe. Twesige explained that Turyanawe was told to stop a car, registration number UBG 770E, which had allegedly knocked a person in Rugombe trading centre. And when the magistrate was approaching Mukunyu police post, he heard gunshots, and out of panic thinking he had been attacked by robbers, he lost control and knocked a pole in Mukunyu Trading Center. Twesige said that the magistrate survived the bullets but was injured as a result of the acci...

Paul Ssemogerere the Archbishop of Kampala has said people are more likely to enter into marriage for wealth rather than its core values such as love, happiness and trust. “Godly marriage is not about sharing property, God created marriage as a lifetime bond between a man and woman. The discussions about sharing of matrimonial property is a sign of greed and depreciation of love amongst the people,” Archbishop Ssemogerere said yesterday during a visit to Buganda Royal Institute in Mengo, Kampala. His remarks come after the Court of Appeal on Tuesday ruled that the spouse’s share in the matrimonial property in case of divorce will be dependent on his or her contribution in the process of acquiring or developing it. The archbishop urged couples to ensure that their marriages are peaceful...

Premier Robinah Nabbanja has asked Kampala Archbishop Paul Ssemogerere to order politics out of the church, or else unhappy believers opt out. She said this during the requiem service for former Democratic Party President and Minister, Dr. Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere, who was eulogized by many as a good, clean, loving, forgiving, principled, patriotic, and peace-loving man. Opposition politicians including Dr. Kizza Besigye, the former Forum for Democratic Change-FDC President, Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago, and former legislator Maria Babirye Kabanda, drew a sharp contrast in the values of the late Ssemogerere and the practice by the current government. First was Lukwago who after speaking about the deceased’s virtues led an attack on the government he accused of abusing the right to association...