Month: December 2022

Supreme Court Judge, Ruby Opio Aweri is dead. In a brief message, Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo said Justice Opio breathed his last at Mulago Specialised Hospital in Kampala today, Wednesday 7th December 2022. He however didn’t divulge details. Justice Opio joined the Judiciary as a Magistrate Grade One in 1983, and rose through the ranks to a justice of the Supreme Court, a position he held until the time of his passing. According to the Chief Justice, as a career Judicial officer, Justice Opio Aweri was appointed Judge of the High Court in 1998 and later elevated to a justice of the Court of Appeal in 2013, and the Supreme Court in 2015. At the time of his demise, he was the Chief Inspector of the Courts of Judicature. “The Judiciary family is saddened by the passing of Justice Opi...

Source: BBC Kenya plans to abolish boarding schools next year for students up to grade nine (about 14-15 years), which includes primary and junior secondary schools. Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang told a head teachers’ conference that parents would have to take their children to day schools. He said the government had made the decision to allow children to be under the care of their parents or guardians. Children from nomadic pastoralist communities will however be exempt from the rules. Kenya has about 28% of its primary school children in boarding facilities, he said, noting that the number was relatively high compared with other countries. He said it was the responsibility of parents to take care of their children, as first educators, saying “we can’t outsource parenting...

President Museveni who is also the commander in chief of the armed forces has made new changes in the leadership of the Ugandan army, UPDF. In the changes announced on Wednesday, Maj Gen Francis Takirwa was appointed the acting deputy commander of the air force to replace Brig Stephen Kiggundu who has served in the position for only one month since appointment in November. In the same message, the president als appointed Maj Gen Jack Bakasumba who has been Uganda’s delegate to the South Sudan Peace Monitoring Mechanism as the acting chief of staff land forces in the UPDF. The position has until today been held by Brig Bob Ogiki who has consequently been promoted to the rank of Major General and sent to the UPDF second infantry division in Mbarara as the commander . Maj Gen Ogiki will...

Kawempe North MP Muhammad Segirinya and his Makindye West counterpart Allan Ssewanyana might have to spend another 2 months in prison after their bail application was adjourned to February 20, 2023. The MPs were expected in court today after court judge Alice Komuhangi Khaukha ordered the Uganda Prisons Services (UPS) to present them so as to enable them to sign some documents as required by their lawyers. The two legislators are facing trial for several charges including murder, attempted murder, and aiding and abetting terrorism stemming from their alleged involvement in killings that took place in the district of Lwengo and Masaka between March and June 2021. They pleaded not guilty to the charges and have for several months been pursuing their release on bail in vain. But as part of...

‘’Zzaake, Ssegona and Patrick Oshabe Nsamba tipped for LOP ‘’ The National Unity Platform (NUP) has rubbished allegations that their president Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has written to Among, the Speaker of 8th Parliament, appointing Zzaake as the Leader of Opposition in Parliament replacing Mpuuga . The party general secretary Rubongoya said that the aim of people who are circulating allegations that Bobi Wine has fired Mpuuga is to disorganize opposition legislators and NUP members at large which they cannot accept as NUP leadership. The allegation come at a time when Bobi Wine has just blasted some of his party MPs and opposition at large for not supporting Zaake when he was protesting on the floor of parliament over the kidnapping of opposition supporters especially in Buganda. Th...

President Yoweri Museveni has responded to public complaints about the lengthy road closures whenever he travels by saying that it is a precautionary measure by his elite force, the Special Forces Command. Museveni claimed in a speech to the nation on Friday that the rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) are the reason roads are closed to allow his convoy to pass. “When I’m moving around, they stop vehicles, which is something I wouldn’t like, but because we still have these types of elements; that’s why the security takes precautions, which sometimes inconvenience the public, but we are really weeding out ADF in Congo, and we shall get rid of those inconveniences after we have thoroughly uprooted ADF,” said Museveni. Museveni reassured the nation that the recent wave of attacks ...