Day: March 9, 2023

Police in Bushenyi district has mounted a search for an assailant who stabbed a retired Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF-NCO) soldier to death. The deceased was identified as Sarapio Mawanda and a resident of Bucuma cell, Kigoma ward, Kigoma – Kizinda Town council in Bushenyi district. The murder case was reported to police by Natukunda Bridget 28, a resident of Kigoma Kizinda Town council in Bushenyi district. The Police visited the crime scene with a team of detectives together with Canine and Soco whereby the Canine tracked up to about 300 meters leading officers to an open un-occupied room where they found opium seeds and then moved to the gardens of the deceased and stopped behind his hotel. The Greater Bushenyi Police spokesperson SP Marcial Tumusiime confirmed the incident stre...

President Yoweri Museveni has asked Ugandans to stop making excuses and fight poverty that has eaten up most parts of the country. “All Ugandans, stop making excuses. It is possible to get out of poverty. You all can get out of poverty,” Museveni said. While making the remarks in Kiruhura, he said that Ugandans can get out of poverty through four sectors of commercial farming, manufacturing, services and ICT as magic bullets. Referring to the four-acre model of agriculture, Museveni suggested that the four-acre model then comes in handy where one acre is used for coffee, then fruits on the second one, pasture for zero grazing cattle on the other, and then food crops in the remaining acre. “In the backyard, those interested could put poultry, a piggery, and those near water would do fish fa...

These women were arrested after they demanded for release of their abducted and imprisoned husbands. These women say it does’t make sense to celebrate international womensday when their husbands are rotting in Prison while others are being abducted everyday

Deputy Headteacher of PMM Girls School, Lydia Mukoda, and her partner, Martha Naigaga, have been brought to court on charges of gross indecency and procurement of gross indecency. They appeared before Jinja Grade One Magistrate, Yafesi Ochieng, on Tuesday and were remanded to Kirinya prisons until March 14th, 2023, as neither the state prosecutors nor the defense lawyers were present in court. The charges against them relate to allegations of lesbianism, with Mukoda accused of engaging in sexual activities with Naigaga and others, which is contrary to section 148 of the penal code act. The offense carries a maximum penalty of seven years imprisonment. Mukoda was arrested following protests by parents and former students of PMM Girls School, who accused her of recruiting students into lesbi...

Youth was caught on camera slaughtering marabou stork, locally known as ‘Karoli’, behind Mary Stuart Hall Dining at Makerere University. The video captured by an unknown source reportedly shows the youth butchering the Karoli repeatedly behind the hall of residence. This activity has raised concerns among students, who fear for their health and the possibility of the meat being sold to them unknowingly by nearby vendors, including roasted meat vendors in areas such as Kikoni and Wandegeya. An anonymous source disclosed that the young man had previously been arrested by the university’s security team for allegedly vandalizing the metallic fencing material of the forestry, which he “sold as scrap”. The young man is said to be known by some students and often sleeps behind Mary Stuart Hall. F...