Author: Abel Kawere & keefa Nuwahereza

Mary Nanzige, a resident of Kirinnya-Bweyogerere, told New Vision, that her son Moses Wambi, 18, a bodaboda cyclist on the Kazinga stage, along Kampala-Jinja Road, was among the injured victims. “Imagine my son was dropping off a passenger in Kampala when a UPDF soldier shot him in the chest when he had just reached Bweyogerere!” Nanzige said. Medics who worked on Wambi told us on condition of anonymity, “It seems he was shot at a close range because, from the chest, the bullet passed through and came out from his back,” they said. Another victim-Aisha Nakitende-told New Vision that bullet fragments injured her in the neck as she was rushing to save her child’s mattress from being thrown out by the angry armed soldiers. “My plea to let me remove my household items from the house fell on th...

A Magistrate Court in Kaliro district has charged and remanded a Primary School head teacher for allegedly defiling a 16-year-old girl. Joseph Muhanbi,a resident of Namukakala village in Budomero sub-county, Kaliro district was on Thursday (March 23) charged with aggravated defilement. Grade One Magistrate Nazifa Namayanja read him the charge but declined his plea on the same, saying the offence was capital in nature and only triable by the High Court. Prosecution led by Emmanuel Tayani told Court that on March 13, 2023, at around 7:30pm after evening classes when the girl was going back home, the teacher offered her a lift on his bicycle to their home. “The girl agreed to the head teacher's offer of the lift since he was his teacher in Primary Six and it was also getting late, but as they...

President Yoweri Museveni warns those misappropriating PDM money, saying they are stupid and will be arrested. President Yoweri Museveni has ordered the State House Anti-Corruption Unit to investigate cases of extortion and mismanagement of funds meant for the Parish Development Model (PDM) in the Acholi sub-region. While addressing the gathering at Kaunda grounds in Gulu City as he concluded his Acholi sub region tour on investment and wealth creation last month under the theme: “Securing your future through wealth creation and shared prosperity”, the President received shocking revelations and testimonies from the locals on how the wealth creation campaign has been mismanaged in its infant stages, expressing fear that its intended objectives might not be achieved and promised to follow u...

The Government of Uganda and Bugwe Cultural Institution regret to announce the passing on of His Royal Highness Philip Wanyama Hasibante Nahaama, which occurred on 2nd March 2023 at Kokilaben Ohirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Institute in India. His Royal Highness will be accorded an Official Funeral to be held on Saturday, 25th March, 2023 at Busumba village in Busia District. The cortege will depart from Kampala today morning and arrive in Busia for a Funeral Service at St. John’s Anglican Church at 12:00noon. Thereafter, an overnight vigil has been arranged at the Palace at Busumba Village. On Saturday, the burial ceremony will kick off with a Church service at 9:00am at the burial site. May the Soul of the Great Leader Rest in Eternal Peace. Announced by the Ministry of Ge...

Innovation experts have urged players in the agriculture sector to adopt and accelerate the use of solar technologies across the value chain to address reduce the sector’s dependence on fossil fuels and mitigate the impact of climate change. This was during the Agri solar Stakeholder engagement workshop organized by the Innovation Village in partnership with Youth Challenge International and Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. The workshop convened farmers, innovators, finance organizations and other ecosystem actors to identify innovative models and interventions capable of driving widescale adoption and use of solar technologies in Agriculture. Speaking at the event, Arthur Mukembo, Future Lab Studios Lead at Innovation Village said, “Uganda has a significant potential for solar energy prod...

The nearest Chinese naval base to India is located at Yulin naval base near the town of Sanya of Hainan province, a distance of roughly 3,500 km from India’s southernmost point as the crow flies in a straight line. However, naval vessels don’t fly and hence, if today China has to bring its naval force into play in an assertive manner against India, its warships will have to take a long circuitous route to come near Indian shores,unless it already maintains a naval base or bases near India where its assets are berthed. The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has a fully functioning naval base at the African country of Djibouti; by multiple accounts, it is working to establish a similar naval station at Gwadar in Pakistan and it is eyeing a location in Mauritius where its naval ships can be...

As a student of human rights, I have had serious arguments with colleagues in regard to whether the recently passed antihomosexuality law infringes on the people's human rights. First of all I must salute the resilience of the eleventh Parliament led by the Speaker Rt Hon Anita Among for the spirited fight they put amidst external and internal threats and pressures to have this law in place. Because of limited space, I will not delve into every detail of the law but rather will focus on the fundamental issues; First, it’s fundamentally known that you can’t have a law that has 100 percent acceptance by the society. However like the saying goes that democracy is a tyranny of the majority over the minority, with the majority getting their way and the minority having their say, it ended with m...