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BY ELLY KARENZI
IN IBANDA——-

Chief magistrate’s court in Ibanda has remanded a 26 year old man to Nyabuhikye government prison over defiling a minor.
Court presided over by chief Magistrate Mary Babirye heard that in January 2016, Mr. Abdu Karim Bukenya 26 a resident of kigarama ward ibanda municipality defiled and pregnanted a 15 year old girl at Rugarama Moslem Primary school in Ibanda municipality.
According to the nature of the case, Bukenya was not allowed to take any plea as his case can only be tried by the high court and was remanded till July 21st 2016.

BY MWEBEMBEZI FRED
IN FORT PORTAL…….

Bundibugyo landslide victims storm district headquarters seeking for help from the chairperson LC5 Ronald Mutegeki.
On Tuesday four people died in a deadly landslide as many were displaced in Kasanzi II village in Ndugutu Sub County after their houses were covered by heavy rains.
Victims are seeking for government intervention to provide them with food for survival since their plantations were also destroyed.

Mr. Ronald the district chairperson was not in the office by time they stormed the district headquarters.
Mr.kyaligonza Kenneth one of the victims revealed that they sought for refugee camp at Bubukwanga transit camp in hopes to get assistance but all in vain.
Vincent Muhindo, the Bundibugyo District Community Development Secretary saidthe district will organize a workshop to sensitize people on how to overcome the landslides in the area.

BY ELLY NYESIGA

IN MBARARA—

Mbarara high court has today set 04^th August 2016 as the judgment day of the election petition that was filed against the Kiruhura district Chairperson Rev. Samuel Mugisha Katugunda.

Court presided over by Justice Winfred Nabisinde set 04^th August this year after ending of the cross-examining of the respondent’s witnesses which ended with the first respondent Samuel Mugisha Katugunda.

The petition was filed by the former contestant in Kiruhura district chairpersonship seat Moses Bainamatsiko on grounds that Katugunda lacked minimum academic papers that qualified him to stand as Chairperson of Kiruhura district in the concluded general elections.

In the petition, it is alleged that Mugisha used someone’s academic papers in the Names of Sammy Mugisha and for him is called Samuel Mugisha the issue in which Katugunda says that it was just a matter of changing names when he was joining theology school where they needed biblical name before getting a vacancy and Sammy did not qualify.

The lawyer to Katugunda in this petition Ngaruye Ruhindi of Ngaruye Ruhindi and company advocates says that he is confident that his client will win this petition as they have managed to provide all the evidence that proves the eligibility of all academic papers of Rev. Samuel Mugisha Katugunda.

BY WILBER MUHWEZI AND CYNTHIA ARINDA

IN BUSHENYI—

GREATER BUSHENYI POLICE PUBLIST MARTIAL TUMUSIIME

Six people on charges of murder at bishop mcallister college kyogyera are still being held at Sheema police station a week after the incident.

According to the greater Bushenyi police spokesperson Martial Tumusiime investigations are still ongoing to pin the suspects.

He however revealed that its true that 48 hour mandatory time of which a suspect should spend at police have been violated but the police wants to come out with truth.

Five are staff members and one scool neighbor. The dead included Hebert Mugabe & Mbaine Paulina(security guards) and Chrispus Tumusiime(cook)

The attackers who were armed with pangas & iron bars invaded the school at 2.00am Friday last week, killed the guards and then later made off with money.

Martial said he cannot mention the names of the suspects to avoid disrupting investigations that are on-going. Martial told www.mknewslink.com editor that as soon as investigations are over these suspects will be arraigned in court to answer charges of murder.