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BY ELLY KARENZI

IN IBANDA—-

A renown senior serving driver and mechanic, on Thursday met his death while driving a lorry which failed to brake and rammed into a mango tree killing him instantly.

52 year-old James Tumwine a.k.a Bijodoro who hails from Bubaare cell in Ibanda municipal was driving a lorry Reg.No. UAM 824 Q and it was carrying murram which  he was going to deliver at a construction site a long Kasuuku road, but it developed mechanical fault and failed to brake.

Tumwine who sensed  danger ahead of him, tried to save the lives of students who were coming from Ibanda university but ended up hitting a mango tree before the lorry over turned several times. His head and face were shuttered and he died on spot.

The turn boy Mr. Seperiano Nyongyere who was sitting next Tumwine escaped death unhurt and is the one who narrated the story.

Friends, drivers, the family and political leaders who attended the funeral service at Bubaare cell praised James Tumwine for his honesty,  a friend to many people, hard working and  who had respect for others .They said  Tumwine  worked with Kibubura Girls’ Secondary School and World Food  Programme as a driver before he retired and went into private business in Ibanda district.

Speaking during the funeral service at Bubaare cell yesterday ,Rev. Jackson Katungi of  St. Paul church in Ibanda archdeaconry, decried what he termed  the increasing  habits of youth who are engaging themselves in smoking marijuana and taking alcohol  parked in buvera, but do not want to develop their areas.

The District Traffic Officer, Ibanda, Mr. Deo Ishungisa blamed some drivers who drive vehicles which are in dangerous mechanical conditions will be prosecuted in  courts of law . He asked the drivers to respect the road safety regulations and should insect the vehicles before taken to streets.

BY OKOODI DEO

IN MBARARA—

Government donated 40 tractors to ten districts that lie in dry cattle
corridor in western region.
Tractors will be used in pasture development like hay and silage which
animals can feed on during long dry spell.
3.8billion shillings have been used in procuring the tractors from
TAFE an Indian company dealing in assembling and selling tractors
across the world.
Minister for Agriculture Vincent Ssempija says more 178 tractors will
be procured in the next financial year in an effort to roll out the
program to the entire country so that farmers can practice improved
methods of feeding animals.
TAFE vice president Sudarsan R said their company in committed in
patterning with the Government of Uganda to share improved
technologies more in Agricultural sector so as to easily create wealth
among the populace
In his speech the president said government is committed to helping
farmers to grow modern pasture and even provide enough water for
livestock using different means like construction of valley dams.
He asked people who encroached on wetlands to vacate them and even
promised to compensate those who were misled by the past regimes to
settle in wetlands saying this would help in protecting the water
sources in the country.
He directed the ministry of Agriculture and animal to regulate the
sale of pesticides in an effort to fight counterfeit animal drugs
which have made ticks become drug resistant.