Day

BY VANANSIO KAKOGOSO

IN KABALE—-
A total of forty nine people have been arrested by police in Kabale
municipality a head of Christmas festivities.

Most of the arrested suspects were last night found at Kings video
hall aka King Kong cinema hall along Kigongi road and pine video hall
at Nyerere road in central division Kabale municipality.

The Kigezi region police spokesperson Elly Maate says that

the operation is aimed at arrested suspected criminals who hide in
happening places and later attack and rob night travelers.

Maate says that Police was forced to carry out an operation following
an outcry by dwellers on the increase of theft and burglary among
other cases.

He says that all of suspects failed to explain exactly where they stay
neither displaying any identification to the security operatives
before they were arrested.

Maate adds that the suspects who are currently being detained at
Kabale Central Police Station will be screened and others will appear
before courts of law to answer the charges accordingly after
investigations into the matter are complete.

However, Dickson Byamukama who a chapatti maker at Pine Street and one
of the suspects says that security operatives did not allow him to
give his defense, because they found him leaving work

Source:www.mknewslink.com a western Uganda news website.

Email:wmuhwezi75@gmail.com

Tel:+256702680106

BY ELLY KARENZI

IN IBANDA—-   

Several LC 5 councilors from Ibanda district have vowed to evict  the Ibanda Resident District Commissioner Mr. Eliasto Akatuheebwa from the district residential house which is occupying  for failure to pay rent.

A report which was presented to the district council session sitting in the main hall by Mr. David Rwaje Bigira, an elderly councilor showed that the district constructed residential houses with the aim to get revenue to run the projects in the district. He noted that has spent over 30 months without paying house rent. He said is supposed to pay shs. 300,000= every month The councilors complained that Mr. Akatuheebwa has refused to pay.

However, the councilors appointed a two-man committee composed of the LC 5 chairperson Mr. Melichidius  Kazwengye together with the Ibanda Chief Administrator Officer Mr. Robert Abeinaitwe to meet Mr. Akatuheeba in his office at Kitwe hill to explain more on the importance of paying the house rent. The councilors  instructed the committee to report with in the next sitting  session.

Source:www.mknewslink.com a western Uganda news website.

Email:wmuhwezi75@gmail.com

Tel:+256702680106

By Sylvia Kugonza

In Fort portal—-

A team of technocrats, councilors led by the mayor fort portal municipality have yeaterday morning inspected the ongoing projects under the municipal infrastructural development program (USMID) with support from World Bank in the municipality.

Among the inspected ongoing projects include the construction of a 990Mshiilings Rukiidi III street, 1.7Bn construction of lorry park, 503M shillings park building and 5.7bn Nyakana Road under Abu-Barker constructions.

According to the project supervisor Kalema Enoch, at least 90% of work has been done on the Nyakana Road only remaining with few features are missing which they include road mappings, placement litter bins, street lights.

He assured the municipality that by January 2018 the Nyakana road will be completed and handed over to the municipality.

The mayor Fort portal municipality Rev. Kintu Muhanga Willy urged the contractors to have a heart of patriotism during their course of work by not doing shoddy work.

Muhanga has also stated that there are some complaints from some business communities that they are being affected by the project thus they should be with the challenges for the development of the town.

Muhanga urged the stakeholders to own these projects not to fight them saying that the World Bank gave only six months all the money to have been utilized by 30^th June 2018.

Source:www.mknewslink.com a western Uganda news website.

Email:wmuhwezi75@gmail.com

Tel:+256702680106