Day

Wednesday September 5th 2018
By Aiden Graw
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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS:
MTN the giant telecommunication company in Uganda has dismissed Lokodo’s bid to cancel this year’s festival over gaysm.
The MTN sponsored Nyege Nyege festival is still on, the giant telecom company tweeted despite the yesterday’s morning information that it could be cancelled.
The Party is STILL ON with only 2 days to #MTNNyegeNyege, the biggest festival of the year. Join the party with Tickets still available at the venue,
Earlier, Tuesday morning, Ethics and Integrity Minister Fr Simon Lokodo wrote to the Internal Affairs Minister Jeje Odongo requesting him to cancel the event claiming that in the last two years, the show has been compromised to accommodate the celebration and recruitment of young people into homosexuality.
I urge you to instruct the Inspector General of Police to stop this event. I also propose that we have a meeting with you, IGP, Director of CID, to discuss this matter further,
the early morning letter read in part.
Fr Lokodo concluded by saying that he was not seeing any possibility of getting the event cleared as soon.
But with the latest information we just can not wait for the party to get started!

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In Kampala
Suspended Kampala South metropolitan police commander Siraje Bakaleke and other six police officers have been summoned by the Anti-Corruption court to appear and answer to charges of abuse of office.
It is alleged that they were involved in the kidnap, wrongful arrest and confinement of three Korean investors.
Bakaleke, Wanyoto, Samuel Nabeta Mulowooza and the other six police officers who were serving at different ranks as Deputy Assistant Superintendents of police and police constables face 12 counts of abuse of office, kidnap and abducting with intent to confine a person, embezzlement, obtaining money by false pretence and conspiracy to commit an offence.
Bakaleke at the rank of Assistant commissioner of police is said to have used his office and connived with Mugoya Wanyoto, a city lawyer to defraud 415,000 US dollars from the three Koreans.
Court documents show that after the wrongful arrest of the Koreans, Wanyoto obtained another 30, 000 US Dollars from them on false pretence that it was a legal fee to represent them on the criminal charges they were facing.
When the case came up for plea taking in court today, only Samuel Mulowooza; the managing Director of Eye power Engineering Company was present.
This prompted grade one magistrate Moses Nabende to issue criminal summons ordering Bakeleke and his co-accused to appear on October 5, 2018.
This was after a state attorney from the DPP’s office Harriet Angom explained to him that there is no evidence on court record that Bakaleke and seven others were served with the previous court summons.
However, Mulowooza denied the charges and was granted a cash bail of Shs4 million.

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In Kabale—
Police in Kabale has in detention three men suspected to have been part of a gang that has been murdering and robbing people in the western region.
Elly Maate, the Kigezi Regional Police Spokesman identifies the suspects as Edison Asimwe, Martin Byaruhanga and Benson Katureebe.
Maate says police acting on intelligence information on the 25th August 2018 arrested the trio.
He says a search was conducted at Asiimwe’s home in Maziba sub county in which a gun registration number UG PS 03402253-07135 with 12 rounds of ammunition were recovered, together with two pairs of uniform, one belonging to UPDF and the other to Uganda Wildlife Authority.
Police found upon interrogation that Asiimwe has been behind the wave of the robberies that have been taking place in Kabale, including a recent one in which a supermarket owner was robbed at gunpoint of Shs 6million at his home.
Maate says that police has commenced investigations on the case registered at Kabale police station

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In India—
Francis Zaake the Mityana Municipality Member of Parliament has been admitted to the intensive care unit of Manipal hospital in India.
His wife Bridget Namirembe yesterday said that Zaake was admitted into the facility for specialist care immediately upon arrival at 11am Indian time.
An intensive care unit (ICU) is a specially designed ward in a hospital in which critically ill patients are kept under constant observation by doctors and nurses and provided intensive treatment medicine.
Zaake left the country after charges of treason and unlawful escape from police custody had been put on him but was given a police bond until October 3 when he is expected to report to police.
Ms Namirembe said the MP has been diagnosed with closed head injury with multiple soft tissue injuries, blunt neck injury due to tear of the ligaments, broad disc slips and post-traumatic disorientation.
Zaake’s first attempt to fly out of Uganda to India on August 30 was blocked at Entebbe International Airport over non-clearance from the Police’s Criminal Investigations Department headed by Grace Akullo.
He was later forcefully arrested together with fellow parliamentarian and Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi and driven to Kiruddu, a Mulago National Referral satellite hospital in Kampala.
Zaake spent two weeks at Lubaga hospital where medical staff, including the hospital’s executive director, Dr Andrew Sekitoleeko, Dr John Bosco Mutakirwa, a physician, Dr Brenda Anena, a general surgeon and Dr Sandra Ninsiima, an intern, had in an August 20 report recommended his immediate referral abroad.

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By sylivia kugonza
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In Kabarole
The Kabarole district NRM youth leaders were given 53 heifers under the Operation Wealth Creation Program.
This is the second time the same group benefiting from the same project.
President Museveni pledged to offer heifers to the youth leaders as a way of empowering them economically to fight poverty and improve on livelihood.
Handing over the cows to the jovial youth leaders, RDC Steven Asiimwe strongly warned them against selling them off that instead they should use them to diversify their income.
The RDC rejected the maize seeds the supplier had brought after evaluation indicated that out of 17tonnes, they had brought only 13, warning that they will be arrested for inconveniencing the leaders.
The Chief Administrative Officer Kabarole Ms Sanyu Phionah asked the technical staff at sub county level to monitor the performance of these cows and to the beneficiaries to ensure they multiply to benefit other members of society.
The vice chairperson Ms Margaret Kihiika told the beneficiaries that this was entandikwa for youth to lift them from nowhere to another level to fight poverty, cautioning them not to sell them off.

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