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By Jonan Beinomugisha
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In Mbarara

High court in Mbarara has started the hearing of Sheema electoral petition.
This comes after FDCs former candidate in Sheema Municipality election Virginia Plan Mugyenyi petitioned challenging the election results where Minister Elioda Tumwesigye was declared a winner in the recent sheema municipality elections.
While presiding over the case, Andrew Bashaija the head of civil division and the judge in this case granted both sides a leave for cross examination exercise.
Virginia Plan Mugyenyi told journalists after the court that the leave granted to both sides will enable them plan for the next hearing.
The whole hearing of this case is slated to last for ten days.
The case has been adjourned to 16th January 2019.
Tumwesigye and Virginia were all present in the court room but these were represented by their lawyers of Kandebe advocates and Isabirye &Co Advocates respectively.

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By Okoodi Deo
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In Ntungamo

First lady Janet Museveni has said President Museveni will continue leading this country as long as he still believes in God.
She said this is the reason why president Museveni and the Movement government have spent all this time long leading Uganda not because of elections but because of Gods will.
She has said this at the launching of a water scheme constructed by Living water International a Christian nongovernmental organization
She said its God who puts leaders in positions of leadership and is the one who removes them adding that even if one is voted, he or she wont be voted for the second and third time as longer as the person is not the Gods choice.
Janet Museveni further noted that when God has a purpose for someone in leadership of country and still wants him or her around even if people struggle against it, still God keeps bringing him or her back because he has absolute power.
Janet Museveni also said that failure by the people of Ruhama to heed to her guidance forced her to leave elective politics.
She said, she went to Ruhama thinking that by the time she leaves the constituency all children will be putting on shoes because she thought parents only needed to be told what to do but ten years lapsed when they had not positively heeded to her guidance and she decided not to seek re-election for the third term
The over Shs 920 million Kataraka Gravity flow Scheme will serving two sub counties and 17 instructions like schools, churches and health centres in Ruhama county was initiated by the first lady when she was still an MP after seeing the challenges families were facing especially the disease because of the burden for lack of safe and clean water.
Living Water Country director Mr Bernard Mooya Kachiko raised concern that whereas they are doing charity work in provision of this service, they remain hindered by taxes on equipment and borehole materials making their work very difficult.
He said they are several profit-making companies which are exempted in this country and yet they take all profits to their home countries but non-profit making organizations continue to pay taxes which he said is unfair.
He said this scheme will not only provide safe clean water but also looks at improving sanitation and hygiene like ensuring residents have latrine facilities and sensitization against open defecation which has a normal practice here.
The area woman MP Beatrace Rwakimari promised to lobby her colleagues in parliament to ensure that such taxation imposed on charitable organizations are waved off because they are doing charity work in addressing challenges faced by Ugandans in many sectors

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Elly Karenzi
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In Ibanda
Police in Ibanda district are investigating circumstances that caused a man to kill his wife and then commit suicide.

The accused has been identified as Frank Tibeesigwa aged 58 years who LCI chairperson for Kiburara A cell in Ishongororo town council in Ibanda North constituency.
It is alleged that Tibeesigwa chopped his wife Rossette Mpumwire aged 30 years after a misunderstanding.
According to Stella Komungaro a daughter to the deceased, Tibeesigwa having killed his wife went into a nearby bush with a bottle full of poison and drunk it. His body was found lying under the tree.

The District Police Commander Ms.Angomoku confirmed the incident saying that it was unfortunate for the family to lose two people at ago.

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By Cynthia Arinda
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In Bushenyi

High court in Bushenyi district yesterday evening sentenced a man to 20 years in jail over defiling a 4 year old juvenile.

Court presided over by Justice Dr.Flavian Zeija heard that on 1/4/2018 Norman Baguma a resident of Kabwohe town A in Kabwohe town council defiled a 4 year old girl.

Prosecution told court that Baguma found the victim on the way alone following others to a football pitch and forcefully performed a sexual act on her.

Same court sentenced Pius Nuwamanya a resident of Nyabuhikye cell Ruhoko in Ibanda district to 15 years in jail for defiling a 3 year old toddler.

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By Wilber Muhwezi Kasibante
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In Bushenyi.
Embattled Bushenyi district chairman has revealed that he is not worried about the censorship motion that is in offing.
A week ago Bushenyi district councilors started collecting signatures to censure Jafari Basajjabalaba because of three main issues.
According to sources the concillors are basing on the controversial issue of Kigurusi vs Kabushaho where a seed school worth 1.6 Billion Uganda shillings is to be built and the district has to choose one site that is Kigurusi or Kabushaho. Councilors also added that Jafari took sides and supported Kigurusi yet there is Kabushaho
The second issue that petitioners have raised is the conflict at Basajjabalaba Mosque where the statement uttered by Jafari at the burial of Sheikh Kadhuyu two months ago where he said that Bassajjabalaba Mosque be opened with immediate effect because people have a right to worship which angered his younger brother tycoon Hassan Basajjabalaba.
The third raised issue against Jafari is supporting people that have shown interest in contesting in the upcoming elections thus getting involved in politics very early which councilors are not in support of.
In an exclusive interview with www.mknewslink.com managing editor in his office at Bushenyi district local government , Jafari said that he is implementing his council resolution which resolved that the 1.6 Billion Seed school be built at Kigurusi. He farther challenged concilors to go to council and change the decision to favour Kabushaho and he will be there to support them.
On the issue of Basajjabalaba Mosque Jafari said he is a moslem he cannot preside over a district where people are denied a right to worship.

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In Kampala
Parliaments Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (Cosase) in late December 2018 is yet to conclude its probe of Bank of Uganda senior staff (BoU) over the liquidation of seven commercial banks between 1993 and 2016.
The banks closed by BoU included Teefe Trust Bank, Greenland Bank, International Credit Bank, Cooperative Bank, National Bank of Commerce, Global Trust Bank Uganda (GTBU) and Crane Bank Limited (CBL). The closure of some of the banks has left doubt in the minds of Ugandans as to whether some of the BoU senior staff deserve the jobs they are holding.
Dfcu Bank of which BoU Staff Retirement Benefits Scheme holds shares, respectively bought GTBU in July 2014 and CBL in January 2017 after the former executive director of bank supervision Ms Justine Bagyenda approached Dfcu top managers over phone about the availability of the two banks for acquisition.
Dfcu Bank top managers including the former Managing Director Juma Kisaame are expected to appear before Cosase soon. The Dfcu executives are expected to tell the MPs how they came to acquire both GTBU and CBL given that the transactions are questionable as BoU top managers failed to present related documents and gave conflicting answers regarding the transactions
During the probe of BoU, MPs learnt that Dr. William Kalema who was a board member of BoU was also a Board member of DFCU in 2014 when it took over GTBU. Ms Bagyenda is also said to have shared confidential information of GTBU with DFCU Bank top managers, which is against the countrys established banking regulations.
According to the committee members, these factors is present a conflict of interest situation in which BoU staff might have benefited at the expense of shareholders of GTBU who are now demanding for over Shs300 billion compensation on top of other costs.
During the probe, BoU senior staff were tasked by the MPs to explain the taxpayers Shs 478.8 billion they claim to have spent on CBL takeover but failed to account for the money which is not reflected on CBL accounts. BoU claims it spent the money as liquidity support and other costs despite CBL only needing Shs157 billion to stabilise. That money was not given and instead BoU sold CBL to Dcu Bank on credit at Shs200 billion as cited by the Auditor General John Muwangas special audit report of BoU on defunct banks.
According to the report released in late August 2018, DFCU Bank had paid about Shs98 billion of the Shs200 billion. Dfcu agreed with BOU to pay Shs200 billion liability within 30 months commencing October 1, 2017 and was to provide security in form of treasury bills (with less than 91 days maturity) on the completion date.
In March 2018 Dfcu Bank announced an impressive Shs127.6 billion net profit in the year ended 31 December 2017, up from Shs46.2bn registered in 2016. The huge Shs81.4 billion profit leap, came in the aftermath of the takeover of CBL.
Despite the transaction that saw Dfcu Bank take over CBL, the Auditor General established that there were no guidelines in place to guide the process. I observed that there were no guidelines or polices in place to guide the identification of the purchasers of defunct bank. There were also no guidelines to determine the procedures to be adopted by the Central Bank in the sale/transfer of assets and liabilities of the defunct banks to the identified purchaser.
Further, the Auditor General noted that BoU did not carry out a requisite valuation of assets and liabilities of GTBU and CBL resolved using the purchase and assumption arrangement at the time of signing the P&A. In absence of the valuation and or documented evaluation of alternatives and assumptions used, I could not establish how the terms for the transfer of assets and liabilities in the P&A were determined, he said.
Upon the acquisition of CBL, Dfcu Banks total assets increased to a record Shs3 trillion, up from Shs1.7 trillion in 2016 while ts core capital increased to Shs362 billion in 2017, up from Shs 188 billion in 2016.
Former Crane Bank shareholders led by majority shareholder Sudhir Ruparelia and family have vowed to recover CBL, claiming their bank was sold to Dfcu Bank without considering their interests in accordance with the Financial Institutions Act.
Dfcu Bank is partly owned by the Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC), a British government-owned company, together with Rabo Development from the Netherlands and NorFinance from Norway, who are shareholders in Arise B.V together with Norfund, a Norwegian government-owned Private Equity firm and FMO, the Dutch Development Bank.

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By YosamGucwaki
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In Masindi
Vendors at Masindi central Market are complaining over the stinking garbage which has become incontrollable.
The vendors are accusing Masindi Municipal officials of putting the collection point in the middle of market and yet they cannot manage it at all.
Vicent Ssendagire, a vendor at Masindi central market said that garbage in central market is heaping day and night but no one is coming to their rescue. Ssendagire added that the rate at which garbage is stinking is worrying.
He also said that maggots keep on loitering around the market and customers have now shunned the market. The garbage has taken more than a week without being collected.
Robinah Rwabwengo, also a vendor explained that they are worried because they may contract diseases like cholera and diarrhoea due to the maggots and flies which have become uncontrollable.
Alice Kujunwa, also a vendor said that for them they want municipal authorities to remove the collection point from the middle of the market and take it to any other place since they dont collect the garbage in time.
The vendors also expressed concern over their taxes paid explaining that they dont see the relevance of paying taxes since they dont get the services they pay taxes for. They added the tax collectors come for taxes before the month ends and fail to collect the garbage in time.
When contacted the Mayor Masindi Municipality,Joab Businge, noted that they are working around the clock to ensure that the situation is rectified adding that the problem has been caused by the breaking down of the trucks.
Businge said that the vehicles were taken to the garage today and by Thursday they will have responded to the problem.

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