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By Wilber Muhwezi Kasibante
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In Bushenyi

Bushenyi district councilors have resolved to wait for reply from the permanent secretary ministry of education pertaining where a 1.6 billion seed school is to be located in Bumbaire sub county
Relatedly the district chairman Jaffari Bassajabalaba read out all the correspondences and assured the councilors that he has a letter from the PS confirming Kigurusi as a site for construction of 1.6 billion seed school
The district council chaired by Justine Burisadi resolved that the school be constructed at Kigurusi however the ministry and other stake holders chose and approved Kabushaho site.
The PS ministry of education on 7th Dec.2018 published an advert calling for contractors to take up the responsibility of building a school at Kabushaho secondary school.
Still, the above angered Jaffari and some of his members which forced them to travel to Kampala to negotiate that the school should be set up at Kigurusi as the council had resolved but not Kabushaho
Kabushaho is a functioning secondary school which was restarted by Michael Mawanda Maranga in collaboration with West Ankole so that the sub county could get a government aided school.
Kabushaho was closed in 1992 by the then minister of education Amanya Mushega.
In the district council that is ongoing now 18th Jan.2019, only 8 councilors voted for the school to be established at Kabushaho whereas the majority voted in favor of Kigurusi.
Kigurusi land is owned by Kigurusi farmers group therefore it would be illegal for the government to construct there a school.

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In Mbarara
Anti-corruption court grade one magistrate Pamela Lamunu has charged Mbarara High School Headmaster Benon Chalky Twinomujuni and the school bursar Michael Namara of Embezzlement; Causing Financial Loss and abuse of office.
The two are said to have stolen up to Shs 200 million, which accusations they denied.
Prosecution states that Twinomujuni and Namara, between January 2017 and February 2018, while performing their duties as Headmaster and Bursar respectively at Mbarara High School in Mbarara district, stole 207,450,000million shillings meant for various school activities.
Court heard that the suspects allegedly approved and withdrew the cash without any supporting documents and accountability, an arbitrary act prejudicial to the interest of their employer.
They were released on a cash bail of 10 million shillings each by the court after presenting substantive sureties.
Their sureties included Mr Paddy Turyamukuka, who works at Bank of Uganda as Director Petroleum Investment Fund.
The sureties were ordered by the court to execute a non-cash bond of 80 million shillings.

They are to return to court on February 18th 2019 to set a hearing date since investigations are in advanced stage according to prosecution.

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Kevin Tuheirwe
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In Kabale

Over of 72 road gangs and their supervisors in Kabale municipality are complaining over nonpayment of their wages since October last year.

The road gangs are each paid 200,000 shillings per month whereas their
supervisors are paid 250,000 Ugandan shillings monthly. They now claim that they have not received their wages for the last three months of
October, November and December 2018.

The road gangs who talked to www.mknewslink.com on conditions of anonymity said that they are now struggling to provide for their families with the required basic needs like food and childrens education because they are financially incapable.

They wonder why the responsible municipal authorities have kept a deaf ear on their several complaints.

Speaking to www.mknewslink.com on phone, the Kabale municipality mayor, Emmanuel Sentaro Byamugisha and the Kabale municipal town clerk,Joseph Monday said that they are aware of the problem but promised to address it in the coming week.

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Kevin Tuheirwe
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In Kabale
Kabale municipal council is drafting bylaws regulating the operation of washing bays in the municipality.
According to the Kabale municipality environment officer Alfred Ahimbisibwe, the bylaw, once drafted and approved by the council shall mandate all washing bays in the municipality to operational licenses.
Ahimbisibwe added that the bylaw shall also make it illegal for washing bays operate without basic requirements like toilets, waste collecting points, soak pits and impermeable surfaces for sanitary reasons.
On 22nd May 2017, Kabale municipal council ordered all washing bay owners to have garbage collecting centers and impermeable surface among other requirements.
However a directive has not been implemented as our reporter visited all the washing bays in the municipality and observed none of the directives requirements was visible on the sites.
Speaking to our reporter yesterday in his office, Ahimbisibwe noted that with the drafting of the bylaws, council shall legally close all the washing bays opposed to the demands of the set by laws regulating the washing bays operation in the municipality

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