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By Wilber Muhwezi Kasibante
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In Bushenyi
Bushenyi Ishaka municipality staff have vowed to close hotels and other businesses that sell food whose owners defy to test for communicable diseases like TB,eye and skin diseases that can be transmitted to customers.
This was revealed by Dr.Viola Ninsiima the head of the ongoing exercise of testing butchers, hotels, food vendors among others.
She noted that the exercise started from Ishaka last week, has been in central division this week and will end with Nyakabirizi next week.
She added that those found with TB and other communicable diseases are advised to go for treatment before they continue with their jobs.
Each person tested is required to pay ug shs 10,000 to cater for staff allowance for the staff involved in the exercise.
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By Wilber Muhwezi Kasibante
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In Bushenyi.
Following fights between leaders of Bushenyi district on where to locate 1.6 billion seed school that is between Kabushaho and Kigurusi in Bumbaire sub county, sources from education ministry have revealed that the contractor will start work after 20th march 2019.
A source well conversant with the matter told www.mknewslink.com editor yesterday that evaluation of bidders is already complete.
This follows an advert that appeared in new vision last year seeking for contractors to construct a seed school at Kabushaho not Kigurusi.
The district chairman Jaffari Bassajabalaba and Bumbaire subcounty male councilor Patrick Kizito Mwebesa plus the majority of the councilors have all been in support of Kigurusi.
However, when the advert came out confirming Kabushaho,the chairman ,speaker and secretary for social services ran to the permanent secretary ministry of education to reverse the decision but in vain.
The area MP Michael Mawanda who reopened Kabushaho secondary school after it had been closed in 1992 by the then minister of education Amanya Mushega has been quiet but working under ground.
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One person has died on the spot and three others sustained serious injuries after two government cars rammed into each other on the Kampala Gulu Highway this morning.
The accident according to police, took place at around 6am in the morning at Wampiti in Kakooge Sub County, in Nakasongola district.
The deceased has been identified as Agnes Nantunzi, a Data Manager at the Ministry of Health.
Paul Kangave, the Police spokesman in the Savannah Region says Nantunzi was heading to Gulu, when the ministry car she was riding in, Registration Number UG 4590M collided with another car, Number LG 0025066, which belongs to Lira District.
Nantunzis driver, one Robert Lubogo sustained serious injuries according to Kangave; along with the occupants of the other vehicle.
In Lira district vehicle was 44-year-old Franchise Ofungi, the District Education Officer (DEO) and his driver Moses Kasule, 38.
Both, according to Kangave sustained serious injuries.
Kangave, citing preliminary investigations, blamed the accident on the DEOs driver, who he says was driving recklessly.
“The driver of LG vehicle crossed his lane and rammed into the (Health Ministry) vehicle,” he said.
All the victims and the deceased are at St. Francisca Health Center IV, Kakoge.

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In Kampala
The Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB) has registered a better performance of students who sat for the 2018 Uganda advanced certificate of education (UACE).
Releasing the examination results at the Office of the President in Kampala on Thursday, the UNEB executive secretary, Mr Daniel Odongo said that out of the 98,524 students who sat for the 2018 exams, at least 95,839 have qualified for the award of the UACE.
According to the results, 36,656 students have passed with three Principal passes; about 26,467 have been able to attain two principal passes, 20,413 with one principal pass while 12,303 have attained one subsidiary.
A total of 1,489 students have failed after attaining F-grade in last year’s exams and therefore have to resit UACE. In 2017, a total of 1,141 failed the exams.
Mr Odongo said that female candidates performed better than their male counterparts at the principal level pass in Arts, Physics and Agriculture. Male candidates were better in Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology Art and General paper.
“History, Economics, Entrepreneurship Education, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Arts have shown better performance than in 2017. Geography improved at the A-Pass level. CRE, Literature in English, Agriculture and Biology showed a decline,” Mr Odongo said.
According to him, good performance was exhibited by candidates from mainly the traditional government schools and some of the better established private schools.
“These candidates demonstrated adequate knowledge of the subject matter,” he said.

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Allan Mugabe
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In Kabale

Residents of hospital cell in Kabale Municipality are worried over the increased cases of crimes which they blame to lack of street lights on the Kabale regional referral hospital road.

The residents claim that criminals take advantage of the darkness to attack and rob from innocent locals who move in the night and early morning hours going and coming from the hospital.

Annet Ampaire, who owns a kiosk in the front of Kabale regional referral hospital gate, says that her colleague last month narrowly survived being raped by a gang of thugs in the middle of the road when she was on her way from Kabale town.

The Chairperson of hospital cell Christopher Gakibayo says that last week, thugs broke into his home and took off with the batteries of his car. He says that he has registered over ten cases since January this year.

Emmanuel Sentaro Byamugisha, the Kabale Municipality mayor says that the municipality is aware of the challenge and adds that the authorities are planning to have the street lights on the hospital road in the financial year of 2019/2020.
He says that they are currently extending security lights from police to Butobere junction along the Kabale-Mbarara road, and from Katuna round to Mwanjari trading along the Kabale-katuna road.

Byamugisha however says that Municipal authorities are in touch with the police to ensure that the areas are watched over closely to avoid the loss of innocent lives.

By Micheal Bitunga
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In Sheema
Following a fall in the matooke prices countrywide, Itendero matooke traders have asked the government to open up a foreign market so that they can export their matooke which has lost a local market.
Since December 2018, matooke prices have desperately decreased although many people alleged that by February this year, prices would have raised.
Nagaba Amon a matooke trader in Itendero daily market said that matooke prices in villages are too expensive compared to town noting that those who buy from villages to sell in town do not get a profit.
He revealed that trader buys a bunch of matooke from a farmer at shs.10000 only to sell it in town at shs. 8000/7000 shs.
Elly Rwamahe Chairman Itendero matooke daily market added that even in Kampala where matooke market has been high, the prices have also reduced.
However, he said that instead of matooke prices rising and traders failing to get them, its better prices remain as they are now and then they get matooke in large quantities.
Meanwhile traders complain that amidst all these challenges, government daily taxes on matooke have never decreased adding that the little profit they get from at least 6 bunches of matooke is spent on paying taxes for one bunch of matooke.
One of the traders who preferred anonymity told www.mknewslink.com that because of the situation ,he won’t be able to pay school fees for his children because he has nowhere to get school fees from since he has been getting income from trading matooke.
Mzee Banga Saverino 73 years old from Kashekuro, Kitagata sub county advised matooke growers and traders to always have a substitute project where they can get money from in case matooke market is low.
He said that for him, he has more than 40 Jack fruit trees and that he has never failed to pay for his children and grandchildren

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