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In Kabarole—
Police in Fort portal yesterday impounded 48 goats during a joint operation in Rwebisingo alleged to have been stolen from Prince Rukidi’s farm.
The alleged stolen goats were found hidden in a forest in Mugusu zone Kihingami Busoro sub county Kabarole district.
According to the police, they have four suspects identified as Kagaba Robert, Galata Kadir Muhamed, Manihiro John and Mugisa Ali who is the area chairperson and Giso west division in custody.
Police said that they were informed by residents that the goats belong to one Galata Kadiri whom they found with forged documents signed by the chairman.
OC CIID Rwebisengo police post Dison Ngobi told www.mknewslink.com at this point; police decided to ambush the place and four others were arrested including the chairman.
In the search, police also encountered army uniform from the chairman’s house and a gun.
However, Galata stated that it was Joan Ninsiima from UWA that had given him a contract to supply her with goats for the two phase project aimed at supplying goats to people neighboring game parks.
Steven Karamagi who claims to be the UWA project tenderer said that the alleged stolen goats belong to UWA adding that he purchased the goats after UWA awarded him the contract to buy 170 goats.
Meanwhile www.mknewslink tried to get a comment from but she declined to give a comment.

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In Kampala
Parliament during the plenary yesterday granted Igara County East Member of Parliament, Micheal Mawanda, leave to introduce a private members bill that seeks to amend Article 161 of the Constitution to remove the Governor and Deputy Governor Bank of Uganda (BoU) from serving as chairperson and deputy chairperson of the board of directors respectively.
“We have had problems of accountability where a budget is made by top management headed by the Governor and approved by the board headed by the Governor. If there is a mistake that is made by management and carried by the board, which is headed by the same person, we shall not be able to rectify this problem,” said Mawanda.
Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile and Dr Louis Kasekende are the current BoU governor and deputy governor respectively.
Mawanda continued, Currently, there is no ‘second eye’ in Bank of Uganda. This is the reason we are seeking separation of powers where the Governor becomes the chief executive then an independent person is appointed to head the board which can oversee the operations of Bank of Uganda.”
Rwampara County MP, Charles Ngabirano, proposed that the bill should not only address issues at Bank of Uganda but other government entities in a similar situation.
This bill follows a recommendation from a report by parliaments committee on Commissions, State Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) calling on government to establish an independent board of directors to supervise managers at BoU.
A confidential report of the presidential tripartite committee, authored in February this year, blames Tumusiime-Mutebile for personally recruiting five senior staff without subjecting them to any interviews as required by the Bank of Uganda Act, which he is supposed to adhere to.
Worse still, most of the staff head picked by the governor without the involvement of other board members did not meet the qualifications and experience required for the jobs. For instance, Dr. Twinemanzi Tumubweine (Executive Director Bank Supervision) does not have any experience in commercial banking. BoU board members where Tumusiime-Mutebile is chairman disowned him on most of staff changes at BoU, saying he never consulted them and that it was illegal.
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In Rukungiri—

Police in Rukungiri are investigating circumstances under which one person died on spot when an explosive device blasted.
The deceased was identified as Julius Ahereza aged 18 a resident of Kimanyoha cell Kahoko parish Nyakajeme Subcounty Rukungiri district.
According to police, the incident took place on 29/08/19 at around 4:15pm when Julius was at home collecting rubbish at a mango tree to burn them, when a big blast most likely of a rusty grenade was heard which killed him instantly.
Police was notified, visited the scene and cordoned it as police bomb squad is expected to investigate and establish which type of device it is.
The body of the deceased was taken to Rwakabengo health centre for postmortem as inquiries are underway.
The case was registered at under file CRB 1054/2019 refers.
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In California
National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) has scooped a service delivery excellence award from the World Confederation of Businesses (WORLDCOB) in San Francisco, California.
WORLDCOB is considered the most important business award in the world and is given out to the most outstanding companies and business people in each country.
This award was created in order to recognize business excellence and is aimed at small, medium and large enterprises looking at all companies that seek to guarantee quality for constant development at their own scale.
Each year, WORLDCOB organizes THE BIZZ business awards ceremony, which brings together the leading companies from different countries to celebrate this recognition and offer a series of benefits to the winners, who become elite members, taking part in activities that will help them to foster new commercial relationships.
NWSC has improved its service coverage from 75 per cent in 2011 to now 84 per cent, the number of new connections have increased from 272,406 to now 659,157, turnover has increased from 132B to now 443B and the operational surplus has increased from 30 billion to now over 95 billion to mention but a few achievements that have been attained.
With support from the government of Uganda, NWSC aims at extending water services to over 12,000 villages in Uganda, effect over 140,000 new water connections, Installation of over 20,000 public stand pipes and Laying over 8000kms of water mains extensions by 2020.

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