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By Grant Ahumuza

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In Rubanda—

Police in Rubanda district are holding a man who allegedly assaulted her wife over domestic violence.

The suspect Kyarikunda Gideon a resident of Kabirizi cell Nyakabungo ward Rubanda district assaulted his wife Nyinamugisha Olivia of the same address.

It is alleged that the suspect returned home from a social evening at around 1900 hrs and found the wife (victim) at the neighborhood which annoyed him to the extent of picking a sharp panga and severely cutting her on the right side of the neck.

The Kigezi region police spokes person Elly Matte told www.mknewslink.com  reporter that the victim over bled which forced the  area LC1 Silver Beyaraza to alert the Police who rushed the victim to Junamagara Health facility where she is currently getting medication in a stable condition.

The Attempted murder case was registered at Rubanda main police station SD  38/09/07/2020.

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By Wilber Muhwezi Kasibante

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In Bushenyi

The outgoing board of directors NWSC Eng. Christopher Obal has today 10^th July 2020 officially bid farewell to greater Bushenyi NWSC staff at a colorful function held at Western Meridian hotel in Bushenyi town.

Francis Kateeba the general manager

Eng. Obal noted that he took over in 2014 and found when water was in only 33 towns but has left when 267 towns in Bushenyi can access water.

Obal attributed the success to hard work and limited conflicts in the corporation.

He added that he found NWSC with 10000 staff and they are now 4000 staff.

He said that he ensured that quality service delivery was made a priority adding that it is why there are limited complaints at NWSC.

Earlier the general manager Eng. Francsi Kateeba noted that when the outgoing board chairman took over in 2014, only two towns had water adding that they are currently 14 towns with clean water in Greater Bushenyi districts.

Kateeba noted that water supply in 2014 was at 45% and now it is at 75% despite the COVID 19 pandemic related problems.

In 2014, NWSC had 23 staff but it now has 98 staff, according to Eng. Kateeba.

He also revealed that in 2014 NWSC was billing 60M and it is currently billing 413 M monthly.

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In Hoima

Ambulance delivering a covid 19 patient

Hoima district has recorded four more COVID19 new cases raising the number to 6 cases from landing sites along L. Albert in just one week despite many measures that were put in place to control the spread of COVID19 especially from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The new cases are from samples of over 30 contacts of two returnee cases taken from Kijangi landing site in Buseruka Sub County over the weekend and one returnee from D R Congo at Mbegu Landing site in the same sub county.

These are part of the 23 new confirmed Covid 19 cases that were announced on Wednesday 8^th July 2020 by the Ministry of Health.

However, one patient from Mbegu landing site in Buseruka Sub County is missing as it is reported that he crossed back to Democratic republic of Congo and the surveillance team is on ground searching for him.

Samuel Kisembo, the Hoima district Covid19 task force chairman, says that three confirmed cases have been picked and brought to Hoima Covid-19 treatment unit.

Kisembo has expressed fear over the new cases at the landing sites and reiterates that they are going to meet top commanders of agencies managing the border to understand what went wrong.

In March this year the Hoima district security committee suspended all fishing activities on the Lake as one of the measures to stop the spread of Covid 19.

In May the same year, the joint inter-agency task force chaired by Maj. Gen. Leopold Kyanda the UPDF Chief of staff in charge Land Forces also ordered for the closure of over 100 ungazetted Landing Sites in Hoima, Buliisa and Kikuube Districts.

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By Aggrey Twesigye

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In Ntungamo

Ntungamo district with the support from UNICEF has embarked on training Village Health Teams on any information concerning COVID 19 pandemic.

The district targets to train all the 1947 VHTs in the district who are implement the program of treating childhood illness at community level like malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea.

According to Nesterio Twesigye the Ntungamo District Health educator, the training will be conducted in all the 41 health facilities in the district by the health workers with experience and skills to engage VHTs.

He added that the main objective of the training is to equip VHTs who manage common childhood illness at community level with information about COVID 19 so as to strengthen the district health system.

Twesigye told www.mknewslink.com the trained VHTs will be able to have skills of putting in place the standard operating procedures like ensuring social distance ,hand washing with soap and running water and wearing of face masks while in public.

He noted that at the end of the training the VHTs will be able to detect any suspected COVID 19 case at community level and report it in time to the district relevant authorities.

The training which started on 8 July 2020 will have been conducted in all 41 health units in the district by 15 July 2020.

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By Grant Ahumuza

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In Rukiga–

Police in Rukiga district are investigating circumstances under which a 45 years old woman incidentally drowned in water and died instantly.

The deceased was identified as Kyikabaliza Provia a resident of Kamuhanga village Nyakashebeya parish Kasambya sub county Rukiga district.

It’s said that the body was discovered floating on waters of river Ruboroga at Nyakitabire village.

The kigezi region police spokesperson Elly Matte told our reporter that the deceased might have drowned on Wednesday morning because that’s when she left home and is known to have been having a mental illness.

He adds that police was notified, visited the scene and the body was retrieved where by arrangements for postmortem were done and finally handed over to relatives for burial.

The case was registered at Kashambya police post.

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In Kampala

After two consecutive wins for city business magnate and philanthropist Dr. Sudhir Ruparelia against BoU, with the latest one being on June 23 when the Court of Appeal quashed BoU’s appeal, BoU has shifted the battle ground to the media.

Few days after court of appeal’s judgement, BoU revealed that it would appeal against the ruling in the Supreme court, in which BoU’s application seeks a refund of Shs397 billion from Sudhir which he allegedly pulled out from Crane bank before it was dissolved in October, 2016.

The BoU made its revelation through a press statement in which they confirmed the fight is still on till they are on top of the case.

However, few minutes from BoU’s statement, Sudhir, through his lawyers of Kampala Associated Advocates (KAA), released a more detailed statement quashing BoU ‘False and Baseless statements‘-according to them, with 17 key reasons for previous wins, which caught media’s attention since it looked to be an endless battle between the two sides.

Sudhir’s statement unfortunately binned the earlier released BoU statement which looked to be another huge win for Sudhir leaving BoU beaten hands down home and away.

In a way to seek public sympathy as Sudhir’s lawyers defined it, BoU explained that they lost previous duo cases because, both the High court and Court of Appeal ruled that Crane bank had no capacity to sue them while in receivership and that upon transfer of some of it’s assets to dfcu Bank, Crane bank ceased to exist.

In Sudhir’s rebuttal, KAA noted that court determined that the case was not legally tenable as there was no cause of action. However, KAA went ahead to challenge nearly every word BoU lawyers ‘uttered’.

“Bank of Uganda makes a false allegation that taxpayers’ money was used to settle Crane bank depositors. This statement is used several times in the press statement but it is not part of the case Bank of Uganda filed. It is an allegation designed to sway public opinion, and has nothing to do with the case,” reads part of KAA’s statement.

“Parliament of Uganda’s (Cosase committee) have all reported that there was no evidence to support Bank of Uganda’s claims that taxpayers’ money was allegedly spent on paying depositors. Money went missing from Bank of Uganda and remains unaccounted for.”KAA Statement continued.

The revelations don’t end there. BoU claims a deal had been reached with Sudhir on March 20, 2017 to pay back $60m in a Settlement and Release Agreement before he allegedly breached the arrangement and that it was on this basis that BoU sought legal redress.

However, KAA insists the case BoU filed in both courts did not include any claims of any kind or any allegations of any kind in relation to a settlement agreement with Sudhir.

These comes at a time when every one is eager to see the conclusion of this battle including tax payers who are the key victims ahead of a Supreme court hearing in the case filed by Crane Bank Limited (in Receivership) versus Sudhir Ruparelia and Meera Investments Limited.

In dismissing the appeal, the Court of Appeal held that the trial judge was satisfied that the preliminary points of law which the respondents raised were based on the presumption that the facts in the plaint were true and that the points of law, if upheld, were sufficient to conclude the case.

Court of Appeal Justices, Alphonse Owiny Dollo; Cheborion Barishaki and Stephen Musota agreed with an earlier ruling by Commercial Court Judge Justice David K. Wangutusi’s August 26th 2019 that a bank in receivership (Crane Bank Limited in this case), under the Financial Institutions Act (2004) cannot sue or be sued and therefore Crane Bank (in receivership) cannot and should not have sued businessman Sudhir Ruparelia and his company Meera Investments Limited.

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In Kampala

Sanyu FM (88.2) staff led by comedian Patrick Idringi Salvado yesterday morning, surprised DPC Kampala Central Police Station (CPS) ASP Ronald Wotwali with a historic birth day cake which sent him to extended ecstasy.

The new born ASP Ronald Wotwali who was found busy serving the nation in his office at CPS was surprised for the celebration which he didn’t expect though he knew that today was when he landed on the universe.

As a norm for the new born baby, Sanyu FM staff showered DPC with water and decorated his face with juicy looking cake leaving him worried of where to pass going home with a special mode of looking.

Later on, DPC Wotwali served the cake to Sanyu Fm staff and after stepped out of his office to share with his co-workers at the station.

Comedian Salvador who led the staff to CPS, joined the station few months ago, presenting the breakfast show amidst new changes that took place.

Sanyu FM is well known as the pioneer private FM radio station in Uganda, that has been in existence for over 20 years.
It switched on air on 18, 1993, and for the first time, Ugandans could listen to music almost the whole day away from the government-run Radio Uganda, which had only about 20% of its programs dedicated to music, and the rest on ‘developmental’ programs.

We wish you a happy belated birthday Afande Wotwali.

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By Wilber Muhwezi Kasibante

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In Bushenyi/Sheema—–

The Bishop of West Ankole diocese Rt. Rev. Johnson Twinomujuni has revealed that the resignation of Ankole Western University Vice chancellor was purely personal, not at all connected to the problems of the university.

The Bishop said this last evening in an exclusive telephone interview with www.mknewslink.com on the status of the university after the resignation of the vice chancellor.

Rev. Can. Dr. Wilberforce Kamukama the Vice chancellor for Ankole Western University resigned last week without giving any reason and Rev. Edidah Mujinya was appointed to be the acting Vice chancellor.

Bishop Johnson is the chancellor of the university and heads the foundation body which is West Ankole diocese.

The resignation of Rev. Can. Kamukama follows another resignation of Prof. Mesarch Katusiime who served for a short time before resigning two and a half years ago.

According to Mesarch, he resigned because of political interference in the matters of the university by Minister Elioda and other politicians.

A meeting chaired by West Ankole diocesan secretary Rev. Can. Didas Natweta converged to forge a way forward after the resignation of Rev. Kamukama and www.mknewslink.com will bring you the details of the meeting shortly.

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