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By Elly Karenzi

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In Ibanda

At least twenty homes in Kyaruhanga II cell in Kagongo Divisio, Ibanda Municipality, Ibanda district have been destroyed and eight people were rescued from floods following a rain that started at 8.30 pm last night.

According to locals, seven children aged between 3- 9 years and a house maid aged 30 years from one family were saved by good Samaritans from floods after their residential house was destroyed by water.

The floods had carried them for about ½ Kilometer and were rushed to Ibanda Hospital while others are admitted in private clinics in critical condition.

The Ibanda municipality, Mayor Apollo Kibeherere who visited the scene early this morning said a number of homesteads have been submerged by water from the hills and has washed away banana plantation, coffee trees among other crops.

“Other crops like beans, germinating millet, groundnuts, cassava and others have been destroyed. A number of chickens were reportedly killed in floods,” Kibeherere added.

By Grant Ahumuza

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In Kisoro

Police in Kisoro district are hunting for a 26-year-old man who cut his four family members to death.

According to Elly Maate the Kigezi region police spokes person, on Thursday 24th /9/ 2020 at around 2100 hrs the suspect Ndikumukiza Gerald a resident of Kageyo village, Busengo parish Nyarubuye subcounty Kisoro district got a sharp panga and allegedly attacked his four family members and cut them to death .

The deceased have been identified Sebitama Deogratious aged 80, Nyiraguhirwa Bonconsira 75 yrs , Mujawimana Maliserina 26 ,and Nyiramahoro Joan aged 20 

It is alleged that suspect first killedhis wife Mujawimana Mariserina, there after killed the Nyiramahoro joan the wife of the brother Habyaremye George, then proceeded to the father Sebutama Deogratious and ended with his mother Nyiraguhirwa Bonconsira.

The suspect is said to have arrived on Wednesday from Masaka where he had been working as a casual labourer with his brother Habyaremye George.

The cause of the gruesome murders is not known although he has a history of mental illness.

Police visited the scene, recorded statements from witnesses and four bodies are still at the scene pending post-mortem whereas the Suspect is still on run.

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In Kampala

The Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC), the government agency that is mandated to eliminate discrimination and inequalities against any individual in state institutions, is in the spotlight amid allegations of tribalism and corruption.

The allegations, which are a subject of the State House Anti-Corruption Unit, are allegedly orchestrated by the chairperson of EOC, Ms Sylvia Ntambi Muwebwa.

Ms Ntambi is accused of superintending over unethical practices that have seen staff polarized along tribal lines, which has created a toxic working environment.

The allegations are contained in a petition by a whistle-blower to President Museveni detailing cases of unfair staff dismissal, irregular interdiction, resignations and refusal to renew staff contracts amid allegations of tribalism.

“There is a clear divide between the Westerners and the Baganda. The Westerners are blacklisted, side-lined and fought up to exit. “Some officers who were given the jobs without interviews are indeed very difficult to work with and/or supervise because they belong to the “royal family” of the Commission,” the report reads in part.

It is alleged that Ms Ntambi has been recruiting her relatives and tribe mates without following the due procedures.

It is also alleged that she has been embezzling the Commission’s funds through inflated and non-existent trips abroad, workshops and seminars. The funds came from the government and donors.

In one instance, the petition indicates that in March, she travelled to New York for the Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). For this meeting, she was paid Shs36.8m for 17 days yet the meeting was for 13 days.

Between April 6 and April 16, she is reported to have received Shs27.2m for 12 days of a benchmarking trip in Sweden and Finland, which according to a whistleblower did not take place.

Ms Ntambi has also been accused of using her powers to direct payment of salary advances to herself. There are longstanding salary advances of Shs37.3million paid to her on March 4, 2016, and another payment of Shs40.3m she received on February 2, 2017.

There was also payment in lieu of leave equivalent to Shs13.2million. These payments, according to a whistleblower, have remained unrecovered and unaccounted for since Financial Year 2016/17 to date “due to her domineering instructions”.

Ms Ntambi was not immediately available for comment but while appearing before MPs on the Committee on Commissions Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) on Monday, she begged for more time to read the petition so as to respond.

The MPs gave her two weeks to respond to all the issues in the petition.

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By Syrus Nayebare

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In Sheema

The outgoing chairman LCV Sheema district Can.David Kabigumira has clarified that he is not coming back in the general elections as an independent candidate after he lost in the NRM primaries. 

The incumbent Kabigumira said that he is fine with the results he obtained, adding that he believes that those were God’s plan. 

He however boasted of how people have started approaching him to apologise for taking a wrong path asking him to come back but says he is sorry to disappoint them as he is not willing to stand again.

The chairman told www.mknewslink.com reporter that he is sincerely fed up with Sheema politics adding that he was disappointed with un appreciative  voters ‘who refused to give him votes having done what they instructed him to do and what they did not.

He said some voters claim that they did not vote for him because he collaborates with the Sheema municipality MP Dr. Elioda Tumwesigye.

“Elioda is the area MP, and am the chairperson LCV, then I would be mad if I do not work with him,” he said.

Kabigumira threatened that some non government organisations are likely to withdraw because the persons they were working with for example him and Dr. Elioda have been knocked out. 

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By Aggrey Twesigye

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In Rwampara

Police in Rwampala District are holding 7people who have been engaging in counterfeiting AKANDI products.

According to the Rwizi region Police spokesperson Samson Kasasira the 7 people were arrested with 307 boxes of counterfeit Juice of AKANDI and 5sacks of empty bottles that were yet to be filled with these products.

Kasasira added that these people will be sanctioned to court to answer to charges.

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