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By Aggrey Twesigye

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In Mbarara

The flag bearers under the Alliance for National Transformation-ANT in Mbarara city have expressed concern over the government’s move to pay registration fees for only finalists and candidates in Government schools neglecting those in Private sector. 

Addressing a press conference at their offices in Lugazi cell Mbarara city the spokesperson for ANT campaign task force Mbarara Nestroy Sekamate Naswiru who is also the aspirant MP Mbarara city south on ANT ticket stressed that it is unappealing for government to consider only government schools.

He revealed that they are worried that close to 4300 schools which are privately owned are likely to close implying that 1.5 million pupils from primary schools, 390,000 students from secondary Schools and 10636 students at University in the whole Uganda will seek for a dead year due to COVID 19 implications. 

He added that the ministry of education secured around 55.8 billion   shillings in June to facilitate the COVID 19 emergency educational response which he believes would be enough to cater for registration of candidates in both private and government schools.

 Naswiru pleaded to the government to even consider the private schools in providing registration fees by putting into account the 55.8 billion shillings grant they acquired to buy Televisions and Radios but were never delivered. 

In Mbarara city alone over 14 schools were forced to close after failing to meet the required necessities needed by both the ministries of education and health.

By Wilber Muhwezi Kasibante

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Buhweju—

Residents in Buhweju were yesterday shocked after finding a nursing officer who has been working at Burere health center IV dead inside his house.

The deceased was discovered yesterday at around 4pm in the evening.

According to the Juvenile Asiimwe the chairman LCV Buhweju, the nursing officer is suspected to have died of COVID19 though the samples taken from him are yet to be released.

Sources say that after feeling weak, the 56 year old male nursing officer decided to take local waragi and sleep only to find him dead the next day.

However, residents are requested to remain calm and keep on observing Standard Operating Procedures in the fight against Coronavirus.

By our reporter

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In Bushenyi

President Museveni’s senior advisor on cultural affairs, Mzee George Kajuga, a resident of Ishaka town in Bushenyi District has died.

Kajuga died on Tuesday at around 11:15pm at Platinum Hospital, Kampala, according to his granddaughter, Ms Barbara Akampwera Kajuga.

He was aged 96.

Ms Akampwera told www.mknewslink.com on Wednesday morning that her grandfather succumbed to kidney failure, an illness he has battled for a long time.

“Mzee suffered from kidney for a very long time until he succumbed to the disease last night at around 11pm,” said Ms Akampwera.

He is expected to be laid to rest on Friday, according to family.

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In Kampala

Comedian Salvado Idringi has lashed out at Betsy Mugamba for betraying her bosses at Sanyu FM.

Mugamba was on Monday fired from Sanyu FM for backstabbing her employers and fellow staff after she plotted a strike which led to a mass sacking of her colleagues.

Unfortunately, Mugamba, the blue-eyed girl of Sudhir Ruparelia and the chief operations officer at the Crane Chambers based radio station, did not resign after the saga and instead covered herself as innocent in the whole melodrama.

In a tweet, Salvado who also works at Sanyu FM said it’s never good for anyone to bite the hands that feed him/her because when they get injured the perpetrator never remains the same.

“Hooooooooo Audios have been leaked Jessssooooooosssssss ….. eh eh eh all I can say …. “Is never bite the hands that feed you, when they get injured you’ll starve….” Salvado posted on Tuesday.

Back in June 2020, in the middle of Covid-19 pandemic, a group of Sanyu FM employees went on strike. Since they had running contracts that curtail them from absconding from duty without reasonable explanations, several of them including James Onen aka Fat Boy, lost their jobs.

Whereas Fat Boy who was the biggest name on the radio made the biggest headlines, the plotters were different and were eating colleagues from inside. Four months down the road, an audio of the secret meeting of disloyal staff plotting the strike with intention to embarrass and bring Sudhir Ruparelia Empire on its knees, has been brought to the fore.

An audio recording making rounds on social media involves a gang of five who address themselves as “rebels” even likening themselves to “Joseph Kony”.

And these include; Betsy Mugamba, Diana Kobugabe, Andrew Asiimwe, Aziz Mukasa, and Ivan Luwagga.

Sanyu FM staff hoped their action would set a precedent for the radio industry. The Radio whose revenue was falling, decided to keep its entire staff during the tough Covid-19 times, however, like other companies, reduced salaries and wages by 25% to ensure the business stays afloat.

However, some staff did not want their money deducted by a penny. They decided to recover their money, and to punish the owners of the radio.

Mugamba said, “The owners must be punished”.

Most interesting, Andrew Mukasa warned his fellow conspirators that if the plot went bad, they risked losing their jobs. “We won’t have any position by Thursday.” He even predicted Sudhir whom he refers to as chairman in the meeting would delegate their jobs.

And indeed, when staff failed to show up, Patrick Idringi aka Salvado took to their airwaves and later, Roger Mugisha was hired to run the station.

It has emerged that working underground; the owners of the station have been working around the clock to come to the bottom of the matter. The Sanyu FM saga forced the station to come up with creative ways to maintain its listenership including running a reality show hiring process for new presenters.

By Ronald Kabanza

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In Rukungiri

Floods have submerged Kyarushongyera Bridge in Nyarushanje sub- County Rukungiri district affecting the transportation of agricultural produce to market centers and movement of residents.

The affected parishes are well known for the production of milk and bananas that are majorly consumed by town people in Kebisoni, Buyanja and Rukungiri town.

The half kilometer bridge connects Bwega parish to Burora parish in Nyarushanje sub- County as well Burora to Bunono parishes in the same sub- county.

The footbridge also connects Kigina, Burora, Bunono  primary schools and Burora church of Uganda in the same sub- county. However the bridge has been submerged for the past two weeks resulting from flooding brought by heavy rains.

Residents say Nyarushanje sub- County and the district authorities have not come to their rescue.

Barnard Kamugisha and Goddie Taremwa both residents of Bwage parish and cattle keepers say although the problem has lasted for the past two weeks the situation worsened yesterday afternoon following the heavy rains that hit the area for over 4 hours.

 Kamugisha adds that he has spent 4 days without taking milk to the dairy saying that he is now stuck with over 120 liters of milk saying that the government should intervene as quick as possible such that the problem is solved before the situation goes out of hands.

Wallen Magaba and Ronald Byaruhanga both residents of Burora parish say the district engineer visited the bridge sometime back and promised to upgrade it but up to date nothing has been done.

Shallon  Atuheire also a resident of Burora at the same time a farmer says that she finds it difficult when it comes to transportation of her agricultural produce saying that she is now forced to a long route through Bunono trading center to reach the market center in Nyarushanje trading center which is very expensive.

Michael Musime, the LCIII chairperson Nyarushanje sub- county called for calmness saying that the sub- county is trying all it can to have the problem solved adding that he also informed the district Engineer about the same issue.

Julius Bagira, the district engineer told our reporter that the issue of this footbridge was discussed in yesterday’s district departmental meeting saying that their problem will be worked on as soon as possible attributing the delayed upgrade of the bridge to heavy rains that have destroyed roads making the department overwhelmed by repeated rehabilitation.

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