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By Yosam Gucwaki
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In Hoima—
A catechist is struggling for his life at Edpa clinic in Hoima town
after he was hacked into coma by unknown robbers who also fled away
with his motorcycle.
The victim is identified as John Mababazi commonly known as Bigobe, a
catechist attached to Kakende Catholic Church, Bulimya parish in
Kiziranfumkbi sub-county Hoima district.
The bedridden Mbabazi told our reporter that he was waylaid
by two men armed with machetes who hit him severely near Nyakibogo
stream located on Kiswaza-Mukabara road.
Chris Baleke, a son to victim said his father was found helpless in a
pool of blood on Monday morning and later rushed to Kikuube heath
centre but later taken to Edpa clinic.
The victim’s motorcycle registration number UEP 338Y Bajaj red in
color was taken by the robbers.
Ibrahim Juma, the Kiziranfumbi sub-county lc3 chairman has regretted
the incident and asked police to expedite the investigations to have
the culprits arrested and brought to book.
Julius Allan Hakiiza, the Albertine region police spokesperson said
police is on the hunt out for the suspects.
Cases of robbery are rampant in Hoima district.
On Friday last week, unknown robbers also hacked one Denis Miramago, a
technician and resident in Bujumbura Hoima municipality who breathed his last at Mulago referral hospital.

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In Kampala—
Hearing of an appeal challenging a two-year jail sentence for a 25 year old Student convicted of cyber harassment and offensive communication against the Kabarole District Woman MP Sylvia Rwabwoogo, has started today.
Brian Isiko, 25, had been sentenced to two years in Luzira Prison but applied for bail which was granted last month by Justice Jane Francis Abodo after presenting two substantial sureties and being a first time offender.
Isiko was in July this year convicted by Buganda Road Magistrate’s court after confessing his too much love for Ms Rwabwogo. However, he appealed against the same in the High Court.
In his appeal, Isiko, a student of YMCA-Jinja branch argues that the sentencing magistrate erred when she changed his plea of not guilty to a plea of guilty based on partial admission.
Isiko’s lawyer reproduced the record of the lower court where he admitted downloading MP Rwabwogo’s contact from the parliamentary website and expressed his freedom of speech through sending her love messages that he had picked from love songs and poems of American celebrities including Don Williams and Enrique Iglesias.
“There is no single love message or phone call that is rude, obscene or indecent tendered in court by MP Rwabogo as originating from Isiko. The magistrate therefore acted unreasonable to convict him of offensive communication,” Wasiwa told court.
He further argues that the magistrate erred when she convicted him without subjecting the sntite evidence of the complainant to the standard required in a criminal trial.

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In Kampala—-
Joseph Galikweno, 32, a boda boda rider in Bulenga, Wakiso District, who witnessed the former Buyende District Police Commander, Muhammad Kirumira, shooting said the attackers were not wearing masks and the people around the area allegedly knew one of the assailants.
Galikweno said he witnessed the gruesome murder of the outspoken police officer, first hand.
“As I was riding from Busega (Kampala suburb) towards Bulenga, in a distance of about 100 metres, I heard the first round of gunshots. I did not mind them, I continued to ride forward and at a close range of about 60 metres, the gunshots became intense,” he said.
Galikweno said out of panic, he swerved off the road to the nearby supermarket where he parked and looked in utter shock at the macabre incident. It appears that the gunmen first shot in the air to clear way for the killing.
“It was surprising because unlike the usual killers who come wearing masks, these two rogues were not. The motorcycle they rode on is like those that the police always use. Some people have actually identified the taller man, they say he was a renowned robber in this area before he was taken into the (Police) flying squad department during the reign of former Inspector General of Police, Gen Kale Kayihura,” he said.
“At the time I was coming, Kirumira’s Blue Toyota Corona Reg. No. UAJ 228V was parked near a Mobile Money kiosk. After he and Ms Resty Nalinya had locked the doors, the assailants showed up on a motorcycle, each carrying a gun. They aimed at the driver’s seat, fired a couple of bullets in before shooting the person in the co-driver’s seat,” Galikweno narrates.
He said after the incident, the attackers abandoned their motorcycle and made off while shooting in the air. “This episode took a very short time. Many people remained in shock for over 30 minutes before thinking of pursuing the killers whom they could not catch up with.
Thereafter, people started gathering at the scene but they found Kirumira still struggling for his life. They tried to rush him to hospital but he succumbed to his bullet wounds at Busega roundabout. The woman in the car died on the spot,” he said.
“Among those that gathered at the scene were journalists and security officers who had been informed by that time. One of the journalists I got to know as Shafick Lukenge of CBS FM was seriously beaten and I offered to ride him to the hospital,” he said.
It was later found out that another journalist, Kenneth Kaweesi, of NBS TV was also stoned and his camera destroyed by security officials as they dispersed the rowdy crowds.
“Some people riding their motorcycles were arrested and some detained. We were all sent into fear,” Mr Galikweno said.

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By Sandra Tumwekwase
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In Bushenyi
Residents of Kigoma cell Kiyaga parish Bumbaire subcounty Bushenyi district yesterday woke up to a surprise when they found one of their own drowned in a stream.
The deceased Bamuturaki Greciano 57 years resident of the same location who has been a victim of epilepsy was on 9th September 2018 found drowned in the stream at the farm of one Mucunguzi.
According to SP Martial Tumusiime the greater Bushenyi police spokesperson,the body was removed by the relatives and police was later informed.
He noted that Police officers were dispatched to visit the scene and the body was taken for postmortem at Kampala International teaching hospital.
It was discovered that indeed Bamuturaki had drowned, and the body was handed over to relatives for burial.

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BY CHRISPY KAHERU
IN KAMPALA—-
Former Buyende District Police Commander, Muhammad Kirumira was a brave Young Lion whose blistering roars against injustice struck deep fear in the camp of impunity. Kirumira was feared by the enemy and loved by his people. Kirumira was fearless and indeed responded to the right clarion call of his time. Through his profession, he did everything to change this world in order to leave it a better place than he found it.

Of course, at such a time, we cannot hide the deep sense of sadness and frustration at the unending incidents of insecurity. Government has the duty to protect lives, rights and property of its People, And enough MUST be done in this regard.

Now, it is more urgent than ever before to rebuild and support a broad-based democratic rule of law in order to create sustainable security in the Country.

Farewell Fearless Freedom Fighter! Rest Well Afande Kirumira!

Crispin Kaheru is a

Coordinator

Citizens’ Coalition for Electoral Democracy in Uganda (CCEDU)

By Atwakiire Micheal Bitunga
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In Sheema
Muhereza Willis ‘master planner ‘ one of the NRM aspiring candidates in Sheema North parliamentary by-election promised people of Kigarama sub County that he will give their children bursaries and buy books for every child if they vote him into power.
He revealed that he suffered a lot during his school times because his parents were poor, thus he does not want other youths to undergo the same situation.
He added that many girls from Sheema North drop out of schools especially during their menstruation periods due to insufficient pads noting that he will put sanitary pad processing factory in every parish and pads will be distributed to all schools free of charge.
Frank Owoyesigyire who is also competing for the same post, warned his fellow competitors to stop promising heaven and earth to people yet they know that they can’t get heaven on earth.
“I have heard some of my colleagues promising to build bridges, and in Sheema North we don’t have even a stream nor river, now where will you build bridges and for what?” Frank asked.
Frank also asked Kigarama people where he comes from, to stop voting candidates from other sub counties saying that since 1962 they have been voting outsiders but no one has ever remembered them to atleast bring social services nearer to them.
Sheema North parliamentary NRM primary elections are to take place on Thursday 13th August 2018 and general elections on 8th August 2018.

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In Kampala
Suspended Kampala South metropolitan police commander Siraje Bakaleke and other six police officers have been summoned by the Anti-Corruption court to appear and answer to charges of abuse of office.
It is alleged that they were involved in the kidnap, wrongful arrest and confinement of three Korean investors.
Bakaleke, Wanyoto, Samuel Nabeta Mulowooza and the other six police officers who were serving at different ranks as Deputy Assistant Superintendents of police and police constables face 12 counts of abuse of office, kidnap and abducting with intent to confine a person, embezzlement, obtaining money by false pretence and conspiracy to commit an offence.
Bakaleke at the rank of Assistant commissioner of police is said to have used his office and connived with Mugoya Wanyoto, a city lawyer to defraud 415,000 US dollars from the three Koreans.
Court documents show that after the wrongful arrest of the Koreans, Wanyoto obtained another 30, 000 US Dollars from them on false pretence that it was a legal fee to represent them on the criminal charges they were facing.
When the case came up for plea taking in court today, only Samuel Mulowooza; the managing Director of Eye power Engineering Company was present.
This prompted grade one magistrate Moses Nabende to issue criminal summons ordering Bakeleke and his co-accused to appear on October 5, 2018.
This was after a state attorney from the DPP’s office Harriet Angom explained to him that there is no evidence on court record that Bakaleke and seven others were served with the previous court summons.
However, Mulowooza denied the charges and was granted a cash bail of Shs4 million.

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Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) has responded to torture allegations by Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine after his arrest last month.
In a statement posted on social media platforms last evening, the legislator narrated the horrific abuse he reportedly went through in the hands of security agencies.
Kyagulanyi who is in the U.S for specialised medical care said soldiers using brute force intentionally pulled and squeezed his testicles and bludgeoned him indiscriminately with blunt objects.
He said that he was heartlessly beaten, punched, and kicked with their boots in the eyes, mouth, nose, elbows and knees.
However, the UPDF said last evening that police were already investigating the allegations raised by Kyagulanyi and those found culpable will be punished.
A combined force of army and police violently grabbed Kyagulanyi and 35 others, among them four MPs and two journalists, from or near hotels in Arua Town on August 13 on allegations that they stoned President Museveni’s motorcade.
In yesterday’s statement, Kyagulanyi said prowling soldiers broke into various rooms and savagely assaulted several occupants, among them a woman, to reveal his location. “Up to now, that is one experience that haunts me; that I could hear a woman cry for help, yet I was so vulnerable and helpless. I could not help her,” he stated.
After fruitless searches, the lawmaker said soldiers, who hurled insults and profanities at their subdued victims, struck open the door of the room he hid in. One placed him at gunpoint and he used his hand to shield his head from a vicious iron bar strike by another.
There was pandemonium and agonising wails in the corridors and outside the hotel. Yasin Kawuma, who sat inside the MP’s Tundra vehicle parked outside Pacific Hotel, had already been shot dead.

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Sunday September 2nd 2018
By Aiden Graw
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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS:
Ugandan Dancehall singer Bebe Cool has come out to say that insults from Bobi Wine fans will not stop him from supporting President Museveni.
The ‘Batiddemu’ singer on Friday faced the wrath of angry revellers at the Tarrus Riley -Swangz Avenue- All Star concert, who hurled stones, insults and bottles when he stepped on stage to sing.
His appearance lasted only 30 seconds before he was forced off the stage by the revellers with the protection of the police, who were chanting “People Power, Our Power” a slogan commonly used by Bobi Wine.
However, speaking to a local station later, Bebe Cool said he would not be intimidated by insults from anyone because he is free to support whoever he likes.
“I have never been intimidated. It is the same reason I support president Museveni. I might have issues with NRM but I will die for a good cause and that is president Museveni the individual,” the singer said.
While forcing him off stage, the revellers asked him to go and sing for Museveni and not them because they were not interested in his music.
However, the flamboyant singer said he was not bothered by them but said they were sending misguided missiles to him for nothing.
“They are not throwing those bottles to me because they hate me. They are only sending a message to me but it is right message to a wrong person,” he said.
Bebe Cool urged them to use the right channels to pass on their political message to whoever they want, adding that this should be a ballot and not on musical shows.
“Ugandans must be told that there is a day to practice your democracy .The ballot box is not on stage at a concert and Uganda does not stop in Kampala.”
He however insisted that he disagrees with violence as a way of solving issues.
The self-proclaimed ‘Big Size’ is very close to President Museveni but on the other side a strong critic of MP Robert Kyagulanyi also known as Bobi Wine and has on many occasions been on the wrong side of the latter’s fans.
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By Elly Karenzi
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In Ibanda—-
Six exotic cows were on Thursday struck dead by the lightning during a torrential rain in Rukiri sub county in Ibanda district.
According to the LC 1 chairperson, Lonah Agaba, all six cows belonged to Eliasafu Rucwere who hails from Bwenda parish in Rukiri sub county, Ibanda district.
On the fateful day all his cows were in the farm grassing, but when it started raining the animals took cover under the trees. The herdsman who took cover into the house then decided to check on the animals in the farm, but was shocked to find six cows dead.
He raised an alarm that attracted the residents.
The family of Rucwere is said to have lost 16 exotic cows five years age also they were killed by lightning.
Residents gathered at the scene expressed mixed reaction where some advised the affected family to consult a native doctor in the area before the dead animals are slaughtered.

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