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In Kampala
Two people have been arrested by police for carrying a coffin to parliament in protest against women kidnaps in the country.
The protesters, one woman and a man, carried with them a coffin and a banner with pictures of women who have been killed in the recent spate of kidnaps in the various parts of the country.
The message on a banner read; “Life is a right; It is your duty to protect us; stop the bloodshed.”

The protesters anger was pointed at members of parliament, who they accused of neglecting the women and young children that have been targeted for months by kidnappers.
Kidnaps and murders of girls and women have been alarming notable among other the kidnap and gruesome murder of Susan Magara in February 2018.
Susan Magara,28, a cashier for Bwendo diary farm in Hoima district was kidnapped on February 7 as she left work along Kabakanjagala road in Rubaga division.
Despite getting a shs700 million ransom from her family, Magara was killed and body dumped along the Entebbe express highway.
The group also accused the speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga of not caring as fellow women are being kidnapped.
The group was however intercepted by police before two of them were arrested.

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By Wilber Muhwezi Kasibante
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In Bushenyi
The Director Bamugisha Community Welfare also a wife to the Managing Director NWSC Mrs. Annet Mugisha has warned women against witchcraft which ruins their families and communities.
Ms Mugisha said this on 3rd June 2018 while preaching at St. James church of Uganda Kaburengye in Bushenyi Ishaka municipality.
A fully packed church of about 1000 people who had come to celebrate the Martyrs’ day kept attentive as Ms Mugisha preached.

Beginning her sermon, Ms Mugisha called upon all mothers union members to call their husbands so that they move holding each other’s hand a function that was led by Rev Can. John Mark.
Some women remained without husbands because they had not come to church.
Mrs. Mugisha together with her husband have done a lot of developmental activities including donating 600 goats to youths and widows through her Bamugisha foundation and hoes to every village in Bushenyi.
She has also started youth conferences to teach the youth on how to engage in agriculture and start their own busineeses in the sub counties of Bumbaire, Bitooma and is heading to Kyabugimbi.
Mrs Mugisha has intention to stand as woman Member of Parliament for Bushenyi in the year 2021 to public demand.

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By Wilber Muhwezi Kasibante
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In Sheema
The chancellor Ankole Western University, Bishop Johnson Twinomujuni, has spoken out on the deteriorating situation of the University.
Ankole Western University is faced with a lot of challenges including; confiscation of the University van by URA over failure to pay taxes and the resignation of vice chancellor Mesearch Katusiime who joined politics.
Other challenges include; lack of substantial University council, lectures demanding six months’ salary arrears and some lectures leaving the University for other Institutions among others.
However, Bishop Twinomujuni asked the public to be calm as he is working on the issues saying they should give him time.
The Bishop who noted that a new University Council will be appointed very soon, said this during an exclusive phone interview with www.mknewslink.com today morning.
He also assured the public that the vice Chancellor will also be appointed soon and that he will pay all the taxes and six month arrears for staff.
The University appointed Rev Edidah Mujinya as the acting Vice Chancellor after the resignation of Dr. Mesharch Katusiime.

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By Sandra Tumwekwase
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In Bushenyi
Police in Bushenyi are holding a 40 year old man on charges of theft.
It is alleged that on 1st May 2018 Twinomujuni Evans a turn boy in Bugongi town council broke into the laboratory store of kyeizooba health centre iii and run away with laboratory equipment that included a microscope and Pima annaliser a machine used to count CD4 both worth Ug shs 29,000,000.
The Bushenyi greater Regional police commander Eddie Sserungogi confirmed the news saying that on 30th may 2018 the stolen equipment were found with Ashaba Fred a clinic attendant who got them from a friend Nuwagaba Christopher to whom Evans sold them.
The RPC said that Evans on 1st may disguised that he was sick, and was referred to the hospital laboratory where he saw the microscope and pima analyzer which he came back for in that same evening.

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Parliament has passed the National Budget for the financial year 2018/2019 of 32 trillion Uganda shillings with the growth in the economy expected to be at 4.6%.
This is an 11.6% (Shs 3,357 bn) increase from the concluding 2017/2018 financial year’s Shs 29Trillion Budget.
In a parliamentary meeting chaired by the deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanya, according to the Chairperson of the Budget committee Amos Lugolobi the public debt is expected to increase by 36 percent.
The long awaited national budget for the next financial year that flags off on the 1st of July 2018 is set to leave majority of Ugandans grappling as new nine tax bills have been passed by parliament in a bid to increase on the country’s tax base.
Reading the budget report to the august House sitting on Thursday, the Committee chairperson Amos Lugolobi informed legislators that the next financial year budget is to cost the country 32 trillion shillings.
Lugolobi however informed parliament that legislators have disagreed on the issue of salary enhancement for the post primary science teachers arguing that it’s against the constitution article 40(d) as it brings about discrimination.
Parliament now has recommended that the 98billion shillings meant for the enhancement of science teachers be sent to others sectors as 18billion of this amount will be used to recruit more 2000 science teachers in the country in order to increase their number.
Parliament has also recommended that Shs 9 billion be used to recruit 1200 English and literature teachers and Shs71 billion be equally allocated to all science and arts teachers.
The other sectors that have received priority are technology, Operation wealth creation, Coffee production, Petroleum authority among others.
However, a minority report on the budget was tabled by five legislators led by Dokolo woman MP Cecilia Ogwal, Robert Centenary, Muwanga Kivumbi and others noting that the budget was not aligned to the national budget frame work paper which is in breach of the law.

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By Sandra Tumwekwase
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In Bushenyi.
Bushenyi district has approved the budget of 27.5billion shillings for financial year 2018/2019 prioritizing education with 13.32 million shillings.

According to the Secretary for finance Bushenyi district Patrick Mwebesa Kizito, while presenting the budget to the district council yesterday, this year’s budget has increased compared to last financial year of 25 billion shillings.

This year’s budget will also prioritize education followed by health sectors with 3billion shillings, production 2.5 billion shillings which they expect to uplift on Bushenyi residents standards of living.

Jafari Basajabalaba the Bushenyi LC5 chairman noted that the increase in this year’s education budget targets the construction of more schools and other facilities to improve the education standards in the district.

However the speaker Justine Burusadi appealed to councilors to make a follow up of the budget allocations to ensure proper implementation for the benefits of their communities.
She thus appealed to the heads of departments to always implement council resolutions.

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Former Rwampara county MP Vicent Mujuni Kyamadidi and former Rukungiri LC V Chairperson Athanasius Rutaro have been arrested today morning as voting for the District Woman MP goes on.
Kyamadidi was arrested from Nyarushanje while Rutaro was arrested at Katobo trading centre as he made his way to Nyakagyeme to monitor polling day proceedings on behalf of t he Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) candidate, Betty Muzanira.
Rutaro is currently being held at Rukungiri police station.

Kyamadidi who recently defected to FDC and other party officials, have been in Rukuningiri since campaign time for teir flag bearer Betty Muzanira.

Meanwhile, an other man ave been found with pre ticked ballot papers according to Muhammad Sseirinya.

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In Kampala
Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga wants government to import nursery teachers from Cuba, to help Ugandans change their attitude towards vocational education.
Kadaga said that on her recent visit to Cuba, she noticed that three-year-old children play games in chemistry, physics, hairdressing and other vocational skills.
She said that children need to learn vocational skills while at nursery level. “These skills are shortcuts to vocational training, compared to the white collar jobs which are creating unemployment,” she said.
She was speaking at the launch of the SOS children’s villages Youth Can Initiative, at the Kampala Serena Hotel on Wednesday.

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By Wilber Muhwezi Kasibante
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In Bushenyi
Ankole Civil Society Forum in conjunction with Civil Society Advocacy Budget Group Bushenyi has today openly opposed the 1% mobile money proposed tax on every transaction.
The civil society activists Apollo Lee Kakonge ,the Chief Executive Officer of the Civil society,Muhwezi Elly from Mbarara Civil Society Forum, Paul Kahigi the Bushenyi district FDC chairman and Pison Mugizi a political activist held a press conference at the West Ankole Civil Society headquarters in Bushenyi to condemn government for taxing mobile money which is used by the majority poor.
Mr.Kakonge noted that in other developed countries, paying tax is voluntary because the money collected does productive activities in the communities of the tax payers.
He added that however in Uganda, there are some many taxes but they are misused trough corruption, bribery, nepotism instead of productive activities like infrastructural developments.
Kakonge said that so far 160 members of parliament including Arinda Gordon MP Bushenyi- Ishaka municipality have vowed not to accept the 1%mobile money tax that is to be levied beginning 1st July 2018
Pison Mugizi noted that the government should put taxes on luxuries such as betting beer, pool table other than levying tax on commodities that are crucial to a local person.
Paul Kahigi said that the tax holidays of over 200 billion shillings that have been offered to foreign countries should be stopped immediately.
He explained that this will help the government to raise the money it wants from taxing mobile money.

Elly Muhwezi on the hand noted that government should tax mobile money float instead of levying 1% on mobile money which will affect people directly.
He added that mobile money employ 60,000 youth and all these will be declared unemployed after the above tax is levied and people decide to keep their money in houses . He said that crime will crop up because thieves will start attacking people in their houses looking for money kept there.
Parliament will soon discuss all the taxes proposed including this one 1% tax levied on mobile money

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By Nyesiga Elly
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in KIruhura…..
The office of the president through Directorate for Ethics and Integrity has formed committees and forums in different district in an effort to fight against Corruption.

Alex Okello the Permanent Secretary of Directorate for Ethics and Integrity in the office of the president while launching Kiruhura district integrity promotion forum yesterday at Kiruhura district council hall said that the committee of 17 people chaired by the RDC will help the central government to fight corruption.

Okello noted that corruption is supposed to be fought from the bottom not from the centre because most people who practice corruption deal with the beneficiaries’ therefore local people should be the leading fighters of corruption.
He called upon everyone to come on board and cooperate with the forum that has been launched so that they can fight against corruption in Kiruhura and the country at large.

In her remarks the Kiruhura RDC Catherine Kamwiine welcomed the idea saying that fighting against corruption should not be left to one person but collective efforts must be employed. Kamwiine called upon all people to report cases of corruption and that they should not fear as the government has the law to protect them, therefore they should feel free and fight the evil.

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