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By: Egonda Emmanuel Anelka Mbale Resident District Commissioner Suleiman Baraza Ogajo has threatened to arrest journalists who misrepresent facts regarding the work done by the District COVID-19 Task Force. Ogajo sounded the warning today while receiving more than seven tones of maize flour from Mbale District Woman Member of Parliament Connie Nakayenze Galiwango. Nakayenze also handed over sugar and salt. According to Ogajo, the Mbale District Task Force has done a commendable job and journalists must report the facts. Connie Nakayenze Galiwango the Mbale District Woman MP said that she has used the 20 million shillings given to every legislator to purchase food and other essential items. Nakayenze said she could not return the money yet several people in Mbale need food. Nakayenze also urged the District Task Forces countrywide not to politicize their work. She said that the country is battling the COVID-19 pandemic which is a matter of life and death and so politicking can wait.

The woman member of parliament for sironko district Nambozo Florence Mayoga has today handed over a donation of 4 Metric tons (4000kg) of Maize Flour and 100 cartons of Salt to Sironko district COVID-19 Taskforce towards the efforts to help the vulnerable people that are affected by the Coronavirus pandemic. Nambozo further promised to give any other support that she will have come across, to the people of sironko saying it is not the end of her support to the people but rather a routine character of sharing with the people. She also noted that Giving to the vulnerable is a N oble cause to everyone and the fight against Covid-19 that has ravaged the world can't be fought by an individual but it has to be a collective effort in Solidarity,she has also called upon all other well-wishers and   organizations to come up and support the vulnerable Ugandans.

An aspirant for the Sironko District Woman Parliamentary seat Eve Kayegi has called for an investigation into allegations that vendors at Mutufu market are being assaulted by security agencies. According to Kayegi, she has received reports that vendors operating at the market are going through torrid times with security forces in the enforcement of presidential guidelines issued in the wake of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Kayegi says enforcement of the guidelines is not bad but the vendors should not be mistreated. She claims that some of the vendors’ merchandise is being destroyed as a result. while contacted, Taitika the Elgon region Police Spokesman says they are following up on the allegations. Taitika has however urged all vendors operating in markets to observe guidelines like social distancing if they are to operate without disturbances.

By Kapewo Paul The member of parliament for Budadiri west Nathan Nandala Mafabi has asked the almighty God to strike all Ugandan members of parliament who will eat on the COVID-19 money with the disease and they die. Nandala said this today during an exclusive interview with Elgon FM radio. Nandala said that the circumstances under which the budget was passed to add up the members of parliament to the COVID-19 money were not proper. He revealed that the budget that was brought for passing in parliament was meant to cater for the health ministry to beef up the fight against the new disease Covid-19 that is caused by the noble coronavirus Nandala said  it would have been appropriate to have allocated all the money to the ministry of health to help it fight the Pandemic He also said that the government should also use this time to improve the health systems in the country since the befallen pandemic has revealed the rot in the health sector. He also called upon governme

Mbale District Covid19 Task Force is set to host all street children at San Siro stadium in Bugema stadium. The facility belongs to Child Restoration Outreach-CRO, a nongovernmental organization, which works with street children. According to information obtained by our reporter, the Mbale District Covid19 Task Force plans to start ferrying street children to the facility. They are expected to remain at the facility under the Covid19 lockdown is lifted to avoid contracting the disease. Lillian Nakaweesi, the Mbale Deputy Resident District Commissioner who also chairs the District Covid19 Task Force, says they are working in collaboration with Devoted Youth at Work in Africa, a non-governmental organization to quarantine over 400 street children. She says they intend to keep the street children in one place to protect them from the Coronavirus infection. Dr. Jonathan Wangisi, the Mbale District Health Officer, says the district is trying to decongest Mbale town, saying street

The Foreign Affairs Ministry has rubbished a proposal by Kyandondo East Member of Parliament Robert Kyagulanyi to repatriate Ugandans and Africans stuck in China. In a letter dated 15th of April addressed to the Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda, Kyagulanyi said he has partnered with an American media owner and businessman Neil Nelson to evacuate 285 people from China including Ugandans and other black Africans. He asked the government to allow the people into the country. According to Kyagulanyi, they have secured a privately chartered Quantum Jet Airbus A330-200. In his letter, Kyagulanyi says they travelers would be taken care of while in quarantine. Government has however asked Kyagulanyi, to leave foreign Affairs matters to the President.  The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Henry Okello Oryem questioned if Kyagulanyi will meet the quarantine costs.   Oryem also wondered if Kyagulanyi will also transport Ugandans stuck in other parts of the world. H

The High Court has issued an interim order blocking the Parliamentary Commission from paying 10 billion Shillings to legislators for COVID-19 activities. Justice Esta Nambayo issued the interim orders following an application by the Ntungamo Municipality Member of Parliament, Gerald Karuhanga and his Erute South counterpart, Jonathan Odur challenging the procedure leading to the allocation of the said money.  Through their lawyers of AF Mpanga and Company Advocates, the two legislators contend that parliament breached its rules of Procedure when it smuggled the issues of the said money into the Budget Committee report without the consent of members The Shillings 10 billion is part of the 304 billion Shillings Supplementary Budget approved by parliament on April 4th, 2020 for Covid19 activities.  Each MP is expected to pocket  20 million Shillings. The petitioners note that parliament deducted the Shillings 10 billion from the Health Ministry and Security budget

By Kapewo Paul As the lockdown in Uganda continues biting hard, a man in Sironko district has kicked to death his father for allegedly failing to pay him back Ug Shs 6000 that he has demanded long. the cruel incident took place in Buwogali village, Bufaka parish, Bumasifwa sub-county in Sironko district. Speaking to Elgon FM a resident identified as Masuba Emmanual said the man known as Woyaga James aka Bwacha 58years old was coming from his garden in the evening hours of yesterday when his son identified as Zesiro Alex 30years met him on his way home and started fighting him hence kicked him in the chest area killing him instantly. Masuba also reports that the residents tried contacting the police and they were ordered not to touch the dead body that slept lying on the road all night, as they wait police to come and take it away for post mortem. He also said the believed family has been having family wrangles for some time where the two had kept on fighting on several occasi

Two men who reportedly used the sex workers who came in contact with the Coronavirus positive truck driver in the neighboring Bukedea town are said to have entered Palisa district for fear of being rounded up and quarantined. The COVID-19 Taskforce led by RDC Kyeyune Ssenyonjo is grappling with limited manpower for enforcing safety and preventive directives to avoid the virus. The district, however, does not have pandemic specialists,  The health workers also lack personal protective equipment - PPE. Though the town is in a lockdown, business is booming in small trading centers deep in rural areas, crowding with no protective measures in place. the DPC and RDC have opted for night random police patrols to defiant rural-urban centers far from town. the poor road network worsened by torrential rains is a menace both to Police and health workers. police have, however, impounded  a number of unauthorized vehicles and motorcycles, up to date , the district has no suspected

Police in Mbale have impounded several cars and motorbikes whilst occupants have been detained for flouting directives. Non-essential entities including Hardware stores that had defiantly opened have been shut down and owners detained. One must need a valid national ID or passport to access Mbale town. Those without identification are being turned off especially along Mbale - Tororo road.

The President of Rwandan Paul Kagame quoted : "Why should someone print paper and hand them over to us as money and let us payback, not with a paper which we also have a right to print? Instead we are required to pay these paper loans in values, resources and efforts! I have come to the realization that this is an act of modern slavery and colonization The fact that African Countries decades after Independence still go after their former colonial masters to be printed paper money still baffles me. Africa needs monetary sovereignty and to achieve this we must build capacity to print our own currency. There is no reason why the West should continue printing money for Africa after all there is no European country which prints its money in any African country so why should we be their economic slaves? Then we wonder why the value of African currency is low? It was by design that to control African economy they have to print currencies for us. Time to break the shac

The Uganda police have launched an investigation to find out how drivers are accessing fake stickers within the city, this has come as surprise to the force since non-essential groups of people that were not granted permission by the president to use the stickers like Musicians and businessmen are already having the stickers. This has prompted the Police in Kampala Metropolitan Area to impounded over 125 motor vehicles, and 57 motorcycles in a crackdown for flouting rules on the movement directive put in place to stop the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID -19). The vehicles were reportedly moving without stickers or when the stickers don’t correspondent with the particulars of the occupants of the car. Speaking at a daily press briefing at the Uganda Media Centre in Kampala, Fred Enanga, the spokesperson of the police said the crackdown was necessitated by an increase in the number of vehicles on the road in some areas, causing even traffic jams. Enanga also reve

By: Egonda Emmanuel Anelka Mbale Resident District Commissioner Suleiman Baraza Ogajjo has given assurance that the relief collected by the Mbale COVID-19 Task Force will soon be distributed to the vulnerable communities. Ogajjo made the revelation yesterday while receiving donations from Mbale Industrial Area Traders (maize flour), Sky Pharmacy (drugs) and State Minister for Trade Michael Werikhe Kafabusa (maize flour). The donations were received by Ogajjo at Mbale Secondary School. According to Ogajjo, they are training Sub County teams before rolling out the distribution of the relief so far received by the District Task Force. Mbale District Youth Chairperson Yahaya Mwanje had earlier on asked the committee to start distributing food since many people were on the verge of starvation following the extension of the stay home request by President Yoweri Museveni by 21 days. State Minister for Trade Michael Werikhe who donated two thousand kilograms of maize flou

By Weswa Ronnie John Baptist Nambesha the Member of Parliament representing Majiya County in Bududa district has refuted claims of getting 20 million shillings. Reports last week that made rounds on social media and blogs showed that the members of parliament of Uganda had agreed on each legislator getting  20 million shillings totaling to 10 billion shillings to use in sensitizing the mass from their respective constituencies about preventive measures of covid19 pandemic. In an exclusive interview with Elgon Fm radio on phone today, Nambesha denied receiving any money so far.  He who whoever said that in case that money is deposited on his account mysteriously, he will ask his people from Manjiya to tell him the appropriate work the money can do for them in the constituency However, he condemned the government for not supporting the health sector through the increment of salaries of health workers, equipping health facilities or buying food for Ugandans who are curr

The spokesperson of Mbale Municipal Council James Kutosi has called upon the government to use the few available resources and equip the various district hospitals with medicine, Scan Machines, Intensive care beds to fight corona instead of buying districts ten(10) vehicles. '' I am wondering why we want to have ten cars for every District and the Hospitals do not have medical facilities for treatment of patients to be delivered by the cars. Why buy cars without scan machines, intensive care beds etc .'' It should be noted that HE. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has occasionally said in his COVID 19 addresses to the nation, that the government would use the few resources that it has to buy at least ten cars for the various District corona task forces to boost their duties within their districts and this has not gone down well with the citizens. what has caused most of the deaths in various countries has always been the lack of enough hospital equipment like intensi

  Three alleged sex workers have been picked from Bukedea town this afternoon by Teso COVID-19 surveillance team in conjunction with the police. The three women under their umbrella Bukedea Team No Sleep spent a night with the truck driver who tested positive for COVID - 19, recently. The driver made a night stop-over in Bukedea town before he proceeded up North a day after his samples were taken for testing from the Malaba border. A few days later he was informed of his Coronavirus status hence his interception from the Northern part of the country. According to the pandemic surveillance team, a couple of men (clients) within Bukedea who also came in contact with any of the three ladies will also be mapped and picked soon enough.

Jane Ruth Aceng has today evening warned Ugandans against associating with truck drivers that they stand a risk of being infected with the corona various.she said this today evening while updating the nation about the status of the disease in the country Aceng also called upon Ugandans staying on the highways to avoid interactions with the drivers and staying away from trading center saying they are becoming high-risk areas in the country for the disease The Minister of Health in Uganda has also  today confirmed that the  COVID-19 patients   Patients in the country remain to fifty-five (55), she said the person who was found positive of COVID 19 was a truck driver from Tanzania and the number remains officially 55 since the rest tested negative,

I was ‘misled’ by the Holy Spirit to announce March 27 Coronavirus deadline – TB JoshuaPublished 20 hours ago on April 16, 2020By  Popular Nigerian Man of God Prophet TB Joshua has said he was misled by the holy spirit to make a prophecy about the Coronavirus pandemic. The man of God who has come under attack from around the world for making a “false” prophecy that the coronavirus would end on 27 March has now come up with an explanation. According to him, when he said the virus would end, he wasn’t talking about throughout the world – he was only talking about Wuhan in China, where the virus first began. On Sunday, the Nigerian prophet had an exclusive interview with Emmanuel TV and responded to questions sent from all over the world. He said he was led by the Holy Spirit “I am not a politician, I just have to give you the message as the Spirit gave it to me,” he said. He said world leaders and scientists keep promoting fear and panic. “They know wha

The speaker of parliament Rt Hon Rebbeca Alitwala Kadaga has told members of parliament to watchout for their seats in their constituencies as they stay locked up in Kampala. she said this while addressing members of parliament during the weekly parliamentary seatings Kadaga who sounded tougher said she has received reports from various constituencies that opponents to Members of parliament are busy giving out relief items like maize flour,beans,and sugar to voters to help them out during the lock down despite the fact that the president stopped all politicians from giving out any relief items during this lock down and anyone caught would be charged with murder. She also said this sounds unfair since these very opponents are telling voters that their members of parliament have forgotten about them an busy enjoying life in Kampala,yet they are locked up and obeying the covid 19 rules issued by the president recently she even took to her Twitter accounted and tweeted the followin

The Income Tax Amendment Bill 2020 has passed into law with amendments, leaving the Finance Ministry counting losses on revenue measures. A proposal to raise the tax on rental income from 20 to 30 per cent flopped after the deletion of clause 3, which had proposed the new tax measure. Withholding tax on land sale transactions other than for the construction of factories was proposed at 5 per cent, but was dropped after being met with stiff opposition from a majority of MPs. During the opening of the debate on the Income Tax (Amendment) Bill 2020 on Wednesday, 15th April 2020, Shadow Attorney General, Hon Wilfred Niwagaba led the onslaught against the proposal. “This is double taxation; it is likely to increase the price of land and sellers don’t want to pay this tax…as a result, land purchasers will become tax agents and this will impact on families that sell land for non-commercial purposes like raising school fees,” he said. Similarly rejected is a proposal to increase tax

The Igara County West member of parliament  Raphael Magyezi has called upon the NRM members of parliament not to reject the 10 Million shillings offer passed recent to help them fight Covid-19,He had this to say during an interview with Tooro Television. "I encourage all NRM MPs not to reject this money, we need to help people with this money. If Opposition MPs don't want to take the money, let them leave it. Actually they should give it to us cause we have a lot of people who call us begging for food.  Opposition MPs think they are too smart but I just laugh at them some times. How can you refuse 20M, don't they have people in their constituencies who are looking for help in these hard times?. I can not return back the money that is meant to help people in quarantine.  The people shouting are the ones going to praise us when we give them help from this money. So my fellow NRM MPs don't be intimidated by these opposition MPs, the rebel MPs and the publi

Below is the up to date list of Organizations and Individuals who have contributed to Mbale District COVID-19 TASKFORCE FUND.  KIDAWALIME BAKERY......... UGX.200,000. Provide 5 loaves of Bread for Quarantine center every day.  WORLD VISION - 200 kgs rice, Disposal Gloves - 40 packets, Protective aprons-100pcs, Hand-washing stations-50 pcs, Infra thermometer guns 09, Jik 30 cartons, Liquid soap-30 Jerricans, Mega phones-50, Support training of COVID Staff teams, support transport of Staff to Health Centers. St.Kizito's Baby's Home: UGX. 300,000, 20 litres of cooking oil,100 kgs of posho. Lulwanda Children's Home: UGX. 7,000,000  Human Rights Activists: UGX. 500,000 and IEC Materials. Jenga: 6 vehicles transporting staff to Health Centers,Sanitizers NWSC - UGX. 340,000/  DFCU - UGX. 100,000 Christian Child Care: UGX. 100,000, posho100 kg and Soya beans 100kg. TAN TELECOMS: 50 pieces of Personal Protection ware, Sanitizers litres, 2 jerrica