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I HAD TO CHOOSE WHO SHOULD DIE & WHO SHOULD LIVE: While government officials, particularly those from the Ministry of Health, were assuring Ugandans that the situation was under control during a health workers’ strike a few years ago, intern doctors on duty had to decide who lives and who does not make it, a former intern doctor at Kiruddu Hospital has told Dr Jimmy Spire Ssentongo, the chief organizer of the Uganda Health Exhibition.

In what could have been the first resignation since news of the Karamoja iron sheets (mabaati) scandal broke months ago, reports that Matia Kasaija, the elderly Ugandan minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (MoFPED), had either resigned – or that he was at least pondering voluntarily quitting his juicy position – have been spreading on social media.

The minister gave assurance that personnel who have not received salary increments will do so in due course, adding that all scientists will be paid as per the directive and according to their qualifications.

The Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, Mathias Mpuuga, has challenged the Chinese Ambassador to Uganda, Zhang Lizhong to prevail over Chinese investors not to degrade Uganda’s environment but work towards its protection and preservation.

The Public Accounts Committee (Local Government) has quizzed Bushenyi-Ishaka Municipal Council officials over alleged mismanagement of the payroll which affected timely payment of new employees’ salaries.

A court in the South Western Uganda District of Kanungu has fined an FM station manager Shs200,000 after he pleaded guilty to assaulting a female junior workmate.

State House Uganda has spoken out on reports that President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni has released a list of newly appointed presidential advisors. Reports suggested that Gen Museveni used the appointments to wipe former minister Hajji Abdul Nadduli’s tears and to keep his brother Gen Salim Saleh and his son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba in ‘things.’

Former National Social Security Fund (NSSF) Managing Director Richard Byarugaba has told a parliamentary committee investigating the pension fund that he was a victim of witch-hunt and has never been involved in any acts of mismanagement and corruption as alleged by Betty Amongi, the Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development. 

The management of Kanungu FM has suspended Anita Tumuramye, the female presenter and cashier that was filmed being mercilessly beaten by Station Manager Nelson Twinamatsiko.