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The shooting of Col (Rtd) Charles Engola, the Uganda Minister of State (junior minister) for Labour, Employment and Industrial Relations, has not only left the country shocked but has raised more questions on the security of Very Important Persons (VIPs) in Uganda.
A UPDF officer and bodyguard who shot dead his boss, junior labour minister Col (Rtd) Charles Engola, has been identified. According to Information Minister Dr Chris Baryomunsi, the bodyguard was Private (Pte) Wilson Sabiiti.
A ROTTEN SYSTEM FRUSTRATING YOUNG DOCTORS: Despite President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s directive that the emergency health workers who put their lives on the line to treat Covid19 patients be rewarded with employment by the Health Service Commission, concerned officials at the Dr Jane Ruth Aceng-led Ministry of Health (MoH) are yet to recruit these health workers.
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.