Minister for Karamoja Affairs, Mary Goretti Kitutu Kimono has been remanded to Luzira Prison after she pleaded not guilty to charges of corruption and causing loss of public property.
A veil of shame on her head, Karamoja affairs minister Mary Goretti Kitutu Kimono walked from her vehicle into the Anti-Corruption Court based in Kololo in the Ugandan capital Kampala.
An activist has dropped pigs outside Parliament of Uganda in a protest in which he called for the arrest of Speaker of Parliament Anita Annet Among, Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja, Vice President Jessica Alupo and several ministers — besides Mary Gorreti Kitutu — named in the Karamoja iron sheets (mabaati) scandal.
Maj Gen Apollo Kasita Gowa, the Director of Citizenship and Immigration Control (DCIC) at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, has given details on the upgrade of the East African Community e-Passport.
A senior minister and member of President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s government has said that first son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba is not a member of the National Resistance Movement (NRM).
We came up with a proposal, which we intend to forward to government for a 45 km by 20 km City in Nakasongola along the shores of Lake Kyoga. With a 7 km bridge/road across the lake to access the Eastern Route and a 10 lane highway and High Speed Rail to access Kampala.
In a few days our mighty parliament of Uganda passed the controversial Homosexuality Bill. This is not the first of it’s kind the first being in 2014 that was later overturned by our Court of Laws. On top of that, it’s not the first bill our parliament, out of emotion’s, pass Laws for other purposes outside the public eye.
The requirements by financial institutions, whose checklist must be met 100 per cent, the licensing authorities, and now the NSSF Act which requires that all employees must be registered with the Fund, make starting a new venture out of consideration for young people who do not have a lot of cash on them.
HOMOSEXUALITY: I once shared a story when I was at the law school, about the Enguli Act. The Bazungu (Whites) had introduced it in the 1950s. And 20 or so years, there wasn’t a single prosecution or conviction. So when Prof. Kiapi asked, why, it was an easy answer: there were never any EXHIBITS to produce in Court! The Waragi was drunk on site. And what was left would be consumed at the Police Station and the rest by Court clerks and probably the Grade 3 Magistrate.