Residents of Rubengye Sub County in Buhweju district are living in fear after four women succumbed to a strange illness in this month and one other person is admitted at a health centre IV.

The deceased are Annah Komugisha (27), Jenipher Namusisi (35), Edith Natusasira (40) and Stellamalice Kamaranzi (30).

Peace Tugumisiriza (37) is currently admitted at Nsiika health centre IV with similar symptoms.

Perezi Mutabazi, the Rubengye Sub-County LC 3 chairperson, says he was told that 4 women died while bleeding from the nose and mouth after presenting symptoms of throat pain.

He says that they wrote to the Buhweju district and the office of the district sent a team to test the rest.

Rumanzi has asked residents to report any strange illness to the concerned authority immediately.

Residents who include Nuriat Namarwa and Judith Komugisha say the deceased were complaining of too much pain on the throat.

Pius Manigamukama, a health official from Nsiika health centre IV says they are going to send blood samples from the patient to the virus research Centre to ascertain the disease.

Apparently, there is ‘Ebola scare’ in Kasese,Buhweju and greater Masaka, with the health ministry maintaining that no Ebola in Uganda.

The tension increased early this week following the declaration of death of a Congolese woman who died of Ebola in D R Congo last week after returning from Uganda in Mpondwe market ,Kasese, where she traded in fish.

Police in Mbarara is holding two students of Kakoba College of Computer and Vocational Studies who were on July 18, 2019 morning arrested by Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) patrol in Orubiri cell at 3 AM near Makenke Army Barracks.

The Institute director Mr. Godson Zabashaija says the arrested,who hail from Kasese District,will be dealt with individually since they are above 18 years.

According to a resident in Kakoba Division,Mbarara metropolitan City who preferred anonymity,the accused confessed that they are not satisfied with the food they get at school.

Police is tracing their partners in this ‘strange’ move.

The Minister of Ethics and Integrity,Father Simon Lokodo has revealed that Government is considering closing down controversial preacher, Aloysius Bugiingo’s church known as House of Prayer Ministries located in Makerere-Kikoni Kampala central Uganda.

Lokodo made the pronouncement in a media interview with journalists at Parliament on July 17,2019 in which he described Bugiingo as a fake pastor who isn’t fit to spread the word of God because his own life is devil infested.

Bugiingo was thrown in lime light when video circulated on internet showing in mocking his wife (Teddy Naluswa ) for suffering from bleeding for ten years, an illness Bugiingo said denied him an opportunity to enjoy conjugal rights for a decade, saying a woman bleeding for such a long time does not deserve to be anybody’s wife.

Lokodo said that he has  powers to close the church but further investigations is being done in order to get enough reason for that church to be closed ,adding that  already the church is going to be closed because the faithful is going to walk away from it.

He said that the investigations are going to be expedited because it is the outcry of the people and the closure would act as a warning to other preachers not to dupe Ugandans.

Lokodo said that it is not the first time Bugiingo is using his church to make controversial remarks and that he has persistently manifested a wrong un-pastoral character that has made many people to conclude that he isn’t a pastor but rather a self-proclaimed pastor because he wouldn’t be making those blunders.

The wandered how can pastor Bugiingo  go all the way as an exemplary leader moreover denounce his wife whom he  have lived with for more than 29years and bore off spring with that one all together is a great manifestation of his unsteadiness in the Ministry.

He said that not only did Bugiingo made a mistake of divorcing his wife but he went ahead to undress his wife in public by disclosing what status she was in.

UCC picks interest to investigate Bugingo’s Salt Media Content.

The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) says it has received complaints from concerned citizens about the nature and broadcast content on salt TV.

Complainants allege that Salt Media has been airing abusive content that violets established standards, directed towards Teddy Naluswa.

Bugingo is apparently in high-gear preparations of wedding his salt media worker Suzan Makula.

A US judge has sentenced Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán to life in prison plus 30 years after he was found guilty of 10 charges, including drug trafficking and money laundering, by a federal court in New York in February.

El Chapo escaped a Mexican jail through a tunnel in 2016, but was later arrested.

 He was extradited to the US in 2017.

He is a former head of the Sinaloa cartel, which officials say was the biggest supplier of drugs to the US.

Speaking through an interpreter just before Wednesday’s sentencing,July 17 2019, Guzmán said in the Brooklyn courtroom his confinement in the US had amounted to “psychological, emotional, mental torture 24 hours a day”.

He also said he had received an unfair trial, accusing jurors of misconduct.

WHO IS THIS DRUG KINGPIN!

Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera is a Mexican drug lord and former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, an international crime syndicate.

Known as “El Chapo” because of his 168 cm stature, Guzmán is considered to have been the most powerful drug trafficker in the world.

Born: April 4, 1957 (age 62 years), La Tuna, Mexico

Full name: Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera

Height: 1.64 m

Net worth: U.S. $14 billion (2016 estimate).

Health ministry and the World Health Organization (WHO) in Uganda have released a joint statement that they are identifying contacts of a person from the Democratic Republic of Congo who visited Uganda to trade in fish in Mpondwe market,Kasese before returning to DRC,where she later died of Ebola this month.

Police have confirmed the arrest of John Bosco Mugisha who has been arrested several times and has been to Luzira Prison on charges of robbery and theft before .

Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson Patrick Onyango on July 17 noon said that the suspect, John Bosco Mugisha, was arrested at Nsike 1, Ndeeba in Rubaga division on Tuesday night, July 16.

“He confessed that Young Mulo (not the musician) his co-accused was killed by a mob on the same day they committed the murder on suspicion that they had stolen a motorbike,” Onyango stated.

They had stolen a motorcycle in Mityana on July 2, 2019, and they were traced up to Makindye in Kampala where a mob pounced on them, killing his colleague but he was able to escape and went to Kabale.

 On June 30, 2019, Mugisha and his colleague murdered Derrick Mulindwa, a resident of Nabweru who they hit several times on the head using a metal bar, in Kakyeka, Mengo in Rubaga division where they were caught on a CCTV Camera and the footage went viral.

Mugisha confessed that they hired Mulindwa at around 4 am and pounced on him shortly after. He grabbed Mulindwa by the neck and choked him as his colleague held the motorcycle.

Mugisha’s colleague parked the motorcycle and used the metal bar to hit Mulindwa on the head after pulling off his helmet. They later fled on the stolen motorcycle.

The Two suspects had surveyed the same area, when they hid the murder weapon before they executed their murder and theft.

Onyango said the suspect is currently being held at Katwe Police Station and will be charged with robbery and murder.

Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries minister,Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja during the official opening of the 27th Source of the Nile Agricultural Show in Jinja, said this will be done to fulfill international market requirements.

Uganda is still facing a challenge of ticks and diseases especially in western Uganda.

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda and other officials are already in Kenya for the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) High Level Business Summit and International Trade Fair to be held in Nairobi, from today 17 to 21 July 2019.

The event will be jointly hosted at the Kenyatta International Conference Center, by the COMESA Business Council (CBC) in collaboration with the Government of Kenya and the Kenya Association of Manufacturers.

On Thursday, June 20, 2019, Hon Peter Munya, Kenya’s Trade and Industry Cabinet Secretary, COMESA Secretary General Chileshe Kapwepwe and Chair of the Kenya Association of Manufacturers Mr. Sachen Gudhka revealed that this is one of the business activations to enhance relations with different countries and business stakeholders.

This event comes at time when COMESA’s is marking 25 since its transformation from the Preferential Trade Area (PTA) thus marking an important milestone in the regional integration process.

COMESA was founded December 8, 1994 and it apparently has 21 Member States with its Secretariat found in Lusaka, Zambia.
The Business Summit will include a Presidential Dialogue where Heads of State will interact with business leaders on key strategies to enhance industry competitiveness and formulate strategies to enhance local sourcing and intra-regional trade.

Sectoral roundtables will also provide a platform for engagement on sector specific issues. The topics will center on Manufacturing competitiveness, Digitization and Trade Facilitation, Digital Financial Services and Regional Payment System, Standards and Quality Issues, Smart and Sustainable Cities and the Continental Free Trade Area.

UGANDA – Buganda Road court has set 1st August 2019 to decide the fate of Makerere University Researcher Dr. Stella Nyanzi, accused of cyber harassment and offensive communication against President Museveni and his Late Mother Esteeri Kokundeka who died in 2001.

Grade One Magistrate Gladys Kamasanyu who has been trying Nyanzi, set the Judgement after rejecting her request to advertise in the newspapers calling for  witnesses to volunteer and testify in her defence.

Magistrate Kamasanyu said she had given Nyanzi and her Lawyer Isaac Ssemakadde  enough time to prepare their defence case, which they have  failed to do  since 26th/June when the Court ruled that Nyanzi had a case of Computor Misuse to answer.

Magistrate Kamasanyu has now closed Nyanzi’s defense case with Nyanzi mantaining that she will remain silent and leave court to decide the case basing on the Prosecution evidence.

Nyanzi has been sent back on remand at Luzira prison where she has stayed since October last year after denying the offence and refusing bail.

Students’ leaders from public universities around Uganda are dragging government and Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) to court over the new move by the tax body to collect tuition on behalf of the universities.

While addressing a joint press conference in Kampala on July 15,2019, the guild presidents from public universities say, the move will cripple service delivery in the institutions.

Julius Katerega,the Makerere University guild president notes that the money they pay to the universities is paid for a particular service which is education, hence should not be collected by URA.

The move to drag govt and URA to court through their lawyers, Kiiza and Mugisha advocates seek an injunction on the new move to have all tuition collected by URA.
The guild president Makerere University Business School (MUBS), Tusingwire Ramulus views the new move as one of the ploys by the govt to siphon powers of the university institutions which will in the long run cause delays in services delivery at Universities.

Dots should be connected that majority of guild presidents subscribe to Bobi Wine-led People Power movement, an opposition wing in Uganda.