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13/06/2023

The state finally drops Omusinga wa Rwenzori Charles Mumbere case after a period of seven years...

21/04/2023

Ministers are slowly returning the ironsheets...more details to come.

Eid Mubarak family , may Allah accept all our fasts.🙏🙏
21/04/2023

Eid Mubarak family , may Allah accept all our fasts.🙏🙏

19/04/2023

The Anti-corruption court in Kololo has today remanded the State Minister for Karamoja Affairs Hon.Agnes Nandutu to Luzira Prison till 3rd May 2023 after she was committed to high court for trial due to dealing with suspect property.
Nandutu, handed in her self yesterday over alleged misuse of iron sheets that were to benefit the vulnerable communities in Karamoja.

19/04/2023

General Muhoozi Kainerugaba arrives at the Gatuna border, lays a foundation stone for Museveni-kagame Market and also plants a tree for his rememberance.

19/04/2023

Breaking news; Sudan war forces 39 out of 59 Medical facilities to close.

SECOND UGANDAN MINISTER ARRESTED OVER ALLEGED THEFT OF IRON SHEETS FOR RELIEF AID.KAMPALA, April 15 - Uganda's assistant...
16/04/2023

SECOND UGANDAN MINISTER ARRESTED OVER ALLEGED THEFT OF IRON SHEETS FOR RELIEF AID.

KAMPALA, April 15 - Uganda's assistant finance minister has been arrested and detained on accusations of diverting metal roofing sheets meant for a relief aid in the restive Northeastern Karamoja region, police said late on Friday

Amos Lugoloobi's arrest is the second of a minister in recent weeks over the roofing sheets' diversion.

Police said Lugoloobi's arrest was authorised by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) as part of "investigations into the alleged theft and diversion of iron sheets meant for the Karamoja region."

"The office of the DPP has sanctioned criminal charges against ... Lugoloobi," a police statement on Twitter said. "As a result, he has been arrested and detained...pending court."

Arrests and prosecution of senior Government officials for corruption are rare in the East African country.

Critics have long cited the failure to prosecute senior officials allied to President Yoweri Museveni for corruption as evidence his government was unwilling or unable to root out graft.

Police did not say when Lugoloobi would be produced in court to be charged.

Lugoloobi could not be reached for comment, and his lawyer is not known at the moment.

Karamoja Affairs Minister Mary Goretti Kitutu was detained and charged last week with several offences, including "loss of public property" and "conspiracy to defraud" over diversion of iron sheets.

Kitutu was accused of diverting 14,500 roofing iron sheets "to her own benefit and to the benefit of third parties." She pleaded not guilty and was detained until Friday when she was released on bail.

Karamoja, in a remote region bordering Kenya and South Sudan, is home to pastoral nomads vulnerable to frequent droughts and deadly cattle raids by warriors who use illegally acquired guns traded across porous borderlands.

Security personnel have been conducting a disarmament program in the region and the roofing materials were meant for distribution to youths to induce them to abandon illegal cattle raiding and other criminal activities.

32 KENYANS ARRESTED OVER ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF GUNS. 32 Kenyan herders have been sentenced to 20 years in prison by a co...
16/04/2023

32 KENYANS ARRESTED OVER ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF GUNS.

32 Kenyan herders have been sentenced to 20 years in prison by a court martial in Uganda after pleading guilty to illegal possession of weapons

According to Brigadier General Joseph Balikuddembe, stationed in Moroto., the 32 herders from Turkana county in northern Kenya were arrested after intense firefights.

UPDF together with Uganda police on April 8 raided a cattle enclosure in Lokiriaut and Lokereyot villages of Nadunget sub-county where Some 31 rifles and 762 cartridges, 19 bows and arrows were recovered in a joint operation by security forces and intelligence services, he said.

Section 119 of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) Act says any person found with weapons, ammunition or equipment that is a monopoly of the armed forces is subject to military law and tried by a court martial.

Balikuddembe said that about 129 suspects were arrested in the operation, but criminal files indicate only the 32 suspects were the ones who were ready for prosecution by Tuesday.

Over the years, Karamoja in Uganda and Turkana in Kenya have been a hub of illegal guns ferried in through the porous borders of Kenya, Uganda, Sudan and Somalia. It is these guns that are used during cattle raids, which have increased in recent times in the two neighbour countries.

12/04/2023

Following the saga of iron sheets, we saw a lot of ministers involved in it, although some came out saying that they found the iron sheets in there compound, some said they distributed them to the vulnerable and others came out and distanced them selves from the stolen items, among them was minister for Karamoja affairs Mary Goretti Kitutu who was remanded last week to Luzira Prisons, well we do not know wether she was remanded because she involved in her relatives or because she was the one responsible for the iron sheets because , anyway the case is still on and it's today at around 2pm that she will be coming back to court for more ruling, we don't know wether her request for the bail will be granted, let's watch the space.

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