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KAMPALA - As the countdown to Easter and Idd is on, New Vision has got you covered during this period. 

Through the Editor's Picks Newsletter, where we curate the most interesting and thought-provoking articles and stories from around the web, we bring you bites we think you might have missed and must not miss today:

1. The Karamoja iron sheets saga has many ministers in the eye of the storm including Karamoja affairs minister Mary Goretti Kitutu who was handed over to CID for questioning after refusing to take an oath over the matter yesterday. Government Chief Whip Hamson Obua defended himself before Parliament's presidential affairs committee on Tuesday. New Vision has all the details. 👉 https://www.newvision.co.ug/category/politics/impeccable-record-of-integrity-obua-defends-s-157530 

   'Impeccable record of integrity': Obua defends self in iron sheets saga www.newvision.co.ug

    

2.  It has become an eat-let-man-eat society if reports about Nwoya councillors are true. The councillors have been accused of fraudulently sharing among themselves bicycles meant for LC and parish chairpersons. Local government minister Raphael Magyezi has, therefore, ordered them to return the bikes, else face arrest and prosecution. 👉 https://www.newvision.co.ug/category/news/minister-orders-nwoya-councillors-to-return-b-157557

3. Minister orders Nwoya councillors to return bicycles www.newvision.co.ug

    

3. One of the chimpanzees at the Uganda Wildlife Education Centre in Entebbe, Wakiso district has been named after speaker of the Republic of Slovenia parliament Urška Klakočar Zupančič. 👉 https://www.newvision.co.ug/category/news/slovenian-speaker-of-parliament-awed-by-enteb-157559

   Slovenian Speaker of Parliament awed by Entebbe Zoo wildlife www.newvision.co.ug

    

4. Concerns are being raised by civil society organisations over what they call the Government's underfunding of climate change mitigation efforts in Uganda. 👉 https://www.newvision.co.ug/category/news/govt-urged-to-invest-in-climate-change-interv-157556

   Govt urged to invest in climate change interventions www.newvision.co.ug

    

5. The Forum for Democratic Change party feels Uganda is getting a raw deal in pacifying the volatile eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. It is now proposing that DRC pays Uganda for keeping her peace through the initiative of deploying UPDF inside its borders. 👉 https://www.newvision.co.ug/category/news/drc-should-pay-uganda-for-keeping-her-peacefu-157490

   'DRC should pay Uganda for keeping her peaceful' www.newvision.co.ug

    

7. The Maria Nagirinya murder case is not about to go away, even with the conviction and sentencing of one of the accused to 40 years in prison. However, the end is in sight as the Government has concluded presenting in court its evidence in the murder of the social worker. 👉 https://www.newvision.co.ug/category/news/21-witnesses-testify-in-nagirinya-murder-case-157531

   21 witnesses testify in Nagirinya murder case www.newvision.co.ug

    
8. Donald Trump on Tuesday became the first US president to be arrested on criminal charges, but the 34 felony counts for allegedly falsifying business records are far from the only legal peril threatening the ex-leader as he seeks a return to the White House. 👉 https://www.newvision.co.ug/category/world/new-york-case-just-part-of-trumps-legal-woes-157546
   

   New York case just part of Trump's legal woes www.newvision.co.ug