In Brief

Mwiri College students riotJINJA — Two Busoga College Mwiri students identified as Abili Moses and Peter Isabirye were admitted to Jinja main hospital with serious injuries following a violent strike that left the deputy headmaster’s office burnt. The students were injured on Tuesday night after soldiers fired in the air to disperse the rowdy students who were rioting over the declining academic glory of their school.-----Museveni to visit GuluGULU — President Yoweri Museveni is expected in Gulu this weekend to access the security situation in the north. Sources said the President, who was in the district in March, is to hold meetings with the UPDF command here. The new division commander, Col. Andrew Gutti, assumed office yesterday.-----Cops recover 300 booksLuweero — The police have recovered 300 textbooks and arrested two suspects believed to belong to a racket stealing UPE textbooks. The district Police chief, Godfrey Taire, said Mayambala Sekasi and Jane Nannyombi, a food vendor in Luweero market, were arrested following a tip-off. He said the thugs break into the school stores at night.-----700 guns recoveredKAPCHORWA — The UPDF has collected 700 guns in the ongoing disarmament of vigilantes in the district. Security officials said the army was to recover another 100 guns from vigilantes as part of an exercise to reorganise the force. The officials said the disarmament, which started this month, would help screen weak personnel in the district.-----Speaker hailsKAMPALA — The Speaker of Parliament, Edward Ssekandi, yesterday commended female MPs, saying they have done excellent legislative work. “There is no difference between the male and female MPs. Many women are better than some men. The women have done a good job in Parliament,” he said. Ssekandi was meeting a chinese delegation that was invited by the Movement government at the VIP Lounge in Parliament yesterday.-----Man to hangKAMPALA — A man from Kitagata, Bushenyi district who robbed a hurricane lamp from a home using a gun is to hang, the Supreme Court has confirmed. “We are satisfied that the trial judge rightly convicted Paddy Nashaba and the Court of Appeal made a correct decision to uphold the conviction and the death sentence against the appellant,” a panel of five justices concurred yesterday.-----Ex-envoy freeKAMPALA — Court has acquited the former Uganda envoy to China, Johnson Omunyokol Akol of charges of threatening to kill his former girl-friend. Omunyokol was accused of making death threats on phone to a Standard Chartered bank clerk who had reportedly dumped him.