News in brief

Jan 04, 2009

<b>Student killed over goat</b><br>MASAKA-A mob has beaten to death a senior two student of Centenary Secondary School in Nyendo. Patrick Kiggundu, 18, was nabbed with a stolen goat. The incident took place at 10:30 am on New Year’s Day.

Student killed over goat
MASAKA-A mob has beaten to death a senior two student of Centenary Secondary School in Nyendo. Patrick Kiggundu, 18, was nabbed with a stolen goat. The incident took place at 10:30 am on New Year’s Day. The southern regional Police spokesman, Noah Sserunjongi, said no arrests had been made but the Police were carrying out investigations. The father of the deceased, Joseph Ssali, said: “I know that my son had turned into a disgrace in the village and that many people hated him but it was unfair to kill him. I know the people who participated in the mob justice.” The Police are also hunting for a cattle keeper, Bosco Kyomumpaka, alleged to have hit Scovia Nantale in the ribs using a stick, killing her instantly.

Project to receive sh1b MASAKA-An Irish organisation is to inject about sh1.25b into the construction of a community development centre in Lwannunda, Buwunga sub-county. The project which has already used sh400m for the construction of a vocational institute, St. John Baptist Vocational, will also have a health centre and a women’s microfinance scheme. Speaking at the ground breaking ceremony for the health centre on Wednesday, Uganda’s envoy to Ireland, Sylvia Kateete Gavigan, said the project was intended to boost women’s incomes as well as improve general standards of living. Gavigan,who is also the head of the Children’s Education Development Fund based in Ireland, called upon the Government to take electricity to Lwannunda and other rural areas to encourage rural development.

Politicians cautioned WAKISO-The Archbishop of Kampala, Dr. Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, has asked political leaders to be careful with people who heap praises on them even when they make mistakes. “Leaders must not be happy with the habitual praise-singers because they are dangerous to the development of the country and the common good of its citizens,” Lwanga said. He also advised them to accept constructive criticism, saying it promotes justice, peace and progress. Lwanga was speaking at the celebrations of the institute of the Catholic Brothers of Christian Instruction at St. Mary’s College Chapel in Kisubi on Thursday.

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