In brief

Nov 07, 2002

<b>Teacher gets 14 yrs in jail</b><br><b>Police seize passports</b><br><b>Nagginda to raise funds</b><br><b>Burglars take Kakira funds</b>

Teacher gets 14 yrs in jail

KAMPALA — A teacher who turned predator on his pupil was yesterday sentenced to 14 years in prison. Joseph Kasumba, 28, pleaded with Justice Sempa Lugayizi for leniency for defiling his 15-year-old student at Kyebando. Kasumba lured the girl into sex when she took back a book she had borrowed from the teacher, who was a library assistant at Alliance High School. Kasumba committed the offence on February 24, 2001.

Police seize passports
KAMPALA — Security organisations investigating the illegal importation of anti-malarial drugs from China have impounded passports of some top officials of the National Drug Authority (NDA). Following a tip that the controversial Chinese drugs were going to be included in the NDA central data base, the Police and Special Revenue Protection Services last Friday grabbed all computers from the NDA offices on Buganda road.

Nagginda to raise funds
KAMPALA — The Nabagereka, Sylvia Nagginda, will today launch a one-month drive to raise relief funds for displaced children in northern Uganda. The director of Christian Children Fund Uganda, James Ameda, yesterday said they hope to raise sh660m to buy drugs, food and education facilities for children in five districts in the north. The fundraising drive is to be launched at Sheraton Kampala Hotel this morning, Ameda told journalists at his office at Namirembe.

Burglars take Kakira funds
JINJA — Thugs on Tuesday night stormed Kakira sugar works cashiers’ office and stole over sh9.7m. Authorities at the sugar factory told police that the burglars broke the drawers where the money had been kept. Police said eight cashiers share the office. The money was the monthly savings of the employees. The district officer in charge of the criminal investigation department, Hillary odoch, said the burglars were suspected to have used a handsaw to open the entrance to the office.

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