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As it happened: Uganda Today - Tuesday, October 29

Oct 29, 2019

It is pulling and shoving as the drivers who ply the Kampala-Entebbe route flex muscle over stage rights at the Usafi Market taxi park.

ROLLING NEWS THROUGHOUT THE DAY


Presented by Joseph Kizza

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(Scroll down page for earlier updates)

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3:10pm |   Free to Shine campaign

Earlier today, the health ministry launched the Free to Shine campaign aimed at keeping mothers and babies in care to end childhood AIDS.

This was at Kawempe Hospital.

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2:47pm |   On a light note

Found this interesting . . .

 
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2:33pm |   Vipers out to extend lead

Table toppers Vipers will be hoping to extend their lead at the summit when they play 7th-placed Kyetume in today's early kickoff at Mandela National Stadium, Namboole.

The Venoms have yet to taste defeat this season - a campaign that has seen them register six wins and three draws in the nine games played thus far.

Their last game ended in goalless draw with Onduparaka.

Vipers will be facing a Kyetume side that have a played a game less, and whose last two games have been wins (against Proline and Bright Stars). It has been a mixed home run for the side, having lost two of their four games played at home this season.


Meanwhile, BUL, who are second on the log, have lost only two games so far. Their last one was their previous game - against Vipers (2-1). Their first loss of the campaign was at home (against Busoga) and today, BUL will be hoping to stay in touch with Vipers at the top. Can they outwit a Bright Stars side that have yet to get a win this season, a run that has left them deep in the relegation battle?

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2:15pm |   Today in the Uganda Premier League

We have local league action today.

Kyetume v Vipers (4.00pm)

BUL v Bright Stars (4.30pm)

Express v Busoga (4.30pm)

Police v Wakiso Giants (4.30pm)

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1:45pm |   Education minister issues statement on Makerere



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1:43pm |   Education minister issues statement on Makerere


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1:30pm |   Usafi Market: Melee at a taxi stage

It was pulling and shoving as the drivers who ply the Kampala-Entebbe route fought over stage rights at the Usafi Market Taxi Park.

The Entebbe route drivers have been relocated to the Usafi Market park from the Old Taxi Park in new traffic flow changes by KCCA and UNRA. On Tuesday morning, they were engaged in an altercation with their counterparts who have been already been operating at Usafi.

Apparently, the drivers from the Old Taxi Park claimed the post displaying the routes at the stage. This irated their Usafi counterparts, who felt that they have more rights over the way things should be run at this stage.

 

 
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12:53pm |   Empowering women

By Timothy Murungi at Parliament:

The Women's International Peace Centre and Uganda Parliamentary Women's Association ( UWOPA)  are interfacing with women politicians from DR Congo and South Sudan at Parliament for experiential learning and benchmarking best practices on women empowerment.

 

 
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12:44pm |   'Lift the age limit of bus drivers'

Yunus Kiggundu, the United Bus Drivers Association (UDBA) chairperson, has asked that the age limit of bus drivers be lifted from 65 years, reports New Vision's Timothy Murungi from Parliament.

He says drivers who are above 65 years are better experienced and should continue operating vehicles even after that age.

 

 
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12:30pm |   Common symptoms of stroke

Godfrey Ojore in Soroti:

Soroti Fruit Factory has turned into a point of study interest.

The pupils of Soroti-based Tubur Primary School Soroti, led by their head teacher Richard Okiria, are among the latest groups to tour the facility, which produces mango and orange juice.

It is understood one of the target customers of the juice is Uganda Airlines. It has also hit Kampala supermarkets.

 

 

 

 
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12:17pm |   Common symptoms of stroke

According to information by the World Health Organisation, the most common symptom of a stroke is sudden weakness of the face, arm, or leg, most often on one side of the body.

Other symptoms include sudden onset of:

• numbness of the face, arm, or leg, especially on one side of the body;

• confusion, difficulty speaking or understanding speech;

• difficulty seeing with one or both eyes;

• difficulty walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination;

• severe headache with no known cause; and

• fainting or unconsciousness.

WHO is saying that people experiencing the above symptoms should seek medical care immediately.


RELATED: What is takes to recover from a stroke

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12:12pm |   Today is World Stroke Day

Today is World Stroke Day and the World Health Organisation has provided guidelines for keeping in the safe lane:

Quit smoking and limit alcohol, control high blood pressure and high cholesteroal, manage diabetes, watch yout waist and weight and most importantly, eat healthy.

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11:53am |   Today's Ras Toon

A woman in Ngora district is married to three men, who all live in one compound with conjugal rights managed by roster.

Read the story HERE.


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11:39am |   Cabinet decisions this week

Every week, Cabinet sits to make key decisions.

On Monday, the ministers convened at State House Entebbe and resolved the following:

• Approved the proposal of declaring of the 100-metre protection zone of the Nile River Banks and the three central forest reserves of Kalagala, Namavudu and Nile Bank in the extended Kalagala-Itanda Offset Area (EKIOA) as Kalagala- Itanda Special Conservation Area to ensure its legally binding, long-term conservation and protection.

• Approved the amendment of the Statutory Instrument on declaring the extended Kalagala - Itanda Offset Area (EKIOA) as a Central Forest Reserve in compliance with the laws on land acquisition and the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda.

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11:27am |   Physical Infrastructure Committee meets operators

 
By Timothy Murungi at Parliament:

Bus, boda boda and tuk-tuk operators are meeting Parliament's Physical Infrastructure Committee to present their views on the Traffic and Road Safety (amendment) Bill. The 30-strong team are appearing before the committee chairperson, MP Sekitoleko Kafeero.

 

 
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11:17am |   What's happening in Parliament today

A peek into Parliament . . .

• The Physical Infrastructure Committee is receiving submission from boda boda riders on the Traffic and Road Safety Bill.

• The Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) is meeting petitioners who lost properties to defunct banks.

• The Health Committee is receiving a petition from intern doctors.

• The Public Accounts Committee (Central) is meeting officials from Makerere University Business School (MUBS) on queries within the 2017/2018 Auditor General's Report.

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10:50am |   Giraffes reintroduced to Pian Upe Wildlife Reserve

A statement by UWA says that Dr. Panta Kasoma, representing the chairman of UWA Board of Trustees, presided over the release of the giraffes into the wild. Leonard Wamakote, who is also part of the board, UWA management and leaders of districts neighboruing the reserve and community members witnessed the exercise.

Kasoma is quoted as saying that the reintroduction of giraffes into Pian Upe Wildlife reserve is in line with UWA's strategic objectives, among which is the reintroduction of extinct species.

"This exercise addresses one of our key conservation objectives of restoring and managing viable populations of extinct or endangered species. We are happy that we now have giraffes in Pian Upe after very many years, and we hope this will further enhance tourism in the reserve," he said.

He added that on top of increased tourism, other benefits such as employment, sale of food and crafts as well as accommodation, increased revenue sharing and other indirect economic benefits will be realised.

Charles Tumwesigye, UWA's deputy director of field operations, said that in a bid to boost the tourism potential of Pian Upe Wildlife Reserve, UWA last year translocated 92 impalas into the reserve. The authority's efforts, he added, have seen a rise in the roan antelope, eland antelope, zebra, hartebeest and cheetah populations.

On Monday afternoon, New Vision's Godfrey Ojore snapped the giraffes being moved through Soroti town headed for Pian Upe in Karamoja.

 
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10:42am |   Giraffes reintroduced to Pian Upe Wildlife Reserve

Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has released the first batch of five Rothschild giraffes into Pian Upe Wildlife Reserve.

Monday night's move is part of the reintroduction exercise that UWA says will see a total of 15 giraffes reintroduced into the reserve. Five of these are male and 10 female.

The giraffes have been translocated from Murchison Falls National Park.

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10:23am |   Police statement on security at Makerere

 

Here is the statement issued by Police spokesperson Fred Enanga:

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As you are all aware on the 22/10/2019, police and sister security agencies intercepted 12 female students from the main Gate at Makerere University while rallying other students to join them and march to Parliament, in protest against the fees policy. The policy was approved, following a report by a special Committee of Guild Representatives that recommended for a 15% increment on all Undergraduate programs, in the Academic year 2018/2019. The policy does not affect continuing students.

The 12 suspects were taken into protective custody at Wandegeya police station, and released in the evening. The following day of 23/10/2019, the ring leader, Siperia Molly, was dismissed and her Master Card sponsorship withdrawn by the University management for spearheading the strike. This could have triggered the asthmatic attack she got where she was admitted at Mengo Hospital. She was not abducted and raped as claimed by some propagandists.

The demonstrations progressed into day two and was dominated by male students who provocatively threw stones at the security personnel on patrol and thereafter escaped to their halls. One student, who was identified as Mutatina Seiz, posted a fake photo on social media, of Lt.Col Rashid Kawawa, who died in a fatal accident at Namungoona. He claimed the officer had been killed by rioting students at the University, which was false. He was arrested and charged for spreading harmful propaganda.

On the 24.10.2019, at around 10pm, students from Lumumba hall, led by their Chairman Olwit Emmanuel, became rowdy and started blocking the roads along Mary Stuart, Lumumba and St Augustine. The Chairman is a reknowned ringleader of several strikes within Makerere. He was also actively involved in the recent strikes at Kyambogo University.

Upon further evaluation of the security situation, it was agreed that there was need to smoke out the student ringleaders   who were using Lumumba hall as a tactical base. They were followed into the hall and some escaped through the windows. Till this stage we have not registered any complaints of torture by security personnel against the students.

female stduent protester being arrested during the recent fracas at akerere niversity A female student protester being arrested during the recent fracas at Makerere University

 
On the 20.10.2019, at about 9.00am a group of journalists were found inside the Guild Offices, holding a press conference with students with disabilities. They were asked to disperse and avoid fueling the strike. They made noise and left. None of the disabled students was arrested or manhandled as alleged on social media.

We want to inform the public that we have a mandate to constantly promote rule of law, by preventing crime and breach of peace at the University. We were able to build on intelligence which revealed the objective of the protests as disrupting the smooth running of the university.

We are meanwhile actively investigating claims of third party involvement by individual politicians and political groups that are funding and encouraging the students to riot. They are funded through a mobile money point in Wandegeya. Such actors continue to hide behind the guise of freedom of expression, to issue inflammatory statements that are dangerous and harmful to society.

We are also concerned by the dangerous rhetoric being played out in the media that falsely accused the security agencies for meting violence on the students. Their reporting is biased and distorted. They betray the truth and repeatedly mislead the public, when they do not show rioting students attacking other students in the lecture rooms; the infiltration of non student actors in the strikes, involvement  of former students who have over stayed at campus, the fact that the strike was led by 2nd /3rd years who are not affected by the fees policy,   the plans by ringleaders to export the violent strikes to other Universities like MUBS, the rampant abuse of drugs and other substances by sections of students at night.

It is also inconceivable that students would consider rioting at night, including taking riots to the neighboring suburbs like Kikoni, Nakulabye and Wandegeya.   We have also learned that some students with strong political ambitions are using this opportunity to position themselves as strong defenders of student interests and good mobilizers in preparation for the next Guild Elections.

We would like to remind all stakeholders that the police is responsible for providing security and keeping law and order at the university. And whenever, it deems fit it enlists the assistance of sister security agencies including the UPDF. We would like to add that the current joint deployment was effected on the 1st September, 2019 before the strike and should not be misinterpreted.

We would like to thank everyone who boycotted the illegal protests and demonstrations. We would also like to use this opportunity to encourage organizers of all forms of protests to always engage and cooperate with police, to ensure protest activity is conducted safely and lawfully.

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10:10am |   Multi-award winner Eddy Kenzo

 
Eddy Kenzo has also won numerous national and international awards and in 2015, he became the first Ugandan to win a BET award. 

Check out what he has in his awards cabinet . . .


• Pearl of Africa Music Awards (2011) - Best New Artist

• BET Awards (2015) - Viewer's Choice Best New International Artist

• HiPipo Music Awards (2015) - Best Use of Social Media

• All Africa Music Awards (2016) - Best African Collaboration

• Zanzibar International Film Festival (2016) - Best East African Music Video Award

• TUMA Music Awards (2017) - Artist of the Year, Best Male Artist 

• All Africa Music Awards (2017) - Best East African Male Artist, Song of the Year

• Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards (2018) - Favorite African Star

• International Reggae and World Music Awards (2018) - Best African Entertainer

• Africa Muzik Magazine Awards (2018) - East African Artist of the Year

• African Entertainment Awards (2019) - African Entertainer of the Year


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10:00am |   'Thank you for your encouraging remarks'

After his meeting with the President, Eddy Kenzo took to Twitter to thank his followers for "your encouraging remarks".

In his post, he said he would hold a press conference to talk about what transpired in their meeting at State House, Entebbe.


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9:57am |   Kenzo's story is one of resilience - Museveni

Last evening, I signed off by telling you that President Yoweri Museveni was due to host musician Eddy Kenzo, whose real name is Edrisah Musuuza.

Well, they did.

Museveni paid tribute to the award-winning artiste, saying his story is one of "resilience and hard work".

Kenzo returned home seven days ago to a hero's welcome after winning the African Entertainer of 2019 award at the African Entertainment Awards in the US.


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9:50am |   Traffic flow

Outside, high above us, the skies are struggling to clear here in Kampala. The traffic jam has been a constant feature on the roads, with bumper-to-bumper flow reported in many areas this morning.

In some places, though, the traffic flow - aided by traffic Police officers - is okay.

Humidity is at 92% while winds are travelling at a good 5km/hr. Chances of rain later today? High, if you asked me.


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9:45am |   Today's motivational quote

How about we start this page off with some dose of motivation, huh?

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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Pope Paul VI


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9:40am |   Good morning

Hello and good morning everyone. We are well into the third-last day of this month.

How time flies!

 

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