Daily Monitor
Monday May 17 2021
Gulu Town on March 16, 2020. Departments in demand of staff include works, planning, trade commerce, industry and local economic development. PHOTO | RACHEL MABALA
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The term of Gulu District service commission expired in January.
In the absence of the commission, the district has been unable to recruit personnel to fill up key positions in the district administration.
Before dissolving last week, the council tasked Mr Okaka to allocate resources to hire the service commission from another district to conduct the exercise.
Mr Martin Ojara Mapenduzi, the outgoing Gulu District chairperson, said unless such action is taken, the district risks losing billions, adding that certain activities planned in the district budget cannot be implemented without personnel.
The East African
Friday May 14 2021
Invigilators check students at Kibuli Secondary School in Kampala, Uganda, before their examinations on March 1, 2021. PHOTO | DAVID LUBOWA David | NMG
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Kampala.,
In a landmark judgment for the country, Uganda s Constitutional Court has ordered the government to refrain from having students sit for national exams on gazetted Muslim holidays like Idd-ul-Fitr and Idd al-Adhuha.
In a unanimous decision issued on Tuesday, five justices of the court held that government, through the Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb), has been infringing on rights of Muslim students by doing so.
“I would issue a permanent injunction to order the first respondent (Uneb) to refrain from conducting examinations on any day coinciding with any of the relevant Muslim religious holidays to which Idd-ul-Fitr and Idd al-Adhuha,” ruled Justice Elizabeth Musoke, who wrote the lead judgment.