Daily Monitor
Monday April 26 2021
Treading new path. Lands minister Beti Olive Kamya arrives at Parliament in October 2019. PHOTO BY ALEX ESAGALA
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Ms Kamya made the declaration during a meeting with the affected persons in Nyamitete in Mutunda Sub-county in Kiryandongo on Friday.
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The Minister of Lands, Ms Beti Olive Kamya, has halted the planned eviction of more than 10,000 locals from a 12,737 acre piece of land in Ndoi Village, Kitwaara Sub-county in Kiryandongo District.
Ms Kamya made the declaration during a meeting with the affected persons in Nyamitete in Mutunda Sub-county in Kiryandongo on Friday.
The land in contention, which is divided into six ranches, was given to three companies in 2017 by President Museveni to pave way for large scale farming.
Daily Monitor
Friday April 09 2021
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Mr Nelson Neisye, the Buliisa District health officer, said the facility, which had been relocated to Butiaba Primary School in September 2020 following flooding of the actual health centre, can nolonger operate in its current location as schools have resumed.
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More than 150 patients of Butiaba Health Centre III in Buliisa District are stranded after the district authorities ordered the closure of the facility on Wednesday.
Mr Nelson Neisye, the Buliisa District health officer, said the facility, which had been relocated to Butiaba Primary School in September 2020 following flooding of the actual health centre, can nolonger operate in its current location as schools have resumed.
Daily Monitor
Friday January 29 2021
Masindi, Hoima, Buliisa, and Kiryandongo districts mainly elected new MPs and ejected incumbents.
These include Mr Joab Businge (FDC), who defeated Bunyoro Affairs minister Earnest Kiiza in the race for the Masindi Municipality MP seat, Mr Kenneth Kiiza Nyendwoha (Bujenje – Independent), Mr Alled Akugizibwe (Buruli - Independent) and Mr Allan Atugonza (Buliisa –NRM).
Mr Nyendwoha said building a foundation of unity for easy lobbying and demanding better services in Bunyoro will be his first priority.
He said he will also lead a joint effort to demand a public university and expansion of Masindi hospital.
“If we work together, we will achieve more for our constituencies to push for what belongs to us,” he said.
Daily Monitor
Monday January 25 2021
FDC presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat held aloft by Police officers after he was arrested in Nakasongola district during electoral campaigns, January, 02, 2021. Voters want the Police act amended to avoid random arrests. PHOTO/RACHEL MABALA.
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Mukasa Abubakari, a law student at Makerere University said parliament can change the act basing on citizens wish but the misinterpretations of the articles by both security personnel and public should be considered first.
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Voters in Bunyoro sub region have tasked their newly elected members of parliament to influence the amendment of the police act and remove sections causing unnecessary arrests of civilians.
Daily Monitor
Monday December 14 2020
The NUSAF project comprises four components that include labour-intensive public works, disaster risk financing, and livelihood investment support. (Representational picture). PHOTO/FILE/COURTESY.
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The World Bank project has a development objective to provide effective income support and build the resilience of poor and vulnerable households in northern Uganda.
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The office of the Inspectorate of Government (IGG) has cleared 79 groups to benefit from the Northern Uganda Social Action Fund (NUSAF) III in Kiryandongo District three years after the process was halted to weed out ghosts.
The groups, which were formed in 2017 from eight watersheds, were meant to receive Shs 2.1 billion, but the then Chief Administrative Officer, Ms Dorothy Ajwang, put the process on hold on suspicion that the numbers had been inflated.