The same critics of the “Muhoozi Project” are progressively finding less fault with a member of Parliament being succeeded by his or her close relative on a bereavement ticket
Daily Monitor
Sunday December 20 2020
This indistinct photo taken Saturday night shows suspects after they were arrested at Hill View bar in Nauyo-Bugema town Council, Mbale City. PHOTO/YAHUDDU KITUNZI.
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Police commanded by Mbale District Police Commander (DPC), Mr Fred Ahimbisibwe responded to a call by residents in the area.
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Police in Mbale District on Saturday raided Hill View bar in Nauyo-Bugema town Council, Mbale City at around 11pm and arrested 80 revelers in connection to holding an unauthorized local concert- contrary to the standard operating procedures (SOPs) against the spread of coronavirus in Uganda.
Police commanded by Mbale District Police Commander (DPC), Mr Fred Ahimbisibwe responded to a call by residents in the area who were complaining about the same bar where people had gathered and were playing loud music.
December 20, 2020
KAMPALA, Uganda
The Ugandan second deputy prime minister succumbed to COVID-19 on Saturday, the East African country’s president confirmed.
Addressing a rally in the city of Hoima yesterday, Yoweri Museveni said Ali Kirunda Kivejinja breathed his last at the Mulago National Referral Hospital in the capital Kampala, where he was under treatment for over a month after testing positive for the novel disease.
Medical sources at the treatment facility said the deputy premier spent nearly 30 days in intensive care.
He is the fourth parliamentarian to have died of coronavirus in Uganda in recent weeks. Lawmaker Robina Ssentongo from the town of Kyotera, Rehema Watongola from Kamuli municipality and Faith Alupo from Palissa also passed away after contracting the infection.
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Kyotera Woman MP, Robina Ssentongo succumbs to Covid-19
Friday December 18 2020
Kyotera Woman MP, Robina Ssentongo has died. She succumbed to COVID-19 Friday morning, the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has announced.
Ssentongo who has been representing Kyotera on the Democratic Party (DP) ticket has died at the age of 58.
She becomes the third MP to succumb to COVID-19 in just a space of three months after her counterparts Rehema Watongola (Kamuli Municipality) and Faith Alupo (Pallisa Woman MP) died of the disease.
Ssentongo’s death also comes barely a day after former Masaka district woman MP and the National Resistance Movement (NRM) flag bearer for the same seat, Freda Nanziri Kase Mubanda, died at Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi where she had been admitted.