Daily Monitor
Wednesday August 04 2021
One of the bridges that was washed away in Kalait Sub-county, Tororo District last month. PHOTO/joseph omollo
Summary
While some residents attribute the issue to shoddy work, leaders say last month’s heavy rain destroyed the bridges.
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Local leaders in Tororo District have appealed to the State House Anti- Corruption Unit to investigate circumstances under which seven newly constructed bridges in various sub-counties have collapsed before being officially handed over to the authorities.
The collapsed bridges are Aderema in Kwapa Sub-county, Komolo in Mella Sub-county, Kennedy and Kadanya in Kalait Sub-county.
Others are Kanginima in Molo Sub-county, Matawa in Nabuyoga Sub-county and Angorom in Morukatipe Sub-county. The bridges were constructed by the Ministry of Works and Transport under the district roads rehabilitation unit in 2018/ 2019.
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Daily Monitor
Wednesday May 19 2021
Mr Samuel Oburu (left), the Kurobudi Primary School head teacher, shows journalists one of the grass-thatched houses that parents constructed for staff of the school on Monday. PHOTO | JOSEPH OMOLLO
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Residents of Mulanda Sub-county in Tororo District have embarked on constructing grass-thatched houses for teachers’ accommodation at various government-aided primary schools in a bid to limit absenteeism.
The residents say lack of staff accommodation has been one of the factors, alongside shortage of staff, lack of classrooms and low pay, that has for long affected academic performance in most government-aided schools in the district.
Mr Alfred Ofumbi, the chairperson of Parents-Teacher Association (PTA) at Kurobudi Primary School, said on Monday that they came up with the initiative two years ago after realising that most of the teachers travel long distances to the school and as result, they arrive late and leave early.
Daily Monitor
Sunday April 11 2021
Summary
Uganda had been liberated – the last liberation. At the time, Gaddafi’s Libya was considered the most powerful militarily on the continent (outside apartheid South Africa) and the loud Amin, considered himself the second most powerful.
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On April 11, 1979, a combined force of Tanzania People’s Defence Forces (TPDF) and Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA), in an operation that shook the African continent at the time, saw the official collapse of Idi Amin’s regime when then Lt Col David Oyite-Ojok announced on Radio Uganda that the regime of murder and terror was no more; Kampala had fallen and Amin and his henchmen - backed by Gaddafi’s Libyan mercenaries and machinery - were on the run.