Daily Monitor
Wednesday April 07 2021
Children play at a section of the Lubenge wetland in Nakasongola District. Some investors have taken part of the wetland. PHOTO/ FILE
Summary
Authorities claim the delay has put livelihoods of more than 20,000 farmers who derive their livelihood from the water catchment area at risk.
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The authorities in Nakasongola District have accused government of delaying to resurvey Lubenge transborder wetland, part of which is being claimed by some investment companies.
In 2018, the district leaders instituted an ad hoc committee to investigate the alleged parcelling out of large chunks of land and degrading activity at the more than 10-square mile Lubenge wetland that the district shares with Luweero and Nakaseke.
Daily Monitor
Wednesday March 17 2021
Cattle being loaded onto a truck in Wabigalo Sub-county, Nakasongola District, in July 2018. Some residents sleep in their kraals to protect their animals from thieves. PHOTO/FILE
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The rampant theft of cattle and goats in Nakasongola District has left both leaders and farmers restless.
Records indicate that farmers in the district have lost 254 cows and 185 goats in a space of four months.
Police checkpoints, which had been erected on major roads to help identify the stolen animals, have not yielded much.
Now the local leaders have agreed to set up livestock anti-theft committees manned by farmers in their respective villages.
Daily Monitor
Sunday December 13 2020
Police detectives at the scene where two people were murdered at Wabigalo Village, Nakasongola District on December 8, 2019. PHOTO/DAN WANDERA.
Summary
The State prosecution relied on the evidence that included the postmortem reports for the deceased persons, the charge and caution statement of the accused, among other documents exhibited in court.
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The beheading of six people by unknown assailants within three days at one village in Nakasongola District between December 5 and 8, 2019 did not only raise tension in the area but put the country’s security agencies on high alert.
A section of the public and security agencies believed the incidents were a calculated move to cause tension in the country ahead of the festive season.