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Curiously, some of the shootings or killings have happened in the first week of June or the December festive season, with two of them coming only days before the State of the Nation Address.
Daily Monitor
Monday February 15 2021
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A senior presidential aide has asked the army for unmarked guns in order to conduct “covert operations” despite President Museveni’s June 2018 directive that all guns be finger-printed to stem abuse or use by criminals.
Maj Kakooza Mutale, the special presidential assistant for political affairs, made the demand - whose details this newspaper reveals for the first time today - in an August 10, 2019, letter to the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), Gen David Muhoozi.
This was 14 months after Mr Museveni ordered engraving of all firearms in the hands of security forces so that cartridges retrieved from crime scenes can, through ballistic analysis, be matched to the bullet discharge gun and user.
Fare thee well, Sheikh Nuhu Muzaata Batte
December 11, 2020 RIP: Sheikh Nuhu Muzaata
Sheikh Nuhu Muzaata Batte’s candle burnt out last week December 4, sending the whole country into mourning. There was an outpouring of grief both in the traditional media and on social media platforms.
Many described him as the most fearless cleric of our time. Anybody who crossed him, tasted his wrath, from the mightiest like President Museveni, the Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga to the smallest like Eddy Kenzo or MC Mariachi.
He spared nothing in his verbal arsenal to attack anybody who he perceived as working at cross-purpose to the well- being of Islam, Muslims and Ugandans. That is why when the beloved director for Da’wa [Muslim propagation] breathed his last on December 4 at International Hospital Kampala, the outpouring of grief cut across religious and political lines, writes