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Daily Monitor
Wednesday May 05 2021
According to the proposed law, sexual offenders face a Shs40m fine and their data will be shared with Nira. PHOTO/COURTESY
Summary
Green light: Members of Parliament on Monday passed the Sexual Offences Bill, 2019, which if signed into law by the President, will seek to address the various sex offences in the country.
The MPs want a sex offender’s register, which will be linked to the Nira system and information shared within 10 days on conviction of the culprit.
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Persons convicted of sexual offences will have their data registered with the National Identification and Registration Authority (Nira), according to the Sexual Offences Bill, 2019 that Parliament passed on Monday night.
“I have seen in that media that FIFA has put a ban on activities in Namboole most especially hosting international games. This perturbs because it comes at the time our icon [Cranes captain] Denis Onyango is retiring, does it mean government is retiring supporting Namboole? What is taking place in Namboole, I thought Namboole is a facility that generates its own money,” Aagon said.
In May last year, the Confederation of African Federation (CAF) and Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) disqualified the Mandela National Stadium from hosting the forthcoming 2022 World Cup qualifiers, saying the facility is substandard.
The football bodies found the pitch, toilets, pavilion and dressing rooms in Namboole in very bad shape - recommending total renovation. Namboole the country s biggest stadium has been the home ground for the national team, the Uganda Cranes since 2002.
UNEB rules out special exams for national team players
April 16, 2021 UCE students sitting their exams recently
There will be no special consideration for athletes who missed the recently concluded Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) exams while representing the country, the Education and Sports ministry has revealed.
Several candidates on the Hippos U-20 and Cubs U-17 national teams missed their national transitional exams while representing Uganda at the African Cup of Nations in Mauritania and Morocco respectively.
Some of the players who missed the exams include Alpha “Thierry” Ssali, a candidate at Kitante hill school, Travis Mutyaba, a candidate at St Mary’s College Kitende, Oscar Mawa of Gombe high school, Ivan Irinimbabazi from Royal Giants high school and Elvis Mwanje from Masaka SS. The players parents demanded that their children get special consideration to write their exams since they were on national duty.
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