1:00 PM NEWS WITH NAKABUYE SHEILAH: Rtd col Dr. Kizza Besigye has lashed at the media for drawing conclusions whenever there is crisis in political parties. The former party president of the main opposition party Forum For Democratic Change (FDC), was speaking this morning during the party’s delegates conference at Mandela National stadium. He also outlined the need for the party members to focus towards free and fair elections and not just preparing to compete in the elections. The confrence is being attended by over 1000 delegates. MEANWHILE: FDC President Maj Gen (rtd) Mugisha Muntu says the impending December 15 National Resistance Movement (NRM) delegates’ conference will mark the beginning of its “disintegration”. There is a new syndicated scheme by some unscrupulous lawyers who forge death certificates of criminal suspects they represent in order to help them escape prosecution, a High Court Judge has revealed. Justice Lawrence Gidudu, the deputy head of the Anti-Corruption Court in Kampala, made the revelation yesterday in Kampala during one of the activities organised by the Justice Law and Order Sector (JLOS) to mark the Anti-Corruption Week. Police in Mubende District is hunting for a man in his 40’s for locking his wife in a latrine blaming her for delivering a dead Child. The OCCid Mubende Police Station Apera John Bosco identified the suspect as Ndabamanyiye Richard a resident of Kilwanyi Village in Butorogo sub-county Mubende District. The defiant members of the Nyangakeibo cult in Kanara Sub County Kamwenge district whose beliefs are against fomal education have slowly started embracing education. The group is also known for preaching against government programs like immunization. In the recent past, the cult members were on spot for refusing to participate in the mass enrolment exercise for the issuance of national identity card and national housing and population census. BUSINESS: Ugandan entrepreneurs have the opportunity to realise their potential by participating in a sh275 billion programme launched in Lagos, Nigeria on Monday. FOREX RATES: CURRENCY BUYING SELLING USD 2,757 2,767 GBP 4,328 4,344 EUR 3,429 3,441 KSH 30.53 30.65 TSH 1.58 1.58 ELSEWHERE: Protests have been held for a second night over the death of a black man held in an apparent chokehold by a white New York police officer. Thousands of people took to the streets in New York and other US cities, disrupting traffic and holding sit-ins.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 10:18:51 +0000
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