Muha-kanizi on spot over Shillings 90b farmers' cash:

By Yasiin Mugerwa

Posted 29 September, 2014

 

 

The Secretary to the Treasury, Mr Keith Muhakanizi who kept calling himself “ born again Christian” was today pushed on the wall and forced to apologise for the “inefficiencies” in the running of a Shs 90 billion facility meant for helping the poor farmers access cheap credit.

The Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee noted “gross inefficiencies, conflict of interest and lack of supervision of the funds” on the part of Bank of Uganda and Ministry of Finance. Because of lack of supervision, PAC Chairperson Ms Alice Alaso said, the money has gone to the well-off farmers at the expense of the poor farmers and written off more than Shs499 million in bad debts.

On December 3 2009, the Governor Bank of Uganda Prof Emmanuel Mutebile wrote to Ministry of Finance, saying that Bank of Uganda could not monitor the implementation and evaluation of the facility, citing conflict of interest however to date, Mr Muhakanizi had not taken action. The ST apologised for “inefficiency” saying “he is also human”.

The committee expressed concerns about the possible risk to the funds and ordered Muhakanizi to streamline the monitoring of the scheme within one month. Officials from BoU told the committee that they signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Ministry of Finance and clearly STATED that monitoring of the agriculture 

credit facility will not be their mandate.

Mr Muhakanizi returns to PAC next week.

 

But The suffering goes on without any social welfare in this poor African country:

 

Nakasango nga asindika kitawe bagende okusabiriza ssente.

 

Taata Omusoga ava e Iganga ate nga mulema oluusi antuma okumugulira bamalaaya wano mu Kampala:

 

By Lawrence Kitatta

 

Added 21st September 2016

 

Nakasango anyumya bw’ati:

Nzuukuka ku makya ng’obudde tebunnakya ne tutegula ebikunta oluvannyuma taata bw’aba yeetewuulizzaako mu kaveera nkakwata ne nkasuula mu kipipa kya Kcca ekiri e busukkakkubo. kyokka oluguudo ndusala mmagamaga emmotoka zireme kunkoona.

Bwe tuba twasuze n’amazzi tunaabako mu maaso era tunywako oluusi ne njolekera Kiswa gye nsoma mu P1.

Taata eyandibadde ampa ssente za bodaboda okuntwala ku ssomero ate nze mba nnina okumusindika ku kagaali nga tuva e Lugogo we tusula ku mulyango gwa GTZ.

Olumu ku ssomero anzigyayo ssaawa 4:00 ne tugenda ku kkubo gye tusabiriza. Olumu nsoma naye olulala nnemererwa.

Olusoma oluwedde nakola ebibuuzo era okuva olwo saaddayo kusoma. Buli lunaku tuzunga ekibuga kumpi okukimalako ne mpulira nga n’obugere bunfuuyirira.

Kasango ng’azingako akaveera akakola nga bulangiti e Lugogo okumpi ne siteegi ya New Vision, we basula ate Nakasango nga yeetereza batandike olugendo lw’okubuna ekibuga nga basabiriza.

 

Naye taata bw’atuuka ku kaserengeto olwo ng’anteeka mu maaso ng’akagaali kayiringita. Taata yangamba nti maama wange ye Nasim Namulondo abeera Iganga era gye yanzigya okundeeta e Kampala okutandika okusabiriza ku luguudo.

Enkuba bw’etonnya mu budde obw’ekiro olwo ne tuyimirira ku lubalaza we tusula olumu n’okutukuba etukuba naddala ng’erimu kibuyaga.

Obudde buli lwe buziba mba mu kweraliikirira. Taata oyo talina nsonyi antuma okumuyitira bamalaaya ekiro!

Omanyi bwe tuba twebase nsula ku ludda kw’assa ebigere wabula olumu ngenda okusisimuka nga mpulira anninnya mu maaso, ngenda okulaba nga mukazi.

Olumu mpulira n’amaloboozi ekiro naye nga sirina kyakukola. Bw’aleeta bamalaaya nga sinneebaka olwo nsituka busitusi ne ntuula ku kkubo mu kayumba ka siteegi ya New Vision okutuusa lwe bamaliriza naye ate olumu nneekanga nsuze awo. Olumu antuma e Nakawa ngule sooda.

Wano nga beetegeka okugenda.

 

TAATA YANZIBA AWAKA

Bwe yali yaakandeeta okunzigya mu kyalo ng’annyambaza nnyo engoye z’abalenzi nga tayagala bamulaba kumanya nti ndi muwala naye kati nange nnyambala ngoye z’abawala.

Nzijukira nali mbeera ne maama wange ne jjajja, twali tuzannya ne baganda bange be twabeeranga nabo awaka, abakulu tebaaliwo kw’olwo taata yajja awaka n’anzibawo n’antwala ewa jjajja omulala.

Ono kirabika ye maama we amuzaala wabula nga naye saamwetegereza bulungi era simumanyi. Taata bwe yawulira nti gye yanzigya baali batandise okunnoonya kwe kunzigyayo n’andeeta e Kampala.

Kye nzijukira twatuuka kiro era ekkubo eryatuleeta sirimanyi naye angamba nti ewaffe Iganga we wali ekyalo kyaffe.

Wabula okuva lwe natandika okubeera ne taata embeera tebeerangako nnyangu kuba ennaku ezisinga tusiibirira capati n’amazzi emmere tugirya lumu na lumu ate tugirya Kataza Bugoloobi kuba we wali eya layisi gy’asobola okugula.

Eno ku 1500/- tufuna ebijanjaalo n’akawunga ate ennyama ya 3,000/- naye ennyama emirundi gye nnaakagiryako mbala mibale ate essowaani tugigabana.

 

There is no official national register of pensioners in the country of Uganda:

10 June, 2016

 

By Nelson Wesonga, Kampala

 

Government says it does not have records of pensioners due to “lack of data and personal files.”

According to the ministry of Public Service, many pensioners do not show up for verification thus leading to delays in payment of their monthly dues and the once off gratuity.

The State minister for Public Service, Mr David Karubanga told MPs during plenary that the ministry will, carry out a census and biometric validation of pensioners starting February 20.

“The ministry of Public Service does not have a national register of pensioners,” Mr Karubanga said yesterday.

“Despite the decentralisation of pension management, a number of votes [ministries] have not verified the records on the payroll.”

A day earlier, Aruu Member of Parliament, Odonga Otto had told the August House that many pensioners have not been paid for several months.

Many were, therefore, depending on their relatives – who already have other financial responsibilities – to pay their bills or to buy basics.

Those without relatives are borrowing items from shopkeepers.

Shopkeepers though can only lend them for a few months expecting to be paid once they get their gratuity.

Following Mr Odonga’s remarks, the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga said the government was treating the senior citizens disrespectfully.

On Wednesday, Mr Karubanga also said the Public Service ministry had for the last four years not carried out verification of pensioners “due to funding shortage and lack of clear addresses" [of the pensioners].

The verification of the pensioners will be done between February 20 and March 24 at the district headquarters by Face Technologies.

According to Mr Karubanga, Face Technologies will do the work, which the ministry failed.

However, it is still not clear how much the ministry will pay the company.

Face Technologies is the company that processes driving permits for motorists.

Workers Members of Parliament Margaret Rwabushaija and the Erute Member of Parliament Jonathan Odur said the government should tell Ugandans when it would pay the pensioners all their arrears.

Mr Karubanga said payments are the responsibility of the Finance ministry.

All that Public Service does is to furnish the Finance ministry with the particulars of the claimants.

 

 

OBWAVU BUTUUSIZZA ABAZADDE OKUSUULA ABAANA WANO E BUGANDA

Posted on 15th December, 2014

There are 300 girls on records in The western province of Uganda who have been defiled in a year without the police being able to help out:

9th March, 2017

UGANDA, RAKAI/SEMBABULE. At least 306 girls were defiled in Rakai District last year, a new survey has revealed.
According to the survey titled ‘Status on child protection in Rakai District,’ carried out by the district probation office, another 64 girls below 17 years disappeared from their parents’ homes and are believed to have engaged in early marriages.
“According to the information we have, more than 3,362 children between the ages of 10 and 17 are already mothers as a result of early marriages,” the report reads in part.
Speaking during the launch of the renewed campaign on violence against children including child sacrifice at Rakai District headquarters on Tuesday, Ms Suzan Nakawojwa, the district probation officer, said there is a lot of stigma surrounding defilement since some family members and people close to the victims are often the perpetrators.
“Many victims choose to suffer in silence and do not report such cases to my office and police. This has somehow frustrated our efforts to fight this crime,” she said.
The report further indicates that three children were reported to have died as a result of ritual sacrifice, two due to torture inflicted on them by their parents, 19 were abducted while six were stolen from their mothers.
Ms Justine Nakayenga, the facilitator of child sponsorship and development at World Vision-Uganda, said they decided to re-energise their efforts due to the increasing violation of children rights. She said the new campaign will be rolled out in three districts of Rakai, Buikwe and Nakasongola and will focus mainly on the two most affected sub-counties in each district.

Statistics
“In Rakai, Kyalulangira and Lwamagwa were selected depending on the information released by National Population Census of 2014, which indicated that a total of 664 children married below the age of 17 as 600 children below the age of 17 from both sub-counties had given birth,” she said.
Mr Latif Nakibinge, the district Grade 1 Magistrate said: “As judicial officers, we don’t fail justice in such matters, but parents and guardians do. After reporting the matter to police, they simply return home and sometimes fail to provide evidence to pin the suspects.”

editorial@ug.nationmedia.com

 

Abaana abato ababazadde Abasiraamu bagaliddwa ku Police nabazadde baabwe! 

 

Some of the arrested children at Kira Division Police Station in Wakiso.

Photo by Abubaker Lubowa 

By Stephen Kafeero

 

Posted  Thursday, March 19  2015 

 

Kampala. Six days since 24 children between two and 12 years were rescued from suspected terror cells, no one has come out to claim them.

Addressing journalists at Kira Divisional Police headquarters, Police spokesperson Fred Enanga appealed to the public to provide information, if any, so that the children can be reunited with their families.

“We want the public to identify these children because their parents have not claimed them to-date. The children are very young, they are missing their childhood and are already detached from the love and care of their parents.”

On March 13, Mr Enanga says police officers raided the home of Hajati Mariam Uthman in Mpoma, Mukono District, and recovered nine children. 

The following day, Mr Enanga adds, police raided the home of former ADF operative Hajji Abdul Rashid Mbaziira in Namawojolo, Mukono District, where they recovered 14 children. The children claimed Mbaziira is their father. Police later rescued another child from Namayingo District. They suspect that all the 24 children were being radicalised. 

“They were being taught under facilities which are not recognised or licensed. The children were also hardened and indoctrinated by being told who their enemies are,” Mr Enanga says. Both Mbazira, who was granted amnesty in the past when it emerged that he had been part of the ADF and Uthman together with two others are detained in Nalufenya Police Station, in Jinja District for questioning.

Mr Enanga said police was able to recover valuable evidence from the two crime scenes but could not divulge more information citing that the case is under investigation 

However, one of the children Daily Monitor interviewed said Mr Mbaziira was their father although they have different mothers.

By age 14, Enanga said the children disappear mysteriously but an investigation was underway to find out their destination.

“We discovered that they are taken out through Buvuma Island to an unknown destination and our investigators are looking into it already.”

Enanga also observed that investigations were still ongoing to find out if the parents of the children were either complicit or turned a blind eye to events that got their children here. 

Last year, Police raided several Madarasas which they said were indoctrinating children in the guise of teaching them Islam.

sdkafeero@ug.nationmedia.com

 

 

M/s Elizabeth Nandoola has of recent been accused by Police of practising witchcraft in Uganda.

 

M/s Elizabeth with family and on lookers of her

village community

 

PHOTO

By Simon Ssekidde of newvision media

By Simon Ssekidde:

 

A 62-year-old woman has been expelled from a village over practicing witchcraft which reportedly led to the death of two residents and caused strange illness to others.

Elizabeth Nandaalo,  a resident of Nsaamu village in Kyali parish, Mpigi town council was early this week expelled from the village during a meeting presided over by Muhammad Kazibwe the village chairperson.

Nandaalo was accused among other things of casting a spell on Rosemary Nakibuuka wife to Semeo Tamale that caused her death, and also caused strange illness to eight residents who had misunderstandings with her.

Semeo Tamale narrated to residents who had gathered in the meeting of how Nandaalo came to their home and found her wife cooking food and she started quarreling with her over their 12-year-old son who went to Nandaalo’s place and destroyed her property when playing with his friends.

Tamale said that Nandaalo went ahead and warned them that they were about to witness something strange in their home and within a week his wife died under unclear circumstances.

“She came at our home and quarreled with my wife and warned us that we were to witness something strange and within a week my wife who was not sick died under unclear circumstances” Tamale tearfully told the gathering.

Residents tried to lynch Nandaalo but she fled and sought refuge at Mpigi police station and Inspector Joseph Musana the Katonga regional police commander in charge of community policing intervened and restored order at the village.

Musana warned residents against taking the law in their hands because it will lead to the suffering of their families when they are put in prison.

He however, sensitized residents about witchcraft and said it is a crime and anyone who engages in such acts is liable to a 10 years sentence uopn conviction. 

He advised them to usually report such matters to police for guidance because such misunderstandings have led to loss of lives of innocent people.

Nabakooza denied the allegations.

 

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