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Rev Muranga detained over Shs40b Banana Project scam

Posted by Unknown Senin, 17 Februari 2014 0 komentar

Rev Muranga (L) being held at Parliament after failing to account for Shs40 billion before the Public Accounts committee yesterday. She was later set free.

Parliament- There was drama at Parliament when members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) ordered the arrest of the head of Presidential initiative on Banana Industrial Development, the Rev Florence Muranga, whom they accused of mismanaging a multi-billion anti-poverty project.

Trouble started after the Rev Muranga, who is accused of mismanaging more than Shs40 billion, refused to take oath with the bible and instead walked away on the committee.
When the out-going PAC chairperson, Mr Kassiano Wadri, insisted the Rev Muranga is put to oath, she said: “I rather lose my job than touch the Bible,” a book she said she respects so much.

“I rather go to prison; I respect my Lord so much that I cannot swear with the bible. I will be taking a risk,” she said yesterday.

After failing to explain why the banana project started without a feasibility study and to account for funds injected in it, Mr Wadri asked the Rev Muranga to “shame the devil” and tell the truth.

“The amount of money involved in this banana project would have run districts, the amounts are not small yet the project has a lot of flaws,” Mr Wadri said, adding, “Even if it requires us to wring our faces, we will do so, but Rev Muranga must answer the questions on this project. This is not a joking matter.”

Realising the Rev Muranga was determined not to take oath, Mr Wadri told her what she was doing was criminal, it’s contempt of parliament and her answers were suspicious and the only way to prove that she was telling the truth was for her to take oath.

Mr Wadri also reminded her that even if she ceases to hold office, she has to account for public funds.

In attempting to elude the swearing bit, Rev Muranga first begged the committee to allow her explain the Auditor General’s queries without necessarily taking the oath since she took one last year when she appeared before PAC.

However, Mr Wadri told her, “that was last year” and that the oath she took expired after which Rev Muranga stood up saying her Lord is bigger than the job.
Mr Wadri then asked the Criminal Intelligence and Investigations Directorate (CIID) detectives attached to PAC to take a statement from her

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GOSSIP:Ex Wafagiyo Singer Edith Is Dead

Posted by Unknown Minggu, 16 Februari 2014 0 komentar

Edith Mutoni, former singer with Wafagiyo is dead

Ex Wafagio Member Edith is Dead

Edith Mutoni passed on yesterday morning at her home in Kasese
Edith has been ill for quite some time. It is rumored that he died of heart failure
Edith, a former girlfriend to raga star Coco Finger, made her mark with her group (Wafagiyo) song Mukidongo.
Her former manager Emma Carlos said Edith’s death was a bitter blow.
Former lover Coco expressed his sadness and told us that he would be connecting from Mbarara, where he has a show tonight, for burial.

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Pastor arrested with 12 children

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Budaka

Police in Budaka District have arrested a pastor in connection with child trafficking.

Mr Martin Otim, the Budaka District police commander, said the suspect, a resident of Namakisyo village in Mugiti, Budaka District had collected 12 children. “The curious residents became suspicious,” Mr Otim said. He added: “They alerted the police, which intercepted 12 children on their way to an undisclosed location in Mpigi District.”

The suspect from Voice of God Church, was accused of registering children between the age of eight and 14 from the eastern region on promises of providing them with formal education.
Mr Otim said the children were intercepted at Bitu Trading Centre. He said the pastor was detained at Budaka Central Police Station on charges of human trafficking.

Matter under investigation
“We are still carrying out more investigations to establish the motive of this (pastor) for registering and taking these children outside the district,” Otim said. “These days, churches have turned into businesses. We suspect an ulterior motive,” he added.

Early last year, security agencies intercepted about 25 children on Buvuma Island on suspicion that they were being taken into rebel recruitment.

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Museveni agrees to sign anti-gays Bill

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Kyankwanzi

President Museveni on Friday told NRM legislators at Kyankwanzi that he would assent to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill passed by Parliament in December last year. The Bill seeks to make same-sex punishable by life imprisonment upon conviction.

President Museveni did not only agree to sign the Bill, he also warned that the promoters, exhibitionists and those who practice homosexuality for mercenary reasons “will not be tolerated” and “will be dealt with harshly”.

The President, who had earlier refused to assent to the Bill, changed his position after a group of 11 scientists from Ministry of Health and Makerere University, led by the director of planning and development at the ministry of Health, Dr Isaac Ezati (who represented Dr Ruth Achieng, the director general of health services), presented to him their findings on whether homosexual behaviour is genetic or not.

Presidential Advisor on Science Dr Richard Tushemereirwe told the president that homosexuality has serious public health consequences and should therefore not be tolerated.
A statement from the NRM Caucus Spokesperson Evelyn Anite reads: “The President made it clear that his work was done and that all he needed was for the scientists to sign the paper they presented since it would be a historical document forming basis for the signing of the Bill.”

Speaking after scientists presented their findings, the President, according to Information minister Rose Namayanja said if the scientists give him a signed copy of their presentation, he will do what he called “the historical job of signing the Bill” into law.

No further debates
After the President made his promise to sign the Bill, sources said the members moved a motion blocking further debate on the controversial Bill and immediately gave him a standing ovation, singing in Luganda: “Mzee Tajja Kugenda, Lwaki Agenda?” —loosely interpreted as “The old man (president Museveni) will not leave power, why should he?”

In a letter to Speaker Rebecca Kadaga dated December 28, 2013, Mr Museveni said it was the government’s job to “rescue” young people from being gay, and he accepted the premise that someone who lures a youth into “disgusting behaviour” should face life imprisonment.
However, initially he refused to sign the legislation on the basis that it was not properly passed in Parliament as there was no quorum.

External pressure
Government has faced pressure from the donor community to shelve the legislation, which was supported by radical Christian pastors and legislators. UK Prime Minister David Cameron and US president Barack Obama threatened to isolate Uganda if the Bill is passed into law.

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Chinese arrested at JKIA over ivory smuggling

Posted by Unknown Sabtu, 15 Februari 2014 0 komentar

A Chinese suspect attempting to smuggle 0.68 kilogrammes of ivory from Maputo to China was arrested at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Friday night.

The suspected ivory smuggler, Ou Kaiming, 32, will spend the weekend in police custody after he was arrested while boarding a Kenya Airways flight in Nairobi.

He is due to appear at the Makadara Law Court Monday morning.

The suspect is the third Chinese in as many weeks to face the full brunt of the new Wildlife Conservation and Management Law 2013.

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Gunmen kill police boss

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KAMPALA

Kajjansi Police Station boss has been shot dead by gunmen raising more questions on who is behind the killings of police officers.

Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police, Joseph Bigirwa, who was responding to an armed robbery of a petrol station and mobile money shop less than 30 metres away from his station, was shot and died on the spot at around 11pm in Kajjansi town on Friday night.

Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesman, Mr Ibin Ssenkumbi, described the killing as absurd but vowed police would use all their tools and expertise to apprehend the killers. “Our homicide experts have visited the scene and we are trying all our level best to establish the killers and arrest them,” Mr Ssenkumbi said yesterday.

This is the second police officer to be killed in three days by thugs, and the sixth in less than a year. In many attacks, thugs take police officers’ guns.

On Thursday morning, gunmen with an SMG rifle shot dead a Special Police Constable, Nelson Tugume, at Nalumunye near the Jomayi Estates in a shootout with the thugs. Two of the thugs were also shot dead by the police and a police gun they were using was recovered. It has been established that it’s the gun that was stolen from Mpala Police post last year.

In the Kajjansi incident, Bigirwa and his colleagues heard gunshots at a petrol station and ran to the scene. “We suspect that the thugs had laid an ambush and shot at anyone who was responding to the crime from the police station. Our officer is believed to have been killed in that ambush,” Mr Ssenkumbi said.

Bullet cartridges from an SMG rifle and a pistol were retrieved at the scene, suggesting the thugs were using the two guns. The thugs grabbed Shs10m from the mobile money shop and unspecified amount of money from the petrol station before grabbing a car which they used to flee. The car was later found abandoned at Sseguku along Entebbe highway.

Forensic experts are now examining the cartridges to establish whether they are from the same guns that were used by suspected robbers at an MTN centre in Mubende town last week.
Police engaged the robbers and killed two of them but the rest sped off in a saloon car with their guns. Cartridges picked at the Mubende crime scene were of an SMG rifle and a pistol.

Briefs
Entebbe Highway
- Entebbe Road is the most guarded road in the country. It is 22 miles from Entebbe to Kampala, but it has over 29 police patrol vehicles and 45 motor vehicles. Each patrol car has eight officers and a motorcycle has two officers. In other words, the 22-mile stretch has more officers than those in districts of Agago, Bukomansimbi, Lamwo and Bududa put together. It also has more police motor vehicles than those in sub regions of West Nile, Karamoja and part of Acholiland.

Officers killed
- Special Police Constable Aristo Rwegimana attached to Kawempe Police Station
- Constable Charles Byarugaba, 26, attached to Mulago Police Post at Kalerwe, a city a suburb, and fled with his gun. He was found dead with two gun wounds in the chest.
- Police officer, Tony Omora, was shot and injured at Wampewo Avenue before his gun was stolen.

Number of guns stolen in 2012
- In 2012, 11 submachine guns were stolen but only seven were found. Another 42 submachine guns stolen in different years were recovered last year, according to the crime report of 2012.

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'Juno' actress Ellen Page comes out as gay

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Actress Ellen Page, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in "Juno," came out as a lesbian on Friday at a Las Vegas conference for gay teens.

"I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission," the 26-year-old actress said in a speech that drew roaring support from an audience at the Time to Thrive conference sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign.

"I'm here today because I am gay. And because ... maybe I can make a difference," she said. "To help others have an easier and more hopeful time. Regardless, for me, I feel a personal obligation and a social responsibility."

Page, who in 2007 played a pregnant teen in "Juno," has also starred in "Inception", "To Rome with Love" and "X-Men: The Last Stand."

Page is also working on "Freeheld," a drama about a terminally ill police detective fighting to assign her retirement benefits to a lesbian lover.

Page said in her speech that she suffered for years because she was scared to be public about her sexuality.

"My spirit suffered, my mental health suffered and my relationships suffered," she said. "And I'm standing here today, with all of you, on the other side of all that pain."

The Human Rights Campaign, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy group that posted her speech on its website, congratulated Page for completing the "deeply personal and arduous journey" of coming out.

Page in her speech also praised others who have taken similar steps, such as athlete Michael Sam, who announced he was gay this month and could become the National Football League's first openly homosexual player.

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