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Man impregnates mother-in-law as she babysits granddaughter

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A  32-year old man in Webuye, western Kenya, has surprised his village after impregnating his mother-in-law. Kelvin Waliuba, according to his wife, did not deny having an intimate affair with her 43 years old mother.

According to MKenya News website, Ms Nekesa, Waliuba’s wife, blamed herself for having invited her mother to help babysit their 5 months old daughter.

“I am full time employee and I don’t have enough money to hire a househelp. I therefore invited my mother to come over and help as I make plans to get a househelp,” Nakesa is quoted by the website as saying.

Mr Waliuba said to be a gardener in a neighbouring school is said to have been sneaking back into the house and engaging in lovemaking with the 43 year old mother.

“According to the mother-in-law, she has been single and therefore didn’t see any problem with what she did,” she is quoted.

“I am not married and was struggling with intense dry spell. I found it hard to reject Kelvin advances,” she is further quoted.

The Kenyan website says Luhya elders are now planning a cleansing ceremony for the family as this is considered as a great taboo.

“This is a taboo. We are going to conduct a cleansing ceremony for him and his mother. The child the mother-in-law is carrying is at great risk,” Mzee Buke, a village elder, is quoted as saying.

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Commit to higher goals, Gen Saleh tells UPDF as Tarehe Sita activities kick off.

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The National Coordinator Operation Wealth Creation Gen Caleb Akandwanaho who also doubles as the Senior Presidential adviser on Defence and Security has presided over the regional launch of the 39th Tarehe Sita Anniversary civil-military activities at Timuna Senior Secondary School, Kasangombe sub-county in Nakaseke District.

This year’s celebrations, preceded by a weeklong medical, sports and engineering activities from February 1-6, 2020, are being conducted under the theme “Consolidating the UPDF Strategic Partnership with the People to Guard the Gains of the Liberation.”

Gen Akandwanaho famously known as Salim Saleh commended UPDF efforts in securing Uganda for the last 39 years, majority of which were spent fighting 27 insurgencies. He added that all of them were defeated basing on the ideology, discipline and evaluation as guided by the Commander-in-Chief of the UPDF Gen YK Museveni.

Ms. Gertrude Njuba, one of the women elders of the Luweero war that brought in NRM government to power.

He urged UPDF to work towards renewing its ideological clarity since the army’s has perfectly managed to secure Uganda’s borders and what remains is empowering the local population. “Inspire yourself and commit yourselves to higher goals,” Gen Saleh noted.

The Chief of Defence Forces Gen David Muhoozi thanked the population for associating with UPDF and urged them to exploit the prevailing peace for socio-economic transformation. “Our next war is to use the peace to enrich ourselves,” Gen Muhoozi said. He also used the same event to launch the 2nd Edition of the Tarehe Sita marathon kit sponsored by Stanbic Bank, Mota Engel Africa and National Water and sewage corporation.

The UPDF Chief Political Commissar Brig Gen Henry Masiko implored the locals in the area to benefit from the free health services that UPDF and its partners will execute throughout the Defence Forces Week.

During the launch, Gen Saleh donated US$3000 cash towards the development of the women poultry and book SACCOs in the area.

The UPDF SACCO pledged Shs30 million towards the same project and more 100 mattresses were donated to Nakaseke hospital by another well-wisher.

The function was attended by Nakaseke Woman MP Hon Najjuma Sarah, Katikamu North Member of Parliament Hon Abraham Byandala, the UPDF General Officer Commanding Reserve Forces Lt Gen Charles Otema, Maj Gen Sam Kawaga, Maj Gen Sam Kiwanuka, senior UPDF, UPF, UPS officers,
religious and local leaders, Ms Gertrude Njuba the NRA bush war heroine among others.

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Uganda ranked second powerful country in EAC as Rwanda fails to appear on global list  

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Geoffery Serugo
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President Museveni who is also the Commander in Chief of armed forces inspecting a guard of honour mounted for him during his visit to Kakiri.

Uganda has been ranked as the second strongest country in the East African Community (EAC) in terms military strength and 15th on African continent.

According to 2019 Global Fire Power (GFP), a US base website, Uganda follows Kenya whose global ranking is 86 and 15 in Africa with 1.4177 power index rate.

Uganda is ranked 93 out of 137 countries currently considered for the annual GFP review. It holds a power index rating of 1.5802.

Tanzania is raked 97 in the world, 17 in Africa, Rwanda is not ranked world and Africa, South Sudan is ranked 113 in the world and 24 in Africa.

According to the GFP, Uganda has 48 air crafts that is to say 10 fighter jets, 10 attacker jets, two transporters, 10 trainer jets, 26 helicopters, and five attack helicopters. Yesterday one helicopter crashed while on training mission.

In terms of land strength, GFP indicates that that the country has 471 combat tanks, 630 armored fighting vehicles, six self-propelled artillery, 53 towed artillery and 26 rocket projectors.

African Powers alluding to the website, are ranked by Military Strength and each nation detailed of the GFP is accessed on individual and collective values. For centuries, the African continent has been beset with fighting, political upheaval and oppression.

The rankings are based on Manpower, air power, Army Strengths, Naval Power, Financial Resources, Logistical Resources, Natural Resources, Geography among others.

The GFP list makes use of over 50 individual factors in their in house formula to determine a given nation’s power index score. This provides the final ranking while also allowing smaller, more technically advanced, nations, to compete with larger, lesser developed ones. Some bonuses and penalties are added for refinement that in the end we hope presents unbiased look into potential conventional military strength of the world.

African countries by rankings 

Libya, Zambia, Tunisia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda,  Chad, Tanzania, Mali,  Botswana, Cameroon, Ivory coast, Ghana, Mozambique, South Sudan, Niger, Republic of Congo, Madagascar, Namibia, Gabon, Mauritania, Somalia, Central African Republic, Sierra Leon and Liberia.   

Worldwide, USA emerged superior followed by, Russia, China, India, France, Japan, South Korea, UK, Turkey, and Germany and so on.

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NWSC in massive customer outreach Campaign

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The National Water and Sewerage Corporation has embarked on a massive customer outreach campaign in all its areas of operation across the country.

The ‘Customer Connect-Tumanyagane’ programme was flagged off by the Managing Director Dr. Eng Silver Mugisha in Kampala Nalukolongo zone.

According to Dr. Mugisha, the campaign is aimed at sharing the various interventions the corporation is undertaking to improve water supply in the city and Verifying weather bills are actually being delivered to customers.

It is also aimed at understanding, resolving customer challenges and checking out functionality of installations at the customer’s home among others.

“This campaign is happening in all our areas of operation. We want to reach out to our customers and understand their challenges, check on the integrity of our field staff, appreciate customers who pay bills promptly, verify the meter readings and share the interventions we are doing to improve water supply.” he said

Responding to requests of prepaid meter technology from customers, Dr. Mugisha said that the technology in water engineering is quite unique and expensive.

“NWSC has over 600,000 meter connections. Installing good prepaid meters that cost about 3,750,000 each does not make economic sense when Uganda has not yet achieved SDG 6 and water for all. Let us achieve water for all and then automate.” He said adding that “We cannot serve our customers better in the comfort of our offices. We are going out to talk to them”

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Stanbic Bank, Uganda Breweries partner in campaign to plant more trees

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Geoffery Serugo
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Stanbic Bank Uganda and  Uganda Breweries Limited (UBL) have partnered in a new awareness campaign against deforestation by encouraging the public to plant trees to stimulate sustainable development and save the environment.

To support the campaigned dubbed, ‘Running Out of Trees’ or ‘ROOT’ campaign, Barbara Campaign, the Head of Corporate Social Investments, Stanbic Bank Uganda handed over a Shs 10 million cheque to UBL’s Head of Corporate Relations Manager, Rhona Arinaitwe.

Further, Stanbic staff will take part in a marathon relay from Kampala to Gulu with other companies, to highlight the dangers of deforestation.

“Our sincere gratitude to Stanbic Bank for the Shs10 million contribution and team pledges towards ensuring a successful  Running Out Of Trees reforestation campaign, and a sustainable greener Uganda,” said UBL.

Other entities continue to contribute to the noble cause. For instance, days ago, Liberty Life Assurance gave Shs5 million, an ambulance.  Access to medical facilities is also Liberty Life Assurance for those who will march along the Kampala – Gulu route.

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Azuri makes Global Cleantech 100 list for 2020

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By Our Reporter

Azuri Technologies, a leading provider of pay-as-you-go solar home solutions for off-grid households in Uganda and other African countries, has been named by Cleantech Group in the prestigious 2020 Global Cleantech 100.

Contested by over 8,000 innovators from 80 countries, the Global Cleantech 100 is an annual guide to leading companies in sustainable innovation.

Only the top 100 companies best positioned to solve tomorrow’s clean technology challenges are included.

Azuri CEO, Simon Bransfield-Garth, said: “We are honoured to be again listed in the Global Cleantech 100 and for our life changing off-grid home solar solutions to be showcased on the global stage.”

“Our off-grid solar units offer multiple benefits for African consumers. The technology not only supplies affordable, clean and reliable power, but it also enables users to unlock financial services and an array of efficient goods and services powered by the solar units.”

Azuri has coupled off-grid solar with energy-efficient smart TVs, rechargeable radios, satellite entertainment, internet access and a range of other appliances and services to bring modern digital technology to off-grid households.

Since 2012, the company has sold over 200,000 systems. Through its network of African partners and distributors, Azuri currently employs more than 5,000 people across Africa, but the company is poised for further expansion across sub-Saharan Africa in 2020.

The complete list of 100 companies was revealed on 27 January at the 18th annual Cleantech Forum San Francisco.

To read more about Azuri’s outlook as an innovator, visit Cleantech Group’s market intelligence platform and download the report.

 

Azuri Technologies operates in five key territories; Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia, Tanzania and Uganda

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Charles Njonjo’s recent gorilla tracking was big opportunity for Uganda to attract Kenyan tourists

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By Amos Wekesa

I didn’t closely follow the visit of former Attorney General of Kenya, Charles Njonjo who was recently in Uganda for tracking Mountain Gorillas.

But Charles Njonjo visit was such a big opportunity for Uganda’s image amongst Kenyans especially when it comes to tourism.

Just because my sons and I had Uganda Jersey on while arriving in Kenya, many people in Kenya engaged us.

Interestingly, some were shocked Uganda was actually a tourism destination. Many guys across the border didn’t know gorilla trekking is possible in Uganda.

We stayed with friends in Karen and the neighbours of our friend says he had never considered Uganda as a destination.

But now wants to bring his whole family to Uganda for a tour and it’s because Charles Njonjo highlighted Uganda.

Marketing Uganda to other people including our neighbours, is actually our responsibility. If I have never heard or seen you, you actually don’t exist……in marketing terms.

I hope UTB takes advantage of Charles visit and goes out and markets Uganda even more now.

Kenya has a much bigger middle class and more wealthy people than Uganda and yet Ugandans spend more money in Kenya than Kenyans do here by far.

Over 200.000 Ugandans tour Kenya every year making Uganda the biggest source of Kenya’s tourists in Africa and 3 biggest in the world.

Right now, Uganda airlines is doing well on the Mombasa route but taking Ugandans there not Kenyans coming to spend here.

It’s common sense that if you are poor, attract earning opportunities as much as you can.

Every year, Kenya Tourism board hosts lots of Ugandan media people and tour operators on a tour around Kenya hence the results. Nothing just happens. They advertise in our media etc

If Kenya can do that, we ought to do even better.

Amos Wekesa is an investor and promote of Uganda’s tourism sector

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Five scenarios for Brexit: From comprehensive deal to full-scale rupture

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By Denis MacShane  

On 31 January, the UK will cease to be a member of the European Union. What happens next? There are 25,000 UK civil servants working on Brexit. This compares with a total of 32,500 EU civil servants handling all aspects of EU trade, economics and regulations covering business, society, transport, data exchange, fishing, medicines, financial services and even culture for 440m EU citizens living in 27 countries.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid told the Financial Times, ‘There will not be alignment, we will not be a rule-taker, we will not be in the single market and we will not be in the customs union — and we will do this by the end of the year.’

However, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has insisted that, ‘If there is no freedom of movement of people, there can be no free movement of goods and services and capital.’

They both cannot be right.

At the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Javid reversed his position and claimed that the UK would sign ‘a new comprehensive free trade agreement’ covering both goods and services with the EU by the year’s end. For good measure, he added that this had priority over a UK-US deal.

Here are five possible scenarios for Brexit for the rest of the year.

One possibility is an FTA covering all economic activity, from exporting Nissan cars to investment funds from the City of London. This could be a bespoke UK version of Norway’s relationship with Europe. But Prime Minister Boris Johnson would need to convince Conservative members of parliament to support such a deal – especially those newly elected as true believers in a full rupture with the EU.

There will no effective opposition in the Commons from Labour or the Liberal Democrats for two to three years. The British Chambers of Commerce have too varied a membership to offer more than lowest common denominator comments on Brexit. It is all to play for inside Johnson’s head.

A second possible scenario is an FTA covering goods and agriculture. But a similar deal, the EU-Canada comprehensive economic and trade agreement, took seven years to negotiate and ratify. Johnson may choose to sign off on such an accord, and tell Brexiteer MPs he will revisit it after a trial period. This would appeal to business but infuriate Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage. Yet on 1 February, Farage – currently a member of the European Parliament – will no longer be an elected official. He has a achieved his life’s goal – getting the UK out of the EU.

Third, the UK and EU may opt for a ‘skinny’ or ‘barebones’ text to give themselves time to negotiate a more wide-ranging agreement. Brussels could drop deadlines and allow London space and time to test business and public opinion.

Fourth, announcing the clock has stopped is a time-honoured way of finding more time for talks without either side losing face. But Johnson has an aversion to demanding extensions; he saw the damage done to his predecessor Theresa May’s reputation when she asked repeatedly for more time.

Finally, a full-scale rupture cannot be excluded. This would mean queues at borders and withdrawal of the City’s 350,000 passports to trade in Europe. The UK could be forced suddenly to re-negotiate the 600 treaties to which it is party by virtue of EU membership. In that case, countries may demand more concessions from the UK than they did from Brussels.

Leaving the EU is nothing like negotiating the price for a second car and walking away if one’s price is not accepted. But no one can say which aspects of Brexit will continue to arouse passions throughout 2020 and which will quieten down and in due course be forgotten.

Denis MacShane is a member of the OMFIF advisory board. He is the UK’s former Minister of Europe.

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Uber increases transport fares again

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Technology-based company, Uber has increased transport fares for the third time in seven months claiming a rise in operations costs being incurred by partners in the business.

In a statement yesterday, Uber said they have always tried to keep prices as low as possible, even though they said there is need to be aware of the increased costs for driver-partners.

 “This comes after implementing an in-depth earnings review to ensure that the Uber app continues to be a reliable economic opportunity for driver-partners, as well as an affordable option for riders,” the company said in the statement.

According to the statement, the transport fare per kilometre has been increased from Shs700 to Shs850 while per minute increased from Shs100 to Shs130.

The base fare and minimum fare remained at Shs1, 250 and Shs6, 000, respectively.

The company increased fares in June and October last year. It launched its operations in Uganda in June 2016.

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NRM’s Committee Meetings: A Panacea for national democracy

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By Henry Mayega

 

The National Resistance Movement (NRM), last week, held meetings of the Central Executive Committee (CEC), National Executive Committee (NEC) and National Conference (NC) from January 23-25, 2020. All those meetings resonate with the provisions of the Political Parties and Organisations Act (PPOA), the law that regulates the functioning of political parties in Uganda.

Essentially that law, which hitherto did not exist and that circumstance left a void, part of the reason why pluralism in Uganda was riddled with a lot of indiscipline on the part of political actors, is meant to stem errant behaviour. For instance, between 1979 – 1980, Ugandans, in a debilitating and chaotic political environment saw a change of heads of state five times: Idi Amin, Yusufu Lule, Godfrey Binaisa, Paul Muwanga and Milton Obote; and the price paid in terms of loss of human life, economic stagnation as well as wanton destruction of property was unacceptable!

First, the Yoweri Museveni administration should be credited for having had that foresight of enacting such a Law. It should be noted that since the inception of that Law, political actors have, save for those without a knack for order, largely been careful not to cross the red lines and rules of engagement. As a mass party, the NRM through its Committees like CEC, NEC and NC has ensured internal party cohesion with far-reaching positive reverberations for the country, including political stability. As the governing party, NRM’s stability is, arguably, critical for national progress and multiparty democracy.

Secondly, the NEC, CEC and NC meetings were a plus to the growth of both NRM’s internal democracy and cohesion as well as our country’s pluralistic practices. Again, as a mass party, which is explained by the magnitude and amplitude of its NC of over 14,000 members, it sets a good example to the other smaller parties namely UPC, FDC, DP JEEMA and CP in terms of party discipline, structural strength and accountability. If the NRM became rowdy, that would spell doom to the entities above and the domino effects to them would include indiscipline and instability hence reversing our democratic gains since 1986. Ugandans should remember that Yoweri Museveni, using his safe pair of hands and supported by his gallant NRA comrades, paid the ultimate price to bring about those gains.

Thirdly, those meetings were, particularly crucial because they permitted the NRM under President Yoweri Museveni to audit the running manifesto and forward-plan the 2021-2026 manifesto which will be sold to the Ugandan voter in the 2021 campaigns and general elections. They, simultaneously, permitted the Yoweri Museveni administration to gauge the pace and pulse of the progressive interventions meant to spur national development and growth of democracy. That audit, ideally, looked at the levels of manifesto implementation, successes and gaps and was expected to be the administration’s accountability to the Ugandan voter for the last four or so years since the last general elections in 2016; in case some less sagacious opposition stalwarts have forgotten,  the Yoweri Museveni administration and its manifesto were endorsed in those elections to steer the country up to 2021, forget about Kiiza Besigye’s and Bobi Wine’s infamous “People’s Government” and “People Power” political gymnastics, respectively.

Lastly, those meetings dealt, decisively, with the lingering internal contradictions like the issues of party primary elections’ cost, “rebel MPs” and “Independents” through candid dialogue and firmness.

The Writer is Deputy Head of Mission, Uganda Embassy, Beijing China.

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