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Vipers name squad for vital CAF Champions League clash in Algeria

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Uganda Premier League reigning champions Vipers Sports Club are 180 minutes away to making it to the group stages of the 2018/19 Caf champions league group for their first time.

An 18-man squad has been named by manager Javier Martinez Espinosa to travel to Algeria and face Sportive Constantine in the first leg of the qualifier.

The squad consists of two goalkeepers, five defenders, seven midfielders and four forwards.

Captain Tadeo Lwanga and Geoffrey Wasswa miss out from the squad due to accumulation of yellow cards while first choice goalkeeper Fabien Mutombora is still ruled out due to an injury.

The return leg will take place between 21st to 23rd December at St. Mary’s Stadium, Kitende.

The victor of the fixture over the two legs will qualify for the group stages while the loser will drop to the Caf Confederations cup.

The winners at this stage will be a total of 15 clubs that will join CAF Champions League Winner (Season 2018) in the group matches of the 2018-2019 season.

The draw for the 2018/19 CAF Champions League group stage will take place on 28th December 2018.

The match will be played on Friday, 14th December in the city of Constantine at the Stade Mohamed Hamlaoui at 9pm Ugandan time.


Caf Champions League

Friday, 14th December 2018

Sportive Constantine vs Vipers SC

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Uganda’s M-Scan wins Shs93m in 2018 TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa

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M-Scan has beaten 14 other African companies to emerge winner at the 2018 TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa

Ugandan healthtech startup M-Scan has beaten 14 other African companies to emerge winner of the 2018 TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa.

Yesterday 15 startups from different African countries faced off in the innovation showdown that would reward the winners with the much needed US$25,000 (about Shs93 million) equity-free grand prize, a trip for two to TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019, and the coveted title of ‘Africa’s Favorite Startup’.

Held in Lagos, Nigeria, the 2018 TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa, was the second bout by TechCrunch in Africa, having held the first last year in Nairobi, Kenya.

TechCrunch says it was impressed by the 2017 event, the reason they came back this year.

“African startups impressed us with their innovative solutions and effective business models, so we had to come back and find even more impressive companies from across the continent,” writes Mike Butcher, a reporter at TechCrunch.

TechCrunch reviewed several hundred startups from across the region to come up with the fifteen that faced off today at the Facebook-funded competition.

M-SCAN, the winner at the 2018 TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa, has developed portable mobile ultrasound devices (Ultrasonic probes) that are laptop, tablet, and mobile phone compatible.

According to TechCrunch, “the judges were impressed with its scalability potential to make many other medical access devices affordable for Africa, which mother and infant mortality is unforgivably high.”

Other than M-Scan, Uganda was also represented by LabTech, which has created UriSAF, a urine testing hardware and software solution designed to speed up the diagnosis of Uterine Tract Infections (UTIs).

Bettr, a virtual banking experience powered by your smartphone and your data, was the runner-up.

Bettr has the potential to make banking way more accessible to millions of people currently unbanked across Africa, says TechCrunch.

The other startups that pitched at the 2018 TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa were:

Apollo Agriculture: Leverages advances in machine learning, remote imaging via satellite, and mobile money to deliver input finance and agronomic advice to smallholder farmers with radical efficiency and scalability.

Sud-pay: Developed an integrated, multi-support, multi-service, and multi-operator digital tax collection platform that connects merchants to financial institutions.

Complete Farmer: A “crowdfarming” platform that enables users to invest in sustainable farms and monitor farming activities without discarding their daily routine using data-driven cultivation protocols and IoT enabled precision farming.

FoodHubs: Uses mobile solar powered cold carts and cold rooms to help smallholders farmers store their produce, so as to avoid post-harvest losses.

Honey Flow Africa: Optimizes beekeeping operations by digitizing and bringing the power of IoT to the beekeeping process to improve honey production, processing, and predictability.

AgriPredict: Provide farmers with tools that equip them with information that will improve predicting disease, pest infestations, and extreme weather conditions.

MAX: Transforms moto-taxi mobility in Africa using mobile apps, inclusive data-driven asset-finance, and a comprehensive driver on-boarding program that uses machine learning and psychometric tests to profile drivers and create credit scores for them.

MAX enables financial inclusion for drivers, prioritizes safety, and uses IoT technology to track all drivers in real-time.

CodeLn: An end-to-end technical recruitment platform that automates the entire recruitment process, making it fast and easy for companies to find and test Software Developers and reduce the risk of bad hires.

Bankly: An innovative financial product focused on reaching the unbanked in Africa, in a “Recharge to Save” model. Bankly developed a cash-digitization payment and savings products, in which users pay using Bankly vouchers.

Powerstove Energy: The world’s first clean cookstove with built-in self-powered IoT System for real-time monitoring.

Its 100 percent smokeless biomass cookstove cooks food times faster and burns 70 times less of processed proprietary water-resistant Goodlife Biomass Pellets produced from forest and agricultural waste.

Pineapple: A fully decentralized insurer. With Pineapple, members pay premiums into their own wallets rather than a central pot.

When claims occur, they are distributed to all wallets in the community, which collectively help pay for the claim.

Trend Solar: Assimilated a 4G Android Smartphone and Solar Home System to provide affordable access to energy, internet, and mobile in an all-in-one solution that seeks to address the needs of 640 million+ people currently living off-grid in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Museveni did not say anti-corruption agencies have failed-DPP

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DPP Justice Mike Chibita

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Justice Mike Chibita has said President Yoweri Museveni did not launch State House Anti-Corruption Unit on Monday on because Anti-corruption agencies have failed but that they will hand in hand with the new unit headed by Lt. Col. Edith Nakalema to fight the vice.

“The President did not say the anti-corruption agencies have failed, what he said is that the agencies have some weevils and it is possible some of the matters reported are not looked into,” Chibita said on Wednesday while being hosted on NBS Morning Breeze by journalist Simon Kaggwa Njala.

Chibita was responding to issues related to corruption in the country that touched on agencies fighting the vice, court cases and human resources available to deliver judicial service to Ugandans.

Mr. Chibita said that as the head of state, the president in a way has to take responsibility of what is happening in the country “and you can understand why the country is looking at him.”

Asked as to why Museveni set up the new Anti-corruption unit despite the existence of other agencies like the IGG, CID and others, Chibita said the president did open the unit to enable the people “to call an independent agency on matters to do with corruption and we welcome the creation of the office.”

He said the DPP and the IGG are two prosecuting units in the anti-corruption division at the High court and operate smoothly.

He said DPP prosecutes cases reported by the police while the IGG has an inbuilt office of investigation.

He said the conviction rate of corruption related cases is the highest in the country at 85 percent, which he said includes prosecuting high profile figures. “Right now, we prosecuting the State former Minister for Labor, Employment and Industrial Relations, Herbert Kabafunzaki,” he said.

Asked if he was independent in executing his duties as DPP, Chibita said he does not for instance encounter political interference. “We are independent and have been left to do our work, the only area we are not yet independent is funding of our activities,” he said, urging the public to report corruption and other forms of crime.

“Majority of the officers we are working with are hardworking, patriotic and full of integrity. We have had only 10 cases out of the 600 officers we have,” he said.

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AfDB, Partners, to host workshop on COMESA harmonization of Seed Policy

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George Mangula
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Fall Armyworm which destroys crops is a key concern for COMESA region

The African Development Bank (AfDB), through its Technologies for African Agriculture Transformation (TAAT) programme, will organise a workshop for regional and partner organizations on seed policy in Nairobi, Kenya, as part of an ongoing effort to harmonize regional policies on registration of new maize varieties and products to control Fall Armyworm.

According to the press release, the workshop will convene delegates from 21 Common Markets for Eastern and Southern African’s member countries (COMESA), and will take place on December 13 and 14, 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya.

According to organisers, the workshop will seek to identify bottlenecks in the process of implementation of harmonized seed policies within the COMESA region and develop an action plan towards eliminating these challenges. This will accelerate the release and deployment of seed in areas with similar agro-ecological conditions.

As part of its TAAT agenda, the AfDB established a Fall Armyworm Compact to mobilize support from researchers, the public and private sector, to confront the pest that is targeting and devastating crops in Africa. The TAAT program seeks to identify new technologies to combat the Fall Armyworm and distribute these technologies to millions of smallholder farmers across the continent.

According to scientists, Fall Armyworm, or Spodoptera frugiperda, is an insect that is native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas, now present in Africa. In its larva stage, it can cause significant damage to crops, if not well managed.

Experts say Fall Armyworm is a dangerous transboundary pest with a high potential to continually spread due to its natural migratory capacity. Without appropriate action, it could cause 21 to 53 percent of maize yield losses in 12 African countries within five years, estimated at between US$2.5 billion and US$6.1 billion.

Participants will look at ways to identify policy and regulation the Bank and its partners can work on to support countries within the COMESA region.

The workshop is expected to host participants from regional and sub-regional organizations, Market Matters Inc. (MMI), The African Seed Access Index (TASAI), African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF) and its counterparts in East, Southern and North Africa. The International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the Common Markets for Eastern and Southern African’s member countries (COMESA) and other partner institutions, will also be represented.

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Eight ways to prepare yourself for business crises ahead

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Martin Zwilling

By Martin Zwilling

Most entrepreneurs see their new venture as a fun adventure, until the pressures of a cash flow crisis, or a manufacturing quality problem, or a major customer satisfaction problem hits. Even with all my years of experience mentoring in business, I can’t predict how you will prepare for and react to pressure situations. I wish I could, since these often make or break your business future.

Over the years, I have found some key things that you can do to prepare yourself, how a proper mindset can mitigate the pain, and put you back in control. Here are the top approaches I recommend, and the entrepreneur mindsets that I see in survivors:

Evaluate new competitive threats as new opportunities. New competitors can steal your market, or they can open up new markets. Entrepreneurs who react with fear and anger are in major jeopardy of losing their health, since competitors are a constant in the startup world. Use them positively to tune your solution and expand your opportunities.

Use business model pressures as drivers for innovation. There is a natural human tendency to fight the need for change, and the pressure to change causes pain. True entrepreneurs love change – that’s why they are starting a new venture. They use pressures, like shrinking margins, as drivers for their next innovation in manufacturing.

Incorporate fun and humor into pressure relationships. If your team is feeling over-whelmed by the pressures of customer demands, it may be time for an off-site fun event to get them recharged and fully motivated. Fun and humor will also offset the tension in dealing with tough customer issues, resulting in higher satisfaction, loyalty, and referrals.

Take control of the situation by breaking task into chunks. When the challenge ahead looms large, it’s easy to let anxiety get the best of you, and you are afraid to start. Every big task can be broken into milestones, allowing you to enjoy small successes. That’s why I suggest a business plan before you start, with a timeline and deliverables.

Work from your strengths – don’t worry about weaknesses. Most entrepreneurs start with passion and confidence, but many succumb to their weaknesses when pressures set in. Lead with your strengths and in-depth skills, and don’t be afraid to ask for help from advisors or partners to fill in the gaps. Confidence alone will overcome many challenges.

Turn every failure into a positive learning opportunity. When pressures mount and things go wrong, don’t start looking for excuses, or someone else to blame. Make every failure a lesson learned, and project that mindset to your team. Thomas Edison counted many learning opportunities, bouncing back after 1000 failures on the light bulb alone.

Prepare for challenges rather than hope for the best. The best entrepreneurs always have a plan, with alternatives, and continually research their industry and competitors. Others strike out blindly, assume it will be an easy win, and quickly feel the stress and pressure, with minimal insight on how to respond. Be over-prepared, and enlist advisors.

Stay physically fit and balance work with play. Pressure situations will happen in every business, so stay at your best both physically and mentally to respond. Don’t let the “normal” workload wear you down – keep a balanced focus on work, and find other activities, including sleep and entertainment, to keep up your motivation and stamina.

Based on my own experience as a business executive and advising small business owners, I’m convinced that anyone can learn from these techniques to handle the pressures of a new venture or existing business, no matter what their background. It won’t happen by default, and it does take effort and initiative on your part.

You too can then thrive on the challenges and pressures of your business, rather than let these pressures destroy you. Most entrepreneurs I know can’t stand the boredom of “business as usual,” as that threatens their sense contribution and self-worth. Be one of the best, whose motto proudly is “when the going gets tough, the tough get going.”

The writer is a veteran startup mentor, executive, blogger, author, tech professional, professor, and investor. Published on Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc, Huffington Post.

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Widow accuses Stanbic bank of failure to pay Shs139.7m

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A widow of a former senior government official has accused Uganda’s biggest bank by assets Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited of refusing to pay her Shs139.748, 000 which court awarded as 14 percent on Shs142.6 million that the bank confirmed one of its staff fraudulently withdrew from the account of the estate of her late husband.

The 14 percent interest was calculated to take account of each of the seven years that the beneficiaries of the late government worker’s estate were deprived of their money. Initially the family had asked for 500 million for damages, lost business opportunities and interest at 24 percent per annum but that demand was amended by the trial judge to 14 percent interest per year for seven years, which the bank agreed to act on but later became adamant and refused to pay the money.

The widow Theresa Regina Arionget Outeke was married to the late Leo Y.A Outeke, the former Auditor General of Uganda who served from mid-1970s to 1988 when he officially retired, but was again engaged on contract basis from 1988 to 19992. He died on June 14, 2007.

The Shs142.6 million was meant to be pension for the late Outeke whose pension number was PEN.13879 under file No.C.P 9849. The money was withdrawn from account No.0140001379901 that belonged to the late Outeke.

In letter dated July 31, 2018, the widow complained to the Bank of Uganda (BoU) executive director bank supervision, Uganda Bankers Association (UBA), State House to act on Stan Bank to pay the money (Shs139.748, 000) as interest. According to the letter Stanbic Bank paid Shs142.046 million to the late Outeke’s family.

The widow aged 80, in the letter said Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited, now Stanbic Holding Limited, has refused to pay the Shs139.748, 000 as directed by the judge and instead sought to appeal through its lawyers ARCADIA ADVOCATES. The widow claims this is causing further inconvenience and suffering to the estate of the once loyal and longest serving Auditor General of the Republic of Uganda.

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Sadolin opens new colour center in Gulu

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Uganda’s biggest paint company Sadolin has opened its latest colour center along Main Street, Gulu Municipality in bid to expand market reach and consolidate its position in the Ugandan market.

The establishment, Sadolin’s sixth in the country will offer experiential shopping for high end customers and will be residence to all Sadolin products and services including decorative paints, automotive paints, and coatings among others.

The colour centers are setup through franchise agreements with local entrepreneurs and Sadolin. The Northern Uganda based Colour Centre is run by local businessman Mr.Bramdev Gosai.

Inaugurating the center, Mr. Deon Nieuwoudt, AkzoNobel Commercial Director East Africa, said that this was an affirmation of AkzoNobel commitment to the expansion of Sadolin footprint and growth commitment to Uganda through firming up franchise agreements with local entrepreneurs and stimulating the economy through job creation.

He explained, “The concept of the color centers aims to extend Sadolin product to customers through experiential shopping and to give local entrepreneurs the opportunity to expand their business frontiers by being part of the Sadolin chain while tapping into our rich expertise. To us, this is a stride in enhancing our customer care, proximity of the Sadolin product as well as partnerships with local entrepreneurs.”

Customers in Gulu will have variety and will be able to choose any paint of their choice even if it does not exist on Sadolin’s color chart.

The colour center has a state of the art colour tinting machine that can be able to make, mix and match more than 100 colours. (Give example of making paint in the colour of a shirt/ anything).

It will also be able to manage any bulk paint purchases as well as offer one on one colour consultations for all walk in customers.

The Colour center concept is part of the AkzoNobel paint and coating company projects aimed to give customers experiential color shopping and entrepreneurs and opportunity to have access to world class technology services.

Since re-launch, the Sadolin paint quality has improved a tenfold as the company is benchmarking international quality standards.

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Anena literally disapproves Museveni

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Isaiah Mwebaze
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The year 2018 has been one to remember for citizens of Uganda, from the Ugandan Cranes qualifying win to the recent win by Quinn Abenakyo who made it to the top five winners and was crowned MISS AFRICA, Ugandans around the world continue to defy the odds and excel in their various fields of expertise with the latest one being our very own Harriet Anena who also bagged the Wole Soyinka Literary Prize over the weekend at the Muson centre, Lagos Nigeria.

On November, 9 2018, Anena and Prof Tanure Ojaide were both jointly honored with the Wole Soyinka Prize for literature after their works ‘A Nation in Labour’ and ‘Songs of Myself’ respectively, were both considered to be outstanding out of the initial 110 literary works of art that had been submitted from various countries allover the continent of Africa.

This not only comes as a win for the Ugandan born artist but also for young writers and artists around the nation. Despite his propensity to revert to history in his dialogues the president has come out on several occasions to dismiss the various uses of studying humanitarian and arts subjects at higher institutions of learning, instead dubbing them ‘useless’ and ‘unmarketable’ in today’s generation. The young poet’s win only proves that arts subjects are just as equally marketable and yielding as any other discipline.

“It has tremendously brought to light to the Poetry fraternity which has grown into a movement especially in Uganda. Anena has set a bar for writers on how to write for generations.” Isaac Kwizera, writer and librarian, Uganda Museum.

The Wole Soyinka prize for Literature that is awarded after every two years was introduced by the Lamina foundation in honor of the writer and poet: Wole Soyinka, who also happens to be the first African writer to win a Nobel peace prize. His works, like many other African writers, were very fundamental in the formation of the ‘decolonized school of thought.’ Most African writers of this school believe that their works should not only inform but also equip or serve as tools against old colonial writings such as Out of Africa by Karen Blixen; that portrayed Africans as savage and therefore incapable of producing any form or type of literature.

Harriet Anena’s ‘Nation in Labour’ that was published in 2015 is a collection of poems that satirically portray the problems and issues many Ugandans face due to the political instability of the nation since its independence in 1962. The author who survived the Lord Resistance Army rebellion led by Joseph Kony, lived to tell her story and those of other Ugandans living in the post-war period.

Being the first Ugandan to win such an award, Anena got the opportunity to not only Hob-nob with some of Africa’s greatest minds such as Wole Soyinka himself as well as taking home the prize money to a tune of Shs37 million. The excited young poet couldn’t contain her excitement as she took to twitter to share the great news with her kinsmen: “Super happy to be the joint winner of the Wole Soyinka prize for literature in Africa, 2018, for my book a Nation in Labour.”

The young writer and former journalist at daily monitor will have a book signing on 15th December 2018 at the Uganda national Museum where copies of A nation in labour will also be available or order on Amazon and have them delivered by Turn the Page Africa.

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Crane Bank statutory manager did not write key reports for BoU

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George Mangula
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The Former Crane Bank Ntinda branch, which DFCU took over and illegally rebranded in its name, was ordered by the court to vacate and compensate Meera Investments because the property belongs to Meera.

The Bank of Uganda (BoU) official who was appointed the statutory manager of Crane Bank Limited (CBL) has told Parliament’s Committee on Commissions Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (Cosase) that he did not write a handover report or evaluation report before the CBL was sold to its rival Dfcu Bank by BoU at Shs200 billion in January 2017.

Mr. Edward Katimbo Mugwanya, made the revelation on Tuesday as MPs asked the BoU official to come with the handover report tomorrow, evaluation report, list of depositors and other documents related to the sale of CBL. BoU sold off CBL on account of being significantly undercapitalised to the tune of negative Shs239 billion in core capital.

Mugwanya was appointed CBL’s statutory manager as BoU took over the management of CBL pursuant to sections 87(3) and 88(1Xa) and (b) of the Financial Institutions Act (FIA).

“Pursuant to section 89(2) (g) of the FIA 2004, BoU in a letter ref GOV.122.10G71 dated 20th October, 2016 appointed the Statutory Manager to manage, control and direct the affairs of CBL,” reads the Auditor General Muwanga’s report on seven defunct banks that included Crane Bank, Global Trust Bank , National Bank of Commerce among others.

By saying he did not write a handover report, MPs were left puzzled about what Mugwanya did, since according to FIA, he was supposed to; trace and preserve all the property and assets of the institution, recover debts and other sums of money due and owing to the institution, evaluate the capital structure and management of the institution and recommend to the Central Bank any restructuring or re-organization which he or she considers necessary.

He was also supposed to enter into contracts in the ordinary course of the business of the institution, including raising of funds by borrowing, issue a new balance sheet and profit and loss accounts; and perform any other duties that may be assigned to him or her by the Central Bank.

The report on the compilation of inventory of assets, liabilities and equity as at 20th October 2016 indicated that CBL had total assets of Shs1.,19 trillion and total liabilities of Shs1.32 trillion and a negative total equity and reserves of about Shs131 billion at the start of the statutory management period.

According to the Auditor General (AG), BoU claims that during statutory management, it injected liquidity support of Shs466, 5 billion in CBL. “The Statutory Manager was therefore, expected to prepare a new balance sheet and profit and loss report on events of the statutory management period from 20th October 2016 to 20th January 2017 when CBL was put under Receivership,” says the AG in his report.

“Instead the Statutory manager (Mugwanya) only prepared CBL annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31’t December 2016. BoU would later engage KPMG to audit the financial statements,” the AG says.

According to the AG, The annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31st December 2016 provided were neither signed by BoU nor the Auditors. “Furthermore BoU did not provide financial statements for the period 1st January to 25th January 2017 when the P& A was completed… “I could not establish the details and values of assets and liabilities transferred to Dfcu,” he says.

The AG quotes the BoU memo from Justine Bagyenda, the former executive director of supervision to Governor Prof. Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, ref. EDS 122,10G dated July 31, 2017. The memo said the bad book of CBL at the time of takeover was Shs570.38 billion out of the gross loans of Shs1, 159 billion.

“This bad book was transferred to Dfcu to provide a resource for repayment of loans of Shs200 billion and bridge the shareholder’s deficit of Shs439.72 billion at the date of takeover. “I could not establish how the consideration of Shs200 billion was derived from the bad book of Shs570.38 billion,” he says in the report that MPs are using to raise some queries that needed responses from BoU.

I was also not provided with the schedule of loans and the corresponding collateral transferred to Dfcu, therefore I was not able to establish the values and categories of loans transferred (performing loans, non-performing loans and fully provisioned/written off loans (bad book),” says Muwanga in his report.

The issue of capitalisation is a sticking matter in BoU takeover of Crane Bank. People are allegedly to have sat and crafted a bizzre plan to defraud taxpayers. The plan was to declare Crane Bank working capital insufficient and draw cash under the guise of capitalisation. According to the shareholders of CBL, this was broad day theft and those involved must pay. They say this has nothing do to with ongoing case.

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EC to spend Shs868b in 2021 elections

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Geoffery Serugo
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The chairperson of Electoral Commission Justice Simon Byabakama has confirmed that a total of Shs868 billion is required to conduct the 2021 general elections that will take place between 10th January and 8th February 2021.

Speaking at the launch of electoral road map, justice Byabakama said, there is a slight increase in electoral body’s budget by Shs368 billion due to continuous improvement in the electoral process, comprehensive voter education and sensitization of stake holders, inclusion of Supreme Court recommendations, price changes and exchange rate fluctuations.

He said their budget is also alluded to increase in the number of districts from 112 to 141, municipalities 80 from 39, sub counties 2000 from 1398, parishes 9500 from 7431, villages 65200 from 57, 842, polling stations 35,000 from 28, 000, Registered voters 19,400,000 from 15,277,198.

“Presidential nominations will be held in the third week of August in 2020, an updated national voter’s register must be ready by May 2020. LC I and II elections will be held in 2022 after the general elections of 2021,”

He said the Strategic Plan and Roadmap will enable them and various stakeholders in the electoral process to achieve better planning, implementation and activity coordination as well as timely implementation of scheduled electoral activities.

“With this strategy we (Electoral Commission) have launched, we shall endeavor that all eligible citizens willing to vote are registered. We are confident it shall lead us and all stakeholders to be more informed, therefore, any suggestion for a polling activity and good register should come now,” he said.

He also noted that, they have always had challenges brought about by delayed enactment and amendment of electoral laws, inadequate voter education due to under funding and Inadequate training for temporary staff.

“We shall also work at strengthening monitoring and evaluation to know if we on the right track both in the activities being carried out and day to day work,” he said.

Prime Minister Dr Ruhakana Rugunda, commended Electoral Commission for its sound consideration of National and international principles in the preparation of strategic plan.

“The strategic road mark, fulfills the constitutional provisions of conducting regular free and fair elections and demonstrates our commitment to other regional and international protocol which provide for general elections as essential,” he said.

He implored political parties and organisations to organize themselves in accordance with this road map and undertake the necessary preparatory activities so as to lawfully undertake in these elections.

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