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Club Guvnor Murder: Kamyuka sentenced to 3 years

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Badru Kasadah
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CONVICTED Ivan Kamyuka with girlfriend.

Socialite Ivan Kamyuka has been sentenced to three years and eight months in prison over the death of another trendsetter, John Ahimbisibwe three years ago at Club Guvnor.

The sentence followed his conviction for manslaughter in the morning by Justice Wilson Kwesiga. Kamyuka’s woes began in 2015.

According to court documents, Kamyuka fatally stabbed Ahimbisibwe on August 2, 2015 in Guvnor on First Street, Industrial Area in Kampala.

The documents further added that Kamyuka hit Ahimbisibwe with a broken glass after he came out of the club toilets and found that he had hit his wife Nina Nyarwaka.

Ahimbisibwe was moments later rushed to Case Medical Centre in Kampala, where he was pronounced dead upon arrival.

Kamyuka indeed admitted confronting Ahimbisibwe, and injured him.

His conviction and subsequent sentence finally brought an end to the case though a section of the public is believed the sentence handed to him is not enough.

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A snapshot of Uganda’s 2018/19 Budget: Winners and losers exposed

By
George Mangula
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The finance and economic planning minister Matia Kasaija presenting the budget before MPs.

Ugandans on June 14, 2018 listen to the Finance Minister Matia Kasaija as he reads the 2018/19 Budget at the Serena International Conference Centre. They will be attentive to hear which sector has received more funds and which sector has received less funds.

The money is earmarked to be distributed amongst 18 sectors of government.

According to the Budget Framework Paper 2018/19, the works and transport sector will still enjoy the lion’s share of about Shs4.707 trillion (21 per cent) while Science, Technology and Innovation will take the least share of Shs71.8 billion (0.3 per cent) percent, which is less than Shs71.9 billion received last year.

Last financial year Works and Transport was allocated about Shs4.587 trillion or 20.8 per cent of the total budget of Shs29 trillion. That means its allocation for the upcoming financial year has increased by 1 percent.
Interest payments

Minister Kasaija has earmarked Interest Payments of Shs2.701 trillion which is 12.3 per cent of the total budget but an increase of 0.3 per cent when compared to the allocations it received in the financial year 2017/19. Like the current financial year, Interest payment is second to Works and Transport in terms of resource allocations but it also signifies that government is committed to paying the public debt.

However, this comes at the time when the World Bank and Civil Society are warning government to check its borrowing and instead focus on widening the local tax base. Tax Amendment Bill……..

The sectors of Energy & Mineral Development, Education and Health also have their allocations in trillions of shillings, underlying their importance to the population. The Energy sector has been allocated Shs2.529 trillion, which is a 1 per cent increase from that of the current budget.

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The education and health sectors are to take home Shs2.419 trillion and Shs1.636 trillion respectively, even though both sectors have had their allocations cut, when compared to the current financial year. However, most of the allocations here are going to payment of salaries as opposed to capital development.

Also, compared to the current financial year, the sectors of public sector management, security and Justice Law and Order much as they are to take above a trillion shillings each, they have had their allocations for the upcoming financial year cut. They are to get about Shs1.449 trillion, Shs1.357 trillion and Shs1.104 trillion respectively.

The percentage change for public sector management remains 6 per cent of the total budget while that of the latter two drop by 0.5 per cent and 0.1 respectively.
The Accountability, Agriculture, Water & Environment, Public Administration, Legislature and Social Development sector are poised to receive Shs866.6 billion, Shs831.7 billion, Shs713.7 billion, Shs566.2 billion, Shs483.8 billion and 175.1 billion, respectively. Though, allocations to Agriculture and Water & Environment are to increase by Shs3.5 billion and 0.3 per cent respectively.

Meanwhile the sectors of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Tourism, Trade and Industry and ICT& National Guidance are to have a slight increase in their resource allocations of Shs147.7 billion, Shs119.4 billion and Shs109.1 billion, from the current releases of Shs139.9 billion, Shs116.6 billion and Shs104.3 billion respectively.

In the medium term, government has slightly cut domestic refinancing and external debt repayments to about Shs4.987 trillion and Shs894.05 billion from Shs4.999 trillion and Shs941.58 billion respectively in the current financial year. However it has increasing money for Aid appropriation, domestic arrears to Shs872.9 billion and Shs300.86 billion, from Shs757.52 billion and Shs300.13 billion respectively.

The minister, unlike in the current financial year, has provided Shs156.08 billion for gratuity and Shs77.07 billion as a contingency fund.

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Regional country not happy with Gen. Kayihura’s arrest

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Our Reporter
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ASP Nixon Ayegasirwe seen here in the photo talking orders from IGP, Gen. Kale Kayihura.

The arrest of former Inspector General of Police, Gen. Kale Kayihura yesterday has not gone well with the top leadership in the regional country, sources in the security circles say.

Gen. Kayihura was confirmed arrested yesterday for various issues including the murder of AIGP Andrew Felix Kaweesi early last year. Sources say Gen. Kayihura was planning his escape to that country before he was arrested by security operatives.

Sources say Gen. Kayihura enjoyed a good working relationship with the leadership in that neighbouring country, including secretly arresting and deporting dissidents that were wanted there to answer for crimes brought against them.

According to security sources that Eagle Online talked to, Gen. Kayihura is linked to the murder of Kaweesi. Other suspected are still under investigation, having been arrested earlier. However, sources say this is one among a host of charges lined up against General Kayihura.

Kaweesi was the spokesperson of Uganda Police Force from August 2016 to 2017 until when he was killed in Kulambiro a Kampala suburb by assailants. However, his killing was blamed on ruminants of Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) by Gen. Kayihura.

A statement released by Uganda Peoples’ Defence Force Spokesperson, Richard Karemire on Wednesday said Gen. Kayihura is still a serving officer of UPDF and has been staying in Kashagama, Lyantonde district since March 15, 2018.
“Yesterday June 12 he was asked to report to the UPDF chief of Defence force Gen. Divide Muhoozi at General headquarters, Mbuya. A helicopter was subsequently dispatched to transport him from there but on arrival, Gen had traveled to Mbarara and so it had to return to Entebbe air force base,” he said in a statement.

President Museveni in March fired Kayihura much as he did not give reasons.

Kayihura is self-confessed NRM party cadre and has been the longest serving IGP; having been appointed in 2005. During his reign, the country witnessed unprecedented cases of criminality like murders, kidnaps and armed robberies in the districts of Kampala,Wakiso, Masaka, Gulu, Mukono.

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Sam Ssimbwa appointed head coach for URA FC

By
Geoffery Serugo
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Coach Sam Ssimbwa

Kampala: The former Uganda cranes star Sam Ssimbwa has been appointed as the head coach for Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) Football Club on a three years contract.

Ssimbwa has served as an interim coach for URA after Paul Nkata resigned following URA’s 7-2 defeat against KCCA at star time’s stadium, Lugogo.
“URA FC is pleased to announce the appointment of Sam Ssimbwa as Head Coach, He will guide the team for the next three seasons,” said URA’s Chairman James Kizza.
He said Sam Ssimbwa will work alongside Robert Mukasa (Assistant Coach), Nsumba Augustine (Assistant Coach), Kigundu Steven (Assistant Coach-Goal Keeper) who served as a care taker of URA football for two and half months.
In his remarks, Ssimbwa lauded URA FC for this opportunity availed to him and vowed to win Uganda cup and Uganda premier league for the club in the forthcoming season.
“I am an experienced coach ready to use teamwork to get results, I am not a journeyman like most people allege. I work and serve interests of football” he said at Nakawa URA FC offices.
He has coached various clubs which include KCCA, Soana, Military Police, SC Villa Jogoo, Sofapaka (Kenya) among others.

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Uganda exports more than double in 2017

By
George Mangula
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Tea ready for export

Uganda’s formal exports to the East African Community (EAC) Partner States more than doubled in the last seven years, increasing from US $ 425.2 million in 2010 to US $1,113.4 million in 2017, according to the Ministry of Finance Planning and Economic Development.

Data shows that Kenya continued to dominate the importation of Uganda’s formal exports as shown in Figure 3.1 below. Formal exports to South Sudan picked up strongly in 2017 at US $ 316.5 million compared to US $ 239.3 million 2016.

In contrast, formal exports to Rwanda have been on a consistent decline from US $ 245.4 million in 2014 to US $ 180.6 million in 2017. Compared to other EAC Partner States, Uganda’s formal exports to Tanzania have remained low.

Finance Minister Matia Kasaija says government will in the financial year 2018/19 as well as in the medium term continues to fully explore trade opportunities within the region through putting in place mechanisms and measures for ensuring increased formal exports across all the Partner States.

However, Kasaija says the informal exports have continued to dominate Uganda’s export basket. Democratic Republic of Congo is the largest market for Uganda’s informal exports in the region followed by Kenya. Informal exports to South Sudan have been on a downward trend over the past three years.

According to minister Kasaija, enhancing efforts to increase formal trade links among Partner States has always been the main drive since 2005 when the customs union commenced. Despite the efforts and policy pronouncements to promote trade integration, EAC Partner States face constraints that continue to drive traders into informal trade. “It has been found in the past that there are exclusive incentives that pull traders to remain operating in the Informal Cross Border Trade (ICBT),” he says.

The 2016 Informal Cross Border Trade Survey by Bank of Uganda showed that in 2016, industrial products dominated informal trade exports, while agricultural products dominated informal imports. The market shares for both commodities stood at 67.3 per cent for informal exports and 59.9 percent for informal imports respectively.

Industrial informal exports increased by 10.8 percent from US$ 251.7 million in 2015 to US $ 282.2 million in 2016. The survey also showed that the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was the major destination for most of the industrial exports earnings. Industrial exports were estimated at US $ 171.8 million, representing 60.8 per cent of the informal industrial exports in 2016. This is high when compared to US $130.9 million, about 52.0 per cent recorded in 2015.

During the same period, agricultural exports earnings fell from US $146.2 million in 2015 to US $135.2 million in 2016. Exports of other products increased to US $1.8 million in 2016 from US $ 1.1 million recorded in 2015. The main destinations for Agriculture and Other products were DRC, Kenya, South Sudan and Tanzania.

According to the survey, the leading exit borders for informal exports were Mpondwe (DRC), Elegu (South Sudan), Busia (Kenya), Katuna (Rwanda) and Mutukula (Tanzania). They accounted for the largest share of informal exports, representing a combined share of 72.1 per cent of informal exports. The survey results indicated that Mpondwe accounted for an estimated US$ 137.1 million of informal exports, representing about 32.7 per cent. It was followed by Busia (US $ 69.1 million, 15.8 per cent), and Elegu (US $36.6 million, 8.7 per cent).

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East Africa prepares for cross-border mobile frequency coordination

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Our Reporter
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Map of East Africa

Partner States of the East Africa Community (EAC) have agreed to complete cross-border frequency coordination by the end of 2018, according to an official.

Ally Simba, Executive Secretary of East African Communications Organization (EACO), told journalists in Nairobi that that people living in the border areas in the region have for long suffered forced roaming as a result of cross-border mobile network interference.

He said that this has resulted in those residents paying high roaming charges to access mobile telecommunications services.

Speaking during the 25th EACO meeting of assemblies, Simba said cross-border frequency coordination for mobile services has been done in 90 per cent of the borders and the verification exercise by the regulators is ongoing.

He said that the aim of the coordination exercise is to reduce forced roaming so that users are able to connect to their home networks without interference from the neighboring country’s networks.

The official said that cross-border frequency coordination for broadcasting services has also commenced and the work of implementing the cross-border framework for broadcasting should be complete by the end of the year.

The EAC member states and private ICT firms in the region have in the past initiated projects that are not only fostering integration among people but have also lowered the cost of doing business in the region.

Officials at the meeting observed that the One Network Area roaming initiative that currently includes Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan has significantly reduced the high cost of mobile roaming.

Tanzania and Burundi are set to join the initiative by the end of the year so that all calls within the trading bloc are treated as local calls. The One Network Area has been a success in respect to voice services; a lot still remains to be done in the area of data services.

EACO comprises members from the communications national regulatory agencies, postal, telecoms, broadcasting, and internet service providers from all the six partner states of the EAC.

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Jyotsna Ruparelia listed among Indian women achievers in the Middle East and Africa

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Our Reporter
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Sudhir Ruparelia with his wife Joystna after winning an award

Ms Jyotsna Ruparelia, wife to city mogul Sudhir Ruparelia has been listed among Indian women achievers in the Middle East and Africa. She featured in global super series volume 2.

The leadership profile listed 100 women.
Mrs. Ruparelia has been instrumental in the growth and expansion of the Ruparelia Meera group where she has actively participated in operations and management.

Jyotsna heads the grants division of the Ruparelia foundation. Her expertise is in foreign exchange operations and financial management which has seen a number of forex bureaus expand in operations.

Jyotsna is well-known for her expert decision-making and management skills which have seen her successfully co-steer the various businesses to success.

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Justine Bagyenda now under mercy of IGG and Police-FIA boss

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Our Reporter
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Embattled former Executive Director in charge of Supervision at Bank of Uganda Justine Bagyenda.

The Financial Intelligence Authority has said it completed its investigations into allegations of money laundering by the former Executive Director in supervision at Bank of Uganda, Justine Bagyenda.

FIA says it has handed the findings to the Inspector General of Government (IGG) and the police for further action.

“On Friday we finished our report as we had promised so the report is in the hands of the police and IGG,” said FIA’s Executive Director Sydney Asubo.

Asubo disclosed the latest development to the media yesterday in Kampala as he addressed journalists at the sidelines of the Correspondent Banking Academy Workshop held at Sheraton Kampala Hotel on Wednesday via a partnership between the FIA and Standard Chartered Bank.

Participants at the workshop discussed money laundering and sanctions as well as counter terrorism financing, among other topics.

Baggyenda was sitting on the board of the FIA headed by former BOU Governor Leo Kibirango as Chairman. Her contract is said to have ended but recently it was reported she was waiting to be reappointed to the board for the second term.

Recent leaked bank documents of which Eagle Online has copies, show that Bagyenda had up to Shs20 billion on various bank accounts, which led to the countrywide call for an investigation into her wealth.

For instance, Bagyenda’s dollar account indicates that on May 19, 2014, she deposited US$20,000 (about Shs76 million at the current exchange rate) on her account.

She deposited a similar amount (US$20,000) on December 19, 2014.
Apart from the cash deposits, sometimes Bagyenda received funds from her other accounts. For example on January 20, 2014, she received US$20,000 from her Standard Chartered account. On August 5, 2015, she received US$30,000 from an undisclosed source.

The leaked documents show that much as Bagyenda’s bank balances reflected zero shillings on most accounts, she was depositing her cash elsewhere. However, most of Bagyenda’s unexplained source of money would immediately go her fixed deposit accounts in DTB after landing on her savings accounts.

As of December 2017, She had fixed US$214,149 (Shs814 million) on a dollar account and Shs436 million on a shillings account in Diamond Trust Bank.

Documents also show she has another Shs2.4 billion on a GT bank account.
Probably as a way of avoiding scrutiny of her savings account she paid part of the money was to a prominent Kampala law firm. And by September 2017, the law firm had received Shs850 million from Bagyenda in lump sums ranging from Shs350 million and Shs100 million at a single transaction!

Bagyenda’s Barclays Bank account also shows that she was sending colossal sums to a certain gentleman.
Her Barclays account shows a consistent figure of about Shs10.5 million that was deposited on either the 22nd or 23rd of every month from BOU. She was also receiving Shs700, 000 from the Micro Finance Support Centre where she chaired the board according to her accounts.

The banks were she kept the money admitted and apologised Bagyenda for the leaked documents that exposed her bank details. They include Diamond Trust Bank and Barclays Bank that promised to punish the whistle blowers.

Bagyenda is also believed to have had properties worth billions in upscale suburbs like Naguru, Ntinda, Mbuya and Bugolobi.

Bagyenda recently opened war on the media houses who reported about her bank details as exposed by the leaked bank documents. Some editors we called at the CID to make statements while other declined to appear there for questioning.

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PwC fined 10 million pounds by British parliament over misconduct

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Agencies
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British lawmakers are pressing the accounting regulator to divulge details of the misconduct that prompted it to slap unprecedented fines on accountants PwC and a former senior partner over a 2014 audit of now-collapsed retail chain BHS.

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) overnight fined PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of Britain’s Big Four accounting firms, a record 6.5 million pounds ($9 million) and former partner Steve Denison 325,000 pounds over the audit.

PwC’s 2014 audit of BHS signed off the company as a “going concern” days before billionaire retailer Philip Green sold the loss-making group for a token one pound to a serial bankrupt. BHS’s collapse in April 2016 threw 11,000 people out of work and permanently reduced the pensions of 20,000 people.

Frank Field, the chairman of the parliamentary work and pensions committee, said on Wednesday he had asked the FRC whether further investigations into other BHS audits and wider and stronger sanctions were needed.
“On the basis of their reply, the select committee may request the right to appeal to the FRC to significantly increase the fines …,” Field said in a statement.

Although the FRC said PwC and Denison admitted misconduct, it has not given further details. It did not have an immediate comment on Field’s letter.

Denison, a 30-year plus PwC veteran who left the firm in the last few days, has agreed to be barred from audit work for 15 years. A spokesman said he remains a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) professional body.

In an open letter to FRC Chief Executive Stephen Haddrill, Field asked why the FRC had not published a report on its findings, whether it had shared conclusions with other regulators, whether it planned to investigate previous PwC audits of BHS and how it had managed any conflicts of interest.

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Six murders at Kibimba Rice Scheme, lawyers pin police

By
George Mangula
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Lawyer Fred Muwema

Known for growing rice over the decades, Kibimba Rice Scheme in Busoga region could turn into a place where workers are killed for allegedly stealing rice, yet the police officers nearby do nothing to bring the killers to book.

According to the June 12 letter addressed to the Inspector General of Police, Martins Ochola Okoth, by Muwema & Co. Advocates & Solicitors, seven labourers have so far been shot dead within the rice scheme at different time periods.

The letter partly says: “The information further alleges that six labourers have been shot dead in the last three months and the only role that the police of that area has played is to pick the bodies and deposit them at the Bugiri Hospital Mortuary.”

The latest to be shot by security guards within the scheme is a one Anthony Syuwu, 35. He is alleged to have been killed on May 18, 2018, having worked at the scheme for 12 years. His family is seeking legal redress as no compensation for the loss of their dear one who left behind two children, Kevin Shambi, four years and Prince Mamayi, two years.
Asked for their side of the story, Kibimba authorities refused to comment saying the allegations were conclusively handled by both Chieftaincy of Military Police and police. “That matter was handled by CMI and police. But if you want more facts, come to Kibimba”.

It is said Syuwu on that fateful day was short dead alongside his co-work only identified as Fred at about 10:00pm. Syuwu was buried on May at his ancestral home in Buwalimbwa Village, Namaloko Parish, Bukhofu Sub County in Manafwa District. His body is said to have had two bullet wounds through the neck and stomach.

The LCI Chairman of Buwalimbwa Village reported the murder to the police at at Butiru but they have not received any assistance.

“The relatives of Syuwu did not report the murder to Kibimba Police Station because the officers at the station did not bother to respond to the gun shots on the night of the 18th May 2018 and the resultant deaths which became known to them,” reads part of the letter, which continues that the police much as they provided vehicles to dump bodies at the Bugiriri Hospital Mortuary did not do extra role.

Meanwhile the late Syuwu’s mother, Jenepher Nambuya who has also been working at Kibimba Rice Scheme fled work after the killing of her son and has expressed fear for her life.

The lawyers now want government to investigate Kibimba rice scheme and their security guards for the murder of the alleged thieves or robbers at the company. They further want government to investigate police officers at Kibimba and Bugiri police for allegedly being accessories to the murders. The lawyers also want government to provide personal security to Ms Nambuya, now living in fear.

The lawyers have copied the letter to Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, MP Rose Mutonyi Masaba (Bubulo West) and MP Solomon Serwanyi (Bukooli Central). Tilda is owned by an American multi national Hain Celestial.

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