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MP Tayebwa scoffs at Baryamureeba’s snide remarks over VC job loss

By
Francisco Adongo
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BARYA NOT FIT TO RUN MAKERERE: Ruhinda MP Thomas Tayebwa, who is also a member of the Makerere University Council

Ruhindi North Member of Parliament Thomas Tayebwa has scoffed at Prof. Venansius Baryamureeba, who lost the Makerere University Vice Chancellor race, saying he is not fit to run Uganda’s most prestigious institution of higher learning.

Mr. Tayebwa, who doubles as Makerere University Council Member, was reacting to an earlier accusation by Prof. Baryamureeba, who claimed that the former had played a big role in his failure to become the VC.

“How could he say that I influenced the process when I don’t sit on the search committee and Senate? How can he ridicule Council members who are of high integrity?” Tayebwa wondered.

Tayebwa acknowledged his support for Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe, the eventual winner of the race, saying Nawangwe stood with Makerere university “unlike Baryamureeba who after serving as Vice Chancellor went away to start another university.”

“When he approached me for support, I told him the reason why I didn’t support him was because he left Makerere and started a university of his with own and even went away with university staff whom Makerere had spent much on training,” he added.

After losing the Vice Chancellorship Prof. Barya started the Uganda Technology and Management University (UTAMU).

Meanwhile, Prof. Baryamureeba, who was among the three candidates that applied for the Vice Chancellor, now alleges that he has ‘overwhelming evidence’ to show that the search committee report that was used as a basis for the Senate and Council decisions to have Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe elected as the Vice Chancellor designate ‘is a total sham’.

I therefore, shall never recognise Prof. Nawangwe as Vice Chancellor elect and later as Vice Chancellor of Makerere University,” he said.
Makerere University Council on Thursday, June 29 voted Professor Nawangwe to become the new Makerere University Vice Chancellor (VC).

In the University Council Prof Nawangwe garnered 16 votes followed by Professor Baryamureeba with four votes and Professor Edward Kasujja Kirumira with two.

“The main architect of this scam outside the search committee has been Honourable Thomas Tayebwa, a member of Council with vested personal interests in Makerere University who has been misusing the name of the First Lady and Minister of Education and Sports to misinform members of the search committee, Council and other stakeholders of Makerere University,” Prof. Baryamureeba claimed.

But in response Mr. Tayebwa said: “I advise him to go and concentrate at his university and I say this with respect because he is my friend and let him settle at teaching because he can’t be a manager.”

 

 

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Cristiano Ronaldo ‘not invited’ to Messi’s wedding ceremony

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Our Reporter
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Lionel Messi with wife Antonella Roccuzzo

Football superstar Lionel Messi will marry his childhood sweetheart in his hometown in Argentina today, Friday June 30 in the ‘wedding of the century’.

The winger is returning to the city of Rosario to wed Antonella Roccuzzo, whom he met at the age of five before he moved to Spain.

The venue of Messi’s wedding

The pair already has two children together called Thiago Messi and Mateo Messi, both boys.

The Barcelona winger, who won his 5th Copa Del Rey trophy last season, turned 30 on 24 June.

Two hundred and sixty guests have been invited to the ceremony including his entire senior Barcelona teammates, Gerald Piqué’s pop-star wife Shakira, Sergio Aguero, Xavi and Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas among others.

Guests at the wedding will have the chance to play in the on-site casino while most will also stay in the five-star, 188-room Pullman Hotel inside the complex where rates start from almost £100 a night, all catered for by Messi.

Angel Di Maria is the only player with links to rivals Real Madrid invited to Lionel Messi’s wedding.

Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo also didn’t receive an invite from Lionel Messi.

Former Barcelona boss Luis Enrique and Argentine football icon Diego Maradona are amongst those snubbed.

Since moving to Spain, Messi has won a record-breaking five Fifa Ballon D’Or awards.

The event will take place at Rosario’s City Center hotel complex in Argentina.

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Gov’t lays new strategy to boost investments

By
George Mangula
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Finance Minister, Matia Kasaija who is worried of the sinking economy.

Uganda has come up with strategies to boost investments in the country, according to the Accountability Sector Strategic Investment Plan 2017/18-2019/20, now in public domain.

Finance minister Matia Kasaija says the initiative comes at the right time when the country is putting a lot of emphasis on the mobilisation of financial resources domestically, to fund development projects.

“There are still concerns of lack of value for money in service delivery, inadequate mobilisation and slow economic growth which may curtail the realisation of NDPII and SDGs,” Minister Kasaija noted.

In the strategic plan, government plans to continue capitalising the Uganda Development Bank (UDB) in a bid to avail cheap loans to medium and long-term projects, and the bank was allocated shs50 billion in the 2017/18 Shs 29 trillion budget.

During the period, government also plans to fully operationalize Islamic Banking and review the current financial institutions regulatory and policy framework to enhance financial inclusion and develop capacity of micro and small enterprises to prepare bankable projects.

Further, government wants to leverage on securities to raise capital, both by the private and public sector but also reduce barriers to setting up and doing business in Uganda.

In the plan, it also wants to liberalise the pension sector by fast-tracking the Pension Liberalisation Bill, now gathering dust on the shelves of Parliament, having faced opposition from trade unions.

Government also intends to strengthen the Credit Reference Bureau (CRB) and develop a collateral registry to reduce defaulter rates but also integrate data systems for TIN, identity cards, utilities and Uganda Registration Services Bureau.

“In order to increase private investment, the sector shall review policies relevant to investment climate and implement policy recommendations arising from the Presidential Investor Round Table and Presidential Economic Council,” the document reads in part.

Further, government wants to facilitate linkage of foreign direct investments that require local partners through web portals, e-marketing.

Under the strategy government wants to make industry membership association mandatory as well as strengthen strategies to increase investor confidence and promote the public and private sectors to work together.

To increase insurance penetration in the country, government plans to develop and implement a national policy on insurance that will also see government insure its assets.

It also plans to fast track the implementation of the National Health Insurance Scheme, enforce workers compensation policy and engage the education system to appreciate and promote insurance of students.

“It will also develop and implement a sector sensitive financial literacy programme and sensitize the public on insurance; and increase government involvement and funding to the insurance sector,” the report states.

Government plans to boost the the pension sector whereby it will review the regulatory framework and transform the public service pension into a savings contributory scheme. This, government says, will boost long- term savings.

In order to increase the level of capitalisation and widen investment pportunities in the capital markets, planners want to revise and amend the legal and regulatory framework for capital markets to ease issuance of securities and encourage innovation and product development.

Government also plants to impose mandatory listing for companies in specific and strategic sectors ,which will require the listing of companies where government holds some shares. These would include Tier 1 Banks, telecommunication companies, insurance companies and energy companies.

It also wants to create access to government bond markets in the primary market and widen widen investor base by undertaking “aggressive investor education on the benefits of raising capital through capital markets.”

statistics show that over the last five years, economic growth averaged 4.5% and inflation was kept at single digit as 85% of the adult population had access financial services, as the average lending rate ranged from 22.1% to 25.2% while private-sector credit to GDP was estimated at 12% in 2015/16.

Over the same period, the total licensed investment ranged from US$1,125m to US$2,058 m.

Uganda continued to be at a low risk of debt distress with the present value of public debt-to-GDP ranging from 19.6% to 24.6%, which is within the “less than 50%” ceiling recommended by the Public Debt Management Framework.

 

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Rugby Cranes ready for tough Senegal test in the Africa Gold Cup

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Our Reporter
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READY: The Rugby Cranes in action

The Rugby Cranes will lock horns with Senegal at the Stade Iba Mar Diop stadium in their second game of the 2017 Africa Gold Cup tomorrow.

The Rugby Cranes of 23 players is already in Dakar ahead of this weekend’s clash, with Ronald Musajja returning to the team to replace Scot Oluoch in the starting line-up.

Uganda looks to continue an impressive run after an away draw in Nairobi, hoping to redeem their hopes of challenging for the title and try to win the African crown for the second time since 2007.

Uganda are placed second with Kenya Simbas after they played to 33-all draw last weekend.

Senegal will look to bounce back after they started their campaign with a disappointing 16-28 home loss to the Zimbabwe Sables.

Senegal are ranked 5th in Africa, a rank below Uganda.

Zimbabwe are still on top of the Africa Gold Cup after match day one that saw four teams get into action on Saturday June 24, 2017.

The tournament takes place until August 5 with Namibia, Zimbabwe, Tunisia, Uganda, Kenya and Senegal participating, playing home and away matches.

For every win, a team gets four points, two in a draw, 0 in a defeat while one is available for a bonus win.

Uganda’s next game will be on July 15, 2017 against Tunisia in Kampala.

The game will be live on Kwese Free Sports at 4 pm

Starting line-up,

Forwards:

  1. Asuman Mugerwa
  2. Alex Mubiru
  3. Brian Odongo
  4. Uhuru Charles
  5. Mathis Ochwo
  6. Asaba Brian
  7. Ronald Musajja
  8. Marvin Odong

 

Backs:

  1. kevin Makmot
  2. Magomu Ivan
  3. Odong James.
  4. Ogena Pius
  5. Wokorach Michael
  6. Lawrence Sebuliba
  7. Phillip Wokorach

 

Substitutes:

Wathum Cyrus, Adnan Mutebi, Kimbowa Collins, Oketayot Byron, Musa Mwonge, Ivan Kirabo, Gerald Sewankambo, Justin Kimono.

 

Saturday, 1 July:

Africa Gold Cup,

Senegal vs. Uganda – 4pm, Dakar.

 

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Bobi Wine’s victory: Five other East Africa musicians who became MPs

By
Badru Kasadah
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VICTORIOUS: Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine and his wife Barbie Kyagulanyi.

Musician Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu popularly known as Bobi Wine is now a Member of Parliament representing Kyadondo East constituency, following his Thursday landslide victory.

Bobi Wine won 77.7 per cent of the vote, a decisive 25,659 votes, with NRM’s Sitenda Sebalu coming second with 13.8 per cent and former area MP Apollo Kantinti with 5.5 per cent.

Bobi Wine becomes the fourth entertainer to join the Tenth Parliament following the earlier election of comedian Kato Lubwama, former dancer Peter Ssematimba and singer Judith Babirye.

But these are not the only entertainers voted to Parliament in East Africa.

Tanzanian Hip Hop singer Joseph Haule popularly known as Professor Jay won the Mikumi Constituency parliamentary seat in 2015.

Professor Jay was encouraged to join politics by his close ally and outstanding rapper Jospeh Mbilinyi, better known as Mr Sugu. Mr Sugu himself is also an MP for Mbeya town.

In Kenya, celebrated P Unit member Francis Amisi aka Frasha is also vying for a parliamentary seat in the August elections.

Former Big Brother Africa contestant, Millicent Mugadi is also seeking to retain her seat after winning the Jubilee Party primaries.

 

 

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KCCA FC eager to edge FUS Rabat

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Our Reporter
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KCCA maestro Geoffrey Sserunkuma and a colleague

KCCA FC hosts Moroccan side FUS Rabat in the return leg of the CAF Confederations Cup this Sunday, following the arrival of the team on Thursday morning.

Mike Mutebi’s side lost 3-0 to FUS Rabat in the first leg on Sunday June 2 away in Morocco but will look for a revenge to keep their Cup quarter final hopes back on track.

KCCA lost its previous match in Nigeria, with two early goals from Bernard Ovoke and Fredrick Obomate, putting the Rivers United side on the front foot. However, Geoffrey Serunkuma reduced the hosts’ goal tally on the stroke of half-time but his effort wasn’t enough to get a positive result.

Habib Kavuma was sent off for a second yellow card in the 89th minute which means he will miss the clash in Lugogo.

Midfielder Saddam Juma is back in the team because he was barred from playing against Rabat in Morocco pending CAF clearance and that dragged on until he was cleared on Wednesday, boosting the club’s confidence.

The Kasasiro boys will also look up to their goal machine and Player of the Season Geoffrey Sserunkuma with his partner Derrick Nsibambi help them as the team gears up to secure the three points at home.

KCCA FC remain bottom of group A on six points as same as the opponents with a goal difference of negative two. but a win will boost their chances of making it out of the group.

At the same time, Club Africain and the Nigerian club Rivers United will battle in Tunis who are in the same group.

 

CAF Confederation Cup

2nd July 2017,

KCCA (Uganda) Vs FUS Rabat (Morocco),

Phillip Omondi stadium, Lugogo – Kampala (4 p.m)

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Trump, Putin meet next week

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Agencies
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US President Donald Trump with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin

US President Donald Trump will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Germany next week, their first face-to-face talks since the US intelligence community formally declared that Moscow had meddled in the 2016 election, the White House announced.

In a briefing for reporters, Gen. H.R. McMaster, Trump’s national security adviser, and Gary Cohn, Trump’s top economic aide, declined to say whether the president would raise the issue of Russian efforts to influence last year’s political contest.

“There’s no specific agenda,” McMaster said. “We don’t have an agenda set up,” Cohn agreed, adding that the White House was “still finalizing schedules” for Trump’s travel next week.

Asked what Trump hoped Putin would do to build trust between Washington and Moscow, McMaster declined to list specific actions.

“Our relationship with Russia is not different from any other country in terms of us communicating to them what our concerns are, where we see problems in the relationship but also opportunities,” the general said.

At the same time, McMaster said, Trump has tasked his top aides to find ways to “confront Russia’s destabilizing behavior” including “political subversion here, in Europe and elsewhere.”

Trump has not been shy about demanding specific steps from other countries. He scolded NATO allies to speed up increased military spending, for example. He warned South Korea and Germany that he expects them to take steps to reduce their trade surpluses with the United States. And he has repeatedly declared that Mexico will pay for a border wall it opposes.

Trump’s talks with Putin will occur on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. Trump also plans to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister Theresa May, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, Indonesian President Joko Widodo and Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

The meeting comes amid multiple congressional investigations into Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 election, as well as a Justice Department special counsel probe into whether Trump’s campaign colluded with Moscow. The president, who has not definitively said he accepts the intelligence community’s findings, has denounced what he describes as a “witch hunt” designed to undermine his legitimacy.

Trump has repeatedly said that he wants better relations with Russia, and his administration made a failed secret push in its early days to ease a range of sanctions former President Barack Obama imposed on Moscow for its alleged interference in the election. At the same time, the State Department has reiterated its commitment to keeping in place sanctions imposed over Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region.

McMaster said Trump hoped to “foster areas of cooperation,” adding that Washington and Moscow could work together to rein in North Korea, battle transnational terrorism, end the Syrian civil war and defeat ISIS.

But the president also wants to “deter” Russia, McMaster told reporters, adding: “Nobody wants a major-power war, right?”

 

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Uganda wins 2017 Africa Netball Championship

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Our Reporter
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2017 CHAMPIONS: The Uganda Netball team, the She Cranes

The She Cranes emerged winners of the 2017 Africa Netball Championship after a 67-50 victory over Zambia in the final game.

Six nations took part in the annual championship: Zambia, Malawi, Namibia Botswana, Zimbabwe and the hosts Uganda, that was led by London-based mercurial player Peace Proscovia.

Five wins out of five, the She Cranes got 10 points and sealed a memorable tournament on the final day of the six-nation event at Lugogo MTN Arena in Kampala by winning all the games at hand, scoring 335 goals and conceding 198.

Uganda started with a convincing victory over Botswana (72-29) on the first day of the tournament last Saturday, the biggest margin in the competition.

Zimbabwe were defending champions of this challenge but the She Cranes managed to outplay them with a 61-45 victory.

Malawi Queens finished with 8 points by winning four games and only lost to the She Cranes 66-43, winning silver.

Uganda is ranked 13th, Zimbabwe 16th and Zambia 15th while Malawi are ranked 6th in the world.

 

The games Uganda played:

Uganda 72-29 Botswana

Uganda 69-31 Namibia

Uganda 66-43 Malawi

Uganda 61-45 Zimbabwe

Uganda 67-50 Zambia

 

The table standings

Team          P   W D   L   PTS   

Uganda      5   5   0    0     10      

Malawi      5    4   0    1    8         

Zimbabwe 5   3   0    2     6         

Zambia      5   2   0   3    4         

Botswana 5   1   0    4     2

Namibia    5   0   0    5    0

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South Sudan rebels ask aid workers to deliver relief through Uganda

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Our Reporter and Agencies
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THREATENED TO BLOCK AID DELIVERY IN REBEL-HELD AREAS: South Sudan presidential spokesperson Ateny Wek Ateny.

South Sudan rebels have implored aid workers to deliver relief supplies through Uganda, saying it borders their operation areas. According to Kenyi Erastus Michael, the rebel-appointed commissioner in Kajo Keji county, aid groups should send relief from Uganda, which borders the rebel-held areas, instead of trying to send convoys across front lines from Juba.

“Humanitarian agencies …want to bring their things from their main stores in Juba with permission from the government, and then it is the government sabotaging it,” Michael was quoted as saying by phone. South Sudan’s government holds most major towns in Equatoria and the rebels are in the countryside but aid groups are mostly based in the government-controlled capital, Juba.

one of the world’s most dangerous for aid workers, the South Sudan civil war has seen at least 79 killed since December 2013, including six in a single attack in March.

Meanwhile, the South Sudan President’s spokesman Ateny Wek Ateny said government may withhold permission for aid workers to go to some rebel-held areas on security grounds, the, after the UN complained aid convoys were being blocked.

“We cannot allow them (aid workers) to go and then be hit by wrong elements against peace and then the government will be blamed,” said Wek Ateny adding: “It is about safety for the humanitarians. It is to be coordinated, and the government can only clear the humanitarian workers when it is safe.”

Ateny’s comments follow UN complaints that the government has blocked aid deliveries to rebel-held areas in the southern Equatoria region over the last two months, but allowed aid to reach government-held towns.

South Sudan’s four-year-old civil war has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced more than three million.

Since May, four aid convoys were prevented from reaching 30,000 displaced civilians in rebel-held areas in Central Equatoria state’s Kajo Keji county, the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement.

Authorities also restricted relief groups from rural areas around Torit town in Eastern Equatoria state, OCHA said.

Both counties face ‘emergency’ levels of food insecurity, one step below famine, according this month’s report from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification system (IPC), a government-led statistical body.

In Western Equatoria, aid groups were denied access to the rebel-held villages Kotobi and Bangolo, the UN said.

But aid deliveries have reached government-controlled towns, OCHA noted.

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Zuma absence causes anxiety at AU Summit

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Agencies
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WANTED OUT: President Jacob Zuma

The announcement that President Jacob Zuma will miss the Africa Union summit is raising eyebrows among delegates gathering in Addis Ababa.

South Africa will not be complying with AU rules determining that either the head of state or the deputy must attend this continental meeting.

Government’s confirmed that Minister of International Relations and Co-operation Maite Nkoana-Mashabane will lead South Africa’s delegation to the African Union summit on July 3-4

It did not explain Zuma’s absence.

However this is clearly caused by his having to attend the make-or-break African National Congress (ANC) policy conference starting this Friday and ending on 5 July.

This is also why deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa can’t be in Addis Ababa.

He’s locked in a power contest with ANC NEC member Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma who just completed her term as AU Commission chairperson.

 

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