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OOPS! Carol Atuhirwe was ‘burnt’ by Mulago radiotherapy machine

By
Jonathan Kamoga
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Over the Weekend, Miss Nkumba Doreen Muganwa visited cancer patient Carol Atuhirwe under the #SaveCarol #ILoveCarol campaign

World over, numerous patients have already been killed by miscalibrated chemotherapy pumps that drip poison in to the bodies of patients. And now today’s revelation by Agnes Mugyizi, the mother of Carol Atuhirwe who’s battling cancer that treatment at Mulago’s radiation machine did a big damage her are absurd.

This month, Uganda’s only cobalt-60 radiation machine in the radiotherapy clinic at the Mulago National Referral hospital has broken down again, affecting patients who have travelled from as far as South Sudan, eastern Kenya and Rwanda.

Ms. Mugyizi lamented during a press conference held on Tuesday at Panamera Bar to dream up efforts of financing the deficit the #SaveCarol campaign including a car wash on Saturday at the bar’s parking lot- opposite Kampala Parents School in Naguru.

“I believe the radiotherapy machine had already broken down through her treatment. Much as it helped burn the tumor in her throat, it also burnt her right shoulder all through her chest,” she said.

Ms Atuhirwe now needs a total of $80,000 (about Shs264.8) for her treatment abroad after undergoing  a total of 36 surgeries here.

#SaveCarol lead organizer Muhereza Kyamutetera said that of the Ugshs 270M required for her treatment in USA, so far Ugshs 117,837,400 has been raised implying that Ugshs is still 152M remaining.

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A patient undergoes treatment for cervical cancer at Mulago hospital in Kampala. The radiation therapy machine – for the past five years the only one in Uganda – may now be irreparable.
A patient undergoes treatment for cervical cancer at Mulago hospital in Kampala. The radiation therapy machine – for the past five years the only one in Uganda – may now be irreparable.

Carol’s story

On her blog, carosblogonline.wordpress.com, Ms Atuhirwe writes her journey as a cancer patient. She writes that she stopped speaking long before she got to know she had throat cancer, but never took anything serious until it was a little late.

“It was in the year 2011; I was just in my Second Year, last semester at campus when I started coughing small amounts of blood. I didn’t take things seriously until Third Year when I started losing my voice. I thought it was like any other loss of voice.”

“So I started taking things that could clear my throat. It took long and I couldn’t answer any more questions in class, school became hard for me, fellow students laughed at me, sometimes talked behind my back; it was a horrible experience but wouldn’t allow all the two years to die for nothing so I hanged in there,” she wrote.

When she went for a serious medical checkup with the help of a relative, that was when she found out she had cancer. After getting chemotherapy, radiotherapy and several surgeries for the throat cancer, Ms Atuhirwe said she was screened and doctors at Mulago hospital, where she had been staying for more than a year, found out she had lung cancer as well.

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(L- R) Richard Sebadduka (Event Manager, #SaveCarol Fundraising Committee.),; Muhereza Kyamutetera (Chairman, Organizing Committee, #SaveCarol Fundraising Committee) and Carol's Mum, Mrs Grace Mugizi)
(L- R) Richard Sebadduka (Event Manager, #SaveCarol Fundraising Committee.),; Muhereza Kyamutetera (Chairman, Organizing Committee, #SaveCarol Fundraising Committee) and Carol’s Mum, Mrs Grace Mugizi)

However, the throat cancer healed after the treatment.

After a year of chemotherapy for lung cancer without change, she said she had a surgery last year. According to the post on her blog, her oesophagus (gullet) broke down, the spine got exposed and the trachea moved down.

“I crave tasting food, drinking water, having a normal life like other people, maybe I get a job, then never to cover my neck to hide my pain; those will be my joy scars, my warrior scars, courageous. I wish all this ends. I stop sitting on my bed day-by-day, go out sometimes, visit my friends, take trips. Oh God! Make this last dream come true,” Ms Atuhirwe wrote.

Cancer is one of the fastest-growing health challenges in Uganda. Dr Jackson Orem, the UCI director, says the institute registers about 5,000 new cases each year; most patients present with advanced stage cancer. Like Carol, many of them are usually referred to radiotherapy treatment for several weeks, even months.

But over the past five years, the cobalt-60 machine has become more and more erratic. In 2013, the decision was taken to replace it. In fact, the government paid for equipment three years ago, but it cannot be used until a suitable bunker is built to house it – the current one is inadequate, Orem says. In April last year, Mulago administration said construction of the bunker would begin two months’ later, and predicted the country would have new radiotherapy equipment inside a year.

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Machar fails to turn up in Juba again

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Our Reporter
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South Sudan rebel leader Dr Riek Machar

The Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) chief Riek Machar Teny has for the second time failed to return to the capital Juba.

Dr Machar was scheduled to be in Juba yesterday but according to his aides, failed due to ‘logistical issues’. But today, media sources said the aides said Dr Machar could not make it to Juba because a senior member of his advance team, SPLA-IO Army Chief of Staff General Simon Gatwech Dual had failed to get flight clearance. Gen Gatwech was supposed to lead a group of about 200 loyalist troops that would welcome Dr Machar at Juba International Airport.

According to plan, on arrival Dr Machar was supposed to head to the presidential palace where he would be sworn in as the Vice President, deputizing President Salva Kiir Mayardit.

Meanwhile, the United Nations has advised its staff in the South Sudan capital Juba to restrict their movements in the city. According to a communication by the UN security, staff should not move beyond 9pm and should also avoid movements in areas around the Presidential Palace, Ministries Road and the John Garang Mausoleum.

The security alert was issued ahead of the return of Dr Machar which was slated for today.

Machar was South Sudan vice president between 2011 and 2013, when he was fired by President Salva Kiir. In the ensuing chaos the country descended into a bitter civil war which has so far claimed tens of thousands and displaced over 2 million.

 

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Prof Mamdani vows to defy Makerere probe over Stella Nyanzi

By
Stephen Muneza
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Mamhood Mamdani

Embattled Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) director Mamhood Mamdani issued a statement attacking his boss, Vice Chancellor, Prof. John Ddumba Ssentamu who is investigating him.

Prof. Mandani in a lengthy statement issued today (19th April 2016), explained why the management of MISR which he controls will not cooperate with Ddumba’s investigation committee after professor Stella Nyanzi’s stripping in public raised a red flag.

Dr. Nyanzi who works at MISR stripped and shared nude pictures on social media protesting the closure of her office as she effectively disclosed the rot at one of Africa’s best research institutes.

“The Vice Chancellor lacks the moral authority and objectivity to set up and provide oversight for such a Committee. He is partisan and has a clear conflict of interest due to his close family relationship with Dr. Stella Nyanzi,” Prof. Mandani’s statement partly said.

He continued; “We find these terms of reference partial, selective, and prejudicial. They are stacked to investigate the management of MISR and not Dr. Nyanzi, to investigate the director and divert attention from the events of Monday morning.

“The VC, who has a vested interest in the outcome of the investigation, and who, given his recent maneuvers to circumvent specific MISR initiatives,” Mamdani stated.

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Below is the full statement;

The Vice Chancellor of Makerere University, Prof. John Ddumba Ssentamu, yesterday circulated a memo on the Makerere University webmail setting up an Investigation Committee into MISR.

The Vice Chancellor of Makerere University has set up a Committee that will report to him. The Vice Chancellor lacks the moral authority and objectivity to set up and provide oversight for such a Committee. He is partisan and has a clear conflict of interest due to his close family relationship with Dr. Stella Nyanzi. The VC should exclude himself from the process. This would allow the Committee to conduct it’s work in an impartial manner as well as to look into the VC’s own conduct, in particular, the extent of the VC’s involvement in encouraging, fomenting and prolonging insubordination of both Dr. Nyanzi and a few graduate students of MISR, all of whom have been increasingly emboldened by what they see as the support towards their cause from the highest office in this institution; and the basis and accuracy of allegations the VC presented before the Appointments Board over the last few months to bolster his case against the PhD programme at MISR and the renewal of the Director’s contract.

Incredibly, the terms of the Committee are totally silent about the events of Monday morning, events which have radically changed the situation at MISR and adversely affected MISR’s position in the academic world. Dr. Stella Nyanzi defaced walls, vandalized property, hurled insults at the leadership of MISR and intimidated MISR staff and students, all of this with impunity. No self-respecting academic will want to come to MISR if these circumstances continue. The best students will look for alternatives. Donors will look for other places to put their money. Until yesterday, we had demanded that Dr. Nyanzi teach in the doctoral programme. Now, the presence of Dr. Nyanzi threatens the very survival of the PhD program. Rather than teach in the PhD program, Dr. Nyanzi should be transferred to any other unit in the University that will accept her.

Instead of dealing with the events of Monday morning, the Committee’s stated terms of reference include: investigating the genesis of the matter as well as evaluating the extent of the misunderstanding; ascertaining the working conditions at MISR; the reporting and assignment structure of staff; the extent to which the staff mentioned above [Dr. Nyanzi and Professor Mamdani] are disrupting each other’s mandates and claims that the space at the Institute is occupied by non-members of the University Staff.

The Management of MISR was not consulted prior to constituting these terms of reference. We find these terms of reference partial, selective, and prejudicial. They are stacked to investigate the management of MISR and not Dr. Nyanzi, to investigate the director and divert attention from the events of Monday morning that have created an explosive crisis at MISR. The terms completely sidestep the issues at stake – the very survival of the MPhil/PhD program – and will not address the impunity and insubordination that has led us to this point. They read more like terms of reference for an inquisition seeking to rationalize pre-determined conclusions. Any impartial Committee would want to investigate the circumstances under which Dr. Nyanzi has continued to be paid as a civil servant without discharging her official duties and responsibilities as assigned by her unit head and how her continued insubordination and flagrant flouting of Makerere University regulations has consistently gone unpunished.

Yesterday, for instance, contrary to University regulations, Dr. Nyanzi, four students and a research assistant held a press conference with NTV crew in her office at MISR. It is lamentable that the University’s leadership has busied itself with setting up a witch- hunting committee as MISR’s PhD program is being dismantled before TV cameras and social media. If the program is to be killed, let it be killed in broad daylight. At least, then, the Ugandan people will know who to hold responsible for this tragic outcome.

With all of the above in mind, the MISR Management will not cooperate with the current Investigation Committee instituted by the VC, who has a vested interest in the outcome of the investigation, and who, given his recent maneuvers to circumvent specific MISR initiatives, cannot suddenly be seen to place MISR’s and the University’s interests above those of his kin, Dr. Nyanzi. The prerequisite to addressing the present situation is three- fold: one, to set up a truly impartial consultative (rather than investigatory) process; two, to transfer Dr. Nyanzi from MISR, given her well-documented insistence that she will not teach in the PhD programme or participate in institutional research at MISR, but immediately to send Dr. Nyanzi for a month long leave with the understanding that she will not return to the Institute for any reason; and, three, to consult all constituencies (students, academic staff, management) in the process that follows and do it only after the new semester begins in mid-May.

Mahmood Mamdani

Professor and Executive Director, MISR

Tuesday, 19th April, 2016

Cc: Chairperson, Makerere University Council

Chairperson, Appointments Board

Vice Chancellor

Deputy Vice Chancellor, Finance and Administration

Deputy Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs

Director, Human Resources

Principal, CHUSS

Dr. Stella Nyanzi

General and Academic Staff

Staff and Students, MISR

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Bul scheme for maiden win against URA

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Editorial
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BUL FC tactician Alex Isabirye

Bul Vs URA – Kakindu @ 4pm Live on Azam TV

Bul and URA immediate former coaches Alex Isabirye and Kefa Kisala will be facing their previous teams for the second time this season on Tuesday afternoon at Kakindu.

Before Isabirye arrived at Bul at the start of the season, he was coach at URA, who guided them to fourth with 53 points last season.

They finished one slot ahead of his current employers, Bul, who ended with 43 points.

The first leg ended 2-1 in Lugazi extending URA’s unbeaten run over the self-proclaimed Eastern giants to nine, in which only four have been draws.

History, though, does not favour Bul. But with Isabirye returning from a sick leave, he is optimistic of changing the trend.

“We should not go into history pages because even tomorrow (Tuesday), we can write one,” a relaxed Isabirye told the league website after Monday’s training session.

“Recently Bul beat Express and Vipers both at home and away for the first time. All I know is that my boys are very ready,” he added

Kisala’s assistant Livingstone Mbabazi has warned the hosts insisting the mistakes in the 2-1 loss at the hands of Soana have been rectified.

“We lost the match in Kavumba last Friday though we played very well. However we have tried to correct our mistakes and I believe we will get the three points from Bul to keep our pursuit for this year’s title live,” he told his club’s website.

Mbabazi’s wishes for a title can only stay alive with a win on Tuesday and hope KCCA, who lead the log, falter in their remaining games.

Bul sit ninth with 35 points, four below URA, who are fourth on the 16-team log.

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Kizza Besigye, supporters teargased in Mbarara

By
Steven F Mandu
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As seasoned city activists know, their colleagues in Mbarara are not simple when it comes to inhaling teargas.

The resumption of four-time forum for democratic change presidential candidate Dr Kizza Besigye’s court case in Kabale meant that business would have to standstill and indeed he was given a rousing reception in Mbarara municipality.

Women and children are visibly excited as Besigye’s care snaked slowly into the town.

The youth are dancing to latest tunes praising Besigye and the retired colonel also thanked Mbarara residents for being strong despite him failing to win the 2016 presidency.

Besigye Mbarara

He tweeted: People of Mbarara are even stronger than before the coup! They are ready to take their power back. #FreeMyVote.

The chaos

Our mole in Mbarara says Dr. Besigye sneaked into Western Ugandan’s biggest town catching Police unaware.

The visibly agitated cops had planned to stop Besigye from passing through the town center only to discover he was already at his Mbarara home, ‘The Grand Holiday Hotel’.

Boda cyclists immediately rode to the hotel entrance moments later demanding to see ‘The People’s President’ and the ‘Lord Mayor’ who immediately after having lunch come out to greet the crowd.

Police had also converged at the Hotel and asked Dr. Besigye not to continue through the town past Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) which is a hotbed for his youthful followers in Ankole.

Though Dr. Besigye and Mr. Lukwago seemed to oblige to Police directives to pass through the less chaotic Kizungu zone on their way out of Mbarara, the now ferocious crowd became defiant perilously throwing stones towards Police who reiterated by firing teargas canisters to disperse the group who had turned rowdy. The supporters ran in disarray but shortly re- organised and attacked police.

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The case

The opposition kingpin alongside ousted but reelected Kampala Lord Mayor Lukwago, Roland Kaginda Mugume the Rukungiri municipality MP, Mubarak Munyagwa  the mayor of  Kawempe , Imam Makumbi the  DP western Uganda vice president and  Ingrid Turinawe  the FDC women league chairperson were by the Kabale Chief Magistrate Godfry Kaweesa charged with inciting violence at a rally in Kabale Municipality stadium in 2012.

Kizza Besigye (L) and Erias Lukwago in court earlier
Kizza Besigye (L) and Erias Lukwago in court earlier

Prosecution claims Besigye and others injured four police officers and vandalized three police vehicles.

The last time they appeared before this court last year, State produced four witnesses but only the Kabale OC CID Karinkiza Gumisiriza testified, while the others refused.

The trial will proceed on Tuesday where State is expected to bring more witnesses to pin the five opposition leaders.

 

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HUMILIATION: Police concede there is no enough evidence in Joan Kagezi case

By
Stephen Muneza
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Police admit probe into murdered state prosecutor has hit a snag, a year on but maintain file remains open

Uganda Police’s multimillion VIP jurisdictional murder inquiry ended in utter humiliation for the force yesterday – but it refused to apologise for the shambles.

Thirteen months after Operation catch Joan Kagezi killers was launched, Police finally admitted they had found no evidence to support IGP Kale Kayihura’s astonishing claims that the eight suspects picked from Kyengera and Najera in Kampala and Bugiri district in connection to the murder were guilty.

Embarrassingly for the force, detectives discovered nothing to even justify asking prosecutors to consider bringing charges. Officers found no clues and are still unsure if anyone the suspects even knew the deceased.

In a carefully worded interview with URN, the force tried desperately to justify the probe, saying it had been ‘handled well’. But it refused to say sorry to those whose lives had been ruined, or reputations shattered.

“Our teams are pursuing a number of leads,” they quoted Police spokesperson Fred Enanga admitting that they have no evidence to pin those who shot dead state prosecutor. He said six people were arrested but later freed after eyewitnesses failed to pin them.

Controversially, Jane Kajuga, the spokesperson of the Directorate of Public Prosecution, also admitted they had returned the file to police after realising there was no evidence warranting prosecution of the suspects.

Kagezi

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Kagezi was gunned down by two assassins in Kiwatule in Kampala on March 30, 2015 on her way home.

The 48 year old was gunned down by unknown assailants traveling on a motorcycle, when she pulled over to buy fruits.

Kagezi was the head of the DPP’s War Crimes and Terrorism Department, which was stationed in Kololo near the High Court’s International Crimes Division.

In this capacity, she was charged with handling many cases of terrorism; notable among them the 2010 twin bomb attacks in Kampala by the Alshabaab in which 76 lives were lost.

It was during the prosecution of this case that Kagezi was tragically murdered.

She was also handling several other case involving terrorist killings of Muslim clerics, international human trafficking and war crimes.

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Stella Nyanzi for mental test reveals Fr Lokodo

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Our Reporter
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Uganda’s Ethics Minister Simon Lokodo says Dr Stella Nyanzi will undergo a mental test to ascertain if she is “normal” and then “we shall arrest her”

Minister Lokodo on Monday afternoon ordered Uganda Police to apprehend the Makerere University professor for stripping moments before She then fired back at urging him to “Go and arrest Karamojongs walking naked before coming to me”

Dr. Nyanzi who works at Makerere Institute of Social Research stripped and shared nude pictures on social media protesting the closure of her office which she later regained.

She was protesting outside her locked office calling her boss, the executive director of MISR Prof. Mahmoud Mamdani, an oppressor.

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When Makerere Vice Chancellor Professor Ddumba Ssentamu attempted to talk to her, the irate Nyanzi told him off: “I’m handling the matter”.

She added: “I will not allow Dr. Mamdani to access his office until I can access mine. He is a criminal. I got in here on merit not as favour.”

Opposition leader Kizza Besigye and Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago extended their sympathies to Nyanzi for being allegedly oppressed.

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BOOM! Naked protestor Stella Nyanzi speaks out

By
Steven F Mandu
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Uganda’s latest ‘kitone’ queen Dr. Stella Nyanzi after her victorious protest has hit at all those who calling her names to mind their business.

Dr. Nyanzi who works at Makerere Institute of Social Research stripped and shared nude pictures on social media protesting the closure of her office which she later regained though Ethics minister Fr Lokodo has ordered for her immediate arrest.

Trouble started early this month when her boss Mohammad Mamdani asked Nyanzi to vacate her office, ostensibly because she had declined to participate in a PhD program at MISR.

In October 2014, there were reports that the two had disagreed over the direction of MISR. Nyanzi alleged that Mamdani had redirected MISR’s mandate (including the vision, goals, aims, objectives, activities, resources and outputs) towards teaching the newly-established PhD training program, squeezing out social science research.

Below is the full statement she posted on her Facebook page;

Those that say I am a disgrace to African womanhood because of my bold crassness and explicit uses of sexual modes of expression are silly, myopic and dishonest. They should come see me throwing open my legs wide and apart as I kwawuza to enthusiastically cheering crowds watching me dance the Nankasa- Muwogola of my descendants. They should come watch me winding and wringing, and winding and wringing my waist, buttocks and loins as I dance the Kizumba or indeed do a full kwasa-kwasa number. They should have been there to see my exposed forward-thrusting nipples as I attended the Reed Dance for the first time. They should come and listen to my people speaking liberally about sexual acts and organs, during the kuzina balongo rituals all Baganda do. I am a proud African woman with jiggly buttocks that witnessed my wide vagina pushing two sons out of my womb that delivered a girl two years before. I patiently lock my pubic hair into twenty thick locks. If I am patient enough to diligently indulge in this trivia, what else will I patiently bid my time about?

I have been patient with Mahmood Mamdani’s bullying for six slow sickening years. This time, he yanked my titties too hard to be forgiven. My titties feed my children and my lovers. My office is my titties where my mammary glands manufacture milk to feed my dependants. Mamdani must be stopped from yanking my titties because the painful patriarchal phallic posturing is unwelcome. Makerere University is not doing me a favour by giving me an office in which to do my work. I am a public servant with equipment, materials, books and tools for my academic research. It is laughable that he thinks I will drag my computers, printer, transcriber, recorders, fan, books and radio into the institutional library as my daily work space. Use your head, boy!

The leadership of the responsible College of Humanities and Social Sciences have sat passively on my human resources file for years. In that file are numerous appeals for help, numerous unanswered pleadings and beggings and prayers from me. Go read that file. The silence of the leadership of CHUSS makes the members complicit incompetent impotent collaborators with Mamdani. I refuse to join this institutional drudgery and people’s worship of a purported guru who has brutally murdered research at Makerere Institute of Social Research. Mamdani is not my demi-god; he shits and farts, probably wanks and cums too – like all humans do.

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The Directorate of Human Resources at Makerere University has sat passively on my file full of my cries for intervention for too long .. painfully long. Ayii, woooowe Maama, the thought of the inertia and inactivity towards ending my oppression and abuse at work makes me and mine weep. Go read my file in the DHR before accusing me of failing to follow protocol, procedure, or processes put in place to seek redress and respite.

The communal mailing lists at MISR, and at the broader levels of Makerere’s academic staff, and all staff, have variously received my questions, appeals for help, and cries against the routine abuse of my labour rights. With a few exceptions, nobody deems me worthy enough to help. Ayii, wooowe nyabo, I could drop dead under the burden of my pain inflicted by the politics of my job at MISR, and nobody would care enough to pick up my rotting dead body.

This most recent time, I appealed to the Deputy Vice Chancellor in charge Finance and Administration because he is responsible for space allocation at MISR. My people, allow me to publicly laud Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe for giving me audience, and acting immediately by giving me a letter staying my eviction until a solution was obtained. Prof. Nawangwe is my redeemer after all these years of oppression. For the first time in my life at Makerere University, an office bearer dealt with my appeal for help in a timely, just and professional manner.

Mahmood Mamdani dismissed and disregarded the letter of stay. He locked me out of the corridor that leads to my office.

I am going to expose everything I have bottled up for six years working under Mahmood Mamdani’s directorship at MISR. I was silent out of respect. He lost the last morsel of respect I had for him. With the loss of respect for Mamdani, I lost all pretentions of womanly respectability and feminine propriety. I am going to expose the fine details about Mamdani’s nepotism, fraud, violence, intimidation of faculty and students, suppression of challenge… the works!

I have been labelled insane because of my earlier productions posted on my timeline. You have seen nothing yet! If you want insane, I am going to give you insanity. I will do everything in my power to protect my office space. If I lose my office, it will not be because I never put up a fight. If I die fighting, I die. My sisters have updated copies of my will in which I bequeath all my property to my three children.

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Aine fate to be determined by April 20

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Our Reporter
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AINE's HOST: Gen. Salim Saleh

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) will determine the fate of Christopher Aine, the evasive aide to former Go Forward presidential candidate John Patrick Amama Mbabazi, who is wanted by police.

Aine, who went missing in December last year following the slapping of charges of assault against him allegedly carried out in Jinja and Ntungamo during the electioneering period, recently re-appeared at the home of Senior Presidential Advisor of Defence and Security General Salim Saleh, who promised to keep the beleaguered Mbabazi aide while seeking a solution to his woes.

About two weeks ago Aine resurfaced, and, in the company of Gen Saleh, fielded questions by journalists from the local TV station NTV, who sought to know what had transpired during the time the youthful man went missing. And, in a highly guarded response style, Aine could only reveal that he fled Uganda to Tanzania in the wake of the police investigations and his imminent arrest, the seeming precursor to his ‘disappearance’.

In fact, Saleh’s intervention and promise for a negotiated solution followed moves by the Inspector General of Police Gen Kale Kayihura, who recently sought to have Aine arrested to answer to the charges that were preferred against him last year, and which resulted in police putting a bounty of UGX20 million when Aine suddenly went missing in December 2015.

But it seems Aine’s woes are far from over; the IGP and Gen Saleh have reportedly been engaged in a tug-of-war for Aine, with available information indicating that the former had also sought guidance of the Attorney General in regard to the procedural details of how to deal with the stand-off, and Aine in particular.

However, the position of the police seems to have hit a rocky tail end, as the spokesperson of the DPP Jane Kajuga says it is only their office that can sanction criminal charges against Aine.

In fact, according to Ms Kajuga the DPP Mike Chibita wa Duallo, has already recalled the two Aine files, and will pronounce himself on the matter latest by Wednesday, April 20.

 

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Why Museveni denied Kenyans $4 billion pipeline deal

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Stephen Muneza
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The Kenyan government thought they had the ‘perfect’ business partner in Uganda, they were wrong.

President Uhuru Kenyan after a series of meetings with his counterpart President Museveni was left devastated after it was revealed Uganda will take its oil to the market through Tanzania’s Tanga port, leaving Kenya to build its own pipeline to Lamu, if the positions taken at the just-ended talks in Kampala are maintained.

 

PRESIDENTS Museveni and Uhuru at an earlier state function.
PRESIDENTS Museveni and Uhuru at an earlier state function.

Uganda’s neighbors to the East further claim that President Museveni’s government is struggling to raise the funds. An assertion Total has warned Uganda that the northern route, which is 1,120km, will encounter rough land terrain because of the Rift Valley in Kenya, driving the cost of the pipeline higher and delaying it is also said to have further made Museveni commit to the Tanga deal.

Kenyan officials couldn’t wait for the final position to be announced during the Northern Corridor Heads of State Summit at Speke Resort Munyonyo later this week where the pipeline deal will be a key agenda item.

“We have lost the pipeline deal to Tanzania. Uganda is playing hardball and has refused to share the report from its discussions with Tanzania.” a senior Kenyan official told a regional publication.

Tanzania is flat, given the Lake Victoria Basin Total has also promised to finance Uganda’s contribution of 40 per cent to the construction of the refinery in Hoima, which stands at $3.8 billion.

Uganda's oil boom has transformed the town of Hoima (Photo/James Akena)
Uganda’s oil boom has transformed the town of Hoima (Photo/James Akena)

Total is eyeing production of an estimated 6.5 billion barrels of Uganda’s crude oil by 2018 from oilfields in Hoima, western Uganda.

The French oil company is UK Tullow Oil’s partner in the Ugandan oil fields and the main financier of the operations. China National Offshore Oil Companies is also a partner.

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The pipeline if passed through Kenyan would likely have to travel through swamplands, national parks, and wildlife reserves, and parts of northern Kenya that are vulnerable to attacks by bandits or Islamist militants, according to consultancy BMI Research, which estimates the pipeline won’t be ready before 2020.

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There are also unconfirmed reports that Uganda is not certain about Kenyans ability to contain a repeat of post-election violence from eight years ago especially if CORD leader, Raila Odinga, is beaten by incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta in 2017 thus chances are the pipeline would be destroyed like the railway line in Kibera was.

From December 2007 to February 2008, Kenya experienced ethnic violence triggered by a disputed presidential election held on 27 December 2007. The violence claimed the lives of more than 1,300 Kenyans and displaced more than half a million others.

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