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Kenya bans ‘seed’ preacher, sex talk shows

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Our Reporter and Agencies
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Time is up for preachers notorious for asking for offertory or a set amount of money (seed) in exchange for special blessings and prayers on TV or radio.
Such ‘seed’ preachers, who encourage viewers to give ‘far and beyond’ their abilities to attract blessings, will soon have no place in radio and television programmes. Preachers have also been banned from recruiting people to their faiths or asking them to get ‘saved’ as they often do at the tail-end of their broadcasts.
These, among other rules, are contained in the 37-page Programming Code for Free-to-Air Radio and Television Services in Kenya. This is not all, the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has also banned sex talk during the daytime on radios. This will be seen as punitive for TV and radio which depend on call-in shows with, sometimes, heart-to-heart sharing of bedroom matters on air. These popular shows drive up ratings and advertisers scramble to get slots to sell their merchandise when these shows are on air. But according to CA, unless they are part of educational programmes, the shows stand banned during the watershed period – between 5am and 10pm.
The Director General of CA Francis Wangusi has also struck a blow on shows where cheating spouses or people reneging on debts are exposed on air. He says the suspects have to be informed beforehand. Journalists, anchors and presenters will no longer be able to voice audio commercials or appear in online commercials. In a raft of new tough measures targeting the media industry, the authority has also outlawed television commercials that are likely to ‘corrupt’ the morals of young children or traumatise them.These new rules have been gazetted by the Communications Authority, and the media houses doing free-to-air broadcasting have six months to comply.
By June, this year, media houses will not be allowed to show advertisements for more than 14 minutes in every hour. This will, inevitably, eat away at the revenues, and cripple the already threatened commercial viability of many of the private media enterprises. Within one year, the media must have 40 per cent of their programming either produced locally or having local footage. Four years later, they will be forced to have 60 per cent of local content. Media houses will also have to ensure that all their advertising contains at least 40 per cent ‘local content footage’. This is likely to affect multinationals that make adverts from their headquarters in South Africa, Europe or America, to run around the world. To get into the Kenyan market, they will have to spend more on local content or simply leave Kenyan media houses out of their global marketing campaign, and/or opt for alternative modes of advertising. The depiction of alcoholic drinks as good after a hard-days work or good for bonding sessions or even for celebration is banned.  
The Government regulator has also made it mandatory for all TV stations to employ sign-language interpreters, currently only available on the Standard Group’s KTN and on State broadcaster KBC.
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Police detains Redpepper editors over Aine photo

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Steven F Mandu
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Ben Byarabaha

 

The police has today quizzed and detained two Pepper Publications News Editors, Ben Baryabaha of The Redpepper and Dickson Mubiru of Kamunye, a Luganda daily, over a story and photographs of a lifeless man carried in the tabloid, purportedly of Christopher Aine, the missing head of the Go Forward candidate John Patrick Amama Mbabazi’s private security detail.

In the story today titled ‘Aine body emerges’ the tabloid says the lifeless body is that of Aine, a wanted by police for ‘grievous assault’ and is being sought with a bounty of Shs20 million on his head.

According to a letter from the CID that Eagle Online has seen, the Managing Editor of Pepper Publication was required at the Special investigations police unit at Kireka for interrogation and recording of a statement.

“Special Investigations Unit is conducting an investigation into publication ‘Aine body emerges’ that was carried on page 1 and 2 of the Red Pepper 07/01/2016. Pursuant to section 27A of the Police Act, you are required to report to Special investigations Division Kireka, today Thursday, 07/01/2016 at 16:30 hrs to assist in giving information in respect to the matter being investigated,” read the letter in part.

Aine is said to have gone missing after his arrest was ordered by the Inspector General of Police Gen Kale Kayihura over election violence that ensued when the Go Forward supporters clashed with those of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) during one of Mbabazi’s rallies in Ntungamo.

Varying communications about Aine’s whereabouts have caused anxiety, with the apparent ping pong between authorities, the Go Forward team and his relatives leaving a confused public.

It is against this background that The Redpepper carried the controversial story and when the family saw the photo they stormed police and asked to be escorted to the City Mortuary in Mulago to verify if the said dead body is indeed that of their missing relative.

The mortuary sojourn proved fruitless but the relatives led by Aine’s twin sister Ritah Babirye Aine insisted that the photo in the newspaper was indeed for her missing brother.

However, Police Spokesperson Fred Enanga was quick to dispel Ms Aine’s claims, saying that the photo that appeared in the tabloids was either photo-shopped or that of another person.

In a related development, the Go Forward lawyers have sought the writ of habeas corpus in respect to Aine, who was allegedly picked by unknown people from the city suburb of Kyanja about two weeks ago and has not been seen since then.

By press time it was not possible to get a comment from either the police or the Redpepper management.

The Redpepper has sometimes run in trouble following the publication of controversial stories and in 2013 their offices, together with those of the Monitor Publications, were closed for 10 days after running a story on ‘the succession project’ in regard to first son Brigadier Muhoozi Kainerugaba, arising from a letter written by General David Sejusa to the Director General of Internal Security Organisation (ISO) Brigadier Ronnie Barya.

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US presidential contender Trump faces ‘UK ban’

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Our Reporter and Agencies
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POSTPONED UK VISIT: US President Donald Trump.

 

British Members of Parliament will on January 18 debate whether to allow American billionaire and presidential contender Donald Trump entry in the United Kingdom.

More than 500,000 people have signed a petition demanding the billionaire is barred from Britain after he claimed police were scared to enter areas of London because of radical Islam.

The defiant US business mogul has said that the UK would ‘send a terrible message to the world that it opposes free speech’ if he is barred by the government, amid accusations of ‘holding the UK to ransom’ after he warned he will not put any more money into his two Scots golf course.

But the controversial billionaire has threatened to withdraw £700million of investment in Scotland if he is banned from Britain over comments he made about Muslims.

The Trump Organisation issued the warning after it was revealed MPs will debate whether or not the tycoon should be allowed back into Britain on January 18 at Westminster Hall.

Tulip Siddiq, a Muslim Labour MP, told the Daily Telegraph: ‘The United Kingdom should not be held to ransom by corrosive billionaire politicians. In our country, money doesn’t buy the right to sew discord and hatred in our communities.

‘Donald Trump’s threats about withholding investment from the UK is another desperate attempt to get in the headlines and anyone seeing his comments should reject his bigotry.’

Mr Trump owns two golf courses in Scotland: Trump International Golf Links, in Aberdeenshire, and the iconic Turnberry course in Ayrshire.

George Sorial, executive vice-president of the Trump Organisation, warned any action to restrict Mr Trump’s travel would force the company to ‘immediately end’ all current and future investment in the country.4

He said: ‘The Trump Organization has plans to invest more than 200 million pounds into the development of the iconic Trump Turnberry resort.

‘Our work there has been widely supported by the local community and created hundreds of jobs for the region.

‘Over the coming years, we intend to further develop Trump Turnberry and invest millions more at the site, creating sustained economic growth for South Ayrshire and Scotland.

‘Additionally, we have plans to invest £500million pounds towards further development at the 1,400 acre Trump International Golf Links, Aberdeen.

Donald Trump’s mother was Scottish and the billionaire’s passion for golf has seen him buy its jewel Turnberry and build a new links course near Aberdeen, costing him hundreds of millions.

But since he made comments about Muslims in December he has suffered blow after blow.

His dreams of hosting The Open Championship at his Scottish golf course look to have been dashed because of his plan to ban Muslims from entering the US.

The new R&A chief executive Martin Slumber was expected to endorse Turnberry as a venue for the 2020 Open Championship, after Mr Trump bought the course in April 2014, giving it a £200million makeover.

He has also been stripped of his status as a business ambassador for Scotland.

Last month Mr Trump blasted the Scottish Government as ‘small-minded and parochial’ and labelled Alex Salmond a ‘has been’ after he lost a legal battle against an offshore windfam being built in the view from his Scottish golf resort in Aberdeenshire, where he had planned to spend £500million.

The controversial property tycoon had wanted to block plans for an 11-turbine scheme in the bay off the coast near the Trump International Golf Links at the Menie Estate in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire. But his legal challenge failed.

‘Any action to restrict travel would force The Trump Organization to immediately end these and all future investments we are currently contemplating in the United Kingdom.

‘Westminster would send a terrible message to the World that the United Kingdom opposes free speech and has no interest in attracting inward investment.’

Mr Sorial added that banning Mr Trump from UK soil would ‘also alienate the many millions of United States citizens who wholeheartedly support Mr Trump and have made him the forerunner by far in the 2016 Presidential Election.’

In December last year, presidential hopeful Mr Trump called for a ‘total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States’ following terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, in California.

He was then accused of making a ‘hate speech’ about Britain and a petition demanding he is barred from the UK became the most popular ever.

The tycoon is defiant and has since accused Britons of ‘trying hard to disguise their massive Muslim problem’ and said his critics are just ‘pandering to political correctness’.

In a series of outbursts last month, the billionaire tycoon said ‘UK politicians should be thanking me’ for his claim that some of the country’s Muslim communities are no-go areas because of extremism.

He also attacked ‘out of touch’ MPs who abused him over his demand for an end to Muslim immigration to America, tweeting: ‘Everybody is wise to what is happening, very sad! Be honest!’

And he hit back at the hundreds of thousands signing the official petition demanding Mr Trump – the frontrunner to be the Republican Presidential candidate – be banned from Britain, writing on Twitter: ‘They don’t know what they’re getting into’.

During a CNN interview as he faced worldwide condemnation for his comments he said: ‘I am the least racist person you have ever met.’

His words led to him being stripped of his status as a business ambassador for Scotland and also lost his honorary degree from Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen.

Suzanne Kelly, the woman who started the petition to have him barred from the UK, said: ‘When the signatures quickly topped the 100,000 mark and a parliamentary debate was triggered, I still did not actually believe that this billionaire would be the subject of a parliamentary debate.

‘However the debate goes, this exercise has brought many people together to speak out against hate speech and prejudice.

‘That is my reward, and one I’m very happy and moved by.’

The debate on January 18 will be chaired by Labour MP Paul Flynn.

Labour MP Helen Jones, chair of the House of Commons Petitions Select Committee, said: ‘By scheduling a debate on these petitions, the Committee is not expressing a view on whether or not the Government should exclude Donald Trump from the UK.

‘As with any decision to schedule a petition for debate, it simply means that the Committee has decided that the subject should be debated. A debate will allow a range of views to be expressed.’

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Today’s campaign trails in pictures

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President Museveni in Rukungiri

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Amama Mbabazi in Napak District

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Kizza Besigye in Mbale

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Swimsuit Queen Hildah Lindah on family, career and relationship

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Steven F Mandu
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Q: Readers of Eagle Online would like to know who is Hildah Lindah?

A: I am a phenomenal woman that believes in hard work. A former model, ex Urban TV presenter and currently into a swimsuit business.

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Q:Can you take us through your early childhood life?

A: I was born on May 5 1991 to Mr and Mrs Richard and Christine Nsereko . We are seven in my family; five girls and two boys. Same dad and mum; that is the beauty of it all…

Q: Take me though your education?

A: As a toddler, I went to Auntie Claire’s kindergarten in Mengo. It was like the Greenhill Academy kind of school then. It was a kindergarten of both whites and blacks with so many kids. Anyone who stays or has ever lived in Mengo knows what I am talking about. The school still exists though so many things changed now. For primary I went to Buddo Junior School from P1 to P5. It was one of the best primary schools then among others but boarding life was harsh and hard for me so my parents decided to put in a day school closer home which was SIR Apollo Kaggwa Primary School- Mengo..
It was and still is one of the best primary schools up to date. For Secondary, I went to Mengo SS for my O level and Buloba High School for my A Level. Currently, I am pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Procurement and Supply Chain Management at Makerere University Business School.

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 Q: What exactly do you do a living?

A: I am an entrepreneur; I run a swimsuit business

Q: Why did you quit TV?

A: Well, to be honest, TV is really tricky. The first two episodes of the show were my hardest, but that is when I enjoyed it the most. I had never done TV before I went in for it, did what I did and I am forever grateful for the opportunity but it just wasn’t my thing to be honest. I was mentally over it as i had another option of focusing on my swimsuit business and earn fast money cause it is what I genuinely loved and wanted to do, I could not multi-task TV and my modeling.

Q: You are a very beautiful girl how do you maintain your beauty and figure?

Thanks for that positive attribute. Well, I don’t do none, its my natural look and physique; I was born that way.

 Q: Why did you join the swimsuit business?

A: Well, I wanted to do something others were not doing. Especially for the young girls, no one had tapped into the swimsuit business yet, so I decided to do it first. Plus, I always loved the pool and the water so it made sense for me to start up a swimsuit business in Kampala. I started to promote it exclusively on social media to people who were following me, and it took off from there

 Q: When exactly did you start swimsuit?

A: Uhm, I started the swimsuit business around January 2015…. Just a while ago…. you know!

 Q: Apart from swim suit what else do you do?

A: Apart from the swimsuit business, I do nothing but take beautiful eye catching selfies. I m a photo lover and I like capturing moments…

 Q: How is the swim suit business in Uganda? Are people embracing it?

A: Uhm the swimsuit business is steadily growing each and every day. Back then, a girl posing in a swimsuit used to be a big of a deal but lately it is kind of a lifestyle. That is being adopted in Kampala and no body and by nobody I mean (70%) wants to be left out or lag behind on the swimsuits trend.  And my Facebook page called ‘Need a Swimsuit?’  is my evidence for this question I am answering right now. All my customer highlights are there. So yeah, people are embracing it.

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 Q: You have been on and off in the modeling career why?

A: Well, modeling was something I grew up having a passion for. I don’t even know why or how cause I was always the Shy Girl and  it is funny how I never really had a model in the industry then I looked up to. I think it was innate passion and desire. I modeled around 2011-2013 and I lost the passion not because I wanted to give up easily but because of the few reasons like exploitation where after gigs we were paid little or nothing at all. And most shows were during night time…slowly, I lost it all just like that. It suddenly all died

 Q: You appear so much in bikinis, being Africans is your family and community free with it?

A: First things first. It is a marketing tactic. And yes, my family knows that it’s what I am doing for a living and they support me 100% so I am safe to say they are okay with it all

 

Q: Have you ever had a crush over a man and if yes who?

A: I guess each one of us has ever had a crush on someone and mine happens to be J Cole .

Q: What is it that you can’t miss in your bag?

A: I can’t move without a pair of shades and headsets

Q: Lindah you are a very beautiful girl, do you do you get calls from men asking you out?

Answer: I am a beautiful girl?! Oh thanks! Well, of course I do get calls from random anonymous guys all the time.

 Question: How do you manage to resist them?

Answer: Well at the end of the day, I know who I want and… just like that…everything works out itself

Q: What is it that you think some people don’t like about you?

A: Well, people don’t like my principles. When I say ‘no’ to something its 98% always a NO and vice versa. So I always come off as a mean person.So I would say people don’t like it that I am principled and I am outspoken hence keeping it real and 1000 ( a thousand) like the romans.

Q: Who is your role model?

A: I have two role models. And these fashionable beautiful women areDraya Howard Michelle who has a swimwear line called “Mint Swimwear”. I see her as a very hardworking woman; from being a stripper and being abandoned by her boyfriend at 16 years of age when she was pregnant, she worked so hard to be where she is right now because to make it in the city, you need to know where you are coming from to where you are going to. So I see her as a rose that grew from concrete. So yeah, she is my perfect person.

Q: Who are you your closest friends both male and female?

 Answer: Closest friends My Mum and sisters; male is my brother

 Q: Which music do you listen to?

A: Straight up hip hop all day, every day.

Q: Who is your favorite artiste both locally and internationally?

A: Locally it is Irene Ntale. Internationally you already know its J Cole all day every day. His music is relatable to this day-to-day life we living and that is how I get my motivational boost that keeps me going.

Q: How do you spend your free time?

A:  I hit it the pool. Swimming is my thing. I also listen to music because music is like air to me. That explains why headsets are a must-have in my handbag

 Q: What have been the achievements in your career starting with modeling, TV and swimsuit?

A: Well, I decided that I want to be my own boss. I wanted to make my own rules, my own hours, my own money and that is just the path I chose; at least I don’t have to storm people’s offices looking for jobs as I am focused on mine. Plus, I got a lot of exposure through modeling, TV to the swimsuit business I am doing now and I have been able to work with celebrities and some public figures. I have also been able to expand my marketing skills, customer base on a daily basis since I come up with something new once in a while on how to keep my business booming

Q: What challenges have you encountered and how have you tried to overcome them?

A: One main challenge I can’t really help or control is weather. On rainy cold days, the business is really slow and the only way I try overcoming it is by putting that month’s stock on “Half Price Sale”

Q: Where do you see the swimsuit business in Uganda in the near future?

I don’t know where the business is going at large but I do know where my swimsuit business personally is going and that is a swim wear line…

 Q: What are your future prospects?

Coming up with an upscale swim wear brand, pioneered by business magnate ‘Hildah Lindah’ as I would love to come up with names for each swimsuit stemmed from a personal experience of specific person as the names will be inspired by my friends and family. Just a thought if it makes me excited.

 

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HAPPENING NOW: FDC launces Manifesto in Mbale

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Steven F Mandu
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FDC flag bearer Rtd. Col Kizza  Besigye has lauched  the party’s manifesto in Mbale Cricket ground where he  is finalizing his  campaigns in Mbale having tranversed the District earlier on canversing  for votes.

FDC supporters in Mbale have stormed the Cricket grounds to witness the launch of the party manifesto
FDC supporters in Mbale have stormed the Cricket grounds to witness the launch of the party manifesto

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Accompanied by  Mbale Municipality MP Jack Wamayi Wamnga, Budadiri West MP Nandala Mafabi, Mbale Mayor Zyandya, Mbale District Woman Member of Parliament contestant Margaret Wokuri, and others the FDC strong man has promised the people of Mbale and Ugandans at large to give them back their power which has been usurped by the current regime.

This is a developing story. We shall update you as details stream in.

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Mbabazi protests against Museveni presence in Mbale

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Richard Wanambwa
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Go Forward presidential candidate John Patrick Amama Mbabazi has protested against the presence of President Yoweri Museveni in Mbale between January 9 and 10, days which were allotted by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to Mr Mbabazi for campaigns in the area.

Through his lawyers Muwema and Company Advocates and Solicitors, Mbabazi alerted the IEC of the hitherto seeming interference with his campaign programme in the eastern town of Mbale by the president.

‘Our client as per his campaign programme which you are duly aware of, shall be holding his presidential campaigns in Mbale on the 9th and 10th of January 2016. A copy of the campaign programme is attached for your ease of reference,’ the lawyers wrote in their communication of January 5 to the EC Chairman Eng Badru Kiggundu titled: Protest against intended presidential candidate Yoweri Museveni’s appearance in Mbale on the 9thand 10th of January, 2016.

But contacted for comment Mr Paul Bukenya, the IEC Deputy Spokesperson, said he was yet to see the letter.

But an analyst conversant with the law said the president enjoys immunity and that Mr Museveni’s presence in Mbale would not contravene the electoral rules.

Media reports indicate that President Yoweri Museveni, who is also the flag bearer of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) in the forthcoming elections, will be in Mbale between January 9 and 10 to commission a number of roads in the Elgon area.

On July 9 last year, after announcing he would contest for presidency, Mr Mbabazi selected Mbale as his first destination, where he was to carry out consultations regarding his candidature.

However, the move did not materialize as he was stopped at Njeru by a team of police officers led by then Director of Operations AIGP Andrew Felix Kaweesi and later taken to Kira Road Police Station where he stayed up to around 8pm before being released.

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Mbabazi speaks out on Aine, campaign violence

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Richard Wanambwa
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The Go Forward presidential candidate John Patrick Amama Mbabazi has broken his silence regarding the disappearance of the head of his private security detail, Christopher Aine.
Aine, who is wanted by police for ‘grievous assault’ went missing about two weeks ago and frantic efforts by the authorities and relatives to trace his whereabouts have not yielded fruit.
But this afternoon Mr Mbabazi has said Aine, who has a Shs20 million bounty issued by police chief Gen Kale Kayihura would be found, and that Mr Mbabazi’s lawyers had already written to court for a writ of habeas corpus, a judicial instrument that requires the authorities to produce a missing person.
‘Yesterday, our lawyers successfully lodged a habeas corpus order with the High Court of Uganda for Aine. We will find him’, Mr Mbabazi wrote in a statement titled: ‘Statement Regarding the Continual Brutalisation of Go Forward Supporters and Campaign Agents’.
Giving names and their places of abode, Mr Mbabazi, details the woes that his supporters have reportedly endured, adding that in the last one month alone dozens of his supporters have been ‘assaulted, arrested, ‘disappeared’ and even killed’.
Further, Mr Mbabazi spoke about campaign violence meted out against his supporters and also called for calm and restraint by the authorities, saying it would create harmonious continuity.
‘As we approach the last 40 days of this campaign, the tempo is growing and the people are becoming more decisive. The tensions may rise, but I appeal to those in authority to exercise fairness, restraint and better judgment for the sake of our children, our neighbours and our country, Uganda. This is what we deserve as a nation peaceful transition of power. It starts now’, Mr Mbabazi wrote.
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Emirates delivers Nile bridge heavy equipment

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Our Reporter
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The machinery and steel parts for the bridge being loaded onto an Emirates SkyCargo Boeing 777 Freighter at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport

Emirates SkyCargo, the freight division of Emirates, recently delivered heavy machinery and steel parts for the new bridge currently being constructed across the Nile River in Uganda.

Emirates SkyCargo was recently awarded the charter by a Japanese construction company to carry the heavy equipment from Tokyo’s Narita Airport to Entebbe on December 26, via the cargo carrier’s hub in Dubai. The cargo, weighing about 84 tonnes, consisted of machinery, including a winch, down-the-hole hammer, and steel parts for the bridge.

The cable-stayed bridge, currently one of the biggest bridge developments in east and central Africa, is a project by the Government of Uganda with support from the Government of Japan, and is located at Jinja near the source of the Nile. Once completed the bridge is expected to improve transport flows on the Northern Corridor route which links Uganda and neighbors Burundi, Rwanda and eastern DRC to Kenya.

“This was a very high profile charter for what clearly is a very important project in Uganda. We were delighted to be entrusted by the construction company to move this load, and prove that Emirates SkyCargo has the capability and capacity to move large and outsized cargo, requiring careful planning. Our field teams in Japan and Uganda along with our Dubai based Freighter and Charters and hub operations teams worked very hard to ensure the success of this charter,” said Ravishankar Mirle, Emirates Vice President, Cargo Commercial, Far East and Australasia.

“Emirates SkyCargo has carried many outsized items of cargo over the years, from helicopters, to ship rudders, aircraft engines and even a yacht’s mast, among others, so we have a lot of experience in managing this type of cargo,” he added.

To carry the cargo, Emirates SkyCargo used one of its Boeing 777 Freighter aircraft, which is capable of carrying over 100 tonnes of cargo per flight. The aircraft is one of the most modern and technologically advanced freighters available, with its wide main deck enabling access for outsized cargo and larger consignments.

Emirates SkyCargo operates a fleet of 15 freighters, including two Boeing 747-400Fs and 13 Boeing 777Fs, that operate from their base at Emirates SkyCentral, located in the logistics district of Dubai South, from where they service over 50 scheduled freighter destinations around the world.

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That is my brother’s body – Aine sister

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Richard Wanambwa
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Ritah Babirye Aine, a sister to Christopher Aine, the missing head of Go Forward candidate Amama Mbabazi’s private security detail, has said that the photo of a dead body appearing on social media and carried by one of the local dailies is that of her brother.

Beginning yesterday social media carried a photo of a lifeless man with apparent marks in the chest and broken teeth, and the poster purported the photo was that of Aine, a wanted man who went missing about two weeks ago, prompting police boss Gen Kale Kayihura to put a bounty of Shs20 million on his head.

The media quoted Babirye as saying the marks on the neck and broken teeth appearing in the photo are from an accident he got years ago.

According to news reports, Aine’s sister has asked the police to task the local newspaper to produce the source of the photograph, saying that could provide a lead in the investigations related to her missing brother.

Aine went missing from his home in Kyanja about two weeks ago and, earlier today his relatives in the company of police went to the city mortuary to search for his body but failed to trace it.

However, according to the media, the police spokesperson Fred Enanga has refuted the claims, saying that the photo carried by the newspaper must have been photo-shopped or of another body.

Aine first made headlines mid this year, when he engaged in a vigorous scuffle with police officers who tried to block his boss Mbabazi from addressing supporters in Jinja. At the time Aine was arrested and detained at Nalufenya Police Station in Jinja, a place reserved for hardcore suspects.

Then on December 13 Aine’s name cropped up again, this time linked to a deadly encounter in Ntungamo between supporters of the National Resistance Movement candidate Yoweri Museveni and those of Mr Mbabazi.

In subsequent actions, President Museveni addressed a press conference in Mbale, and said government would deal with those responsible for assaulting his supporters in Ntungamo, while Gen Kayihura followed by putting the 20m bounty on Aine’s head.

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