President Yoweri Museveni has received the Uganda National Roads Authority Commission of inquiry interim report highlighting several anomalies on a number of road constructions across the country according to presidential press secretary Ms.Linda Nabusayi.

The report was handed to the president by the commission headed by Justice Catherine Bamugemereire during a meeting at state Entebbe which was attended by Minister of works Eng.John Byabagambi, Attorney General Fred Ruhindi and UNRA ED Ms.Allen Kagina.

On June 8^th this year, the president established the 9 man commission of inquiry led by Justice Catherine Bamugemereire to probe corruption, mismanagement and abuse of office at UNRA .

The commission was expected to produce a comprehensive report within three months,initially ,the commission was required to submit their report to the appointing authority for action by September 8^th however the president extended this period by three months.

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Two members of the East African Legislative Assembly have been sworn in during the 4th session sitting in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
Reappointed Burundi Minister for East African Affairs Leontine Nzeyimana was sworn in as an ex-officio member while Dr Francois Xavier Kalinda is a new member representing Rwanda.
The Oath of Allegiance to the House was administered by the Clerk of EALA, Kenneth Madete before the EALA Speaker, Rt Hon Daniel Kidega in accordance with Rule 5 (4) of the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly.
“No Member can sit or participate in the proceedings of the House until the Oath or Affirmation of Allegiance to the Treaty is taken,” the Rules of Procedure state in part and allow for new members to be introduced to the Assembly by two serving EALA MPs.
Nzeyimana, who was recently re-appointed Minister for EAC by President Pierre Nkurunziza following the elections in Burundi, was ushered into the House by Emerence Bucumi and Isabelle Ndahayo.  She previously served in the same position.
Dr Francois Xavier Kalinda, 53, who was elected by the Parliament of Rwanda on September 15, 2015, to replace Celestine Kabahizi who tendered in his resignation from the Assembly in June 2015, was escorted by Valerie Nyirahabineza and Dr. Odette Nyiramilimo.
Prior to his election, Dr Kalinda was the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Rwanda.
A graduate of the then National University of Rwanda in 1996, Dr Kalinda pursued a Master of Law in Intellectual Property Rights at the University of Ottawa, in Canada, completing in 1999.
He also holds a Doctorate of Philosophy degree in Business Law obtained from the University of Strasbourg, France, in 2010.

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President Yoweri Museveni has said government will establish a
technical school in every constituency in Uganda as a means of
creating jobs for science graduates.
Speaking at the graduation ceremony of over 300 youth who completed
courses in various fields at Lutunku Community Polytechnic in
Lugusuulu sub-county, Mawogola North Constituency in Ssembabule
district, Museveni also urged the Ministry of Education, Technology,
Science and Sports to create a fund to enable graduates from
polytechnic institutions to get loans for purchasing equipment and
kick start capital.

“We have a plan to build a technical school in all constituencies. The
effort is to make our children to get skills. If you acquire skills,
there is no way you can fail to get a job. Skills can give you
wealth,” he said.
On arrival at Lutunku President Museveni toured an exhibition of the
products by the students of the school and also commissioned a
workshop at the polytechnic. He handed over tools and equipment to the
instructors for the students which he offered to them as a grant as
well as kick-start funds.

Lutunku Polytechnic, a brain child of President Museveni, offers long
and short time courses in formal and informal dairy keeping, carpentry
and joinery, brick laying and concrete practice motor-vehicle
mechanics, tailoring, catering-food preparing and processing,
electrical installation and hair dressing among others. The Head
Instructor Lutunku Community Polytechnic Mrs. Evelyne Zalwango Lubwama
commended President Museveni for supporting the Institute.
Meanwhile, responding to some of the concerns raised by the LC 1
chairman of the area Mr Seguya, President Museveni said the Ministry
of Works will construct a bridge on river Kyojja to enable the youth
from across to access training at Lutunku Polytechnic. He further
promised to solve the water problem affecting the area.
The President also pledged to build a church that was demolished
during the on-going construction of the Ssembabule to Gomba road.
The ceremony at Lutunku was attended by the Minister of Education,
Technology, Science and Sports Jessica Alupo, the Minister
of State for Housing and Urban Planning Rosemary Najjemba as well as
political and local leaders from Ssembabule and Gomba districts.

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The Spanish Supreme Court has ordered for the closure of a case the European country had slapped against 40 senior Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA) officers including the recently-released Lieutenant General Emmanuel Karenzi Karake.

In June, Lt Gen Karake, the Director General of Rwanda’s National Security and Intelligence Services (NSIS) was arrested in London on an indictment issued in 2008 by Spanish judge Fernando Andreu Merreles, linking the General to genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the war that brought the Rwanda

Patriotic Front government to power in 1994. Other prominent RPA officers linked to the Spanish case include Defence Minister General James Kabarebe, Brig Gen Sam Kaka Kanyemera and Col Dan Munyuza, the current Deputy Inspector General of Police.
In January this year the High Court in Spain cleared 11 of the accused and ordered for the closure of the file if no new evidence was brought against the remaining 29, some of who like Brigadier General Dan Gapfizi have since passed on.

As a result of the High Court ruling, a rights group, Association Parala Defensay Progresso de los Intereses Ciudadanos, appealed to theSpanish Supreme Court, challenging the revocation of the cases, an appeal that was thrashed on October 7, 2015 by five Supreme Court judges: Justices Anna Maria Ferrer Garcia, Miguel Colmenero, Candido Pumpido Touron, Medendenz de Luarca and Andres Palomo Del Arco.

Meanwhile, the Spanish indictment mirrors another one issued by the French against nine senior RPF/A members including Lt Col Rose Kanyange Kabuye, a former Chief of Protocol to President Paul Kagame, who was arrested in Germany in 2008 on the strength of a French indictment issued by controversial Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière in 2006, linking her to the murder of former Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, whose plane was brought down by a missile on April 6, 1994 as it approached the Kanombe Airport.

Habyarimana, who was in the company of his then Burundi counterpart Cyprien Ntaryamira, was returning from Arusha, Tanzania, where the Rwanda peace talks were being held. In Rwanda Habyarimana’s death set off a killing frenzy that engulfed the country, leading to the 1994 Genocide in which about a million Tutsi and moderate Hutu were massacred by rampaging groups led by the
Interahamwe militia.

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Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabange Kabila has been accused of arming brigades of cane-brandishing youth to disperse those opposed to his ‘third term’ bid.

According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), the youth were reportedly paid US$65 by officials of the ruling Peoples Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD) to scuttle a peaceful demonstration in the DRC capital Kinshasa.

According to reports, the plain-clothed assailants belonged to a cabal of PPRD sympathisers from the army, police, security services and youth associated with a Kinshasa-based football club, Vita.

The DRC is scheduled to hold elections on November 16 and President Kabila, who is attempting to run after serving his mandatory two five-year terms has come under heavy criticism for attempting to change the rules.

Recently, one of his PPRD close allies, Katanga Governor Moise Katumbi deserted the party and also resigned from governorship, and implored president Kabila to stand down after the expiry of his two terms.

Also, seven opposition figures who had allied with his PPRD in the pursuit of electoral reforms recently wrote to President Kabila, denouncing his third term quest and detailing their inability to continue working with him.

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