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How Micho, Okwi voted in the Fifa Best Men’s Player 2021

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Micho and Okwi

International football governing body, FIFA, held The Best FIFA Football Awards 2021 ceremony, in a virtual TV show in Zurich, and crowned Robert Lewandowski, as the outstanding players in men’s football.

The winners of The Best player, goalkeeper and coach awards were determined through a voting process in which four groups had an equal say: football fans, selected media representatives, and the captains and head coaches of national teams from around the globe.

Uganda Cranes head coach Milutin ‘Micho’ Sredojević picked Chelsea’s duo of Jorginho and N’Golo Kanté as his first and second respectively, and Mohamed Salah came third.

Cranes captain Emmanuel Arnold Okwi picked Lionel Messi as his first option, Robert Lewandowski and Mohamed Salah in second and third respectively.

The FC Bayern München striker Lewandowski was recognised as The Best FIFA Men’s Player for the second year in succession after outlasting PSG’s Lionel Messi and Mohamed Salah in the voting.

Award winners:

Best Men’s Player: Robert Lewandowski

Best Women’s Player: Alexia Putella

Best Men’s Coach: Thomas Tuchel

Best FIFA Women’s Coach: Emma Hayes

Best Women’s Goalkeeper: Christiane Endler

Best Men’s Goalkeeper: Édouard Mendy

FIFA Puskás Award: Érik Lamela (ARG) – Arsenal FC v. Tottenham Hotspur FC [Premier League] (14 March 2021)

FIFA Fan Award: Denmark and Finland fans

FIFA Fair Play Award: Denmark national team/Danish medical team and coaching staff

Cristiano Ronaldo collected a special award for being the top men’s international goalscorer of all time

FIFA FIFPRO Men’s World 11:

Goalkeeper: Gianluigi Donnarumma (AC Milan/Paris Saint-Germain)

Defenders: David Alaba (FC Bayern München/Real Madrid CF), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus FC) and Rúben Dias (Manchester City FC)

Midfielders: Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City FC), Jorginho (Chelsea FC) and N’Golo Kanté (Chelsea FC)

Forwards: Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus FC/Manchester United FC), Erling Haaland (BV Borussia 09 Dortmund), Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) and Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona/Paris Saint-Germain)

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Former Presidential Candidate John Katumba to lead protest over fuel prices

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Former presidential candidate John Katumba has announced his intentions to hold a peaceful protest over the continuous increase of fuel prices in Uganda.

In a letter addressed to the Inspector General of Police, Martin Okoth Ochola, Katumba says they will be practicing a constitutional right of holding a peaceful protest on the situation for the betterment of Uganda.

“Due to the rapid increasing of fuel prices that have frustrated our motherland’s economy because of individual selfish interests, we, therefore, inform you that we shall practice our constitutional right of holding a peaceful protest against the above situation for the betterment of our nation,” Katumba’s letter reads in part.

However, the youngest presidential in the January 2021 election did not clarify when he intends to stage the protest.

Fuel prices have been steadily rising since last year and by the end of last week, fuel was already at 12,000 shillings in some parts of the country like Hoima.

Uganda is currently experiencing a fuel crisis as several pumps in the city continue to dry up due to slow Covid testing of cargo truck drivers. Queues as long as 80km are waiting to be cleared in the past few days at Malaba and Busia border points.  

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Greed and Fraud: disgraced Jordan Ssebuliba (son of Mohan Kiwanuka) evicted by his mother

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Mr. Jordan Sebuliba who has taken on his father Mohan Kiwanuka in a property row.

Disgraced Jordan Sebuliba Kiwanuka, a son to Kampala businessman Mohan Musisi Kiwanuka is currently at loggerheads with his mother Beatrice Luyiga Kavuma over greed and fraudulent activities.

According to sources, the two are in a bitter war after it was discovered that Jordan pocketed all the money he has been collecting from Seven Trees Gardens located in Kololo. The pocketing has been going on for the last 10 years with very little going to the mother and siblings.

Jordan’s indiscipline has compelled his mother to evict him from her residence along Kawalya Kagwa road where he had shifted his offices after he was evicted by court order from Akiibua Road in Nakasero.

The controversies are not new, in 2019, Jordan ran to court seeking powers to take over his father’s estate. Jordan and his maternal siblings claimed that their father Mohan Kiwanuka had gifted them four ‘matrimonial’ properties. They had no supporting documents but claimed that the father become too enfeebled to remember the donation.

To Jordan’s dismay, High Court, later on, found Jordan liable for offences including fraud and forgery.

The same court issued orders for Jordan and his friends to vacate or be evicted out of three properties which he had been illegally occupying for over 10 years. The eventual eviction was in March 2021.

In June 2021, Jordan swore a court affidavit that one of the contested properties; plot 10 Akii-Bua road had been sold to one Victor Nuwagaba in 2019. Strangely enough, Jordan had been claiming this property as one of his inheritances ever since he started in July 2019 which led to his eventual eviction in March 2021.

According to court documents seen by Eagle Online, Jordan is battling another case of obtaining money by false pretense at Jinja road police station. The case was filed by Elizabeth Kigozi Nalumansi Wamala in October last year. Jordan operates several bank accounts jointly with his wife Mona Mugume Ssebuliba who works with a finance NGO called Abi Trust. It seems that these bank accounts are not known to Jordan’s mother and siblings

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PICTORIAL: Ruparelia Group of Companies boss Sudhir celebrates birthday in style

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Nepalese honorary consul to Uganda and Chairman Ruparelia Group of Companies Dr Sudhir Ruparelia celebrated his birthday in style. 

The businessman was welcomed to office with a birthday treat by staff today.

Sudhir, born in Kabatooro in Kasese district celebrated his 66th birthday having been born in 1956.

Businesses under Ruparelia group are; Speke Resort Munyonyo, Munyonyo Commonwealth Resort, Kabira Country Club, Speke Hotel 1996, Forest Cottages Naguru, Bukoto Heights, Dolphine Suites Bugolobi, Speke Apartments, Victoria University, Kampala Parents School, Dheli Public School, Kampala International School of Uganda.

Others are; Goldstar Insurance, Sanyu Fm 2000 Limited, Meera Investments, Rosebud, Premier Roses, Premier Recruitment Services, Crane Management Services the property management arm of the empire and a host of other thriving businesses in and outside the country.

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MPs probe existence of private pharmacies in Mulago Hospital

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Mulago Hospital.

The Parliamentary Committee on Health has picked interest in probing the existence and operations of private pharmacies inside Mulago National Referral Hospital.

First Pharmacy and Ecopharm are the two privately owned pharmacies selling ‘specialised’ drugs to patients in Mulago Hospital.

While meeting Dr. Byarugaba Baterana, the Executive Director, Mulago National Referral Hospital over the Budget Framework Paper for financial year 2022/23 on Friday, 14 January, 2022, the Committee Vice Chairperson, Hon. Joel Yoweri Ssebikali sought clarification on the ownership of these private pharmacies and how they accessed Mulago Hospital.

There have been general concerns that private pharmacies connive with public health facilities to sell government drugs to patients.

“As a committee, we need to know how these private pharmacies accessed Mulago. Who owns them? How much money do they remit to Government and for how long will they stay there?” Ssekikali asked.

He demanded that Mulago leadership avail the Committee with vital documents including Memoranda of Understandings (MOUs) that Mulago signed with First Pharmacy and Ecopharm.

Dr. Baterana said that the two private pharmacies are legally operating inside Mulago after undergoing a competitive procurement process and that there is an MOU signed with Mulago to supply specialised drugs which cannot be obtained from National Medical Stores (NMS), a government institution mandated to procure, store and distribute medicines.  

“There is a shortage of specialised drugs and that is why we sought the services of these private pharmacies to supply these drugs. There are also some patients who come looking for particular brands of drugs which can only be provided by the private pharmacy,” Dr. Baterana said adding that, ‘both private pharmacies pay Shs3 million each to Mulago Hospital as rent’.

Hon. Samuel Opio (Kole County North) questioned how a patient would dictate the brand of drug without proper prescription from the physician.

“Is it the patient who prescribes himself or herself or is it supposed to be the medical practitioner? This explains why people complain that there are no basic drugs in public hospitals,” he said.
In 2019, President Yoweri Museveni ordered the National Drug Authority (NDA) to cancel licences of the two private pharmacies operating in Mulago. However, the directive, according to Dr. Baterana, was temporarily stayed following legal advice from the Attorney General.

The Health Committee further tasked Government to streamline regional referral hospitals in order to relieve Mulago of the patient burden. The Committee wants Mulago to stick to its niche by treating patients who cannot be handled by other referrals.

“For as long as regional hospitals are not fully functional and streamlined, then Mulago will remain a nightmare. We need to help Mulago by strengthening regional hospitals,” Hon. Sylvia Bahireira Tumwekwase (Indep,. Kamwenge District) said.

Mulago Hospital is seeking an additional funding of Shs153.27 billion in financial year 2022/23 against the MTEF Budget projections of Shs69.275 billion.

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MPs want SAGE age eligibility lowered to 75 years

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During an interface with Uganda Parliamentary Forum on Social Protection (UPFSP) as they presented a position paper on Social Protection financing in the National Budget Framework Paper for the  FY 2022/23

MPs on the Gender, Labour and Social Development Committee of Parliament have asked the Government to consider lowering the eligibility of the Senior Citizens Grant under the Social Assistance Grant for Empowerment (SAGE) to 75 years from 80.

This, according to the legislators, would increase the program coverage, with more beneficiaries brought on board. They also argued that a number of older persons are dying before they reach the age of eligibility for the grant.

“It’s high time that members look at putting the age of eligibility to at least 75 years so that we have more people benefiting; so that we can be seen to live by Government assurance,” said Flavia Kabahenda Rwabuhoro, the chairperson of the Committee, adding that in her constituency, there are no more older persons eligible for the grant because those of 80 years and above have died.

According to projections by the Gender Ministry, lowering the age of eligibility to 75 years will see a total of 505,881 beneficiaries covered from the current 350,000.

This was during an interface with Uganda Parliamentary Forum on Social Protection (UPFSP) as they presented a position paper on Social Protection financing in the National Budget Framework Paper for the  FY 2022/23.

“For us to hang on to a higher age eligibility when we know that by that time people are in the evening of their lives is like giving ourselves hot air,” said Kabahenda.

Workers MP Charles Bakabulindi said many older persons are being left out because of lack of national identification cards. According to him, older persons by the time of registration didn’t have the strength to line up in long queues.

“Government needs to urgently address the issue of National Identification cards as a prerequisite to benefit from SAGE. Other mechanisms should be thought about because a number of older persons did not register for the identification cards,” he stated.

Data from the Ministry of Gender indicates that out of the 200,500 older persons targeted under the SAGE national rollout, a total of 174,873 (87.2%) beneficiaries have been verified and paid bringing the total number of older persons reached as at 30th December 2021 to 332,793.

The 25,627 older persons not yet covered are those that are either not yet registered with NIRA or have registered but have errors with their National IDs.

Patrick Katabaazi Kiconco, the UPFSP coordinator said that during the fourth quarter of FY 2020/2021, 270,203 beneficiaries were not paid due to insufficient funding and as a result, the Programme accumulated arrears for beneficiary payments worth Ushs36.2billion.

“We call upon Parliament to task the Ministry of Finance Planning and Economic Development to urgently release the supplementary funding of Shs36.2bn required for the Senior Citizens Grant in the current financial year 2021/22,” he stated.

Katabaazi also noted that the single registry which is critical in the identification of potential beneficiaries of social protection interventions remains not operationalized hence urged Gov’t to find resources for operationalization of single registry.

 “There is a need to streamline the implementation of other grants to vulnerable groups such as the disability grant using the successful implementation of the Senior Citizens Grant as a benchmark.”

According to Katabaazi, the current budgeting is not consistent with the overall strategy for the national roll-out of the Senior Citizens Grant (SAGE) of 2018/19, the resolutions of Parliament (2018) and the commitments with Development Partners.

This, he said, poses a risk to the general welfare of the older persons and the people that depend on them.

Members of the Forum called on the Committee to ensure that the funding gap of sh17.49bn reflected in the National Budget Framework Paper 2022/23 is covered before the budget is passed. Additionally, the members want the grant revised to at least sh30,000 from the current 25,000 to cater for inflation.

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FIFA The Best 2021: Will Messi, Salah or Lewandowski win the award?

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The prize for FIFA the best awards

The winners of The Best Fifa Football Awards 2021 will be announced on Monday 17 January 2022 in Zurich, Switzerland.

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah is on the men’s shortlist with Paris St-Germain’s Lionel Messi and Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski.

Salah, currently playing for Egypt at the Africa Cup of Nations, is the Premier League’s top scorer this season with 16 goals, having finished second to Harry Kane last season.

Salah had a mixed year at Liverpool by his high standards, with the Reds’ shaky form at the start of 2021 almost costing them a place in the Premier League’s top four. However, thanks in part to the Egypt forwards’ 15 goals in 28 games between the turn of the year and end of the campaign, Liverpool reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League and finished third in the league

He comes up against Argentine Messi, last year’s Ballon d’Or winner, who has only won the Fifa men’s award once since its inception, claiming the prize in 2016.

Messi has managed only six goals in 16 appearances since his sensational move from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain last summer. However, his 28 goals in 29 games for Barça between New Year’s Day and his emotional departure was Messi at his effervescent best, even if the rest of the team was lagging behind him, and he followed that up with four at the Copa América for Argentina.

Poland’s Lewandowski won the men’s award in 2020 and went on to score 69 goals in 2021, but two-time winner Cristiano Ronaldo is not on the shortlist for the first time.

Lewandowski’s consistency puts him above the other two averaging a goal roughly every 68 minutes, while Messi bagged one every 116 minutes and Salah every 122 minutes. He did win the Bundesliga title again with Bayern. He had less success at Euro 2020, with Poland crashing out at the group stage of the re-arranged tournament. He still managed to score three goals in as many games for his country, but was unable to force them into the knockout stages.

Best women’s player

Jennifer Hermoso (Spain/Barcelona)

Sam Kerr (Australia/Chelsea)

Alexia Putellas (Spain/Barcelona)

Best men’s player

Robert Lewandowski (Poland/Bayern Munich)

Lionel Messi (Argentina/Barcelona/Paris St-Germain)

Mohamed Salah (Egypt/Liverpool)

Best women’s coach

Lluis Cortes (Spain/Barcelona)

Emma Hayes (England/Chelsea)

Sarina Wiegman (Netherlands/Dutch national team/English national team)

Best men’s coach

Pep Guardiola (Spain/Manchester City)

Roberto Mancini (Italy/Italian national team)

Thomas Tuchel (Germany/Chelsea)

Best women’s goalkeeper

Ann-Katrin Berger (Germany/Chelsea)

Christiane Endler (Chile/Paris Saint-Germain/Lyon)

Stephanie Labbe (Canada/FC Rosengard/Paris Saint-Germain)

Best men’s goalkeeper

Gianluigi Donnarumma (Italy/AC Milan/Paris Saint-Germain)

Edouard Mendy (Senegal/Chelsea)

Manuel Neuer (Germany/Bayern Munich)

Fifa Puskas Award

Erik Lamela – Tottenham (vs Arsenal, 14 March)

Patrik Schick – Czech Republic (vs Scotland, 14 June)

Mehdi Taremi – Porto (vs Chelsea, 13 April)

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Museveni pardons 79 prisoners

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Geoffery Serugo
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Prisoners

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has pardoned 79 prisoners on medical and humanitarian grounds. The 79 include one Venezuela National Doralys Rodriguez Fagundez.

“In exercise of the powers vested in me under Article 121(1) (a) of the constitution of Uganda, 1995 as amended and on advise of the advisory committee on prerogative of Mercy, I hereby grant pardon the persons below on public health and humanitarian grounds,” Museveni said in a statement.

The 79 inmates were sentenced and most of them have been serving their sentences since 2015.

The 79include:

Name                                              Prison

1.       Kamoga Gerald                       Kyakasengura

2.       Kadogo Charles                       Kyakasengura

3.       Kyakimwa Debora                  Fortportal Women

4.       Ithungu Mary                          Fortportal Women

5.       Kabamulaze Socolsatic          Rukungiri

6.       Muhereeza Eliot                     Nyarushanje

7.       Muhaweninana Ezra              Nyarushanje

8.       Semakula Swaib                      Adjumani

9.       Adebo Daoud                          Adjumani

10.   Edema Kennedy                      Adjumani

11.   Mugabe Jayee                         Bushenyi Male

12.   Tumwekwasise Benon           Kamwenge

13.   Mukore Fransico                     Kamwenge

14.   Nsimire Kevin                           Kamwenge

15.   Byaruhanga Lawrence            Kicheche

16.   Nuwasiima Felix                      Kicheche

17.   Mugisha Abel                           Kicheche

18.   Ainebyona Hillary                    Kiruhura

19.   Butafa Godfrey                        Kiruhura

20.   Gatete Hamuza                        Maxson Bay

21.   Nsereko Ronald                       Maxson Bay

22.   Nsubuga David                         Maxson Bay

23.   Musana Peter                           Mbale Male 

24.   Mushero Ronald                      Mbale Male 

25.   Mashika Paul                            Mbale Male 

26.   Anywa Jaspa                             Mbale Male 

27.   Mugudwa Amos                       Mbale Male 

28.   Abdul Karim                              Fortportal Male

29.   Mugisha Robert                       Fortportal Male 

30.   Musereka Emmanuel               Fortportal Male 

31.   Barijwaha Philemon                 Fortportal Male 

32.   Byaruhanga Eriya                      Fortportal Male 

33.   Kyaligonza                                  Fortportal Male 

34.   Akidi Santina                              Gulu Women

35.   Oboto Hellen                              Gulu Women

36.   Byaruhanga Edison                    Mubuku

37.   Mumbere Musheihin                 Mubuku

38.   Katonezi Stanley                         Mubuku

39.   Nakazibwe Rehema                    Luzira women

40.   Nabukeera Madina                     Luzira women

41.   Okot Sunday                                Masindi Male

42.   Muwanguzi Adidas                     Luzira women

43.   Okumu Francis                             Luzira women

44.   Busobozi Kenneth                       Luzira women

45.   Takisa Joseph                               Isimba

46.   Kigundu Israel                              Butoolo

47.   Zimonia Tera                                Isimba

48.   Kayingo Denis                               Isimba

49.   Atwine Brian                                 Isimba

50.   Agu Swahib                                   Isimba

51.   Ocheing Richard                          Tororo Male

52.   Ahammed Bourn Juma               Tororo Male

53.   Okwi Kasim                                   Tororo Male

54.   Okwato Sam                                  Loro

55.   Owani Denis                                  Loro

56.   Eria James                                      Loro

57.   Kyamanya Godwin                        Loro

58.   Ego Aaron alis Junior                     Nwoya

59.   Mugwanya Mathias                       Kaweeri

60.   RA. 226169 PTE Awany James      Luzira Upper

61.   Cpl. Sabot Herbertson                    Luzira Upper

62.   Tumusiime Benard                          Maska Male

63.   Oyeka Anthony                                Moroto

64.   Lopus Peter                                       Amita

65.   Lokiru Paul                                        Amita

66.   Wanyama Livingstone                    Bufulubi

67.   Mfutumukiza Lawrence                  Jinja Remand

68.   Twinomugisha G                              Lwabenge

69.   Njagala John                                      Kyanamukaka

70.   Pte Lwota Alex                                  Bugungu YP

71.   Nyanzi Emmanuel                             Bugungu YP

72.   Zirimu James                                      Bulaula

73.   Muhanga Peter                                  Bulaula

74.   Namugabu Paula                               Bulaula

75.   Tarizeba Ronald                                 Bulaula

76.   Mukalugwire Nyasi                           Luzira Women

77.   Turyatunga Innocent                        Jinja Male

78.   Mutumba  Ronald                             Bugungu

Category 2. Venezuela National

79.   Doralys Rodriguez Fagundez

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Government suspends #Covid-19 testing at Malaba and Busia border points

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Fuel trucks

The Ministry of Health has temporarily suspended mandatory testing for Covid-19 of truck drivers and passengers at the Malaba and Busia land borders.

In a statement from the Director General Health services, Dr. Charles Olaro, he said the suspension was to ease the movement of trucks into and within the country.

“Given the poor performance of antigen RDTs amongst non-symptomatic individuals and the continued buildup of trucks on the Kenyan side of the border, creating another super-spreader scenario, the Ministry of Health has decided to immediately and temporarily suspend mandatory testing at the two border points to ease movement of trucks into and within the country to avert the potential super spreader event,” Dr. Charles Olaro said.

Stakeholders in the transport sector blamed slow Covid-19 testing in Malaba for the ever-rising fuel prices in Uganda.

Queues of waiting cargo trucks as long as 80km waiting to be cleared have been reported in the past few days.

Fuel prices have been steadily rising since last year and by the end of last week, fuel was already at 12,000 shillings in some parts of the country like Hoima.

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Museveni promotes 528 UPDF officers

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President Yoweri Museveni

President Yoweri Museveni, who is also the Commander in Chief of armed forces has promoted 528 officers to various ranks in the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF).

The promoted officers include three officers from the rank of Lieutenant Colonel to Colonel, 27 from Major to Lieutenant Colonel and 498 from Captain to Major.

“The Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs and UPDF are pleased to announce the elevation of 528 UPDF Officers to different ranks by Excellency the President and Commander in Chief of the UPDF,” part of the statement issued by UPDF acting spokesperson, Lt. Col. Ronald Kakurungu reads.

Lt Col Benard Tumegre, Lt Col Mark Mugarura and Lt Col Stephen Nereko, are those promoted to the rank of full Colonel.

“The Ministry of Defence and UPDF fraternity congratulate the officers pin the well deserved promotions,” Lt. Col. Kakurungu added.

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