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EAC launches 50 Million African Women Speak Networking Platform in Rwanda

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EAC Launches 50 Million African Women Speak Networking Platform in Rwanda

The East African Community (EAC) in partnership with Rwanda has launched the 50 Million African Women Speak Project Networking Platform in Musanze, Northern Rwanda.

The online platform is intended to support women empowerment initiatives by providing African Women Entrepreneurs with access to critical information on financial and non-financial services as well as provide opportunities for business networks among African Women Entrepreneurs.

The launch of the platform in Rwanda was officiated by Professor Jeanette Bayisenge, Minister for Gender and Family Promotion, Rwanda together with Christophe Bazivamo, EAC Deputy Secretary General in charge of Productive and Social Sectors.

Christophe Bazivamo noted that as the world was making a quick change towards leveraging technology to address problems that affect humanity, launching the platform was one way of ensuring that regional development interventions were more transformative.

“Making sure that women in general and rural women, in particular, are not left behind becomes an obligation,” Hon. Bazivamo said.

Technology comes as a tool to solve the issues of unequal intra-household relations and labour distribution while tackling the issue of poverty that women face.

“The 50 Million African Women Networking Platform was initiated to reinforce women’s development and to create stronger, more resilient, and sustainable societies, because he who empowers a woman, empowers a whole society,” the EAC Deputy Secretary-General added.

On her side, Professor Jeannette Bayisenge appreciated the initiative of empowering women using technology. According to her, Rwanda as a country has done a lot to empower women in general and rural women in particular.

The Minister expressed her confidence that the 50 Million African Women Speak Networking Platform will reinforce women’s self-confidence, knowledge, and skills as it also provides room for capacity building.

“This project will promote equitable balance in the sharing of economic and social benefits between women and men, subsequently reinforcing communities,” she said.

In an effort to ensure the target women are conversant with the functionalities of platform, the EAC Secretariat has planned training of trainers programmes on platform use in all Partner States.

The training sessions are designed to equip women champions from different Women networks in each country on the use of the Platform. The trained women are thereafter expected to train other members of their respective organisations and networks.

The EAC Secretariat is also engaging telecom companies and other stakeholders in an effort to address the limited access to smart phones by women in the region.

The Rwanda launch of the Platform was attended by high ranking Government officials, representatives of various Women Networks, UN Women, Care International, Oxfam, and other National & International Organisations.

Accessible at www.womenconnect.org, and covering 38 African states under the EAC, the Common Market for East and Southern African  (COMESA) and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) blocs, the innovative platform aims to economically empower women by providing a one-stop shop for their specific business information needs.

The project is being jointly implemented by EAC, COMESA, and ECOWAS with funding from the African Development Bank (AfDB). Continentally unveiled during the Global Gender Summit in November 2019 in Kigali, Rwanda, the platform enables women in Member/Partner States of the three regional economic blocs and other African countries to find information on how to run businesses, where to access financial services, how to create business opportunities online and where to access training resources.

The platform also gives women an opportunity to showcase their products and connect with a market of millions across the continent, in addition to leveraging opportunities for peer-to-peer learning and mentorship as part of a dynamic online community of entrepreneurs.

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Whose agenda will Ugandans embrace in 2021?

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Ambassador Henry Mayega.

Ugandans, in retrospection, have in the immediate past appreciated that whoever sets our national standards and agenda higher than the bar, most especially when it comes to the maintenance of our country’s peace, security and stability stands to win the general elections.

They are always averse to untested pair of hands; which hands are littered everywhere amongst the recessing opposition.  And this is not without a background; it’s an uncomfortable reality to the Kamwokya based and red-hooded haters of peace who of recent have resorted to unorthodox political posturing.  Their earlier ilk plunged our country into an abyss from 1966 to 1986. It would be the greatest folly for Ugandans to embrace those groups whose norms are simply fluid and because of their limited appreciation of our dark past. Fortunately, in our case, our voters’ expectations do not simply shift, they are based on a candidate’s past and present valor.

Prior to the advent of the Yoweri Museveni administration in 1986, we were environed to accept the debilitating and ignominious insecurities from which we were delivered by his safe pair of hands as well as the stoicism and endurance of his compatriots. Ugandan voters, therefore, will not, as they have always done, gamble and choose, in 2021, the opposition whose agenda includes playing by renegade rules of remonstrations like defiance, riotous protests, walk-to-work and the savagery of nailing the 21 year old and NRM supporter, Baker Kasumba’s hands together last year. Already the NRM has six unopposed MPs; that speaks volumes about the party’s strength.

A survey of the opposition’s pack that is seeking the office of chief executive officer of Uganda shows none has what it takes to effectively secure the country in a volatile region bedeviled by insecurities. The western neighborhood simmers with countless insurgencies pulling in all directions just like the northern one.

The southern unhinged neighborhood that, in this age closes its boarders with us to the detriment of East African integration, calls for a tested leadership and robust agenda which Yoweri Museveni does not lack. The President’s ingenuity of upping the nation’s economy from the doldrums of 1970s and 1980s, the restoration of traditional leaders, plus other political interventions like decentralization, involvement of the women, youth, workers PWDs and now the elderly in the last three decades, have, in combination, taken our country notches higher and restored Uganda into the international files of honor.

Bobi Wine and others in the opposition with a cognitive deficit in tow, while enjoying their crowded political canvass, have, so far unknowingly christened the opposition as a chaotic assortment hell-bent to stampede national progress. They have exhibited a general lack of knack to meld their jostling constituencies; they assume that by shouting from our capital’s bully-pulpit of the central business district that will supercharge their political batteries. From there, the public conversation will definitely take the usual course: Yoweri Museveni’s over 30 years of explicable public commission and a record spanning two centuries and three decades, a period of immense positive social-economic and political change are the reasons for his impeccable national and international standing.

His administration, though faced with the challenge of a generational divide, in which a rising cohort characterized by its diversity and exigencies, it has done the most in terms of advancing the youth agenda; that needs to be methodically explained: a burgeoned economy since 1986 has offered countless jobs especially in the private sector, youth representation at all political levels has churned out national leaders in droves, the youth livelihood fund has led to the massification of youth managed small businesses, etc.

The opposition’s mixture of paled fortunes and bravado which makes their rank and file punch above their weight deludes them to become politically rabid; some have kept a stranglehold on that sector and Bobi Wine, a “Johnny come lately,” cannot measure to the high standards set by Yoweri Museveni and that disarms them to a point of playing dirty through riotous protests and social-media-mongering. Such fiendish posturing may be politically satisfying and expedient but it comes with a cost; the Ugandan voter who loves peace is sick of that paralyzing polarization. Which is why the Patrick Amuriat-Bobi Wine couple as compared to Yoweri Museveni is only moonlight by the latter’s sunshine.

Ambassador Henry Mayega

Deputy Head of Mission

Uganda Embassy, Beijing, China

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2021 Afcon qualifiers: McKinstry names 20 foreign-based players for South Sudan double header

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McKinstry

Uganda Cranes head coach Johnathan McKinstry has announced a squad of 20 foreign-based players for the double header against South Sudan in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers scheduled for next month.

William Luwagga, Fahad Bayo, Derrick Nsibambi and Timothy Awany are back in squad after missing out on the Dubai camp while there are two debutants summoned – striker Uche Ikpeazu Mubiru and right back Elvis Bwomono.

Jayden Onen and Allan Katerega are the omissions from the players that travelled to Dubai earlier this month while Bevis Mugabi misses out due to a long term injury he sustained while featuring for his club Motherwell in Scotland.

The foreign based players will later be joined by about five locally based players that will be named.

Uganda will face South Sudan on 9th and 17th November in a double header. The Cranes are top of the table with four points from the opening two qualification games – an away goalless draw against Burkina Faso and a 2-0 win against Malawi at Namboole.

Summoned players

Goalkeepers: Dennis Onyango (Mamelodi Sundowns, South Africa), Jamal Salim (Al Hilal, Sudan).

Defenders: Ronald Mukiibi (Ostersunds FK, Sweden), Nico Wakiro Wadada (Azam, Tanzania), Timothy Denis Awany (Sport Club Ironi Ashdod, Israel), Joseph Ochaya (TP Mazembe, Democratic Republic of Congo), Alex Kakuba (CD Cova, Portugal), Elvis Bwomono (Southend, England).

Midfielders: Michael Azira (Chicago Fire, USA), Khalid Aucho (Misr Lel Makasa, Egypt) Allan Kyambadde (El Gouna, Egypt), Allan Okello (Paradou, Algeria).

Forwards: Derrick Nsibambi (Smouha, Egypt), Emmanuel Arnold Okwi (Ittihad Alexandria, Egypt), Alexis Bbakka (Carlstad United BK, Sweden), Fahad Bayo (Vipers, Uganda), Farouk Miya (Konyaspor, Turkey), William Kizito Luwagga (Shakhter Karagandy, Kazahstan), Uche Ikpeazu (Wycombe, England), Edirisa Lubega (Paide Linnameeskond, Estonia)

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MPs approve Shs3.8 trillion supplementary budget

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MPs in one of the sittings

Parliament has approved supplementary funding for the Financial Year 2020/2021 worth Shs 3.815 trillion, in line with Article 156 (2) of the Constitution and Section 25 of the Public Finance Management Act.

The funding comes under two schedules – schedule one worth Shs1.363 trillion where the supplementary expenditure requests presented to the House does not require prior approval within the 3 per cent legal limit.

Schedule two of the supplementary funding worth Shs2.063 trillion, and an addendum to Schedule 2 that was laid before Parliament on 6 October 2020 worth Shs389.367 billion; both required prior approval of Parliament.

Parliament in May 2020, approved a total national budget of Shs45.49 trillion for the Financial Year 2020/2021, having appropriated Shs29.99 trillion, and Shs15.49 trillion approved as statutory expenditure.

Presenting a report to Parliament justifying the supplementary funding, Budget Committee chairperson, Hon. Amos Lugoloobi said the supplementary expenditure under schedule one for Financial Year 2020/2021, resulted from the supplementary expenditure for Financial Year 2019/2020 approved by Parliament on the 26 June 2020.

“Time would not allow these funds to be released during Financial Year 2019/2020 and have therefore, been released within the 3 per cent legal limit of Financial Year 2020121. The source of funding the supplementary has been indicated as additional borrowing, a matter that requires a separate resolution of Parliament,” said Lugoloobi.

He also called on government not to alter the original appropriation by Parliament, as a source funding the supplementary.

The Shs3.815 trillion supplementary funding will serve budgets of State House, agencies under the ministries of Finance, Agriculture, Foreign Affairs, Health, Trade Works and Transport Science, Technology and Innovation, Defence and Justice and Constitutional Affairs.

The funding will also cater for additional budgets for Kampala Capital City Authority, Uganda Revenue Authority, Uganda Prisons Service, National Medical Stores, National Agricultural Advisory Services, Director of Public Prosecutions, National Animal Genetic Resources Centre, Electoral Commission, as well as various central government and local government votes.

Speaking to the supplementary funding, Budadiri County West MP, Hon. Nathan Nandala-Mafabi queried the high amounts of money requested by different sectors of the country, to fund deficits.

He cited an additional funding of Shs110 billion to finance the Emyooga Fund, yet Shs120 billion had already been approved by Parliament in a previous supplementary budget.

“The leadership of the Microfinance Support Centre that is supposed to handle the Emyooga is in prison, and we know that Shs 22 billion for teachers is already missing. Who is going to manage this money?” asked Nandala-Mafabi.

He also queried why an additional Shs50 billion under schedule two had been requested by the Health Ministry for Covid-19 response, yet Shs 89 billion had been previously approved by the House.

“With the money we appropriated for Covid-19, those who were above the age of six would have received masks at least three masks by now. Why should we appropriate more money before we get the Shs89 billion?” the Budadiri County West legislator asked.

State finance minister for planning, Hon. David Bahati, said the money provided for in schedule one had already been disbursed to the beneficiary sectors, and thus was not double appropriation.

“Schedule one (Shs1.3 trillion) has already been implemented and spent as requested. Bringing it before the House was a technical way of handling it according to the law,” Bahati added.

Bugiri Municipality MP. Hon. Asuman Basalirwa asked whether the Budget Committee had scrutinised the agreement between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), to implement strategic infrastructure projects in the latter country.

According to the Hon. Lugoloobi, the Ministry of Works and Transport requested for Shs200 billion to construct and maintain 223 kilometres of road network connecting Uganda and the DRC, in order to boost trade between the two countries, ease business, and improve people to people connectivity and security.

Basalirwa said the funding to the project was all that was public information, but other details of the agreement were not known by anybody else.

“I say so because so many times, Uganda has had agreements with other governments and international organisations and it has turned out that Uganda has had a bad deal,” said Basalirwa.

The total recurrent expenditure of Shs1.3 trillion shillings under the supplementary expenditure in schedule one, will also benefit 131 districts in the country, whereas four districts will benefit from a development funding of Shs55 billion, under the same schedule.

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BBI report: Changes to Kenya’s political system as post of PM is back

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President Uhuru and ODM Principal Ralia Amollo Odinga who championed the proposed changes.

The Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report was unveiled on Wednesday along with all the bells and whistles that accompany State events of that magnitude.

Spearheaded by President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga, the document has been touted as the blueprint for Kenya’s journey to becoming a utopia of peace, unity and prosperity, a Kenya devoid of ethnic-based politics and its trivialities.

But what does the BBI report actually say? Here’s a deep-dive into some of the document’s key proposals:

Return of the Prime Minister

The Yusuf Haji-led team that prepared the report says the national executive needs to be expanded to “promote greater inclusivity, and mitigate the drawbacks of the winner-take-all electoral formula.”

How, you ask? By bringing back the office of the Prime Minister (PM), with two Deputy Prime Ministers to boot.

“Stakeholders submitted that the new executive structure, being more inclusive, will not generate the same bitterness and tension as we see when the fight is for the position of the President,” the report says.

The president will nominate/appoint the PM within seven days of his/her election to office.

The PM’s duties shall be to:

(a) be the leader of government business in the National Assembly;
(b) oversee the legislative agenda in the National Assembly on behalf of government;
(c) supervise the execution of the functions of ministries and government departments;
(d) chair cabinet committee meetings as assigned by the President;
(e) assign any of the functions of the Office to the Deputy Prime Ministers; and
(f) perform any other duty assigned by the President or conferred by legislation.

The president can hire or fire the PM at will. The PM can also lose their job through a successful motion of no confidence in Parliament.

The President will also pick the Deputy PMs from among the Cabinet Ministers.

So will the post of Deputy President, currently occupied by William Ruto, go? According to the report, no. This post will be retained, making for an expanded, top-heavy executive.

House power structure

The report proposes that the Constitution be changed to introduce a new House power structure that includes the PM, Deputy PMs and the Leader of Official Opposition, the latter being the runner-up in the presidential election.

This will be the new power structure in parliament, in order of precedence:

(a) Speaker of the National Assembly
(b) Prime Minister
(c) Leader of Official Opposition

Cabinet

The BBI report proposes that Cabinet Secretaries revert to being called “Cabinet Ministers”. The Ministers can also be picked from among members of the National Assembly.

Should a Minister become lucky enough to be named Deputy PM, his/her duties will include deputising the PM in his/her duties and essentially doing whatever the PM asks of them.

Judiciary

The Haji-led team reckons that the judiciary’s accountability to the Kenyan people is not enough. To this end, it proposes the establishment of the office of the Judiciary Ombudsman. This independent officer will be nominated by the president and, when approved by Parliament, sit on the Judicial Service Commission (JSC).

The job of the Judiciary Ombudsman will be to receive complaints about judges, magistrates, registrars and other judicial officers. The ombudsman will also have the power to conduct inquiries into them, and submit periodic reports to the president and parliament.

“The qualifications for appointment as the Judiciary Ombudsman are the same as for the appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court,” the report notes.

“The Judiciary Ombudsman shall hold office for a single term of five years and is not eligible for re-appointment,” it adds.

The current Judiciary Ombudsman’s office falls under the supervision of the Deputy Chief Justice, Ms Philomena Mwilu.

IEBC changes

The report proposes changes in the management structure of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).

“The taskforce recommends that we go to the next election with a clean slate to strengthen faith in the IEBC,” it says, meaning that it is proposing that the current crop of commissioners exit before the 2022 General Election.

The report also proposes that all current senior IEBC officers be vetted. Additionally, it recommends that all IEBC staff be employed on a three-year contract, and that this only be renewed once on condition that their performance was good.

The taskforce also recommends a change in the hiring process of returning officers to make it more rigorous.

“Returning officers should be hired through a similar process to the one used for commissioners, with the involvement of public participation.”

Health services

Among winners of the BBI report’s proposals are healthcare workers. The taskforce has proposed the creation of the Health Services Commission, an agency that will be tasked with making recommendations to government on the management of medics.

The proposal is a win for health workers since they, through the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU), have been lobbying for its creation in order to remove some health functions from county governments.

They want functions such as recruitment, deployment and discipline of medics to be handled by the Commission.

 

 

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Kitara FC promoted to the Uganda Premier League

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Hoima-based side Kitara Football Club have sealed promotion to the 2020/21 StarTimes Uganda Premier League.

This was after recording a narrow 1-0 victory over Kiboga Young (formerly Mbale Heroes) in the 2020 FUFA Big League playoffs final played at the Technical centre in Njeru.

Forward Brian Muluuli Mayanja scored the only goal in the 55th minute of the well-contested duel.

They join Malaba Youth Development Association (MYDA) FC and army side Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) FC who qualified directly when FUFA cancelled the season because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The FUFA Big League was started in 2009 as the second tier of Ugandan football and three clubs are promoted each season to the Uganda Premier League.

It consists of two groups; the Elgon and Rwenzori group where the table leaders in each qualify directly. The other four (those finishing second and third in both groups) are engaged in a promotional play off.

UPDF were promoted as the Rwenzori group winners while MYDA were promoted as the Elgon group leaders.

The 2020/21 Uganda Premier League season is anticipated to kick off on November 20th 2020 with fixtures to be released in due course.

Proline FC, Maroons FC and Tooro United FC are the three clubs that were relegated from the 2019/20 Uganda Premier League and will play in the Fufa Big League next season.

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Former Burundi President sentenced in absentia for assassination of successor

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Isaiah Mwebaze
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Pierre Buyoya

Former President of Burundi Pierre Buyoya has been sentenced in absentia to life in prison for the assassination of his successor Melchior Ndadaye in 1993 in a court ruling on Monday.

Buyoya was convicted in a court in Burundi after he was found guilty alongside other 18 high ranking officials for a coup-detat that led to the death of the newly elected president and a civil war that left 300,000 Burundians dead.

Buyoya, rose to power in 1987 with the help of the army and later relinquished his seat to the then democratically elected president Ndadaye. However only four months after his election, Ndadaye, of Hutu origins, and a number of his cabinet ministers were killed in a coup attempt carried out by Tutsi soldiers, that led to years of civil unrest as the two ethnic groups went to war.

Among those convicted with Buyoya are his former deputy presidents Busokoza Bernard and Alphonse Marie Kadege. Three officials were sentenced to 20 years in jail for ‘complicity’ while his former Prime Minister Antoine Nduwayo, was acquitted.

Buyoya went ahead to become Burundi’s president again in 1996 until 2003 and now serves as the African Union’s representative to Mali and Sahel. Sources close to the case say that the accused and his party were sentenced in absentia and only five were present. Lawyers of the former president state that they did not expect the ruling and couldn’t place a plea.

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Standard Chartered Bank, BRAC Uganda partner for continued Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents

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Regina Mukiri hands over a cheque to BRAC's Dr Matete Owuor

Standard Chartered has announced a donation of Ugx 166,500,000 (One hundred and sixty-six million, five hundred thousand) to BRAC Uganda to support adolescents under the GOAL project.

The six-month project intervention will seek to prevent, mitigate and build the resilience of adolescent girls and community members to enable them deal with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Goal project is a community investment initiative which uses sports and life skills education to transform the lives of young women and girls under the Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescent program (ELA). The project’s objective is to equip girls with financial education and life skills so that they can play active leadership roles in their families and communities. This is done through supporting girls’ ages 9 to 22 years through five modules which are: Be yourself, Be healthy, Be empowered, Be money savvy and Be Independent.

The trainings are conducted by 64 Goal Coaches in 64 clubs in 8 branches were the project is being implemented. Every year a sample size of 1,500 girls are selected to fill in the baseline survey which is used to measure the project success that year.

With support from Standard Chartered Bank Uganda, BRAC started implementing the Goal Programme in October 2014. As of 2019, BRAC Uganda’s Goal project had impacted on the lives of 42,000 adolescent girls in rural and urban communities in 9 districts and established 8 adolescents’ safe houses in 64 villages of Kampala, Mbarara, Isingiro, Lyantonde, Wakiso, Kayunga and Mukono Districts. These clubs are facilitated by 8 trained Goal coaches who are tasked to train and recruit 6,500 adolescent girls and young women to undertake the Goal curriculum training for a period of 10 months.

Regina Mukiri the Head, Corporate Affairs, Brand & Marketing Standard Chartered Bank Uganda Limited while handing over the donation said:

“It is our imperative to support various categories of vulnerable person impacted by the pandemic so we are pleased to now extend a COVID relief donation particularly to adolescent girls under the Goal project. Our priority is to help the girls cope with the effects of COVID-19 pandemic and remain buoyant. This support is critical to extending to some of them the services and support they require. We’re extremely proud to partner with our long-term partner BRAC to roll out the support to these youths.”

Dr. George Owuor Matete PhD, Country Director, BRAC Uganda while receiving the donation said: “This donation from Standard Chartered during the COVID-19 pandemic is timely in ensuring the continuity of the GOAL project implementation. We are very grateful to Standard Chartered Bank for the strong support they have given to the GOAL girls during this period as beyond the monetary contribution, they have also continued to organize a number of virtual engagements with the Goal project beneficiaries to help equip them with necessary coping mechanisms and skills during this pandemic.

“The youths who have participated in the Bank led webinars organized amidst the COVID 19 pandemic mostly appreciated the self-discovery and mentorship discussions and topics such as; How to cope with life during the pandemic, building mental resilience during COVID 19 crisis and the financial education clinics. These sessions have enabled the GOAL girls develop a strong social capital, build resilience and learn new ideas and skills.”

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Court dismisses NUP-Kibalama case

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High Court judge Musa Ssekaana has ruled that the National Unity Platform (NUP) is a legally registered political party. The case has been dismissed with costs to the respondents.

The party founder Mzee Moses Nkonge Kibalama wanted the transfer of the party to the leadership of Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine to be nullified.

“This court declines to entertain the application since it was not brought under any known procedure and secondly it was made to avoid the time limit of 3 months within which an application for judicial review should have been brought,” the ruling reads in part.

The judge added that the judicial review guidelines or rules equally provide for locus standi and this would have been the threshold before the applicants would seek to challenge actions of a party. It is an abuse of court process.

“This application is dismissed with costs to the respondents I so order,” Ssekaana ruled.

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Harambee Stars head coach Francis Kimanzi resigns

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The coach of Kenya’s men’s national team, Francis Kimanzi, has left his role by mutual consent.

Kimanzi had been in the post for a year, having replaced Frenchman Sebastien Migne.

With national football only recently returning having been suspended due to Covid-19, Kenya’s only game since march was a 2-1 friendly win over Zambia earlier this month.

However they have critical qualifiers for the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations looming, with home-and-away fixtures against surprise Group G leaders Comoros being followed by a huge final game against Egypt.

Some of Kimanzi’s backroom staff have also left their posts.

Kimanzi was in his third term with the Harambee Stars, having also been in charge briefly from November 2008 to January 2009 and then for a longer spell from November 2011 to June 2012.

A statement from FKF read: “Football Kenya Federation has announced the departure of Harambee Stars Head Coach Francis Kimanzi and part of his backroom staff from the national team by mutual consent.”

“The federation is immensely grateful to Coach Kimanzi and his departing members of Staff that include Assistant Coach Zedekiah Otieno and Goalkeeper Trainer Lawrence Webo for their exemplary work, dedication, and unrivaled professionalism, which have strengthened Kenya’s chances of qualifying for the AFCON 2022 final tournament.”

“Moreover, Football Kenya Federation wishes them well in their future endeavors, this even as the search for a replacement to take the national team forward begins in earnest.”

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