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Security blocks Full Figure from attending the launch of NRM Manifesto

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The National Resistance Movement (NRM) has closed its door for presidential advisor Jennifer Nakanguubi aka Full Figure as the ruling party launched its manifesto ahead of the 2021 general elections.

The manifesto was launched by the chairperson of NRM, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni hours after being nominated as a presidential candidate.

She was seen pleading with Security officers outside the entrance of Speke Resort Munyonyo saying she was invited by the Secretary General Justine Kasule Lumumba.

“Please let me in, I am a presidential advisor. Don’t chase me and I don’t have Covid. I am waiting for Secretary General,” she pleaded.

“Please go away, you are not an invited guest. I said go away,” one of the officers yelled.

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Nancy Kalembe misses presidential nomination for failure to pay Shs20 million

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Geoffery Serugo
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The Electoral Commission (EC) has turned down the nomination of presidential aspirant Nancy Linda Kalembe for failure to pay nomination fees.

Accompanied by her mother, Aida Cissy Kubaaza and other close associates, Nancy was welcomed by the spokesman of the Electoral Commission Paul Bukenya, ahead of the anticipated nomination time.

Her joy was cut short after the chairperson of the Electoral Commission Justice Simon Byabakama told her to go back and re-organize her documents as well as paying the Shs20 million and present the receipt to the Commission.

Nancy Kalembe was born to the late former LC-V chairman of Iganga distric George Patrick Bageya and Aida Cissy Kubaaza.

She went to St Mary’s College Namagunga for O-Level and Mariam High School for A-Level. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in population studies from Makerere University in 2007.

In 2003, she joined the Miss Uganda contest and although she did not emerge winner, she was voted Miss Intelligence, earning her a job with Sanyu FM. On January 8, 2008, she joined the Apprentice Africa, the African version of the American reality TV show, The Apprentice, hosted by Donald Trump. She emerged sixth out of the 16 finalists, winning a working slot at PHP Bank in Nigeria.

Kalembe returned to Uganda in 2009 and worked with Orient Bank until she resigned in 2010 to fully concentrate on her businesses.

She is the founder of Spring Clean, a cleaning company, and Mbalimbali Ltd, a pineapple juice and jam-producing company based in Nakawa. Before reaching these heights, Kalembe, 34, tasted the varied waters of employment. She worked as a news anchor at the then Uganda Television (UTV).

She was the account manager for Uganda Telecom (UTL) and account holder for Nation Media Group at Lowe Scanad advertising agency, and sales and promotions executive at Sanyu FM.

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Hundreds denied access to Kyambogo University due to lack of masks

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Ronard Shabomwe
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Hundreds of students and other people who wanted access to Kyambogo university have been turned away because they had no face masks which was the first requirement to access the university.

These people are students and other people who wanted to access the university using gates like Kyambogo police station gate, national council for higher education gate, department of art and design gate and Kabaka road gate.

Despite the presidential nomination taking place at Kyambogo sports ground, few students who made it inside were allowed to access the class rooms and have their lectures.

Earlier, Professor Elli Katunguka had communicated that all other university activities were postponed and only lectures in class were allowed to happen.

Kyambogo university has already entered in the books of ministry of health after one staff in the office of dean of vocational studies tested positive and all his nine contacts were put into isolation.

The mentioned gates are manned by Kamed security company, a private security company contracted to keep the security of the university. Because of these two presidential nomination days, they are now accompanied by other security agencies like police and soldiers.

Isaac Erase a private security guard with Kamed security company reveals that, yesterday, one of their bosses briefed them that Covid-19 has already entered  in the university so they should be careful and enforce the SOPs put in place.

Erase notes that they were directed to be extra careful and make sure that whoever accesses the premises have their masks on and endeavor to hand wash/sanitize.

Meanwhile, blocking most of these students affected the turn up of students in the university, as it was observed that in most faculties were full of security  personnels on the look out.

A female security guard at Kabaka road gate on a condition of anonymous says, students had started relaxing to an extent that most of them come without masks and washing hands becomes a challenge for them.

She hopes that whoever comes tomorrow will be with those masks now that they have been sent away.

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Cheptegei, Kiplimo nominated for Male World Athlete of the Year 2020

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The World Athletics Council has announced a list of ten nominees for Male World Athlete of the Year 2020 with Ugandan long distance runners Joshua Kiprui Cheptegei and Jacob Kiplimo making the cut.

The list of nominees was selected by an international panel of athletics experts, comprising representatives from all six continental areas of World Athletics.

This year, Cheptegei broke world records at 5000m (12:35.36), 10,000m (26:11.00) and 5km on the roads (12:51) and came fourth at the World Athletics Half Marathon Championships on his debut over the distance.

Meanwhile Jacob Kiplimo won the world half marathon title in a championship record of 58:49 and ran a world-leading 7:26.64 over 3000m, the fastest time in the world since 2007.

The nominations reflect the remarkable range of exceptional performances that the sport has witnessed this year, despite the challenges that the global Covid-19 pandemic presented.

Cheptegei and Kiplimio will face competition for the top accolade from USA’s Donavan Brazier, Kenya’s Timothy Cheruiyot, USA’s Ryan Crouser, Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis, USA’s Noah Lyles, Daniel Stahl from Sweden, Johannes Vetter from Germany and Norway’s Karsten Warholm.

A three-way voting process will determine the finalists.

The World Athletics Council and the World Athletics Family will cast their votes by email, while fans can vote online via the World Athletics’ social media platforms. Individual graphics for each nominee will be posted on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram this week; a ‘like’ on Facebook and Instagram or a retweet on Twitter will count as one vote.

The World Athletics Council’s vote will count for 50% of the result, while the World Athletics Family’s votes and the public votes will each count for 25% of the final result.

Voting for the World Athletes of the Year closes at midnight on Sunday 15 November. At the conclusion of the voting process, five men and five women finalists will be announced by World Athletics.

The male and female World Athletes of the Year will be announced live at the World Athletics Awards 2020 on Saturday 5 December.

The female nominees will be announced tomorrow, Tuesday 3rd November.

List of nominees

Joshua Cheptegei, Uganda: Broke world records at 5000m (12:35.36), 10,000m (26:11.00) and 5km on the roads (12:51), was fourth at the World Athletics Half Marathon Championships on his debut over the distance

Jacob Kiplimo, Uganda: Won world half marathon title in a championship record of 58:49, ran a world-leading 7:26.64 over 3000m, the fastest time in the world since 2007

Donavan Brazier, USA: Ran world-leading 800m times indoors (1:44.22, North American indoor record) and outdoors (1:43.15), won all seven of his races over all distances.

Timothy Cheruiyot, Kenya: Ran world-leading 3:28.45 over 1500m, undefeated in three 1500m races

Ryan Crouser, USA: Undefeated in 10 shot put competitions, his 22.91m world-leading performance moved him to equal third on the world all-time list

Mondo Duplantis, Sweden: Broke the world record in the pole vault twice (6.17m and 6.18m) and produced the highest outdoor vault of all time (6.15m), undefeated in 16 competitions

Noah Lyles, USA: Undefeated in five finals, ran a world-leading 19.76 over 200m

Daniel Stahl, Sweden: Won 17 of his 19 discus competitions, threw a world-leading 71.37m

Johannes Vetter, Germany: Won eight of his nine javelin competitions, threw a world-leading 97.76m, the second farthest throw in history

Karsten Warholm, Norway: Ran a world-leading 46.87 in the 400m hurdles, the second fastest performance in history, undefeated in nine 400m/400m hurdles races and set world best of 33.78 in 300m hurdles

 

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ANT’s Mugisha Muntu nominated to contest for 2021 elections

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Our Reporter
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The Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) party president Gen Mugisha Muntu has been duly cleared by the Electoral Commission to contest for presidency in the 2021 general elections.

Gen. Muntu was declared duly nominated by the electoral body chairman, Justice Simon Byabakama, after he fulfilled all the requirements.

Muntu was accompanied for nomination by senior ANT officials, including acting party president Alice Alaso and Kasese Woman MP Winnie Kiiza.

“Don’t fear, conduct free and fair elections, the country will be behind you,” Muntu called upon the EC in his speech after he was nominated.

“The most critical channel of communication in this time is going to be in the print media, electronic, and social media. We have 60 days to go through 145 districts in the country,” he added.

Muntu added that there is nothing as important as people having their dignity. “We intend to create an environment where people prosper and have their dignity that is given by God,” he said.

“We are a totally different group of people, we are value-driven and we really hope and pray that Ugandans can trust us.”

Muntu joins the incumbent President Yoweri Museveni and Gen. Henry Tumukunde to have successfully finished the nomination process today.

Other two aspirants John Katumba and Nancy Linda Kalembe were rejected over incomplete papers, concerning issues of proof of payment of Shs20m non-refundable nomination fee. Both still have up to tomorrow to fulfill the requirement.

NUP’s Robert Kyagulanyi, FDC’s Patrick Amuriat and Independents Willy Mayambala, and Joseph Kabuleeta will be nominated tomorrow.

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It is not us who tried to bribe Principal Judge – DTB

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Simon Kabayo
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“Why is he blackmailing us after he hijacked the file and after my client reporting him in Judicial Service Commission?”-Fred Muwema counsel for Ham.

 

Diamond Trust Bank has come out to distance from allegations that either them or Ham tried to bribe the Principal Judge.

The Principal Judge, Dr. Flavian Zeija  revealed that one of the parties in DTB vs Ham case tried to bribe him ahead of a Court ruling.

He said earlier today as he delivered his ruling following Commercial Court decision directing Diamond Trust Bank (DTB) to refund Shs120 billion debited from Hamis Kigundu’s Bank accounts after declaring that $4,014,444 and $6,974,600 loans extended to him were illegal.

“I was flabbergasted by one of the parties sending emissaries to me with financial proposals in order to influence my decision. This is disgusting, to say the least,” Mr. Zeija said.

In his ruling earlier today, the Principal Judge objected to DTB’s application noting that the bank would suffer a great loss if the order is executed before the appeal is disposed of.

“This decision has far-reaching implications on the banking industry as far as it declares syndicated loans illegal. This calls for maintenance of the status quo to enable the court of appeal to inquire into this illegality and either uphold the finding or reverse it,” he ruled.

He said that if the application seeking to stay the execution of the Commercial Court orders is not stayed, it would render the appeal by DTB a waste of time.

However, Fred Muwema, the counsel for Ham told Eagle Online that the allegations by the Principal Judge was in bad faith and it could be due to that fact they accused him of hijacking the file and then engineering the appeal against the ruling by Commercial Court.

“That is blackmailing my client and me because this is coming up after I accused him of hijacking the file and my client reporting him to Judicial Service Commission”.

The Principal Judge ordered that all the orders of the Commercial Court are not executed until the case filed in the Court of Appeal is disposed of.

In February 2011 and August 2018, Kiggundu sought and offered $4,014,444 and $6,974,600 loans by the banks for construction of commercial properties. To secure the loan Kiggundu mortgaged Kyadondo Block 248, Plot 328 land at Kawuku, FRV 1533, Folio 3, Plot 36-38, Victoria Crescent II Kyadondo and LRV 3176 Folio 10, Plot 923, and Block 9 located at Makerere Hill Road.

DTB Kenya contacted its counterpart in Uganda to collect a loan facility from the Businessman.

In March, Ham dragged both banks to court for siphoning over sh120B from his accounts without his consent. He also wanted the court declare that the banks demand for $4,014,444 and $6,974,600, which was advanced to him by DTB-Kenya, is illegal and unenforceable on the grounds that the Kenyan bank had no license to carry out financial business in Uganda.

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EC blocks 24 year old presidential candidate for lack of Tax Identification Number

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Geoffery Serugo
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A 24-year-old independent presidential candidate and Makerere University graduate Katumba John has been blocked from nominations after presenting cash of Shs20 million instead of receipt.

Katumba who graduated in January this year, faced difficulties on nomination day in that the car he was travelling in got flat tire and the only option he had was to foot in the interest of time.

On reaching the nomination desk at Kyambogo, the chairperson of the Electoral Commission Justice Simon Byabakama said Katumba doesn’t meet all the required guidelines noting the candidate didn’t pay money through the Bank as they are required to do.

“It is not too late, you can go and apply for TIN, pay the money and come back tomorrow for nomination,” Justice Byabakama said.

Mr. Katumba said he wrote to Justice Byabakama asking him about any other possible ways of how he can pay nomination fees because he had no TIN. “In his response Byabakama said I must be employed or owning a registered company and a TIN through which I must pay nomination fees,” Katumba said.

“I am a fresh graduate from Makerere who graduated in January, I don’t have a job, how do you expect me to own a company when I just graduated and got no job?” he asked.

Among others the candidate had met all other requirements such as signatures, 18 years of age, academic qualification for nomination. Upon dishing him out, Katumba said he will not stop but continue struggling in a bid to take over leadership.

“My agenda is to liberate Uganda psychologically, socially, economically and politically,” he said.

Meanwhile, the incumbent Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Gen Henry Tumukunde and Gen Mugisha Muntu have all been duly nominated.

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Emirates offers special fares to enjoy Dubai this holiday season

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Our Reporter
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Emirates is giving travellers from Uganda the opportunity to fly better to Dubai with a special offer for all its classes; Economy, Business and First Class.

Travellers from Uganda planning a trip to Dubai can enjoy special fares on travel, in addition to excess baggage. Fares in Economy class starting from USD430 will include an additional piece of baggage and Business Class fares start from USD1900 including an additional piece of baggage. First class fares start from USD3640. These special fares and extra baggage allowance will enable travellers from Uganda make the best of their Dubai holiday so they can shop and pack, stress free.

For those looking to take their dream holiday to Dubai, the special fare offer is available for booking between 2 November and 22 November 2020, for outbound travel until 31 January 2021.

From sun-soaked beaches and heritage activities to world class hospitality and leisure facilities, Dubai is one of the most popular global destinations. In 2019, the city welcomed 16.7 million visitors and hosted over hundreds of global meetings and exhibitions, as well as sports and entertainment events. Dubai was one of the world’s first cities to obtain Safe Travels stamp from the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) – which endorses Dubai’s comprehensive and effective measures to ensure guest health and safety.

Emirates’ booking policies offer customers flexibility and confidence to plan their travel. Customers who purchase an Emirates ticket by 30 September 2020 for travel on or before 30 March 2021, can enjoy generous rebooking terms and options, if they have to change their travel plans due to unexpected flight or travel restrictions relating to COVID-19, or when they book a Flex or Flex plus fare.

Free, global cover for COVID-19 related costs: Customers can now travel with confidence, as Emirates has committed to cover COVID-19 related medical expenses, free of cost, should they be diagnosed with COVID-19 during their travel while they are away from home. This cover is immediately effective for customers flying on Emirates until 31 December 2020, and is valid for 31 days from the moment they fly the first sector of their journey. This means Emirates customers can continue to benefit from the added assurance of this cover, even if they travel onwards to another city after arriving at their Emirates destination. For more details: www.emirates.com/COVID19assistance.

Emirates has implemented a comprehensive set of measures at every step of the customer journey to ensure the safety of its customers and employees on the ground and in the air, including the distribution of complimentary hygiene kits containing masks, gloves, hand sanitiser and antibacterial wipes to all customers. For more information on these measures and the services available on each flight, visit: www.emirates.com/yoursafety.

Tourist entry requirements: For more information on entry requirements for international visitors to Dubai visit: www.emirates.com/flytoDubai.

For more information on Emirates, including how to book flights and a complete list of terms and conditions, contact your travel agent or visit www.emirates.com/ug or visit the local Emirates office at Acacia Place, Kololo.

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Gen Tumukunde duly nominated as Nakawa tastes first campaign teargas

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Our Reporter
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Former Security Minister Gen. Henry Tumukunde has become the second candidate to be nominated to contest in next year’s presidential elections.

Escorted by two police patrol vehicles, Tumukunde arrived at the Kyambogo Sports Ground for his nomination in the company of his seconders after a brief standoff with police as several of his supporters gathered near Nakawa Market before they were dispersed by teargas.

The Chairman of his campaign team Omar Kalinge Nyago, and former East African Community Deputy Secretary General Beatrice Kiraso who is his chief of staff among others, presented the credentials at 12:35pm to the Electoral Commission. He was also accompanied by his wife Stella Tumukunde.

According to the commission chairperson Justice Simon Byabakama, the documents submitted by Tumukunde had a slight anomaly which were later corrected by 2pm.

“I, Justice Simon Byabakama, declare Henry Tumukunde Kakurugu, a duly nominated presidential candidate for the 2021 general election having fulfilled the needed requirements,” Justice Simon Byabakama said.

Tumukunde’s campaign is themed on ‘Kisoboka’ meaning it’s possible and he chose the clock as his symbol.

While addressing the nation after nomination, Tumukunde said, “I’ve just received the symbol of the ‘clock’. I chose it deliberately because the time has come and the time is now.”

“I have a belief that we shall have fair competitions with all aspirants in the general election therefore Uganda Electoral Commission should ensure Uganda achieves a free and fair election,” he added.

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DTB vs Ham case: Principal judge blocks payment of Shs120 billion to Ham

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Our Reporter
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The Principal Judge, Dr. Flavian Zeija has blocked the payment of Kampala city businessman, Hamis Kiggundu pending the hearing of an application filed by Diamond Trust Bank Kenya (DTB).

In October, the Commercial Court ordered Diamond Trust Bank (DTB) Kenya to refund Shs 120 billion debited from Hamis Kigundu’s Bank accounts after declaring that $4,014,444 and $6,974,600 loans extended to him were illegal.

In his ruling, Justice Paul Adonyo faulted DTB Kenya for appointing its counterpart (DTB Uganda) saying it had no license to carry out financial business in Uganda as per the financial institutions act of 2004. “The act contravenes regulation number five and therefore DTB Uganda is penalized for taking part in illegal business,” he ruled.

DTB however filed an application challenging commercial court ruling.

In his ruling earlier today, the Principal Judge objected to DTB’s application noting that the bank would suffer a great loss if the order is executed before the appeal is disposed of.

“This decision has far-reaching implications on the banking industry as far as it declares syndicated loans illegal. This calls for maintenance of the status quo to enable the court of appeal to inquire into this illegality and either uphold the finding or reverse it,” he ruled.

He said that if the application seeking to stay the execution of the Commercial Court orders is not stayed, it would render the appeal by DTB a waste of time.

The Principal Judge ordered that all the orders of the Commercial Court are not executed until the case filed in the Court of Appeal is disposed of.

In February 2011 and August 2018, Kiggundu sought and offered $4,014,444 and $6,974,600 loans by the banks for construction of commercial properties. To secure the loan Kiggundu mortgaged Kyadondo Block 248, Plot 328 land at Kawuku, FRV 1533, Folio 3, Plot 36-38, Victoria Crescent II Kyadondo and LRV 3176 Folio 10, Plot 923, and Block 9 located at Makerere Hill Road.

DTB Kenya contacted its counterpart in Uganda to collect a loan facility from the Business man.

In March, Ham dragged both banks to court for siphoning over sh120b from his accounts without his consent. He also wanted the court declare that the banks demand for $4,014,444 and $6,974,600, which was advanced to him by DTB-Kenya, is illegal and unenforceable on the grounds that the Kenyan bank had no license to carry out financial business in Uganda.

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