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Covid-19: Three companies closed after employees test positive

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Three companies have been ordered to temporarily close after some of their employees tested positive for Covid-19.

The Minister of Health Jane Ruth Aceng confirmed the development while addressing the media on the current COVID-19 pandemic in the country and response activities.

The businesses are: Eagle Holdings (4 cases confirmed): linked to the 5th death (46-year-old /Female; Indian), Megha Industries (4 cases confirmed) and Toyota Uganda (3 cases confirmed).

Meanwhile, two arcades in downtown Kampala – Namaganda Plaza and Galilaya arcade also registered positive cases of COVID-19 rising the fear of more infections in downtown Kampala.

The rise in COVID-19 cases has been attributed to non-compliance to health guidelines by members of the public.

Since the first COVID-19 case was reported in Kampala on 23rd March, 2020, a cumulative total of 160 confirmed cases have so far been registered.

It is important to note that of all the eleven deaths so far reported nationally, eight (8) are from the Kampala region alone.

“We would like to appeal to you to adhere to the measures instituted by H.E Kaguta Museveni and SOPs issued by the Ministry of Health to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in Uganda. COVID-19 is real, it is dangerous and it kills like we are now experiencing.” Jane Ruth Aceng urged Ugandans.

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Standard Chartered Bank extends USD50m loan to Jabil to help tackle Covid-19

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Geoffery Serugo
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Standard Chartered announced that Jabil Inc, a U.S based global manufacturing services company, has become the latest client to tap Standard Chartered’s USD1 billion financing commitment to help companies tackling COVID-19.

Jabil has seen a significant increase in demand for ventilator and personal protective equipment production amid a global shortage. The USD50 million loan will support increased production in manufacturing facilities across Europe and North America, Malaysia, Singapore and China, using Jabil’s extensive existing supply chains.

Simon Cooper, CEO of Corporate, Commercial & Institutional Banking at Standard Chartered, said: “We have been fortunate to support a wide range of companies with this program, with financing ranging from USD500,000 to this much larger facility. Jabil’s mix of technical skills, production scale and extensive global supply chain means that the ventilators they’re producing will reach the front line across the globe quickly.”

Mark Mondello, CEO of Jabil Inc, said: “We are grateful that Standard Chartered shares our commitment to responding to this global pandemic with speed and scale, and these funds will go a long way toward enhancing our production efforts.”

This drawdown by Jabil follows recent disbursals from the programme in markets including Uganda, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Singapore and China, with more transactions in the pipeline.

Standard Chartered made this USD1 billion commitment to provide financing on a non-profit basis to companies making products and services that help the front line fight the virus and its impacts. The programme requires specific use of proceeds, in this case for the purposes of unlocking the ability to maximise impact and speed of delivery.

Products and services being financed under the programme include diagnostic equipment and ventilators, masks and other personal protective equipment, antiviral medicines and conversions into emergency facilities.

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UNBS rolls out simplified standards guidelines for SMEs

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Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has intensified standards awareness campaigns amongst Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) to improve the quality of their products.

With support from DFID through the Commonwealth Standards Network (CSN) project and the lead implementer British Standards Institution (BSI), UNBS simplified and translated key hygiene and labelling standards; US 28 EAS 39:2002: Code of practice for hygiene in the food and drink manufacturing industry and US EAS 38:2014: Labelling of pre-packaged foods – General requirements.

These have been handed over to Uganda Small Scale Industries Association (USSIA) for distribution to MSMEs in various regions of the country in a bid to create awareness on Standards.

During the handover ceremony, the UNBS Deputy Executive Director in charge of standards, Ms. Patricia Bageine Ejalu said that the simplification of standards is going to help MSMEs understand standards better because they are of great importance in ensuring that products and services in Uganda are safe.

Ms.Baigene   further revealed the need to build export capacity for Uganda through certification of all MSMEs’ products, to ensure that what they produce for export is of good quality.

M/s. Veronica Namwanje, the Executive Secretary at the Uganda Small Scale Industries Association (USSIA) emphasized that standardisation and certification is the way to go, however, an assessment done by USSIA revealed that MSMEs need to understand standards.

She thus thanked UNBS and the CSN for the partnership to have the standards simplified and encouraged all MSMEs to enroll for the certification process.

Of the 14,000 brochures of simplified standards guidelines printed by UNBS, 7000 are in the English language and 7,000 in the Luganda language.

The development is aimed at improving market access for MSMEs’ products both locally and internationally.

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New details emerge on Obitre-Gama’s firing

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President Museveni was forced to fire Judy Obitre-Gama as the Executive Director of the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) after she failed to account for billions of shillings while also failing to deliver the National ID project, new details show.

Museveni in June this year opted not to renew the contract of Ms Obitre-Gama and directed the Internal Affairs Minister Gen Jejje Odong to find a better replacement for the job.

It has now emerged that the President declined renewing Obitre-Gama’s contract after getting an intelligence report detailing how the NIRA ED had personally benefited from a Shs 8.4bn scandal where Shs 2.1 billion was paid out to individual personal accounts of some officials while another Shs 1.3 b was deposited to an account belonging to an accountant.

That money was never accounted for and that was the final nail in Obitre-Gama’s coffin.

The intelligence dossier also gave details of corruption, nepotism, poor performance and incompetence, allegations of massive irregularities in the issuance and replacement of identity cards, exacerbating Obitre-Gama’s precarious position.

“I have been informed that the contract of the current executive director is due to expire. Given the problems faced by NIRA especially relating to the issuance of national identity cards, there is need to identify a new executive director, preferably with legal or information technology background,” Mr Museveni wrote to Gen Odong.

Gama, 50, is an academic who previously served as a lecturer at Makerere University law school and several boards, including that of Uganda Registration Services Bureau, and Bank of Uganda.

She worked as head of legal and surveillance at Uganda Securities Exchange and as a lawyer for the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA)

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FDC nominates Erias Lukwago for Kampala City Lord Mayor

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Erias Lukwago

Kampala City Lord Mayor Al-hajji Ssalongo Erias Lukwago has been nominated to take part in the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Party primaries for Mayoral seat.

Lukwago was nominated by his Deputy Mayor Nyanjura Doreen the LC5 woman councilor Makerere University and seconded by Michael Kabaziguruka (MP Nakawa) and Munyagwa Mubarak (MP Kawempe South).  FDC woman MP candidate Dr. Stella Nyanzi among others.

He applauded Kampala Capital city Councilors and FDC Members for according him a warm welcome into the party and opportunity to serve under the main opposition Party.

Lukwago joined the FDC a few weeks back following a long term working relationship. He has worked with FDC since the 2010 general elections. He was appointed the deputy president of the controversial people’s government headed by Rtd Col Kizza Besigye.

Besigye’s government was formed three years after the FDC Party had lost to the incumbent president Museveni.

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Husband arrested for killing IHK midwife

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Geoffery Serugo
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Mr. Kimanya Simon, a teacher who is averred to have murdered International Hospital Kampala (IHK) Midwife Viola Kakai has been arrested.

Kimanya was arrested by Police detectives attached to the State House Anti-Corruption Unit. He was arrested from Wanyakala, Isingiro district where he has been in hiding after allegedly murdering his wife.

Viola Kakai, 32 years and a mother of three children was hacked to death following a domestic brawl on 1st August, 2020. Reports indicated that Kakai’s children witnessed her being hacked using an axe.

It is averred that the elder daughter pleaded with him but he could not manage his anger. She moved out and called the neighbors to intervene and found her lying in a pool of blood.

Kimanya Simon

It is alleged that Kakai was dropped from her workplace by a friend, but on hearing the sound of the car engine, her husband, who, it is said, often quarreled whenever she returned home, came out and ‘stoned the vehicle’, forcing the unknown colleague to speed off.

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The husband suspected the driver to be in a relationship with his wife.

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24 arrested in night drinking operation

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The Territorial Police of Kumi District last Night carried out an operation and arrsted 24 suspects who were found drinking and dancing in a bar of one Apedun Marion based at Northern Division within Kumi Municipality.

The suspects have been charged Vide CRB 229/29/2020 with Negligence act likely to cause the spread of infectious disease to wit COVID-19 Pandemic contrary to Section 171 of the Penal Code Act.

The suspects arrested are; Obwanga Samuel 29yrs (Veterinary Officer, Kumi subcounty), Emuria Stephen 38yrs (Internal Auditor, Kumi Municipality), Olupot Emmanuel 39 yrs (an Engineer, Kumi Municipality), Odeke Emmanuel 42yrs  a (Teacher of Ngora High School), Okanya Benard 38yrs (Civil servant, Kumi Municipality) and Kuwen Moris 30yrs.

The police is still hunting for the owner of the Bar who managed to escape and are engaging the Municipal authority to have the licence of the above bar withdrawn upon conclusion of investigations.

The detectives are actively preparing their case file and soon will be forwarded to RSA for perusal and legal guidence.

The Police continue to reemphasize that people should not undermine the government and Ministry of health guidelines which have not yet been uplifted regarding the fight against COVID-19 Pandemic. The police shall continue implementing the guidelines which are still in place and those found non-compliant shall always be apprehended and charged.

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Rev. Canon Nason Baluku elected 3rd Bishop of South Rwenzori Diocese

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Geoffery Serugo
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Reverend Canon Nason Baluku has been elected the 3rd Bishop of the Diocese of South Rwenzori. He will be consecrated and enthroned as Bishop on 13th December 2020 at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Kasese. He will succeed the Rt. Rev. Jackson Nzerebende, who has been the Bishop of the Diocese since 2003.

Rev. Canon Baluku was born 15th March 1967 in Mahango Sub-County on the slopes of the Rwenzori Mountains in Kasese district. He holds a Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership and Management and a Bachelor of Community Leadership and Development, both from Uganda Christian University. He received a Diploma in Theology from Uganda Christian University and a Provincial Certificate in Theological Studies from Bishop Balya Theological College.

Rev. Canon Baluku was born again at the age of 12 on 13th October 1979 and was confirmed three years later in 1982 by Bishop Kamanyire. By the time he was 17 years old, he was commissioned as a Catechist, and later a Lay Reader. On 6th August 1995, he was ordained a deacon and made a priest on 28th July 1996. He was appointed as a Canon of St. Paul’s Cathedral on 4th December 2005.

Rev. Canon Baluku has served in a variety of ministry positions, including a Vicar of several parishes, an Archdeacon, Diocesan Secretary, Program Director for the Bishop Masereka Christian Foundation, and PDR Coordinator in the Provincial Secretariat.

Currently, he serves as a Project Manager for the international organization Barnabas Fund.  He is married to Jane Biira Baluku and God has blessed them with seven children.

The election was made by the House of Bishops of the Church of Uganda sitting at the Namirembe Guest House, Kampala, on 11th August 2020.

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DJ Aludah vows to expose MP aspirant who ‘threatened to shoot and kill’ him

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James Mugume commonly known as DJ Aludah has come out and promised to expose how a certain 2021 Member of Parliament aspirant once “threatened to shoot and kill him”.

Through his twitter account (@DjAludah), the deejay revealed that a certain MP aspirant once called him and threatened to shoot and kill him because of unknown reasons.

“One day I will tell the world a story about One MP aspirant who once called me and threatened to shoot and kill me because of reasons known to him.” DJ Aludah tweeted.

The tweet which shared on August 10th has since received tremendous reactions among several Ugandans nn social media and left many guessing who the alleged MP aspirant in question could be.

“By the way, I have evidence. I am just waiting for mans to deny. and It will officially turn into a police case. I am sure it’s illegal to impersonate C.I.D and Claims of a civilian having a gun should be looked into. @PoliceUg” Aludah tweeted on 13 August.

The exact details on the entire story can only be told by the celebrated deejay and we shall keep you posted.

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Col Keith Katungi assumes office as Commandant for Military Police

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Col Keith Katungi has today officially taken over as Commandant Military Police from Brigadier William Bainomugisha at Makindye Military Police headquarters.

Presiding over the ceremony, the Commander Land Forces Lt Gen Peter Elwelu thanked the outgoing for the job well done for having kept Kampala peaceful during his tenure in office.

For the incoming commandant he congratulated him upon his appointment as commandant military police.

“You have taken over in a season of its own kind, a season of miracles (kyamagero) where people put on masks, no state visits, schools closed, places of worship closed no shaking hands  and empty soccer stadiums. We are operating in an extra ordinary environment which need new tactics but we have hope in you and you will excel.”

He reminded Col Katungi that UPDF and military police have a divine task of maintaining peace and stability of our country given from heaven, therefore when in the uniform they have a divine call.

He called upon local leaders to work hand in hand with the new commandant as they are the pillars in ensuring peace and stability.

Brigadier Bainomugisha thanked the Army leadership for the opportunity to serve as commandant for a period of 2 years and team spirit exhibited by the officers and men of military police which enabled him excel. He called upon them to accord the same to Col Katungi.

The new commandant Col Keith Katungi expressed his willingness to serve and build on to what his predecessors have achieved.

He added that it was a pleasure for him to serve his country in this new appointment and promised to execute his tasks and mission dilgently.

The function was witnessed by RCC of Kampala City Ms Faridah Mayanja Mpima who pledged to support the commandant whenever the need arises.

Present was the Deputy commandant military police Lt Col Gai Mpandwa, Battalion COs and Heads of Department in military police.

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