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📸: Burned Houses in Etoko village. Photo by Osuta Yusuf, Information is Power. Story by Osuta Yusuf.  Maracha District. Residents of Etoko village, Nyoroo Parish, Nyadri Sub-county in Maracha East Constituency, Maracha District are living in fear while others are displaced after a notorious man, named Eyotre Kennedy believed to be at the age of  33-years old who cut three people with Panga between 2017 to 2022 and he murdered one person in 2023. According to the residents and also the local leaders, Eyotre Kennedy who was taken to Koboko Prison in November 2023 and he escaped from the prison in May-2024 before he was sentenced for murder, returned to Etoko village in an attempt to kill Amaokobo Solomon aged around 25-years-old orphan of late Mr Draku Moses he murdered in September 2023 but when he didn't get the orphaned first-born son at home on Monday 9-September-2024, he resorted to burning two houses. Available information indicates that, Eyotre Kennedy who has for

📸: Aduma Yeero Justus, Courtesy Photo.  By Aduma Yeero Justus (Parliamentary Aspirant for Maracha East, 2026 - 2031). The sound local revenue system for local governance is an essential precondition for the success of council service delivery. Low local revenue is observed as the relationship between the budgeted local revenue collections and the actual revenue collected.  For example, Maracha district Local council in 2021/2022 budgeted for 215,062,000 but realized 175,519,601/=. Thus, 39,544,399 was unrealized. In 2018/19, Maracha DLG had budgeted for 26,531,366,000 Ugandan Shillings, only and only 22,866,964,018 Ugandan Shillings was realized and this was underperformance of 3,664,401,982 Uganda Shillings. This can not grant effective service delivery in the areas as planned. In 2023, the district directed contractors or tenderers for markets to pay 100% to the district, and the district then remits 65% to sub counties instead of sub counties remitting 35% to district a

By Enyalu Julius.  📸: Ejiku Robert, Courtesy Photo. 1. He is a man of his words 2. He listens more and speaks less 3. His background makes him a humble leader who fits every community at any situation 4. His mind is focussed to liberating the common person 5. He is a good lobbyist 6. His puts service above self 7. His reserved character makes him less arrogant in character 8. He is more exposed, a fact good enough for high leadership potential 9. He commands natural respect wherever he goes 10. He has good connections worthy bargain for a higher political position 11. His command in speech measure the task a head of him 12. His perceived plan for the community can't be matched with the works of any political dwarf 13. His liberated mind is gold to the ordinary person 14. His education background doesn't need more questions to be asked 15. His leadership profile is tested, approved and sealed for the people of Arua city central.  16. He is as ordinary like the ordi

By Richard Onapatum. In a silent move , Kotido Resident District Commissioner (RDC) Charles Ichogor has recovered embezzled funds meant for beneficiaries of the Parish Development Model (PDM) program in Kodeke Parish, Rengene Sub County. The recovery of the stolen funds is a major blow to corruption in the district and a testament to the RDC’s commitment to accountability and transparency. 📸: Icogor Charles, RDC for Kotido District. The embezzlement scheme was uncovered during a recent monitoring visit by the RDC, who discovered that Parish Chief Napeyok had fleeced 100 PDM beneficiaries of 2 million shillings. The RDC’s swift intervention led to the recovery of the stolen funds, but he has made it clear that this incident is just the tip of the iceberg. “We will not hesitate to take action against any parish chief or public official who engages in corrupt practices,” Ichogor warned. “Our office is committed to ensuring that government programs benefit the

Story by Osuta Yusuf.  Maracha District.  📸: The grave been dug by Mr Opiga Michael, a victim of frustration. Photo taken by Osuta Yusuf , on Wednesday 11-September-2024. The residents of Ebapi village, Baria Parish in Nyadri Sub-county, Maracha east constituency, Maracha District are in shock after a 41 year old man started digging his own grave. The man, identified as Mr Opiga Michael, who seems to be frustrated over some challenges in life, started digging his own grave on Tuesday 10-September-2024 until he was stopped by the elders in Nyaria clan. 📸: Opiga Michael, the Victim of Frustration. Photo by Osuta Yusuf , Information is Power. While speaking to our reporter on Wednesday evening 11-September-2024, Mr Opiga Michael, said, his main plan  was to commit suicide after finishing digging the grave for burying himself, explained that, he feels frustrated, abandoned and hated by his own clan people, whom he accused of piling lies against him and some even a

📸: President Museveni Laying Wreath on the Casket Containing the Body of late, Hon Sarah Mateke who was the Woman MP for Kisoro District and also State Minister for Defence and Veteran Affairs. President Museveni has revealed that Sarah Mateke, the former Minister of State for Defence was slated to travel to South Korea, for the same Security Conference that former Internal Affairs Minister, Aronda Nyakairima was returning from, when he died aboard a flight in September 2015. The President made the revelation while addressing mourners at Parliament, where he had gone to pay his respect to Mateke, saying that it was good Sarah Mateke didn’t get onto the plane just as Aronda had done, saying had he known about Aronda’s medical condition, he would have blocked his travel. “We are coming from remembering General Aronda, you remember Aronda died on the plane who was coming from South Korea on the conference of security. Now, this Sarah was apparently supposed to travel to South

Story by Osuta Yusuf.  Arua City.  📸: Some of the buses belonging to California Bus Company Arua. Photo by Osuta Yusuf, Information is Power. 📸: The key suspect whose home was found with some of the items belonging to Mr Anziku Vincent, a trader who lost items worth 15 million shillings. 📸: One of the arrested person at the scene of shop with looted items, who started running away when he saw police officers going for the operation. The police in Arua City have so far arrested two highway robbery thieves as suspects in connection with items stolen from California Bus Company. It's said that, between the months of July to 4-September-2024, items costing more than 50 million Ugandan shillings were stolen at night when the California Bus enroute from Kampala to Arua was driving on a slow speed due to the gullies on the long-steeped road around Enzeva in Arua District. 📸: Mr Anziku Vincent, a Trader who lost items worth 15

📸; Signpost of Yumbe Central Police Station.  Police officers in Yumbe District Central Police Station have detained suspects for 11 days now after they were arrested on Wednesday 28-8-2024 on accusations of murder emanating from a land wrangle in Bolomoni Village, Otakua Parish in Odravu West Sub-county, Yumbe District, in which a total of 3 people died. 📸; Some of the houses belonging to the family of Mr Luka Akile Fendru  📸; Some of the Wreckage left in the burnt houses of Mr Okulega Fendru Gasper, SON to the deceased Mr Luka Akile Fendru. On 19-August-2024, over 60 people from Oluba Langi clan in Ariwa Sub-county and also from Kulikulinga Town Council followed the family of Mr Luka Akile Fendru upto home in Bolomoni Village, Odravu West Sub-county and a bloody fight ensued over a piece of land they are claiming from Mr Luka Akile, the landlord who also voluntarily gave part of his 600 acres of land to host refugees in Yumbe Distric

A man is seen next to the body of a yet to be identified boy at the Arua regional prison office on September 5, 2024.  Some locals Thursday morning claimed that the boy, believed to be aged 17, had been tortured to death in custody.  But regional prisons commander Leni Ndori said "they only responded to rescue the boy who was being chased by unknown men from Arua City's Ediofe side."   Source: Clement Aluma, Daily Monitor.  #iip_updates  #Information_is_Power  #we_inform_the_uninformed

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