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📸: Kololo Seed Secondary School. Story by Osuta Yusuf. Maracha District. 31-October-2024. 📸: Sign post of the previous contractor at Kololo Seed Secondary School construction project. Photo taken on 6-June-2022 by Osuta Yusuf. 📸: Ongoing works by the new contractor at the School. Photo by Osuta Yusuf. 📸: Ongoing works at the school by the new contractor. Robech Engineering Solutions Ltd, a construction company with the main office in Kampala City, Uganda, has in October-2024 taken over the continuity of Kololo Seed Secondary School construction project after the work stalled for over two years. 📸: Report written on 29-November-2021 by Maracha District Engineering department to State House Ant-corruption Unit, detailing the project details, funds released to the contractor and the stalled works. 📸: Page two of the report written on 29-November-2021 by the Engineering department Maracha District. Under UGIFT pr...

Maracha District  30-10-2024. 📸: Maracha District Central Police Station. The LC3 Chairperson for Awiziru Sub-county, Hon Saul Abiriga was arrested on Wednesday 30-10-2024 and detained at Maracha District Central Police Station pending more investigation over Parish Development Model money he is allegedly involved in.  According to the brief findings, the LC3 Chairperson for Awiziru Sub-county, Hon Saul Abiriga helped a disabled and barren 75-Years-Old Mzee Andrua Simon in 2022 to register into Magoba Enterprise Sacco group and received 900,000 Shs, upon which the LC3 Chairperson allegedly took all the money and refused to give a penny to the beneficiary. The LC3 Chairperson Hon Saul Abiriga whose file is prepared under MAR  CRB: 271 / 2024 has been charged with theft. District Police Commander for Maracha District SP Joshua Kananura while confirming the arrest of the LC3 Chairperson Hon Saul Abiriga,  said, they are waiting for advise from t...

Maracha District. 29-10-2024. 📸: 75-Years-Old mzee Andrua Simon whose PDM money, 900,000 Shs was allegedly taken over by the LC3 in his Sub-county, Maracha District. 📸: The National ID of Victimized Mzee Andrua Simon. The LC3 Chairperson for Awiziru Sub-county, Hon Saul Abiriga has written a two-page letter demanding for Apology from a Journalist who investigated and published a story on 25-10-2024 about Parish Development Model (PDM) money, where he allegedly took away 900,000 Shs in 2022 from a 75-Years-Old disabled and barren mzee called Andrua Simon he helped to register into Parish development model sacco group of Magoba Enterprise Sacco group in Oluvu Parish, Awiziru Sub-county, Maracha Constituency, Maracha District. The article written and published on 25-10-2024 which the LC3 Chairperson is complaining about 👇  https://informationispowah.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-lc3-chairperson-in-maracha-district.html   Click on the link to read it. 📸: Copy...

📸: Aduma Yeero Justus, MP Aspirant for 2026 - 2031 Maracha East Constituency on NRM Party Ticket. Courtesy Photo. 29-October-2024. Opinion Written By Aduma Yeero Justus, 2026 - 2031 Maracha East Constituency MP Aspirant on NRM Party Ticket. One of the major factors leading to a high level of poverty in our region is weak financial flow in our region. There are more rich people in Western Uganda because the region has strong financial flow. People from Western Uganda get money through different ways. They get money through the sale of coffee,  banana, milk, cows, and tea, and many of them are educated and employed in both private and public sectors.  Therefore, we must identify high-value cash crops that can do well in our areas. Of course, coffee, banana, and cocoa can do well on our lands.  As concerned individuals, we need to find out ways of initiating and motivating our people to begin growing these crops by providing access to quality inputs (seeds, fert...

Story by Osuta Yusuf.  Maracha District. 📸: Maracha District leaders take a group photo with Minister Otafiire after the meeting on Sunday 27-10-2024. Political leaders in Maracha District have on Sunday 27-10-2024 raised the challenges affecting the district, to Hon. Maj. Gen. Kahinda Otafiire the Minister for Internal affairs. 📸: The Maracha District headquarter bulding that has stalled due to lack of money. Photo by Osuta Yusuf.  The issues were raised during a meeting with Hon Minister Otaffire whom many people in Maracha District call as the father of the district because of the immense and active roles he played when he personally came in 2010 to give the district status for Maracha. 📸: Edema John Bosco, Production of at Kinyara Sugar Ltd speaks during the meeting on Sunday in Maracha District headquarter.  Photo by Osuta Yusuf.  With unemployment being one of the cancers facing the District, Mr Edema John Bosco the Production Superintendent at K...