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Story by Osuta Yusuf. Maracha District. 20-11-2025. 📸: The crowd that gathered to listen to Obeta Moses Drakua on Friday 19-12-2025 at Kijomoro primary school playground in Dranzipi Ward, Okokoro Town Council, Maracha District. Photo by Osuta Yusuf,  Our News Reporter.  The Maracha Constituency MP Candidate,  an NRM-leaning after the NRM party primary election, Obeta Moses Drakua who is contesting for the position of MP for Maracha Constituency, has pledged to end the politics of abuses and blackmail in Maracha by being the last to be the victim of such a bad politics in the political history of Maracha District. 📸: The campaign poster of Obeta Moses Drakua, Independent Candidate for Maracha Constituency MP election.  What you need to know; ⚫ In 2016 MP election campaign for Maracha Constituency Oguzu Lee Denis (FDC Party candidate) was blackmailed as a child with a lot of mucus in his nose unfortunately, he defeated the then Incumbent MP Hon Alex Onzim...

Friday, December 12, 2025 By Juliet Kigongo. What you need to know: Cultural cleansing allowed for man convicted of bestiality.  A 22-year-old man has been convicted and cautioned by the Chief Magistrate’s Court in Pader District after pleading guilty to having sexual intercourse with a goat, a crime considered “against the order of nature” under Uganda’s Penal Code. Acting Chief Magistrate Martin Kirya cautioned Emmanuel Ocen at his own plea on the charge of carnal knowledge of a goat under section 134(b) of the Penal Code Act. Court records revealed that the incident occurred on October 1, 2025, at Abilin Nino Village, Angangura Sub-County, Pader District. Ocen gave a detailed confession before the court, admitting he had mistaken the animal for his girlfriend. “It is true; I had sexual intercourse with the goat thinking I was having sex with my girlfriend,” he told the court on Friday. Ocen explained that he worked for a local traditional healer, and a female visitor...

Story by Osuta Yusuf.    Maracha District. 14-12-2025. 📸: The poster of Independent Candidate for Maracha Constituency MP election, Obeta Moses Drakua. What You Need to Know: ⚫ Recent research for the 2024 / 2025 done by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) indicates that, 754 million adults worldwide remain illiterate, out of which, the 2024 National Population and Housing Census released by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), shows approximately 11.9 million Ugandans are considered illiterate. The NRM-Leaning Independent MP Candidate Obeta Moses Drakua, who, in his campaign trails across the 8 Sub-counties of Maracha Constituency, keeps on campaigning and distributing the posters of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, has pledged to establish Adult Literacy Learning Program (ALLP) if he is elected as the MP for Maracha Constituency in the upcoming 15-1-2026 general election. He emphasized this as one of his manifestos while addressing ...

Story by Osuta Yusuf. Maracha District. 10-December-2025. Click here on the link to watch the whole fracas broadcasted Live on #Information_is_Power YouTube channel on Tuesday 9-December-2025. Courtesy Photo: Ofeku Gabriel, Maracha District NRM Party Chairperson. Photo by Osuta Yusuf, Our News Reporter. National Resistance Movement (NRM) Party leadership in Maracha District has on Tuesday 9-Dec-2025 survived attack from angry youths in Okokoro Town Council over improper accountability stemming from the said 35m Shs facilitation monies that were given for mobilization towards President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s campaign in the district on 14-10-2025. The violence against the party leadership over lack of transparency and proper accountability, took place on Tuesday at Oribani Primary School playground in Anyafio cell, Poo Ward, Okokoro Town Council, Maracha Constituency during NRM Party structure campaigns for its flag Bearers for Local Council positions, Parliamentary and P...

Story by Osuta Yusuf.  Maracha District. 6-Dec-2025. 📸: Obeta Moses addressing the gathering in Ayivu B Ward, Ovujo Town Council in Maracha District. The NRM-Leaning Independent candidate for Maracha Constituency MP election has pledged to empower farmers in Maracha Constituency by allocating monies for farmers group as a seed capital. He made the remarks while campaigning for his MP bid  in Otravu Cell, Ayivu B Ward in Ovujo Town on Friday 5-December-2025. Obeta Moses Drakua who is also a farmer and was visited in 2023 by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni over his wealth creation efforts through farming, advised the residents to embark on farming as one of the methods of alleviating them from poverty. 📸: The crowd which gathered to listen to Obeta Moses Drakua’s campaign manifesto. “I have seen and known our people going through lots of hunger and poverty over mainly three things; mindset, weather challenges and lack of support”, Obeta noted as he pro...

Maracha District.  5-December-2025. 📸: Residents gathered around the lake as they searched the missing body of the student. Photo by #Information_is_Power's news reporter.  This afternoon Friday 5-December-2025, a student from St Joseph Laboratory Training School in Maracha hospital, a one  Araku Denis drowned in Rokoze water body in Nyadri Sub-county and the  body has not been retrieved upto this night as the police and residents searched for it and in vain but they are expected to resume retrieving it tomorrow Saturday 6-December-2025. 📸: Photo of the deceased which we captured on his phone screen this night. Araku and his fellow students had  reportedly gone to pass time at water point after completing exams papers of today. Him and callagues got attracted to swimming at water body where he perished.  By press time, efforts to retrieve his body proved futile as the body remains invisible on water surface.  Rokoze water body...

Story by Osuta Yusuf. Maracha District. 4-December-2025. 📸 : Hon Driwaru Jennifer being warmly welcomed with a dance. Photo by Osuta Yusuf, Our News Reporter. The Incumbent woman MP for Maracha District, Hon Driwaru Jennifer who was on Wednesday 3-December-2025 given a thunderous and exciting welcome by the voters in Awiziru Sub-county during her first round of the campaigns in all the 19 Sub-counties of Maracha District as she is also expected to repeat the second round of the rally to all the Sub-counties in the district as per her campaign campaign program submitted to the Electoral Commission, has pledged to lobby for the upgrade and maintenance of the road which starts from the main road to Curube health center and passes across to Okokoro Town Council via a stream river which also lacks a bridge. 📸: The Incumbent woman MP for Maracha District, Hon Driwaru Jennifer who is a staunch NRM party member, holds the NRM party flag as the official party c...