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In a Road Committee meeting held today at Maracha District headquarters, Woman MP Driwaru Jennifer and Maracha East Constituency MP Ruth Lematia Ondoru said, despite of the minimal budget allocations to roads sector, the district Engineers should ensure clean road construction works. In a situation where the "Food cooked is small, we expect it to be delicious" , the legislatures, through a proverbial quote.

Facebook on Friday said it's extending end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for voice and video calls in Messenger, along with testing a new opt-in setting that will turn on end-to-end encryption for Instagram DMs. "The content of your messages and calls in an end-to-end encrypted conversation is protected from the moment it leaves your device to the moment it reaches the receiver's device," Messenger's Ruth Kricheli said in a post. "This means that nobody else, including Facebook, can see or listen to what's sent or said. Keep in mind, you can report an end-to-end encrypted message to us if something's wrong." The social media behemoth said E2EE is becoming the industry standard for improved privacy and security. Stack Overflow Teamsr It's worth noting that the company's flagship messaging service gained support for E2EE in text chats in 2016, when it added a "secret conversation" option to its app, while communications on its sister p

NSO Group’s spyware has been used to facilitate human rights violations around the world on a massive scale, according to a major investigation into the leak of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets. These include heads of state, activists and journalists, including Jamal Khashoggi’s family. The Pegasus Project is a ground-breaking collaboration by more than 80 journalists from 17 media organizations in 10 countries coordinated by Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based media non-profit, with the technical support of Amnesty International, who conducted cutting- edge forensic tests on mobile phones to identify traces of the spyware. “The Pegasus Project lays bare how NSO’s spyware is a weapon of choice for repressive governments seeking to silence journalists, attack activists and crush dissent, placing countless lives in peril,” said Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International. “These revelations blow apart any claims by NSO that such attacks are rare and dow

I issued directives to security forces and  chief of defence forces on 15-May-2021 concerning torture. "This is to enlighten you on the use of torture on suspected criminals in the fight against crime. In traditional times torture was used and accepted. However traditionally these ideas had many mistakes, that is why those ideas should be abandoned. Is it clear that to torture in order to extract confessions you have 3 possible mistakes that may include torturing, one the wrong person, secondly someone can admit to a crime in order to avoid being tortured and the real criminal does not get arrested because you have gone off with the wrong target. Thirdly conffesions by criminals is not necessarily. These lazy security persons should simply bring the facts i.e DNA test, CCTV etc. Therefore the use of torture must not be used again. Evidence through torture is not reliable" 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬 President, Gen Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.

The Inspector-General of Police Martin Okoth Ochola has dissolved the Flying Squad. The squad is the police force’s violent crime crack unit. The communication was sent through a radio message to all operatives indicating that Flying Squad had been disbanded, and it's no longer recognized among police units. Ochola first disbanded the unit on 8-May-2018 in his third month as IGP after taking over office from Gen Kale Kayihura. At the time, the unit under the leadership of Assistant Commissioner of Police, Herbert Muhangi had become infamous for participating in the reported torture of suspects. But Ochola later reversed the decision on the advice of the Policy Advisory Committee. Police Spokesperson, Fred Enanga now says the final fate of the squad will soon be communicated. Flying Squad Commander Senior Superintendent of Police Andrew Kaggwa was shocked to reach the office and found the personnel leaving. Kaggwa was directed to report to CID head offices in Naguru.

President Museveni has said Ugandans can exist very well without Facebook. He was speaking during the reception ceremony for Ugandan medallists are Kololo Independence Grounds on Wednesday. Museveni bragged about shutting down Facebook in Uganda, clarifying that the ban has not stopped ‘cows from being milked, bananas from being produced or fish from existing in the waters.’ “I shut up Facebook. So, I went and check the bananas…are they still yielding? Yes. I checked the cows, are they still being milked? Yes. So, we can live without Facebook,” Museveni concluded. F acebook ban. Museveni banned Facebook and other social media platforms in January 2021 as the country prepared to hold presidential elections. Addressing the nation in Kampala, Museveni accused Facebook of being arrogant. This came after Facebook closed the accounts of two Museveni supporters locally known as Bajjo and Full Figure over what it called misuse of their accounts. The closing of his supporters’ accounts did not