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The territorial Police at Central Police Station Kampala yesterday 21st September 2023 responded swiftly to a wave of complaints on social media and through official channels regarding vehicle vandalism within the central business district. In a coordinated intelligence operation, the police managed to apprehend suspects involved in the theft of side mirrors and other motor vehicle parts. The suspects, who were caught red-handed in the act of stealing from both moving vehicles and those parked in Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) parking spots, have been identified as follows: Muhammed Ramathan Kabalega Deus Emron Lawrence Kazungu Enoch During the operation, a significant number of stolen motor vehicle parts were recovered from the suspects. Further interrogation of the apprehended individuals led the police to the Kiseka area, where they discovered shops engaged in the illegal trade of stolen vehicle parts. Additional suspects were arrested during this phas...

📸: Parliamentary Committee Chairperson on Trade, Hon Mwine Mpaka. The investigations into the alleged mismanagement of funds released to cooperative societies have taken a new twist, with the latest information revealing that there are some five ministers, including 25 MPs, who benefited from the funds.  In a closed-door meeting held at Parliament, there were reports indicating that over UGX 100 billion was lost in the process of releasing funds to the cooperatives. Source: NBS TV. #iip_updates  #Information_is_Power  #we_inform_the_uninformed

📷: Unsplash. Jansoni fought with Mataayo and broke his teeth. Jansoni was arrested and taken to court. His uncle told him that ‘their’ Kyazze had a lawyer in the family. So, Jansoni knew he would easily win the case because Mataayo was ‘too poor’ to hire a lawyer. On the day of court, someone showed up calling herself “State Attorney” and Jansoni was told that this was the government lawyer for Mataayo. Mataayo now thinks someone in government must hate him or else the whole government would not have hired a lawyer for Mataayo who cannot even afford to buy ‘meat’ on Sunday at his home.   WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY?. When you report someone for a crime at police, the police carries out investigations and then sends the case to the government office that deals with taking crimes to court called the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).  At the DPP’s office the police file is received by the officials in that office who assess it to see if there is enough p...

📸: Betty Kamya (Left) Hands over IGG report to Hon Esther Afoyachan. Wednesday 20-9-2023. Esther Afoyachan, Commissioner of Parliament who received the report on behalf of Speaker Among asked the IGG to focus on the corruption taking place in the Parish Development Model, saying if this isn’t curbed, the intention of bringing the subsistence farmers into the money economy may not be achieved. "Take a lot of interest in the PDM. A lot of money is going into PDM, but there is a lot of siphoning. Eventually what is reaching the beneficiaries is a fraction of what it should have been. I want you to take interest in PDM, you will be shocked at the things happening there and yet you are aware that almost our entire budget is going towards PDM, so I would like our people’s lives to improve as long as PDM is there,” Afoyachan. Via Parliament Watch. #iip_updates  #Information_is_Power  #we_inform_the_uninformed

📷: Unsplash Kabuuma and Sadiq fought over Nabiryo last year. For a long time Kabuuma had been warning Sadiq to stay away from Nabiryo, but Sadiq had ignored him and continued to call her at night and even give her lifts on his bicycle.Then Sadiq got a job in Kampala and left Buikwe. Kabuuma thanked his gods for helping him but then then on Christmas of 2021, Sadiq now returned with a bodaboda and Kabuuma thought it was going to lose Nabiryo again. Around Easter, Sadiq bought a cloth for Nabiryo and that is how the fight started. In that confusion, Kabuuma hit Sadiq with a wheel spanner and for over a year, Sadiq was in a coma. Last week Sadiq died from those injuries.   Sadiq’s family want Kabuuma to be punished for ‘murdering’ their son. Do they have a point?  WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY?. By law, no one is allowed to take the life of another person unless this happens either as a punishment given by a court of law for a crime and that person has been found guilty...

MPs want an investigation into the Shs13Bn the Ministry of Tourism paid for Uganda to host the flopped 2020 MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMA), that were  later cancelled over public backlash that Gov't wanted to use the awards to try whitewash Uganda’s image at international scene. The Auditor General revealed that the Ministry of Tourism, signed an agreement with a foreign company on 5th February 2020 to enable Uganda host the 2020 edition of MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMA) which events were slated for 13th June 2020 & Government agreed to a sponsorship fee of Shs13Bn, that was paid in two instalments of UGX10.4Bn that was paid on 12th March 2020 and another Shs2.6Bn paid on 19th January 2021. Via Parliament Watch. #iip_updates  #Information_is_Power  #we_inform_the_uninformed

The iPhone belonging to Galina Timchenko, a prominent Russian journalist and critic of the government, was compromised with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware, a new collaborative investigation from Access Now and the Citizen Lab has revealed. The infiltration is said to have happened on or around February 10, 2023. Timchenko is the executive editor and owner of Meduza , an independent news publication based in Latvia. It's currently not clear who deployed the malware on the device. The Washington Post reported that the Russian government is not a client of NSO Group, citing an unnamed person familiar with the company's operations. "During the infection her device was localized to the GMT+1 timezone, and she reports being in Berlin, Germany," the Citizen Lab said. "The day following the infection she was scheduled to attend a private meeting with other heads of Russian independent media exiled in Europe to discuss how to manage threats and censorship b...

📷: Unsplash. Kitty K spent her weekend crying and praying because Scojul her boyfriend got arrested on Friday. You see on Friday night, Scojul and his friends were seated at a bar watching football when chaos broke out. Out of the blue, bottles were flying and people were running out of the bar. Someone with blood on their hands even collided with Scojul and heard people screaming ''bamuuse!!!'', (they have killed him!) In that chaos, Scojul froze and when police came in, they just arrested him and his friends who were told that they were now the suspects in the murder of the Bartender. Kitty K tried to visit them on the weekend but the police officer told her that "those suspects" would be in court on Monday and she would find them there.  By 6 am on Monday, Kitty K was at court waiting to see if her boyfriend 'who wouldn't hurt a fly' would be released. Instead, he was brought to court, the 'judge' asked if the case file was ...

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📸: Late Titia Kamure, Courtesy Photo. Ardent Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) party member Mr Kamure Titia Kalebu born in 1954 who lived his entire adulthood life in Politics, has on Thursday 14-9-2023 gone to rest after been bedridden at Arua regional referral hospital for many weeks battling hypertension, diabetes and lately towards his demise, he suffered from stroke disease, as confirmed by his family members and close friends. His 65 years old brother  Mr Stephen Atuma who described him as forgivable and apologetic person says, he was also someone who always tells and stands on the truth despite of the grudges he would get from some people over it. The deceased Titia Kamure's 80-year-old paternal uncle Mr Asiako Kamure Peter remembers him for always educating and advising people through the regular radio talkshows he used to participate in. Mr Ojoa Rhonnie Buni (NRM) the LC2 Chairperson of Ocopi Parish says, Mr Titia Kamure was a staunch UPC party member who dedicat...

📸: VHTs warm themselves after finishing day one of the training. Village Health Teams (VHTs) in Oluffe Sub-county and in other Sub-counties of Maracha district have on Monday 11-Sep-2023 been enrolled for a Two days training Organized by Partners in Development and Center for Holistic Transformation (PICOT), on how to fight Malaria through a Presidential Malaria Initiative (PMI) scheme under a program of Make Malaria Out of Uganda by year 2030. Village Health Team personnel from Kamaka parish, Oluffe Sub-county Mr Sabino Aluma who says Malaria cases in his area have increased because of an end of ICCM program by an NGO who was freely supplying Malaria drugs across villages, has appealed to District authorities to ensure pits that were created while excavating marrums for Road constructions should be filled to avoid mosquito breeding in such pits that have become a spot for stagnant waters. Ms Jennifer Opiru from Mundru parish says, they are been blamed for not doing enough...

📸: Unsplash. Kyuma has been 'on remand' for two years since he was arrested for mob justice. In the beginning, he kept asking the court to release him until he lost hope and gave up. Now his brother has told him their father is not well and he can no longer dig a full acre of land so Kyuma should get out soon and help them with the farm.  Kyuma wants to know if he should try asking to get out again or if it will be a waste of time to try. WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY? When we say a person is on remand, we mean that person has been kept in prison until the next time their case comes to court so that they can easily be picked up and brought before the court. By law, every person who has a criminal case to answer and that case is before a court of law has a right to apply to be released on bail if they have been on remand for 120 days (for cases that can be heard by a magistrate court), or if they have been on remand for 360 days (the case should be heard only by the High Co...

📸: Oluffe Sub-county LC3 Chairperson Hon Eyotre Pontious speaks during the Baraza. Click  on this link to watch the events that unfolded  in the community engagement meeting. Parish Development Model (PDM) which is one of the NRM party manifesto pillars that is been rolled across Uganda with each Parish receiving 100m shs, has turned to be a life threatening to 3 times Oluffe Sub-county LC3 Chairperson Hon Eyotre Pontious who is currently receiving threats from some PDM Committee members at Parish level after he passed out to the community members in his Sub-county, a presidential directive regarding the new guidelines on the program. While raising his discomfort on Monday 11-Sep-2023 during a community engagement baraza organized by Maracha constituency MP Hon Oguzu Lee Denis, the Oluffe Sub-county LC3 Chairperson said, on the other side some community members are hating them on assumption that, they are not intervening as Sub-county leaders to help them benefit ...

📷: A VSO Experience.  When Tegwolo the market askari saw Kasango the market cleaner carrying a big ''Kikutiya'' last Friday, he thought it was rubbish as usual. When the market sellers started complaining that someone had emptied their stalls, Tegwolo knew there was a problem.    So, Tegwolo told the market sellers that he did not see anyone apart from Kasango with his big kikutiya of rubbish that night, but they asked him whose rubbish Kasango is taking out at night, yet he already took out the rubbish before they left. So, they immediately reported case to at the police station and Kasango was arrested. Kasango denied and even said Tegwolo only said those things because he is a liar who is jealous and wants his job. He even claimed that at the time things were stolen, he was in Buikwe for a burial.   At court, Kasango told the judge that he could prove his innocence, but he wanted a car to collect his relatives from Buikwe to tell court about the buria...

A sophisticated phishing campaign is using a Microsoft Word document lure to distribute a trifecta of threats, namely Agent Tesla, OriginBotnet, and RedLine Clipper, to gather a wide range of information from compromised Windows machines. "A phishing email delivers the Word document as an attachment, presenting a deliberately blurred image and a counterfeit reCAPTCHA to lure the recipient into clicking on it," Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Cara Lin said . Clicking on the image leads to the delivery of a loader from a remote server that, in turn, is designed to distribute OriginBotnet for keylogging and password recovery, RedLine Clipper for cryptocurrency theft, and Agent Tesla for harvesting sensitive information. The loader, written in .NET, employs a technique called binary padding by adding null bytes to increase the file's size to 400 MB in an attempt to evade detection by security software. The activation of the loader triggers a multi-stage p...

Law. 📷: Unsplash. Both Sheena and Trudy grew up in the teachers’ quarters because their mothers were teachers so they become best friends. They did everything- together, in fact some people thought they were twins until they were separated at the university. Trudy went to school to be a doctor while Sheena went to be a lawyer, and even at the university, they still remained together.   Last Monday as Sheena was rushing to class,  the hostel gate keeper told her, "she was needed by the Affande at the police post". Having nothing to fear, she walked to the police post to see him. As she got near, she heard Affande say, "the ka thief is here swinging her ''bu legs''. Sheena burst into tears as the police officers grabbed her and told her to remove her shoes and prepare to 'make a statement'. Affande told her that "they knew that Sheena stole her neighbour's TV, high heeled shoes and earrings on Saturday.   Sheena denied, but she...

By Undercover Information is Power Reporter from South Sudan. Tuesday 12-Sep-2023. 📸: Courtesy photo of Militiagroups. 📸Hippos at Pakwach, River Nile, next to Murchison Falls National Park. Courtesy Photo. The hippopotamus in Africa’s Great Lakes is at the verge of extinction. The number of hippos is reducing in Lake Albert, at Murchison Falls National Park in northern Uganda, and Virunga National Park, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), authorities blame the impunity killing of the precious animals in Virunga National Park on the Mai Mai rebel group. This can be seen from the latest incident in May 2023, where two guards at  Virunga National Park  were killed, the latest bloodshed to rock the preserve designated as a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site. The park said the two guards “were shot and succumbed to their injuries” in...

NB: Those marked with ✅ are from WestNile region. 1-Rt.Hon.Anita Among 2-Rt.Hon.Thomas Tayebwa 3-Rt.Hon.Robinah Nabanja 4-Hon.Kiwanuka Keefa 5-Hon.Asuman Basalirwa 6-Hon.Mathias Mpuuga 7-Hon.Musasizi Henry 8-Hon.Ibrahim Ssemujju  9-Hon.Nandala Mafabi 10-Hon.Odur Nathan 11-Hon.Nambeshe John 12-Hon.Sarah Opening 13-Hon.Kafuuzi Jackson 14-Hon.Ssewugu Joseph  15-Hon.Medard Sseggona 16-Hon.Muwanga Kivumbi 17-Hon.Kiryowa Kiwanuka 18-Hon.Lugolobi Amos 19-Hon.Silwanyi Solomon 20-Hon.Obua Dennis Hamson 21-Hon.Ayume Charles 22-Hon.Nakadama Rukia  23-Hon.Ruth Aceng  24-Hon.Mwine Mpaaka.R. 25-Hon.Katusabe Godfrey  26-Hon.Betty Among 27-Hon.Nalule Aisha .K. 28-Hon.Olanya Gilbert  29-Hon.Elijah Okupa 30-Hon.David Bahati 31-Hon.Cecilia Ogwal  32-Hon.Aogon Silas 33-Hon.Butuwa Thomas  34-Hon.Robina Rwakoojo.G. 35-Hon.Oguzu Lee Denis  36-Hon.Twesigye John .N. 37-Hon.Macho Geofrey  38-Hon.Asiimwe .K. Enos  39-Hon.Avur Jane Pacuto 40-Hon.Ma...

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#iip_updates     The Uganda National Examinations Board has released the examination timetables of this year's PLE, O-Level and A-Level final examinations that will start on Friday October 13th 2023 with the briefing of U.C.E candidates. The Board’s Executive Director, Dan Odongo, announced on Wednesday that this year’s national examinations will commence on Friday, October 13, 2023, with the briefing of UCE candidates. The first paper will be geography on October 16, 2023.The UCE Examination will run until November 17, 2023. The second series of examinations is the PLE, which will be conducted from November 7th–9th, 2023, starting with the briefing of the candidates. ...