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📸: Kawthar mosque koboko. Photo by Osuta Yusuf. 📸: Uganda Muslim Supreme Council leaders and members in Koboko Celebrate after the pronouncement on Kawthar mosque. Photo taken by Osuta Yusuf. Story by Osuta Yusuf. Koboko District. Kawthar mosque, formed in 1960, which is the biggest mosque in Koboko District, has on Friday 25-10-2024 been handed over to Uganda Muslim Supreme Council leadership in Koboko after 10 years. The controversy on Kawthar mosque which has lasted for 10 years now, has been between some Muslims belonging to the Kibuli faction who allegedly took over the mosque management with its assets and bank account. 📸: Sheik Ayume Muhammad Nisakari addressing media after the pronouncement. Photo by Osuta Yusuf. One of the founders of the mosque, Sheik Ayume Muhammad Nisakari, who communicated to the congregation the message of handing over Kawthar mosque to the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council, appealed to the Mufti, HIS Eminenc...

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMh9QQPn1/ UPDATE ON THE TOBACCO MONEY. 28-October-2024. By Hon Oguzu Lee Denis, MP for Maracha Constituency (FDC). Video: Hon Oguzu Lee Denis Raising in the plenary, the Challenges of the Farmers.  Just to inform stakeholders that the money for tobacco farmers was released by Finance to Ministry of trade. What is being concluded to pave way for payment of farmers is the MoU between Government of Uganda repressnted by Attorney General of and Continental Tobacco. My office and that of Chairman of West Nile Cooperative Union Mr. Adia Christopher ( Ovua) are working hand in hand with respresentives of Government and the tobacco company to ensure this MoU is concluded at the earliest opportunity to pave way for payment of farmers. We thank farmers for their patience and the Government for rising to the occasion. Office of Speaker is appreciated for according us a platform to raise these pertinent issues regarding the plight of our people. https://youtu.be/rIuUh7UO...

Story by Osuta Yusuf. Maracha District  25-October-2024. The disabled 75 years old Mzee Andrua Simon who was allegedly deceived by the LC3 Chairperson for Awiziru Sub-county Over His PDM Money. 📸: Payot trading center where people do their small businesses in Awiziru Sub-county, Maracha District. The LC3 Chairperson for Awiziru Sub-county, in Maracha Constituency, Maracha District, Hon Saul Abiriga has allegedly conned 75-Years-Old mzee, Andrua Simon in Otravu village, Oluvu Parish in Awiziru Sub-county by using him and his National ID to get 900,000 Shs from Parish Development Model program and he is said to have eaten it all without giving a mere 50,000 or 20,000 Shs for him. 📸: The national ID of Andrua Simon, the complainant. In 2022 when the Parish Development Model was first launched several sacco groups and members in Maracha District and other Districts of Uganda started benefiting from the program, for a 75-year-old barren and disabled...

📸: Hon Anna Adeke, Woman MP for Soroti, Mover of the Bill.  The Soroti DWR, Anna Adeke has asked Parliament to impose a jail term of 10years against anyone who amicably settles sexual offences like; rape, aggravated rape & defilement, aggravated defilement, child grooming, etc in Uganda without the consent of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP).  Her proposal is contained in The Sexual Offences Bill, 2024 that she tabled before Parliament today, in which she is seeking to enhance punishment for sexual offenders, makes offences gender neutral and creates new offences to deal with new social vices that perpetuates sexual violence in Uganda. In clause 42 of The Sexual Offences Bill, 2024, Anna Adeke proposed that; (l) "A person who enters into settlement or compromise with a person suspected to have committed a sexual offence or the relative of a person suspected to have committed a sexual offence, commits an offence and is liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for 10y...

Story by Dramadri Federick,  westnilenews.com  . Abundoned 6 in 1 fish cages floating on River Nile in Obongi district  By Dramadri Federick ARUA: Friday, October 11, 2024 At Namsaiya cell, Roma ward in Obongi town council, a water logged area is shrouded in thickets as it straddles the shores of River Nile. It is where one of the 11 fish ponds that were earmarked under Development Response to Displacement Impact Project (DRDIP) was to be constructed. Five and a-half years on, the would be beneficiaries are still waiting for the Gulu University’s Hoima Campus to deliver on the ecological fishponds that were meant to be a partnership project with the government of Uganda under the auspices of the Office of the Prime Minister. “One of the fish ponds is supposed to be constructed where that bush is but up to now it has not been constructed. We would now be reaping benefits from this fish ponds,” a resident stated. The ecological fish ponds were par...

📸: The potholed Dregua road. Photo by Osuta Yusuf. 📸: Some travelers got stuck on the road which has now developed gullies due to lack of maintenance. The residents in Maracha Constituency, Maracha District have on Thursday 3-October-2024 expressed their disappointment with Maracha District leadership for failing to maintain Dregua road which links Agaii Town council, Agaii trading center near All Saints Seed Secondary School to Obiba Sub-county upto DRC Congo border. 📸: Women volunteer to collect stones to create a safe passage to remove the stuck car. 📸: Residents volunteer to dig part of the road to remove the stuck car. According to the residents, the wide and long Dregua road measuring 18 Kilometers has been abandoned from been used by both the residents and also visitors who pass via the road, which the residents said, they advise travelers who are visitors, not to use this road because they may get stuck on it because of its im...

📸: Some of the residents attending to the final planning meeting for Independence Day Celebration due to take place on Wednesday 9-October-2024. Story by Osuta Yusuf.  Maracha District. 📸: Some of the Sub-counties in Maracha Constituency, Maracha District. Photo by Osuta Yusuf. The 8 Sub-counties in Maracha Constituency have on Thursday 3-October-2024 received some facilitation to commemorate the upcoming Independence Day Celebration. 📸: Copy of a letter from one of the Sub-counties in Maracha Constituency lobbying for monies to celebrate the Independence day. Following a letter by the Sub-counties in Maracha Constituency requesting Politicians and well wishers to donate funds for organizing and celebrating 9-October-2024 Independence Day in the various Sub-counties, Mr Uhuru Nelson, an Aspirant on NRM Party ticket for Maracha Constituency MP seat in 2026 to 2031 adhered to the request of the 8 Sub-counties and donated 200,000 Shs ...