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📸: Etoko Primary school. Photo by Osuta Yusuf, Our Reporter. Story by Osuta Yusuf. Paranga Sub-county, Maracha District. 16-12-2024. 📸: The defunct Borehole at the school. Photo by Osuta Yusuf, Our Reporter. Etoko Primary School, which is a government-aided school with an enrollment of 1727 pupils in the 2024 academic year, is operating without any source of safe water for the pupils, teachers, and nearby residents. 📸: Eyeru Molly, a Teacher. Photo by Our Reporter.  One of the affected staff, Ms. Eyeru Molly, who is a teacher in the school, decried the lack of access to safe water in the area as they struggle with animals in consuming contaminated water from the stream. At times, we have to wake up very early to fetch the water from the stream before animals come in the daytime to dirty it, Molly explained as she pointed to possibilities of their lives being in danger as women because of waking up very early to go and look for water. ...

📸: The unroofed Olua St Daniel Komboni Church Tara. Photo by Osuta Yusuf, Our Reporter. Story by Osuta Yusuf. Maracha District.  12-12-2024. Founded in 2004, the unroofed Olua St Daniel Komboni Church which serves Christians in three villages in Pajama parish, Tara Sub-county in Maracha East constituency, Maracha District made Christians in the area to miss attending Sunday service prayers for over three weeks over consecutive rains which occurred in the months of August, September, October and November 2024. 📸: The other side of Olua Church  Pains of the Christians was raised on Thursday 12-12-2024 during a baraza organized by the Woman MP Hon Driwaru Jennifer with the main aim of discussing the way forward to save the Christians from being disorganized by rain and sunshine during Sunday church services. Following intervention by Maracha District Woman MP Hon Driwaru Jennifer who lobbied some iron sheets and decided to donate 146 of them to Olua St D...

In my well coordinated, documented, factual and effective presentations, I will be highlighting to the people of Arua Central Division *(Awindiri, Mvara, Pangisha, Tanganyika, Kenya and Bazar)* who overwhlemingly voted me in 2021 as their MP in the 11th Parliament on NRM ticket to work as a linkage between them and the central government, and I will forever be greatful to all of them. When I took  oath to serve my people in May, 2021, I was  honored to be appointed the Government Regional Whip for West Nile by *Rt Honorable Thomas Tayebwa* , who was by then the Government Chief Whip, to whip the NRM MPs from West Nile over government programs and coordinate them to effectively participate in Parliament.  As you might be knowing there are  four (4) major roles of a Member of Parliament     1 *.Legislation* : Members debate and pass laws through which the institutions of government endeavor to guide the country’s process. 2. *Budget Approval/Appro...

Story by Osuta Yusuf. Maracha District. 7-Dec-2024. Maracha District Council has tactfully distanced itself from a request by some elders, politicians and opinion leaders from Maracha Constituency proposing to create a Municipality by merging Agaii Town Council, Okokoro Town council and Ovujo Town council ahead of February-2026 general elections in Uganda. 📸: Map of Maracha District showing the initial Sub-counties. Click here https://informationispowah.blogspot.com/2024/11/stakeholders-advocate-for-creation-of.html to read the meeting minutes for creation of a Municipality.  WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW . Maracha became a district in 2010 with 7 Sub-counties ( Kijomoro , Oluvu , Oluffe , Tara , Yivu , Nyadri and Oleba ),  in 2016 the district was split into two Constituencies ( Maracha Constituency and Maracha East Constituency ), and in 2021 the 3 Sub-counties in Maracha Constituency were split forming 8 Sub-counties ( Awiziru Sub-county, Okokoro Town council, Kij...

📸: The Ghetto Youths in Arua Central Division take a group photo after the meeting with NRM Party's Director for Finance and Administration Ms. Hajjat Medina Naham Ojale and Hon Atima Lee Jackson on Wednesday 4-December-2024. Photo by Osuta Yusuf, Our Reporter. Story by Osuta Yusuf. Arua City. 5-December-2024.  The National Resistance Movement (NRM) which is the ruling party in government, through their official, Ms Hajjat Medina Naham Ojale who is the Director for Finance and Administration (DFA) together with Hon Atima Lee Jackson the MP for Central Division Arua City, have on Wednesday 4-December-2024 given a beam of hope for the disgruntled Ghetto Youths in Central Division Arua City. From recent news reports, it is said that a section of some Ghetto Youths in Arua Central Division had become insecure to both the residents and visitors who get robbed after being waylaid by some of the disgruntled Youths. Amidst the government's poverty alleviation programs like...